Stone truly belongs in a screwball comedy- now if we could only get Hollywood to revive the dead art form. Jennifer Tilly in cameos. USA Home Entertainment has made THE MUSE available on a dual layered, single sided DVD that offers both full screen and wide screen presentation. Other than the framing being wrong, there is nothing wrong with the full screen version. Colors are highly saturated and marvelously rendered, without bleeding or other distortions.
Flesh tones are exceptionally pleasing.
Blacks are pure, while both shadow detail and contrast are excellent. The Dolby Digital 5.0 channel soundtrack provides a basic comedy mix, which is very strong on dialogue, with modest use of the discrete channels for sound effect placement. For the most part, sound effects usage remains within the cleanly delineated forward soundstage. As for the rear channels, they primarily provide ambient sound and musical fill, however there are a couple of split surround effects. Elton John s musical score is well reproduced, without any harshness in the orchestrations.