Meet Dave Blu-ray

Meet Dave

 (2008)

Comedy | Sci-Fi



A massive fireball from space hits New York's Central Park and an ordinary man emerges unscathed. The man turns out to be a spaceship operated by 100 human-looking aliens who are one-quarter inch tall and seeking a way to save their planet; complications ensue when their captain falls in love with an Earth woman who's always picked losers for previous romances.

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Starring: Eddie Murphy, Elizabeth Banks, Gabrielle Union, Scott Caan, Ed Helms
Director: Brian Robbins

Meet Dave Blu-ray, Video Quality

 


20th Century Fox brings Meet Dave to Blu-ray in a quality 1.85:1-framed, 1080p transfer. The picture looks somewhat warm with a reddish tint to flesh tones and a red/orange/golden hue to much of the image. Oftentimes, the transfer sports fantastic attention to fine detail and offers plenty of depth, making for what is usually a very film-like transfer. The many exterior New York shots in particular feature some realistic textures and intricate detail that brings the image to life. The transfer also features many bright, alluring colors. Not all is well, however. Many shots look washed out with muted colors and a slightly soft look. Blacks are hit or miss, but are more often better than they are worse. Flesh tones vary from the red tint mentioned earlier to natural in appearance, with seemingly little to no correlation to shot location or lighting. The transfer looks better far more often than not, but it lacks in a few places. Meet Dave features a strong, but not reference-grade, high definition transfer.

Meet Dave Blu-ray, Audio Quality

 


Meet Dave crashes onto Blu-ray with a high powered DTS-HD MA 5.1 lossless soundtrack. This track features plenty of activity, including bass that rattles the floorboards in many scenes and places the viewer in the middle of the action. Listeners will also find great sound effects that may be heard all around the stage, many offering fantastic precision, clarity, and attention to detail. There is plenty of surround activity as well, both in support of the fronts and through the inclusion of discrete effects that seem to always create a full sense of 360-degree realistic atmosphere. A scene in chapter seven featuring Starship Dave listening to headphones with disastrous results inside the ship due to the prodigious amounts of bass makes for a rather interesting sonic moment. The bass is a bit muddied and unclear, but it's supposed to be in this instance and taken in the context of the scene. The scenes in the Havana restaurant in chapter 19 feature lively, realistic music and atmosphere that plays with pitch-perfect precision throughout the soundstage. Dialogue is crisp and natural in delivery. Meet Dave does not always feature a nonstop audio assault as many segments of the movie remain focused across the front three speakers, but this is a well-above average and lively track considering the film's comedy roots.

Meet Dave Blu-ray, News and Updates

• Fox Brings Meet Dave to Blu-ray - September 2, 2008