Home Video/DVD Releases
After an unsuccessful box-office run, Hugo was briefly released to the American home video market in the early 1980s. It was released on DVD only in Hungary and Italy. Reviewer Phil Hall suggests that Hugo the Hippo may never get a DVD release due to its psychedelic, weird, politically-incorrect and violent content.
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