Sullivan is intrigued by Gilbert s original story, which also presents him with the opportunity to broaden his musical horizons. This is a truly beautiful looking movie and the DVD presentation does full justice to the superb cinematography and production design. The period settings and costumes look spectacular, thanks to the crisp detailed image that the DVD provides. Flesh tones appear healthy, plus the rest of the warm, glowing hues of the film s pallet are produced with maximum fidelity. Neither chroma noise nor smearing affected color reproduction in any way.
Blacks are nicely reproduced and the picture delivers a fine level of shadow detail.
The Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack has a very nice mix that maintains the period atmosphere with its subtlety. Surround information never overwhelms, which keeps everything quite natural sounding. Sound effects are deployed modestly, even in the forward soundstage. Dialogue reproduction is always crisp and accurate. Of course, the highlights of the soundtrack are the Gilbert and Sullivan musical numbers, which sound absolutely marvelous.