Rating summary
| Movie |  | 3.0 |
| Video |  | 0.5 |
| Audio |  | 2.5 |
| Extras |  | 0.0 |
| Overall |  | 2.0 |
The Man Called Flintstone Blu-ray Movie Review
Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman October 22, 2020
Note: This film is available as an SD supplement on The Flintstones: The Complete Series.
The Man Called Flintstones debuted at almost the exact same moment that the original broadcast run for the actual series was coming to an
end. This feature tries to cash in not just on the perhaps at that point waning popularity of
The Flintstones but also on the then
au
courant spy craze, even if
that particular frenzy was arguably starting to wane itself. The result is a typically whimsical "reinvention"
of contemporary tropes, in the sort of pop culture parody aspect that
The Flintstones often employed in its weekly outings. The story has
Fred filling in for a secret agent named Rock Slag, with whom he of course shares an identical appearance.
The Man Called Flintstone Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality
The Man Called Flintstones is presented as a supplement on The Flintstones: The Complete Series with an AVC encoded 480i transfer in 1.77:1. While the palette here is
generally okay looking, it's nowhere near as fresh in appearance as the video element on the actual series. There's also noticeable and recurrent
damage throughout the presentation. The most glaring deficit here are the obvious stairstepping and aliasing that show up with great regularity, some
of which can be discerned in the screenshots accompanying this review.
The Man Called Flintstone Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality
The Man Called Flintstone features a Dolby Digital 2.0 mono track. The lossy audio doesn't have any major issues in terms of damage or
distortion, but it's another technical aspect here that will probably leaving fans wanting more. The film uses the same kind of goofy sound effects that
the series often did, and the film also has some prevalent musical aspects, both of which would have benefited from a lossless accounting. Dialogue is
presented clearly enough.
The Man Called Flintstone Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras
This is a supplement itself, and so has no supplemental content.
The Man Called Flintstone Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation
The Man Called Flintstones is a reasonably entertaining effort which combines the weird quasi-prehistoric ambience of The Flintstones
with a spy story. If this is accepted as a supplement, its deficient technical merits may become somewhat more palatable.
