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| Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2014 11:52 pm Post subject: The LEGO Movie [Blu-ray] |
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The LEGO Movie (Blu-ray + DVD + UltraViolet Combo Pack) (2014)
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| Quote: | 'The LEGO Movie' is fantastic on all levels. It's hilarious, exciting, clever, heartwarming, and pokes fun at modern story conventions. Lord and Miller are a filmmaking team capable of pulling off the impossible. Taking reboots and synergistic consumer tie-ins, and turning them into tightly script stories that work really, really well. A film for moviegoers of all ages.
As a Blu-ray, while my preferred version is the 3D Everything is Awesome Edition, this 2D-only edition includes the same reference quality picture and sound presentations and all of the special features. If you don't like 3D, this is the edition for you and comes with my personal highest recommendation: Must Own.
The Video: Sizing Up the Picture
'The LEGO Movie' debuts on Blu-ray with a gorgeous, resplendent AVC MPEG-4 encode framed in the film's original 2.40:1 aspect ratio.
Much like its 3D version, 'The LEGO Movie' in 2D is great material for modern HD displays. It's like seeing your imagination come to life. LEGOland feels...real. What's particularly impressive is the way the filmmakers have used mostly computer-generated animation to make a movie that looks photo realistic, giving various plastic pieces perfect textures.
Colors and resolution are gobsmacking. There are so many small details -- individual pieces, background characters, lighting cues. Seriously, in some of the busier sequence, pause the Blu-ray every once in a while. You'll be rewarded with all sorts of creative details you may have missed on your first (few) viewing(s). Black levels are also handsome -- especially Bad Cop / Good Cop's uniforms and Lord Business' office tower. As an animated production, we've come to expect this sort of eye candy. But wow. 'The LEGO Movie' is an absolute HD home run.
The Audio: Rating the Sound
'The LEGO Movie' zooms, blasts, explodes, and swirls onto Blu-ray with a terrific 5.1 DTS-HD MA soundtrack.
There's so much to love about this multi-channel sound mix. It's not the most aggressive you've ever heard, and I would have preferred a 7.1 option, but I have zero complaints. The voice actors are perfectly placed in the center and other channels. Surround activity is both subtle in the way it builds out city environments with small details, and also extremely immersive, such as when Vitruvius' voice swirls around the audience during a chase sequence. And LFE fans, you're in for a real treat. Check out the scene where Batman plays his "real music" after talking about the Batmobile's subwoofers. I'd be interested to know what frequencies we're dealing with exactly, but it's thunderous and super low. Great, great track. A top-tier 5.1 release. |
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