There are absolutely no problems with chroma noise or color smearing. Blacks are deep and the level of shadow detail is excellent. Digital compression artifacts are virtually invisible. The Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack is somewhat better than a typical comedy mix, but only slightly. Most of the sound effects are placed across the forward soundstage, with the rear channels adding ambience, as well as filling out the music.
Dialogue is crisp and fully intelligible, so there are no problems hearing the jokes.
Bass is solid and supplies the necessary oomph to gunshots and the occasional explosion. Both the film s score by Randy Edelman and incidental music have a full, lush quality that is very pleasing. There are a couple of songs that are performed in a jazz club, which sound especially good in Dolby Digital. A French 5.1 channel soundtrack is also encoded onto the DVD, as are English and French subtitles. The interactive menus are mildly animated and contain sound.