jpdill
08-08-2003, 08:45 AM
Hi!
My family own a video-rental store, and this morning we got our Johnny English UK DVD-rentals. I'll submit my review:
The Film
The film is good, however a little short in my opinion. While it has some good jokes, quite a few of them are really only understood by the British (such as the anti-french jokes and speed-camera). It's fairly good, however the chemistry between Rowan Atkinson and Natalie Imbruglia is frightening! And i know it's not meant to be, but the film does seem a little unrealistic (i mean: The UK as a prison!)
Video
It's a good transfer in my opinion - it's anamorphic 1.85:1. It's not perfect - some bits look like a 1990's Brit-com, where it looks fairly old. Sorta like Power Rangers - when it went into the original Japanese fighting scenes, you could tell as it was filmed in a different enviroment, and used a different camera.
Audio
This is like one of the good bits of the DVD - there's a DTS track, as well as Dolby. Both are 5.1, so there's no 6.1DTS track. The sounds good, and seeing this film was reasonably low-budget, and British, i'm surprised Universal actually bothered making the DTS track. Even though it's present, most of the talking is done with the front 2 speakers and the centre one. So really it's 2.1, but the background music and special effects are 5.1.
Special Features
This is a good DVD-rom DVD. On the normal DVD, you have a 25 minute making of which is good - it has clips of the actors talking about the movie.
There's character stats, where the viewer could learn more about the characters, if they didn't catch in in the main film. It's not really that important.
There's also an observation test, where they show you clips from the film, and you have to answer questions they ask you: eg: what is Johnny's AstonMartin's registration-plate number?
The DVD rom features are like mini-games and are quite addictive (in my opinion) - there's a shooting level.
Final Verdict
8/10 - reasonably good DVD transfer and the films alright. The features are good, but i would have liked to have had an audio-commentary by Rowan or someone from the cast.
The features are good, but there could have been more. However, still ALOT better than the Chicago UK DVD, which was released here last week!
My family own a video-rental store, and this morning we got our Johnny English UK DVD-rentals. I'll submit my review:
The Film
The film is good, however a little short in my opinion. While it has some good jokes, quite a few of them are really only understood by the British (such as the anti-french jokes and speed-camera). It's fairly good, however the chemistry between Rowan Atkinson and Natalie Imbruglia is frightening! And i know it's not meant to be, but the film does seem a little unrealistic (i mean: The UK as a prison!)
Video
It's a good transfer in my opinion - it's anamorphic 1.85:1. It's not perfect - some bits look like a 1990's Brit-com, where it looks fairly old. Sorta like Power Rangers - when it went into the original Japanese fighting scenes, you could tell as it was filmed in a different enviroment, and used a different camera.
Audio
This is like one of the good bits of the DVD - there's a DTS track, as well as Dolby. Both are 5.1, so there's no 6.1DTS track. The sounds good, and seeing this film was reasonably low-budget, and British, i'm surprised Universal actually bothered making the DTS track. Even though it's present, most of the talking is done with the front 2 speakers and the centre one. So really it's 2.1, but the background music and special effects are 5.1.
Special Features
This is a good DVD-rom DVD. On the normal DVD, you have a 25 minute making of which is good - it has clips of the actors talking about the movie.
There's character stats, where the viewer could learn more about the characters, if they didn't catch in in the main film. It's not really that important.
There's also an observation test, where they show you clips from the film, and you have to answer questions they ask you: eg: what is Johnny's AstonMartin's registration-plate number?
The DVD rom features are like mini-games and are quite addictive (in my opinion) - there's a shooting level.
Final Verdict
8/10 - reasonably good DVD transfer and the films alright. The features are good, but i would have liked to have had an audio-commentary by Rowan or someone from the cast.
The features are good, but there could have been more. However, still ALOT better than the Chicago UK DVD, which was released here last week!