Sound effects are effectively spread across the forward soundstage, with the helicopter gun battle sounding fairly impressive for an upgraded sound mix. Dialogue is always intelligible and somewhat more natural sounding than it was on the first movie. Strong bass reproduction gives the sound effects a solid foundation, allowing them to explode out into one s listening environment. The film s music by Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen and David Sanborn is especially well reproduced and nicely integrated into the sound mix. A French surround soundtrack is also encoded onto the DVD, as is a 5.1 channel DTS track running a very high bit rate.
Subtitles are available on the DVD in English, French and Spanish.
The interactive menus have a cool interface that makes use of full motion video, animation and sound. Through the menus, one can access the standard scene selection and set up features, plus a couple of extras. Extras include a theatrical trailer, a short featurette on the film s stunt work and some production notes on the same topic.