6.8 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire.
Starring: John Turturro, Bob Nelson (II), Mel Smith, George De La Pena, John SavidentComedy | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (locked)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 5.0 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 2.0 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Dennis Dugan's "Brain Donors" (1992) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber. The supplemental features on the release include new audio commentary by Dennis Dugan and critic and author Lee Gambin; audio commentary by film journalist Staci Layne Wilson; and vintage trailer. In English, with optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature. Region-A "locked".
Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Brain Donors arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Kino Lorber.
The release is sourced from a new 4K master that was supplied by Paramount Pictures. I am tempted to speculate that the 4K master was prepared by the same party that delivered the recent 4K master for The Big Bus because the work that was done on both is equally convincing and impressive. I like everything that I saw on my system. Delineation, clarity, and depth were fantastic throughout the entire film. Fluidity was wonderful, too. However, I was most pleased by the outstanding color grading job because it makes Brain Donors look as good as it could and should in 1080p. All primaries are incredibly healthy and superbly balanced, while the supporting nuances are nothing short of sensational. To be honest, most of the time I felt as if I was viewing native 4K content with an outstanding HDR grade. There are no traces of problematic digital corrections. Image stability is excellent. The entire film looks immaculate as well. (Note: This is a Region-A "locked" Blu-ray release. Therefore, you must have a native Region-A or Region-Free player in order to access its content).
There are two standard audio tracks on this Blu-ray release: English DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 and English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0. Optional English SDH subtitles are provided for the main feature.
I chose to view the film with the DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 track because there is a lot of great music and entertaining action throughout the film. I thought that the 5.1 track was terrific. Clarity, sharpness, and depth were wonderful. Balance was great as well. What about dynamic activity? I was very surprised with the great range of nuanced dynamics, because while diverse, the soundtrack was not created to be a showoff piece. There is just a lot of music content that is mixed very, very well. I did not encounter any encoding anomalies to report in our review.
Once the thematic similarities between Brain Donors and A Night at the Opera are acknowledged, it becomes very easy to see that the former has a unique identity. It comes from the 1990s, but it is a 1980s film with the unmistakable anything-goes attitude only films from that decade knew how to manage properly so that the ridiculous in them would become hilarious. Certain things could have been done better, but there is still a lot to like, especially now that Hollywood insists on promoting vulgarity as comedy. Kino Lorber's release introduces an outstanding new 4K restoration of Brain Donors that was prepared at Paramount Pictures. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
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