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Paramount Pictures | 2015 | 96 min | Rated PG-13 | Feb 20, 2018

Daddy's Home 4K (Blu-ray Movie)

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Movie rating

6.1
 / 10

Blu-ray rating

Users4.2 of 54.2
Reviewer4.0 of 54.0
Overall4.0 of 54.0

Overview

Daddy's Home 4K (2015)

A mild-mannered radio executive strives to become the best stepdad to his wife's two children, but complications ensue when their freewheeling and freeloading real father arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids.

Starring: Will Ferrell, Mark Wahlberg, Linda Cardellini, Thomas Haden Church, Scarlett Estevez
Director: Sean Anders

Comedy100%
Family45%

Specifications

  • Video

    Video codec: HEVC / H.265
    Video resolution: 4K (2160p)
    Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
    Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

  • Audio

    English: DTS:X
    English: DTS-HD Master Audio 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
    English: DTS Headphone:X
    French (Canada): Dolby Digital 5.1
    French: Dolby Digital 5.1
    Spanish: Dolby Digital 5.1
    Portuguese: Dolby Digital 5.1
    German: Dolby Digital 5.1
    Japanese: Dolby Digital 5.1

  • Subtitles

    English, English SDH, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish

  • Discs

    Blu-ray Disc
    Two-disc set (2 BDs)
    UV digital copy
    4K Ultra HD

  • Packaging

    Slipcover in original pressing

  • Playback

    Region A, B (C untested)

Review

Rating summary

Movie3.5 of 53.5
Video4.5 of 54.5
Audio4.0 of 54.0
Extras2.5 of 52.5
Overall4.0 of 54.0

Daddy's Home 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Dolby Vision's Home.

Reviewed by Martin Liebman March 21, 2018

Paramount's agreeable family Comedy 'Daddy's Home' arrives on the UHD format with a new 2160p/Dolby Vision video presentation. It's a stunner, particularly regarding the film's boosted, refined coloring. The studio has simply carried over the Blu-ray's DTS:X soundtrack, and the bundled Blu-ray includes all of the previously released extra content.


Brad Whitaker (Will Ferrell) is an executive at the nation's third-highest rated Jazz radio station. He's also married to the lovely Sara (Linda Cardellini), who came with two kids -- Megan (Scarlett Estevez) and Dylan (Owen Vaccaro) -- when they fell in love. He loves the kids, too, and wants nothing more than to be the dad they deserve. Just as things are starting to look up, when Megan invites him to her school's daddy-daughter dance and Dylan asks him for man-to-man help with some older bullies, the kids' biological father, Dusty (Mark Wahlberg), shows up. Brad is surprisingly hip to the idea, but Sara is dead-set against it. The kids, however, desperately want to see their real father, so it's three versus one voting "yay Dusty!" But things don't go so well. Dusty is everything Brad isn't: he's athletic, assertive, much more of a man's man, and most of all he's the kids' real dad. Brad quickly realizes that his back is up against the wall. He he has no choice other than to take ever increasing risks to gain the kids' affection. At the same time, Dusty engages in the process and tries to humiliate Brad along every step of the way.

For a full film review, please click here.


Daddy's Home 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality  4.5 of 5

The included screenshots are sourced from a 1080p Blu-ray disc. Watch for 4K screenshots at a later date.

Who would have thought that a basic Comedy could be a hallmark for Dolby Vision color? Daddy's Home 2 was, and remains, a standout on the format. Its predecessor, Daddy's Home, released on the same day and yields just about the same results; it's a stunner of a UHD and one of the best pure examples of what the format can do for a movie, particularly considering its color improvements, which are dramatic. Under the 12-bit Dolby Vision color parameters, this movie appears significantly brighter overall compared to the excellent Blu-ray. It's a fairly stark contrast by which the BD looks comparatively dark, even as it boasts a solid enough SDR color palette. But Dolby Vision takes things to a radically higher new level. On the UHD, the Whitaker house appears lit with tons of beaming natural light. In an early scene in which Brad is standing at the bottom of a staircase (the scene introducing Sara), he's surrounded by white walls on both sides and above him and a rich Mahogany (speaking of Ferrell) floor below and behind him. It's obviously intense on the UHD prior to a comparison, but the difference is almost literally night and day when looking at the scene on both formats. The UHD has that bright natural light look to it where the BD just looks like dull lightbulbs are effectively, but lifelessly, illuminating the house. In the kids' bedroom at the 15-minute mark, Megan's bed is slathered in pink and Dylan's covered in Lakers purple and yellow. Not only do the various bedsheets and blanket fabrics see a very nice textural boost, but the colors are out of this world more intense and natural, much more vibrant and more intimately saturated. Such holds true throughout the film. This was not simply a crank to the brightness settings but an accompanying add in overall color depth and richness. That translates to skin tones, shiny bright reflections on Dusty's motorcycle, green grasses, accents around the home, balloons at a dance, anything and everything that has color benefits from the Dolby Vision format. Black levels, too, find highly impressive depth and density, whether nighttime blacks or dark attire. Both hold firm and never swallow an ounce of detail.

The UHD's textural bump is obvious, but not as dramatic as the boosted color palette. Textural efficiency and clarity are both increased, even as the film was digitally shot and is apparently an upscale from a 2K digital intermediate, unsurprising considering its roots as a basic family Comedy. Skin textures are better defined, clothes sharper and more revealing of fine fabric details and stitching, and environments -- whether plants and a walkway outside the Whitaker home or the many accents within it, including rugs, that mahogany floor, odds and ends around the kitchen, decorations on the walls in the living room and the bedrooms -- are all impressively complex. So too are they on the Blu-ray, but even a mild increase in sharpness and textural robustness goes a long way in improving the image, and in concert with the superb Dolby Vision coloring, it's really no contest that the UHD makes for a marked improvement over the Blu-ray. There are no source or encode flaws of note. Light noise is even and never intrusive, in fact appearing a little flattering in almost a grain-mimicking presentation. This is a triumphant example of Dolby Vision; both Daddy's Home films are reference material for that color format.


Daddy's Home 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality  4.0 of 5

Daddy's Home released to Blu-ray in March 2016, about two years ago, with a DTS:X soundtrack. Paramount has simply ported that over for this UHD release. Note that the studio has added a few additional dub tracks and subtitle options to the UHD disc. For a full review of the DTS:X soundtrack, please click here.


Daddy's Home 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras  2.5 of 5

Daddy's Home's UHD disc contains no extras, but the bundled Blu-ray, identical to that released a couple of years ago, of course carries over all of that bonus content. For a full review, please click here. For convenience, below is al list of what's included. This set also contains a fresh UV/iTunes digital copy code.

  • The Making of Daddy's Home
  • Daddy-Off
  • Daddy Daughter Dance
  • Halftime Stunt
  • Tony Hawk: Skater Double
  • Child's Play
  • Hannibal Buress: The Perfect Houseguest
  • Blooper -- Jeet Kune Do
  • Deleted and Extended Scenes


Daddy's Home 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation  4.0 of 5

Daddy's Home is a solid Comedy that has earned a first-class UHD. The 2160p image, even as an upscale, delivers a solid boost in textural qualities and general image sharpness, but the winner here is the Dolby Vision coloring that blows away the Blu-ray, making it look comparatively dim and dull. Audio and supplements remain unchanged. Recommended, and highly so for Dolby Vision-capable buyers.


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