Daddy's Home 2 4K (2017) Ultra HD 2160p REMUX

Brad and Dusty must deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays. A follow-up to the 2015 comedy "Daddy's Home."

Daddy's Home 2 4K (2017) Ultra HD 2160p REMUX Review
Daddy's Home 2 is a funny movie, but its 2160p/Dolby Vision presentation is no joke. The movie's upscaled 4K resolution produces a strong boost to textural efficiency and complexity. Knit sweaters and winter hats present with markedly increased raw texturing. Skin textures enjoy more robust definition and environments are sharper and cleaner. The resolution boost certainly adds a new level of visual complexity to the image, but the real winner here is the Dolby Vision color presentation. Not only are colors more robust, rich, nuanced, and intense, but the image's increased brightness and vibrancy absolutely steal the show. Whites are richer, cleaner, more organic; shirt collars are so crisp they're practically something out of a laundry detergent commercial. Winter clothes dazzles with greatly added saturation. Reds positively pop, darker colors are more stable and accurate, blacks are intricately detailed and precise, flesh tones are perfectly flush and full. Light noise remains, but there's no mistaking that this is otherwise a razor-sharp and intensely bright and vivid image that offers a strong textural increase and a substantial add in image clarity and vibrance over the Blu-ray, which, as good as it looks on its own, literally pales in comparison to this UHD release.
Daddy's Home 2 is a film of, generally, modest sonic needs. Atmos might seem overkill for a Comedy of this style, but it does enhance several key sound effects and adds a general sense of greater spatial command. Music enjoys no major overhead component, but score and popular music alike play with all of the amenities of a modern track, including precision spacing -- width and depth -- as well as pinpoint clarity. The film's biggest gags generally earn the most intensive sonic depth and intensity. A snowblower crashes with a distinct fall from above partway through the film, and a "tree" crashes down beginning with a similar overhead localization and maneuvering from the top of the stage to the theater floor. A scene inside a movie theater late in the film offers distinct rearward and overhead components. Atmospherics -- inside a crowded theater lobby or a bustling bowling alley -- are well defined and draw the listener into some of the film's most sonically interesting locales. Dialogue is clear and well defined and properly positioned in the front-center for the duration.