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Users | 4.5 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Brad and Dusty must deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays. A follow-up to the 2015 comedy "Daddy's Home."
Starring: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, John Lithgow, Linda CardelliniComedy | 100% |
Family | 46% |
Holiday | 21% |
Video codec: HEVC / H.265
Video resolution: 4K (2160p)
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: Dolby Atmos
English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
French (Canada): Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
German: Dolby Digital 5.1
Italian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Polish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Russian: Dolby Digital 5.1
Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
Castilian and Latin American Spanish
English, English SDH, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Malay, Mandarin (Simplified), Mandarin (Traditional), Norwegian, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (2 BDs)
UV digital copy
4K Ultra HD
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 2.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Daddy's Home 2, sequel to the midrange Comedy Daddy's Home, plays like a parallel, male-centric companion film to A Bad Moms Christmas. Both are sequels to films that didn't really demand sequels, both bring in the characters' parents as foils, and both take place at Christmas. Moms is much more raunchy than Daddy; this is the more family-friendly franchise, Moms being the more adult-oriented Comedy series. About the most hardcore joke in Daddy's Home 2 involves the word "buttquack" so...it's a bit more tame. It's also a bit funnier, but by no means a great movie; it scrapes by as a solid enough time killer that flounders as much as it's funny but for lightweight moviemaking with a few laughs, things could be much worse.
This is us...and that over there is us in Dolby Vision!
The included screenshots are sourced from a 1080p Blu-ray disc. Watch for 4K screenshots at a later date.
Daddy's Home 2 is a funny movie, but its 2160p/Dolby Vision presentation is no joke. The movie's upscaled 4K resolution produces a strong
boost to textural efficiency and complexity. Knit sweaters and winter hats present with markedly increased raw texturing. Skin textures enjoy more
robust definition and environments are sharper and cleaner. The resolution boost certainly adds a new level of visual complexity to the image, but the
real
winner here is the Dolby Vision color presentation. Not only are colors more robust, rich, nuanced, and intense, but the image's increased brightness
and vibrancy absolutely steal the show. Whites are richer, cleaner, more organic; shirt collars are so crisp they're practically something out of a laundry
detergent commercial. Winter clothes dazzles with
greatly added saturation. Reds positively pop, darker colors are more stable and accurate, blacks are intricately detailed and precise, flesh tones are
perfectly flush and full. Light noise remains, but there's no mistaking that this is otherwise a razor-sharp and intensely bright and vivid image that
offers a strong textural increase and a substantial add in image clarity and vibrance over the Blu-ray, which, as good as it looks on its own, literally
pales in comparison to this UHD release.
Daddy's Home 2 is a film of, generally, modest sonic needs. Atmos might seem overkill for a Comedy of this style, but it does enhance several key sound effects and adds a general sense of greater spatial command. Music enjoys no major overhead component, but score and popular music alike play with all of the amenities of a modern track, including precision spacing -- width and depth -- as well as pinpoint clarity. The film's biggest gags generally earn the most intensive sonic depth and intensity. A snowblower crashes with a distinct fall from above partway through the film, and a "tree" crashes down beginning with a similar overhead localization and maneuvering from the top of the stage to the theater floor. A scene inside a movie theater late in the film offers distinct rearward and overhead components. Atmospherics -- inside a crowded theater lobby or a bustling bowling alley -- are well defined and draw the listener into some of the film's most sonically interesting locales. Dialogue is clear and well defined and properly positioned in the front-center for the duration.
Daddy's Home 2 contains a few featurettes, a gag reel, and deleted/alternate/extended scenes, all of which can be found on the bundled
Blu-ray disc. A UV/iTunes digital copy code is included with
purchase.
Daddy's Home 2 certainly doesn't reinvent the family Comedy. It's basically the male-perspective, less raunchy version of A Bad Moms Christmas, the film giving more sensitive audiences the same story with a little less of the crude language and situations that define the other franchise. The cast is a strong point, and the additions of Gibson and Lithgow are great; they're both well cast and slip right into the movie's agreeable little world of blended families and the struggles of everyday modern life. The film is predictable, its big gags more agreeable, but much of the filler in the middle only slows the movie down. Still, fans of the original should find this a satisfying enough little second outing, and the movie is certainly more than watchable as a largely pleasing time killer. Paramount's UHD delivers a fantastic 4K image with a wonderful Dolby Vision upgrade. A quality Atmos track and a few extras round out an agreeable package. Recommended.
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