5.9 | / 10 |
Users | 3.5 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.7 |
Betsy's Wedding is a funny, feel good movie about a wonderfully eccentric family and their hilarious trials and tribulations - it's about everything but their daughter's wedding! Anything can and does happen when the funky bride-to-be casually announces her engagement, setting off a series of crazy events, including accidental meetings with the mob, oddball romances, and riotous revenge schemes! Betsy's Wedding is the perfect comedy hit, featuring an all-star cast and an irreverent story filled with all the warmth, wackiness, and humor you won't want to miss!
Starring: Alan Alda, Madeline Kahn, Molly Ringwald, Ally Sheedy, Anthony LaPagliaComedy | 100% |
Romance | 69% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
None
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 3.0 | |
Audio | 2.5 | |
Extras | 0.0 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
This is a great day.
In celebration of the Royal Wedding -- it's the event of a lifetime that's not to be missed, of course, tune in dark and early at oh-sleep-hundred or be
square -- here's a review of a movie about a wedding that doesn't go quite as smoothly as the gazillion-dollar/pound/euro/whatever ceremony for the
ages that's got all the world abuzz (what a faaaabulous dress she's got on! Quick! Where's that lipreader!) but that's instead got all the hallmarks of
the sort of stuff that make up the, comparatively speaking, dull everyday weddings that neither William nor Kate would ever dream of attending, let
alone dream of at all. Or, this review of Betsy's Wedding on this most gloriously cherished day of days could just be a coincidence...nah.
Royalty? Nope. Pomp and circumstance? No way. Prim and proper? Not with this couple. The kiss on the balcony in front of millions of adoring
subjects? Only if movie audiences count. And if the whole balcony thing can be taken out of the equation. Betsy's Wedding might not
be a storybook affair, but it's a charming little misadventure of
awkwardness and follies that will give Royal-ity TV a run for its money every time.
Big news!
Betsy's Wedding isn't a glamorous affair in high definition, but all things considered the transfer could be worse. The image is quite the dirty sort at its open, and while the sheer number of pops and scratches and splotches and other forms of print anomalies reduce after a heavy opening act, the transfer is consistently littered with debris. Colors are clearly faded, but brighter shades of red, for instance, still manage some pizazz. Detail is decent enough, nothing special by any means but serviceably steady and stable. Flesh tones are a little warm, and blacks are decent. There's just enough background blocking to constitute an eyesore at a few junctures, but the image is otherwise pleasantly free of any major compression issues. Finally, Mill Creek's Blu-ray retains a layer of grain that gives the image a nicely filmic, if still somewhat dated and worn, appearance.
Betsy's Wedding is hamstrung, but not ruined, by a crunchy DTS-HD MA 2.0 lossless soundtrack. This mix seems always wanting for more space than is afforded to it; despite the absence of true clarity, the track oftentimes spills way over into the sides and away from the center speaker in an effort to make itself a bit more attractive to the listener, even if the results are, at best, mushy. Dialogue follows suit, sometimes straying a bit from the center, resultantly sounding a little off-kilter. Ambience isn't bad, albeit limited to the front. A few heavier sound effects -- a cooking pan that clanks off the floor in one scene or, in the final thirty or so minutes of the movie, a few bursts of gunfire and a clap of thunder -- play with a muffled edge but an honest amount of energy and volume. It's nothing special, but Betsy's Wedding's soundtrack at least tries, constrained by the two-channel presentation but giving listeners all it's got and then some, anyway.
No supplements were invited to Betsy's Wedding.
Betsy's Wedding is a cute and comfortable little affair that's kind of like a dark side version of Father of the Bride. The movie isn't really dark per se, but the humor is a little more off-kilter and the characters a little less than bumbling fairy-tale perfect, but the movie is charming to no end thanks to a wonderful character roster and a few interesting and intermixing stories that might take away from the "Big Day" but that certainly compliment it nicely. Mill Creek's Blu-ray release of Betsy's Wedding features a fair high definition transfer, a utilitarian sort of soundtrack, and no extras. What the heck, recommended considering the price.
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