Unfortunately, Roy s satellite provider turns out to be a subsidiary company of hell, with all of the programming designed to entertain the Prince of Darkness. Soon after turning on the new system, Roy and Helen are sucked into the satellite dish, where they find that television has become hellvision. Inside the realm of satellite programming, Roy and Helen find themselves participating in demonic parodies of typical television shows, where they have to fight to stay alive. All of the parodies are mildly amusing, but as I stated above, they are never taken to the extreme where they could have generated some real belly laughs. Ritter and Dawber do the most they can with the material, however it is Jeffrey Jones and Eugene Levy who induce the most chuckles, as two of hell s programming executives.
Colors are vibrant and the flesh tones appear quite accurate.
There are no problems with chroma noise or bleeding of the more intense hues anywhere during the presentation. There is good channel separation across the forward soundstage and the surrounds are pretty lively. A French 5.1 channel soundtrack is also encoded onto the DVD, as are English, French and Spanish subtitles. The interactive menus are fun and take advantage of full motion video animation and sound. Through the menus, one can access the standard scene selection and set up features.