My Best Friend's Girl Blu-ray

My Best Friend's Girl

 (2008)

Comedy



Smart, beautiful and headstrong, Alexis is the girl of Dustin's dreams. But after only five weeks of dating, the love-struck Dustin is coming on so strong that Alexis is forced to slow things down—permanently. Devastated and desperate to get her back, Dustin turns to his best friend, Tank, the rebound specialist. A master at seducing —and offending—women, Tank gets hired by freshly dumped guys to take their ex-girlfriends out on the worst date of their lives—an experience so horrible it sends them running gratefully back to their beaus. But when Tank works his magic on Alexis, he ends up meeting the challenge of a lifetime. Alexis is the first girl who knows how to call his bluff, and Tank soon finds himself torn between his loyalty to Dustin and a strange new attraction to his best friend's girl.

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Starring: Dane Cook, Kate Hudson, Jason Biggs, Alec Baldwin, Diora Baird
Director: Howard Deutch

My Best Friend's Girl Blu-ray, Video Quality

 


Lionsgate delivers My Best Friend's Girl to Blu-ray in a 1080p, 1.78:1-framed transfer. Two factors immediately come to attention with this transfer: the grain and flesh tones. Flesh tones push towards the red, and many of the actors appear to have a bad sunburn. Colors appear just a bit overblown. The film is very colorful, though the entire spectrum, like the flesh tones, seems to have a red tint to it, lending a warm feel to the picture. Black levels are also hit-or-miss, sometimes appearing a bit too bright and at other times showing off a nice, true, deep, and dark black. A heavy amount of grain is visible throughout the film as well. Unfortunately, fine detail sometimes lacks; there are no cases of outright poor textures or backgrounds, but the transfer isn't always razor-sharp, either. It is also a little soft here and there. Bright outdoor scenes fare a little better than the drab, interior shots, of which there are several. Fine detail fluctuates significantly between sequences, sometimes showing fine resolution, at others lacking in overall depth and breadth. Nevertheless, most of these issues seem inherent to the original intent of the film. It's not a terrible transfer at all, it just won't be one that won't ever serve as demo material.

My Best Friend's Girl Blu-ray, Audio Quality

 


My Best Friend's Girl features a full-fledged DTS-HD MA 7.1 lossless soundtrack. As a comedy, not much is expected of the accompanying soundtrack, 7.1 channels of lossless goodness or not, but My Best Friend's Girl manages to impress, even tossing in a few scenes that will put a smile on the audiophile's face. In no way is this a reference track, but it suits the material very well. The track creates a nice environment in many scenes, seagulls heard here and there around the stage in chapter six during an outdoor cafe scene, for example. Music is the track's strong suit, pouring out from every speaker with good clarity and definition. Bass is solid, but never very deep; it won't rattles the windows, but has a decent presence. The track does a sufficient job of creating a sense of envelopment; a rainstorm in chapter eight sounds rather good, but most of the rain is focused up front, with ambient support, like claps of thunder, heard in the back channels. Dialogue reproduction is excellent when not drowned out by loud music and bass, which happens on several occasions. Lionsgate once again delivers what audiences crave in the audio department, and this soundtrack generally doesn't disappoint.

My Best Friend's Girl Blu-ray, News and Updates

• Today on Blu-ray - January 13 - January 13, 2009


• Extras Revealed for My Best Friend's Girl - October 21, 2008


• My Best Friend's Girl Comes to Blu-ray - October 17, 2008

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