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Encino Man
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In Short: No, there is no Pauly Shore commentary.
The Movie:
I'm not going to discuss a Pauly Shore movie for too long, really because there isn't much to discuss. Although this was pretty much the most popular Shore film, I don't think it's the best that he's ever done(the best Pauly Shore movie...yikes. Still scary.) "Encino Man" stars Shore and Sean Austin as two friends who find a caveman (Brendan Fraser) frozen in their backyard and decide to thaw him out since it just might make them popular. It's occasionally funny, but I'd much rather see Shore's "Bio-Dome", which is still the funniest movie I've seen from Shore. By the way, has anyone even seen Pauly Shore in the past few years? It seems like the guy has dissapeared off the face of the Earth.
The DVD
VIDEO:
Disney has turned things around at least a little bit in terms of their efforts regarding image quality on their DVDs. Although this is not anamorphic, I was pleasantly suprised by just how good the image quality on this DVD was. Images are a little soft in character, but still detail manages to be good. The fact that there are no artifacts such as shimmering or pixelation only adds to the natural, "film-like" appearance of the image. Colors are especially good - there are a number of scenes where costumes contain bright colors, and all look natural and nicely saturated, with no instances of bleeding or other such problems. After watching this and Adventures In Babysitting, I've seen improvements in the way that Disney is treating their catalog titles, and hopefully their future titles will recieve the same efforts.
SOUND: There really isn't too much to the soundtrack ( or the movie itself, for that matter), but there are a few positive aspects to the soundtrack. The score fills the room nicely, and although dialogue is a little thin sounding, it's still understandable. Not too much work for the surrounds, nor did I expect much for them from this movie.
MENUS:: A bummer - no animated Pauly Shore menus. We get the usual Disney menus taken from the cover art.
EXTRAS:: We get two small extra features, which is two more things than what are usually included with Disney catalog titles - for "Encino Man" we get a trailer and short featurette. No, there is no Pauly Shore commentary.
Final Thoughts Not Pauly Shore's best (Pauly Shore's best is still just about anyone's worst), but not too bad a job from Disney in general quality. Too bad they couldn't find Shore for a commentary.
The Movie:
I'm not going to discuss a Pauly Shore movie for too long, really because there isn't much to discuss. Although this was pretty much the most popular Shore film, I don't think it's the best that he's ever done(the best Pauly Shore movie...yikes. Still scary.) "Encino Man" stars Shore and Sean Austin as two friends who find a caveman (Brendan Fraser) frozen in their backyard and decide to thaw him out since it just might make them popular. It's occasionally funny, but I'd much rather see Shore's "Bio-Dome", which is still the funniest movie I've seen from Shore. By the way, has anyone even seen Pauly Shore in the past few years? It seems like the guy has dissapeared off the face of the Earth.
The DVD
VIDEO:
Disney has turned things around at least a little bit in terms of their efforts regarding image quality on their DVDs. Although this is not anamorphic, I was pleasantly suprised by just how good the image quality on this DVD was. Images are a little soft in character, but still detail manages to be good. The fact that there are no artifacts such as shimmering or pixelation only adds to the natural, "film-like" appearance of the image. Colors are especially good - there are a number of scenes where costumes contain bright colors, and all look natural and nicely saturated, with no instances of bleeding or other such problems. After watching this and Adventures In Babysitting, I've seen improvements in the way that Disney is treating their catalog titles, and hopefully their future titles will recieve the same efforts.
SOUND: There really isn't too much to the soundtrack ( or the movie itself, for that matter), but there are a few positive aspects to the soundtrack. The score fills the room nicely, and although dialogue is a little thin sounding, it's still understandable. Not too much work for the surrounds, nor did I expect much for them from this movie.
MENUS:: A bummer - no animated Pauly Shore menus. We get the usual Disney menus taken from the cover art.
EXTRAS:: We get two small extra features, which is two more things than what are usually included with Disney catalog titles - for "Encino Man" we get a trailer and short featurette. No, there is no Pauly Shore commentary.
Final Thoughts Not Pauly Shore's best (Pauly Shore's best is still just about anyone's worst), but not too bad a job from Disney in general quality. Too bad they couldn't find Shore for a commentary.
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