The most difficult barrier I found to enjoying the power of the drama of Evita is that the studio recorded soundtrack lacks immediacy. It's sounds like the voices and actors are unattached. Another sharp, well-made DVD from Disney, Evita has vital colors and good contrast levels in a variety of light situations. There is some excess NTSC artifacting due to slight over-enhancement of the sharpness. The mix is cleaner and far better than my local big screen theater experience.
Explosions pack plenty of punch and lyrics are uniformly clear, albeit hanging somewhere in space.
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