Dreamworks latest animated picture is a real bluray treat. The picture is extremely sharp and detailed with lustrous colours. The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 soundtrack is very powerful and making good use of all channels. And of course the movie in itself is both funny, sharp and an overall great family adventure.

The cast is doing a brilliant job in bringing the characters to life, most notably Jack Black as the main character Po the chubby noodle selling Kung Fu Master-wannabe, that eventually saves the day. The story is quite bog standard about the underdog that makes it in the end, but that doesn’t really matter as it’s very pleasantly delivered with lots of punch!

Kung Fu Panda Bluray is a highly recommended view, and a great addition to any bluray library.

I just watched Watchmen in the cinema the other day, a great movie and can’t wait for the Blu-Ray release. Expect this to be another few months though. In the mean time there is a animated comic feature to be released April 6th called Watchmen: Tale of the Black Freighter. This is a 63 minute HD flick. Have you seen it?

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The Academy Awards-nominated animated film Waltz with Bashir will be ready for Blu-Ray homecinemas across UK from the 30th of March. It will be presented in full-blown 1080p HD resolution to make the most of Full HD TVs and make the most of high-end audio systems with it’s DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack. And as expected it will come loaded with extras such as deleted scenes, a 70 minutes long “making of..” documentary and more.

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A Blu-Ray Masterpiece

Wall-e! That’s about the only spoken word you’ll hear for most part of the movie. This Pixar movie is a great feat in animated film making, both from a technical point of view and story telling as it’s relying very little on the spoken word to narrate the movie, but instead the actions and expressions of the characters. The rusty little robot is left alone on earth and spends its lonesome days sorting rubbish, until one day he gets a close encounter of the third kind. I probably don’t have to go into great lengths of selling you the merits of the movies, as you probably know already that it’s the best thing to come out of the animation studio since their last film.

Before actually firing up the movie feature, I spent about ten minutes prior to calibrate my home cinema system. You see, this nifty little Blu-Ray comes with a calibration exercise to make the most of your Audio and Video set-up by tweaking picture format, contrast, and speaker positioning etc.. 

In addition, the Blu-Ray transfer of Wall-E is probably the best usage of the format so far. The colours are absolutely splendid, and the the audio nothing short of stunning. If you are mostly renting your discs, this is one that’s actually worth adding to your permanent library. A solid top scorer.