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Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
After a single, career-minded woman is left on her own to give to birth to the child of a married man, she finds a new romantic chance in a cab driver. Meanwhile the point-of-view of the newborn boy is narrated through voice over.
Starring: John Travolta, Kirstie Alley, Olympia Dukakis, George Segal, Abe VigodaComedy | 100% |
Family | 43% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 (48kHz, 24-bit)
French: Dolby Digital 2.0
Spanish: Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono (192 kbps)
English SDH, French, Spanish
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region free
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 3.0 | |
Audio | 3.5 | |
Extras | 1.0 | |
Overall | 3.0 |
"It's complicated' becomes "it's crazy" in Look Who's Talking, Writer/Director Amy Heckerling's (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless) 1989 film about lust, love, and the little one caught in the middle. From insemination to insanity, the film follows the times and trials of a single mother in New York City, juggling her personal wants for love and affection and security and her infant son's needs for those same things, which don't necessarily jive with her definitions for herself. But amidst the budding love story and comedic currents the film belongs to Bruce Willis who voices the inner thoughts of the film's infant character from womb to toddlerhood, commenting on life, love, and the search for a father figure in his life.
Look who's on Blu-ray with fair but troubled results. Look Who's Talking finally debuts on the 1080p format as part of Sony's pressed MOD (Manufactured on Demand) line. The presentation has its ups and downs. On the down side, the picture appears heavily processed with grain transformed from organic to sharp and digitized, removing a more pure film-like state in favor of something far less attractive. It's obvious from the opening scene between Albert and Mollie and follows through the remainder of the movie. Some unsightly compression issues join in, too, oftentimes in conjunction with the processed grain leaving backgrounds in a stage of fussy disrepair. On the plus side, textures remain firm and satisfying. The picture has not been noise reduced to the point of scrubbing away fine details. On the contrary, facial features are nicely revealing, clothes appear sharp (look at the medical scrubs Travolta's James wears when Alley's Mollie is giving birth), and various accents around city interiors and exteriors hold true. Colors are well rounded with little evidence of significant fading. There's a pleasing level of saturation to the entire palette. Black levels fare well enough, ditto skin tones. It's a shame the image stumbles in some areas because it looks fairly good in others. It's still a relatively healthy boost over existing standard definition presentations.
Look Who's Talking chats up a storm on Blu-ray with a well rounded DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack. While not a marvel of sound engineering either at the source or within the encode, the presentation satisfies requirements and meets the movie's needs with a quality structure and delivery. Musical spacing is joyful, with a parade of popular songs spilling into the stage with impressive detail and vigor, primarily situated up front but drifting into the rears as well. The gaggle of sperm seen at the beginning of the movie swim through with indistinct, raucous chatter until Mickey takes charge and plants himself in the egg. Dialogue continues to be a strength, presenting with good front-center position, lifelike clarity, and faultless prioritization. Atmospheric effects are impressively filling, whether exterior city din or bustle inside an accounting office -- adding machines, ringing phones -- heard at the 68-minute mark. There's not much deep end authority or authenticity to a multi car crash late in the film, but the symphony of honking horns to follow does help to set the scene and draw the listener into it.
Sony's Blu-ray release of Look Who's Talking contains a single extra, an audio commentary track with Writer/Director Amy Heckerling. Topics of discussion include the usual coverage of visual effects, characters and actors, story details, filmmaking anecdotes, and a bit more. There are some stretches of silence and Heckerling admits up front that she might not recall everything considering the length of time between shooting and recording the commentary. This is a track only for the movie's most ardent fans. No DVD or digital copies are included with purchase. This release does not ship with a slipcover.
Look Who's Talking is an affable little movie with a few unique perspectives on love and life. The story is at its strongest when focused on Mickey, both his internal vocalizations and his burgeoning relationship with the father figure in his life, John Travolta's James. James' relationship with Mollie is of lesser interest but it works as part of a larger whole. Sony's MOD Blu-ray is a bit disappointing. Audio is fine but video is somewhat troubled and the commentary track is not particularly good. The disc is also overpriced at time of writing. For fans only.
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