6.4 | / 10 |
Users | 3.7 | |
Reviewer | 4.0 | |
Overall | 3.7 |
Two sisters decide to throw one last house party before their parents sell their family home.
Starring: Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Maya Rudolph, Ike Barinholtz, James BrolinComedy | 100% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
Spanish: DTS 5.1
French: DTS 5.1
Unrated Version is English Only
English SDH, French, Spanish
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Two-disc set (1 BD, 1 DVD)
UV digital copy
DVD copy
BD-Live
Slipcover in original pressing
Region free
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.5 | |
Audio | 4.0 | |
Extras | 3.5 | |
Overall | 4.0 |
Life's linear cycle is a funny thing. Kids quickly want to grow up and grown ups want to be kids again. Kids can't wait to get away from home but can't bring themselves to leave when they come back as adults. The future looks bright but the past almost always looks brighter. People love to remember, with fondness, the days of old, the simpler, freer times when life's burdens weren't so burdening and the challenges of adulthood were seen only through the prism of ignorant, youthful bliss. Sisters is a Comedy about coming home and accepting the final death knell of days gone by when the childhood home is sold to strangers. Suddenly it's not a memory or even a safe place, it's a battleground for survival. But this losing war won't be fought with sticks and stones. No, it'll go down in a blaze of liqueured up and drugged out glory. The popular comedic duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team up as sisters who send off their past with one final shebang before reaching the point of no childhood return...unless they come to learn that four walls and a roof does not a home make.
Who to invite...who to invite...
Sisters' 1080p transfer is dominated by its barrage of cheery Florida colors. When the sisters arrive in the airport, the audience is greeted by eye-popping pinks and blues and, outside, greens. Every color is vibrantly pronounced, perhaps lacking the most subtle nuances but certainly presenting with enough vigor and vitality to nearly blind everyone in the audience. Image detailing is excellent, even as the digitally sourced presentation suffers from an inherent flatness and, sometimes, almost plastic-like veneer. It's a terribly smooth image, but at the same time raw texturing always stands out, whether rough brick and mortar, finer fabric lines, intimate facial features, or all of the little odds and ends background graffiti, bottles, and home accents seen strewn about during the party. Nighttime exteriors hold up well, producing positive black levels. Skin tones are always more neutral than anything else. Light but almost always evident noise is an unwelcome intrusion, particularly in darker scenes, but Universal's transfer is otherwise technically proficient and absent any other unwanted artifacts.
Sisters parties hard on Blu-ray with a DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 lossless soundtrack that, like the movie, only intensifies in its second half. Nearly the entire first hour presents a rather flat, bland listen, dominated by dialogue and music that's not particularly forceful or robust. Ambience is minimal. Heavier party beats later in the movie, like Snow's Informer, offer a much more substantial and wide stage presence and, most appreciably, a heavier low end support. General party din is always nicely filling across the wild interior segments and even some of the more prominent outdoor moments. Two key sound effects later in the movie range from fair to great. To avoid spoilers, a large object falls but does so without the sort of tremendous, foundation-shaking oomph one would expect, but another effect moments later offer a punchier, fuller presence fit for a moment of that scale. Dialogue is always clear and well prioritized, even under the challenges of the heaviest musical beats and din at the party.
Sisters contains a wide array of fluffy bonus features alongside an audio commentary track and a number of deleted and extended scenes.
A DVD copy of the film and a voucher for a
UV/iTunes digital copy are included with purchase. The disc also includes both the film's theatrical and unrated cuts.
Sisters probably won't go down as a genre classic -- its burdensome and uneven first half all but ensures that -- but it's a lot of fun once it gets rolling. A terrific lead tandem and a strong supporting cast accentuate the movie's finest qualities and story themes. Universal's Blu-ray release comes packed to the gills with featurettes, deleted and extended scenes, and an audio commentary. Picture quality is great and sound is fine. Recommended.
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