6.3 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
The film tells the story of four lifelong friends who travel to New Orleans for the annual Essence Music Festival, where sisterhoods are rekindled and wild sides are rediscovered.
Starring: Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Tiffany Haddish, Larenz TateComedy | 100% |
Drama | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
Spanish: DTS 5.1
English SDH, French, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
UV digital copy
DVD copy
BD-Live
Slipcover in original pressing
Region A, B (C untested)
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
From a very crude structural perspective, Comedies like Girls Trip are a dime-a-dozen. Plop a few friends into a crowd where lots of colors shine, loud music blares, alcohol flows, chaos ensues, truths are revealed, relationships are tested, and friends ultimately grow stronger than ever before, and it's pretty much the top-to-bottom bullet point guideline for a contemporary Comedy. Girls Trip is practically a journey through that list; its basic structure is so familiar that one could be forgiven for believing the movie came out two, three, five, ten years ago. But it has a few things going for it that so many others of its kind cannot achieve, at least not to this level: a carefully constructed roster of largely likable characters with a believable history together and a quartet of leading ladies whose chemistry is off-the-charts kinds of wonderful. The film overcomes core point-to-point scene and shenanigan cliché with not just spunk and spirit but a perfectly cast ensemble that's completely committed to shaping the story, the characters, and entertaining the audience.
Girls Trip delivers an abundantly colorful and extraordinarily clean 1080p image, sourced from a digital shoot. Universal's presentation is nearly spot-on perfect, with only occasional bouts of modest noise really interfering with the picture. Colors are the most obvious highlight; the palette delivers an endless barrage of deeply saturated, showy, and diverse colors. Whether multicolored clothes, New Orleans locations, or any number of critical support elements, like fruit that drives a few of the film's key comedic scenes, the palette never struggles to deliver intense bursts of color that rival any other film on the format. Detailing is solid. The image is crisp and very well defined, with no smudgy edges or unattractive textural qualities. Facial textures are intimately complex even at medium distance. Clothes are remarkably sharp and precise. Environments are clean and finely detailed. Black levels hold firm and skin tones are rich and pleasing. Blu-ray new releases don't come a whole lot better than this.
Girls Trip features a boisterous and engaging DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack. Universal's presentation delivers quality music, offering the film's robust and diverse soundtrack with engaging details, wide spacing, hearty surround and subwoofer engagement, a total package of sonic bliss, no matter the style, location in film, or mood that need be set. Street-level city din offers impressive immersion and precision detail across the board, effortlessly pulling the listener into the often raucous locations. Dialogue features top-tier clarity, positioning, and prioritization.
Girls Trip contains a handful of extras, including a commentary, deleted scenes, featurettes, and a music video. A DVD copy of the film and
a
voucher for a UV/iTunes digital copy is included with purchase.
Girls Trip would have been a disaster of repetitiveness, of follow-the-leader crude humor Comedy were it not for its cast. The script has some depth, but it's the cast, that coveted chemistry and the ability to individually and collectively sell the stories, that makes the movie rise above the muck it otherwise wades through. The movie is unquestionably crude at face value, but it's pretty solid below the surface, where the heart beats and the soul resides. Universal's Blu-ray is sure to satisfy fans, boasting top-tier video and audio along with a healthy allotment of bonus content. Recommended.
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