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Summer School
Paramount // PG-13 // June 1, 2004
List Price: $14.99 [Buy now and save at Amazon]
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I'm not going to pretend that Summer School is an overlooked slice of incomparable comedic brilliance, but it holds up well enough to keep me laughing throughout. Paramount's also slapped a bargain bin price tag on it, and this DVD is available for under ten bucks online. Worth picking up for fans of '80s comedies.
Video: The opening moments of Summer School are so soft and grainy that they had me settling in for 97 minutes of anticipated visual mediocrity. Then, strangely and suddenly, the 1.75:1 anamorphic widescreen presentation took a completely different turn, one it maintained for the majority of its remaining runtime. Some scattered shots here and there are of greatly varying quality, but those are both brief and infrequent. The image is predominantly sharp and well-defined, impressively clear of any wear or flecks. I'm pretty sure I didn't spot a single speck for the entire length of the film. Its palette is also bright and colorful. It still does look like a lower-budgeted flick shot 17 years ago, but at least it's a good presentation of a lower-budgeted flick shot 17 years ago.
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Supplements: Nothin'. This bare-metal DVD comes packaged in a keepcase (with those annoying security tabs on the side that Universal and Dreamworks have been using), and the disc sports a set of static, silent 16x9 menus.
Conclusion: Summer School is a nostalgic blast and holds up much better than many of the other '80s comedies I've subjected myself to over the past few years. A generally good looking anamorphic widescreen presentation, a decent six-channel mix, and a low list price make Summer School well worth fishing out of the bargain bin. Recommended.
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