Space Jam

IMAGE – A resistible beauty 18 carrots!

While, like the final basketball game, a few sequences take advantage of the support, this UHD HDR10 transfer is still mixed.

So yes, the details are increased, the color spectrum is wider and the Looney Tunes universe is brighter than in the past. But photography, which was already not very gleaming in 1996, as well as the visual effects, which are completely obsolete now, pass (very) badly the heading of the ultra high definition! The integration of green funds is even more detectable here, with the CGIs being too low in resolution (starting with spectators during the « meeting of the century ») Seems to the eye, composite images generate a more supported grain and the sting does not disacerated (it is often blurred though).

After that, it is true that « defects » are to be searched from the source side and not from this scan 4K. But even there, while the textures have obtained a boost (cf. the background), that the colorimetric palette, much better saturated, is more pleasant and natural (the carnation), that the lighting is brighter (the stadium lights) and that the compression has been significantly improved (no color banding nor noise), the contrast levels are regularly too high (as soon as a Cartoon element comes into play) in « erasing » elements of darkness. That's disappointing!

SON – He's got dynamite! But no one has dynamite!

More engaging than anything else, the Dolby Atmos soundtrack scores points!

Cartoon obliges, the slightest sequence in which animated characters appear is a burst of effects that take full advantage of all the speakers assigned. The fronts are striking, the surrounds are very widespread, the air scene is notable by place (the arrival of the aliens, the public's cheers, the referee's voice, etc.) and the low stirring. For the rest, the dialogues are clear and the musical selection (with the cultisms Pump Up the Jam and I Believe I Can Fly) large.

Clearly less enveloping and more stifled (dialogues), the VF can only confess defeated.

CONCLUSION – What about nine doctors?

Except for the unconditional fans of this meager comedy where the cartoon rubs itself into reality without any conviction, difficult to recommend you buy this Ultra HD Blu-ray that shoots in the basket in the rush!