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    Earth Girls Are Easy
    Genre:Comedy

    Reviewed In Issue 31 Of Widescreen Review® Stars:
    Geena Davis, Jim Carrey, Damon Wayans, Jeff Goldblum, Julie Brown

    WSR Review Scores
    Picture Rating: 4
    Sound Rating: 3.5
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    Supplementals
    LaserDisc specials include outtakes and deleted scenes.

    DVD General Information
    (Studio/Distributor): Artisan Entertainment
    (Catalog Number): LD60480WS
    (MPAA Rating): PG
    (Retail Price): $39.98
    (Running Time In Minutes): 99
    (Color Type): Color With Black & White Sequences
    (Chaptered/Scene Access): Yes
    (Closed Captioned): Yes
    (Theatrical Release): 1989
    (LD Release Date): 1/99
    (THX® Digitally Mastered): No

    Credits Information
    (Director): Julien Temple
    (Screenplay/Written By): Julie Brown, Charlie Coffey & Terrence E. McNally
    (Story): NA
    (Music): Nile Rodgers
    (Director Of Photography):
    (Production Designer): Dennis Gassner
    (Visual Effects):
    (Costume Designer):
    (Editor): Richard Halsey, ACE
    (Supervising Sound Editors):
    (Re-Recording Mixers):
    (Executive Producers): NA
    (Co-Producers): NA
    (Producers): Tony Garnett

    DVD Picture Information
    (Principal Photography): Panavision
    (Theatrical Aspect Ratio): 2.40:1
    (Measured LaserDisc Aspect Ratio): 2.35:1

    DVD Sound Information
    (DVD Soundtrack): Dolby Surround
    (Theatrical Sound): Dolby Stereo A
    (Theatrical Re-Issue Soundtrack):
    (Remastered Dolby Digital): No
    (Remastered DTS Digital Surround): No
    (Additional Languages):

    WSR Narrative Review
    Story Synopsis:
    When three out-of-towners land their spaceship in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley, they discover that Earth Girls Are Easy. Geena Davis is Valerie, an airhead manicurist with a philandering fiancé whose pool is the touchdown site for the hairy and horny aliens. As Valerie tries to keep them out of trouble, she gives them a taste of The Valley with cruises on Van Nuys Boulevard, disco dancing and “the works” at the Curl Up and Dye salon. LaserDisc specials include outtakes and deleted scenes.

    LaserDisc Picture:
    The picture features vibrantly saturated colors with stylistic pink overtones. Images are sharp and detailed with good clarity. While the picture sometimes appears oversaturated, the brief black and white sequences look great with fine gray scale fidelity. There are occasional artifacts and noise. The LaserDisc is framed at 2.35:1.

    LaserDisc Soundtrack:
    The LaserDisc matrix Dolby Surround soundtrack is satisfying, but slightly bright sounding. Surround envelopment is often aggressive with an energetic music score wrapping into the surround channel. The music is quite spatial sounding and soundstage imaging is excellent. Bass extension is deep with effective impact. Dialogue generally sounds natural, though at times a bit strident.
    (Surround Bass Below 50Hz): Yes
    (Aggressive System Surround): Yes
    (Intense 25Hz Bass): No
    (Deep Bass Challenging): No
    (Aggressive 0.1 LFE):
    (Holosonic Soundfield): No
    (Aggressive Split Surround): No
    (Center Back Surround Imaging): No
    (Directionalized Dialogue): No
    Superb Sound Effects Recording Quality:
    Superb Music Score Recording Quality:
    		 No
    Superb Special Visual Effects Quality:
    		 No
    Superb Color Fidelity:
    		 No
    Superb Cinematography:
    		 -
    Reference LaserDisc:
    		 No
    Collector Edition:
    		 No
    DVD To LaserDisc Comparison:
    The LaserDisc and DVD both feature vibrantly saturated colors with stylistic pink overtones, but the dual-layered anamorphic DVD, when viewed in the component video output, exhibits a slightly more natural color balance with subtly more accurate fleshtones, and deep blacks. Images are sharp and detailed with superb clarity on the DVD. While the LaserDisc sometimes appears oversaturated, the DVD is perfectly saturated with eye-popping colors and excellent clarity. The brief black and white sequences look great with fine gray scale fidelity. Both versions exhibit occasional artifacts and noise, but such is slightly more distracting on the LaserDisc. The LaserDisc and anamorphic and letterbox DVD aspect ratios are framed at 2.35:1. The DVD soundtrack is credited as 2.0 Dolby® Surround but does not decode on our primary reference processor. The LaserDisc matrix Dolby Surround soundtrack is satisfying, but slightly bright sounding. Surround envelopment is often aggressive with an energetic music score wrapping into the surround channel. The music is quite spatial sounding and soundstage imaging is excellent. Bass extension is deep with effective impact. Dialogue generally sounds natural, though at times a bit strident.