The sequels tend to play up the comedy, as well as sometimes allowing the action sequences to overtake the story. The film element used for the transfer displays occasional blemishes and few instances of film grain, but neither amounts to any form of distraction. Color reproduction on the DVD is quite nice, with natural saturation and healthy looking flesh tones. Blacks are accurately reproduced and there is a respectable level of shadow detail contained in the image of this 1987 release. The remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 channel soundtrack improves upon the film s original matrixed surround sound mix, but track s origins remain obvious.
Sound effects remain up front, where there is good channel separation.
There doesn t seem to be any real evidence of split surround action, although the mix remains effective. Dialogue is clean and intelligible, but the voices don t always maintain a transparent quality. Bass is full and solid, however there is nothing in the film that requires an earth shattering quality. Additionally, the film s music by Eric Clapton and Michael Kamen sounds very good, obviously receiving a boost from the Dolby Digital remastering. A French surround and an English DTS 5.1 channel soundtrack are also encoded onto the DVD, with the DTS track running a high bit rate.