| MOVIE |
|
Julianne (Julia Roberts) and Michael (Dermot
Mulroney) have been best friends
for years, then one day, Julianne realizes that she is in love with him and wants to marry
him, but guess what? He's already found someone else Kimmy (Cameron Diaz), and there
getting married. Now Julianne realizes she has to get her act together, her plan? Go to
Chicago, meet the new girlfriend, break them up and marry Michael.
Now it all sounds so
clear cut to Julianne but she realizes that it's not going to be so easy. She enlist the
help of the homosexual friend (Rupert Everett) to help break them up, he sees that Michael
& Kimmy are in love and that it won't be an easy job, but he tries his best, and he's
very good in the movie. Eventually Julianne tries every old trick in the book to break
them up, it's doing this that makes her feel really, really bad but she believes she's
doing the wrong thing.
Now I know that it sounds very downbeat and dramatic and it does
have it's moments, it's a funny and enjoyable watch. Julia Roberts is good in it, but I
must admit Rupert Everett steals the show in it. But the movie does get a little boring at
times. Average. |
| VIDEO |
|
Wow this is demo quality. The picture is razor sharp at all times and shows no
apparent glitches, artifacts or errors whatsoever.
It really goes to show how good the Columbia/Tri-Star discs are and how
much work they put into them, excellent stuff.
My Best Friend's Wedding is framed
at 2:35:1 and is 16:9 enhanced.
This is a single-sided, single layer disc.
|
| AUDIO |
|
The movie has several sound formats in English & French, I listened to the
English DD5.1 mix, now although it wasn't bad, it did seem a little light on and the sound
was more balanced to the front.
The surrounds did get some use but mainly for music and
some ambient sound effects. The speech was always easy to listen to. The .1 channel didn't
really get much use at all.
|
| EXTRAS |
|
Not much on this disc. Firstly you get the original theatrical trailer which is
in full-screen ratio 4:3 and the other main extra is the Dolby Digital City Trailer, now I
did actually see this on the Godzilla DVD but forgot to mention it.
The Dolby Digital trailer is
encoded in DD5.1, strange that isn't it! and it really adds to the cinema like experience.
I hope that WB & Village add this to there discs, but other than that you don't get
much else.
|
| FINAL THOUGHTS |
| Not a must buy disc, but if your into a lightweight romantic comedy, grab it.
The inclusion of the Dolby Digital trailer really adds to the disc though. |
|
REVIEW
EQUIPMENT
|
Display:
48" Sony RPTV.
DVD Player: Panasonic A350 Player using S-Video Cables.
Receiver: Pioneer VSX-D508 Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround.
Speakers: Accusound speaker
system. |
Copyright © 2000 by [Roger
Ward].
Revised: 25 May 2000 20:30:28 +1100
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| Region
Coding: |
Region
4 |
| No of
Discs: |
1 |
| OFLC Rating |
M15+ |
| Running
Time: |
101
minutes |
| Case
Type: |
Keep
Case |
| Release
Date: |
25/11/1998 |
| Catalog
Number: |
25241 |
| List
Price: |
34.95 |
| Distributor: |
Columbia/Tri-Star |
| Disc
Format: |
PAL |
| Disc
Type: |
Label
Disc |
| Disc
Format: |
SS-SL |
| Chapters: |
19 |
| Macrovision: |
Yes |
| Manufacturer: |
Sony
DVD Center |
| Aspect
Ratio:
|
2:35:1 |
| Anamorphic: |
Yes |
| Film
Format: |
35mm |
Dolby
Digital:
|
5.1 Surround
2.0 Surround |
| DTS: |
None |
| PCM
Stereo: |
None |
| Other: |
None |
Languages:
|
English
French |
| Subtitles: |
Yes |
| Audio
Commentary: |
None |
| Theatrical
Trailer: |
Yes |
| Teaser
Trailer: |
None |
| TV
Spots: |
None |
| Dolby
Trailer: |
None |
| Documentary: |
None |
| Cast
& Crew Bios: |
None |
| Deleted
Scenes: |
None |
| Music
Videos: |
None |
| DVD Rom
Content: |
None |
| Collectable
Booklet: |
None |
| Scene
Access: |
Yes |
| Animated
Menus: |
None |
| Production
Notes: |
None |
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