While the rest of the family is set to just enjoy (or grit their teeth and bear) the holidays, Clarke has twinkle lights and sugar plum fairies in his eyes. The Bold New Take on The Beloved Classic “The Color Purple” Debuts on 4K, Blu-ray and DVD March 12th! This movie, the Star Wars Holiday Special and Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas are the only movies I HAVE to watch every holiday season. Light the Yule Log, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation celebrates the holidays with a new two-disc 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray + Digital release from Warner Bros. As I alluded to earlier, color reproduction benefited from the wider color gamut, especially primaries like blue and red, allowing the period clothing and gleaming lights to shine.

This Christmas he’s invited the entire family inlaws and all for the grandest traditional Christmas ever! Grain is still intact, occasionally rising to more obvious levels but, never to a distracting point. Its one where seeing these same jokes again are always welcome, comforting and still pretty damn funny. The only features is an Audio Commentary with Actors Randy Quaid, Beverly D’Angelo, Johnny Galecki, Miriam Flynn along with Producer Matty Simmons and Director Jeremiah S. hits including National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, a perennial favorite around these (and most other) parts.This release also includes a Blu-ray version which is identical to the 25th anniversary release, with the same menus and incorrect aspect ratio. The film itself has several soft filters applied to the original shots, but even so, the added detail and clarity from this release vs the previous Blu-ray releases is shocking. And at ugly Christmas sweater parties there’s sure to be at least one person sporting his dickie-fied swagger. The management works very hard to make sure the community is running the best software, best designs, and all the other bells and whistles.

Detail on this was fairly good while colors appear to be well balanced with some vibrancy in keeping with the light-hearted material. The film is just as funny as it was the day it was unwrapped for theaters and now looks and sounds better than ever thanks to an overall excellent HDR10 transfer with DTS-HD MA 5. The audio presentation got the job done and, while it may not be the type that constantly drives the system and fills the room it seemed to maximize the elements present in the recording quite well. While I’ve never found this film to look bad, the new 4K image does show some noticeable improvements.Nothing seems to work right for the Griswold family in the movies, but this one is of epic proportions. Firm color produces plentiful primaries, more than the usual Christmas reds and blues (those look stellar too though). track that many felt was missing from the previous Blu-ray, as well as the original DTS-HD Master Audio 2. adds a bit more heft to the film with a little louder presence and some more oomph in the lower end sounds.