6.4 | / 10 |
Users | 3.5 | |
Reviewer | 2.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Can fast-food counter dudes Ed (Kel Mitchell) and Dexter (Kenan Thompson) battle big business? That's the order of the day when Mondo Burger's high-tech hamburger haven opens across the street from the tiny Good Burger diner. Catch up with the gags as Ed and Dexter scramble to save their jobs and stop Mondo Burger's bid for fast-food domination!
Starring: Kel Mitchell, Kenan Thompson, Sinbad, Abe Vigoda, Shar JacksonComedy | 100% |
Family | 54% |
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
French: Dolby Digital 2.0
English, English SDH, French
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A, B (C untested)
Movie | 2.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 0.5 | |
Overall | 2.5 |
Quick: name the best "fast food hamburger" scene in movie history. It would make sense that such a scene would come from a movie that makes fast food burgers its bread-and-butter but, alas, such a scene does not appear within Good Burger, Director Brian Robbins's (Vasristy Blues, Norbit) dimwitted film about a brainless fast food employee who saves the company with a secret sauce of his own formulation. Hey, everyone's got to be good at something (much like Samuel L. Jackson is good at eating fast food hamburgers). Sadly, Good Burger isn't good at much of anything. The story is slim, the characters are one-trick ponies, and whatever passes as "art" in the movie was done with crayons as if by a toddler. It's a movie of empty calories and characterless taste, sure to make any film connoisseur shiver at the mere thought but, hey, sometimes a bit of junk is just what the doctor ordered (so long as said doctor isn't a cardiologist).
Good Burger does, at the very least, serve up a rather tasty 1080p transfer for its Blu-ray debut. While the picture does not reach peak perfection as have some other recent Paramount releases (think, maybe, Mouse Hunt or The Haunting), it certainly achieves a level of baseline excellence that does the movie very proud. The picture is more than adequately sharp and colorful (though one or two shots do go curiously dim and extra grainy), revealing a pleasing film-like look where fine grain and rich textures abound. Close-ups showcase rather good skin details, fine textures around the kitchen and cashier areas inside the Good Burger restaurant, and the sharper and cleaner and more space-age Mondo Burger interiors. Fine point details, like the Good Burger employee nametags, are further proof of the image's naturally sharp state. Colors are not so perfect and vibrant as to push a display to its limits, but the inherently colorful material puts out a good level of essential color brightness and vitality within a neutral contrast that allows the content to demonstrate the core vibrancy well enough. Skin tones and black levels are fine. The picture does show the odd stray pop or speckle but these are negligible at best and barely a bother at worst. There are no serious encode issues of note, either. Good Burger fares well here.
The DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless presentation is excellent. Music is full and detailed, well-spaced along the front and featuring plenty of surround wrap and subwoofer engagement. Atmosphere is very well defined. Ringing bells and chatty students at school around the seven-minute mark open up the location and effortlessly pull the listener into the scene. Heavy din inside the thriving Mondo Burger and later at Good Burger when Ed's sauce becomes all the rage effortlessly pull the listener into the establishments with nicely immersive spacing and detail. Zany, zigging, and zagging sound effects are perfectly capable for clarity and stage traversal. Dialogue is clear, well prioritized, and remains in the front-center speaker for the duration.
This Blu-ray release of Good Burger includes one supplement. Original "Good Burger" Sketch from All That (1994) (480i, 4x3, 4:00) is the original TV sketch that inspired the motion picture. No DVD or digital copies are included with purchase. This release does not ship with a slipcover.
Fans have been clamoring for Good Burger to make its way to Blu-ray for a long time now. Criterion seemed like the logical landing point – the Internet certainly thought so with all the fan made cover art floating around out there – but Paramount has picked up the mantle and delivered a solid Blu-ray, one that might not include the in-depth documentaries and heart-and-soul commentary tracks a film of this stature, prestige, and historical significance demands, but the studio has at least put together a perfectly good technical presentation that sees the film looking and sounding very good indeed. Recommended; no Blu-ray library is complete without it. Buy a second copy to keep shrink wrapped for posterity's sake.
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