There’s a greater sense of texture and ‘plastickiness’ to the Lego characters and backdrops that makes the world feel even more compelling and beautiful, as well as delivering a much better sense of depth and object solidity.
On the contrary, the color intensity is handled so effectively that it plays a starring role, too, in the superb sense of detail you get from the 4K Blu-ray transfer. Photo: Warner Brothersĭespite the stunningly aggressive look of Lego Batman’s HDR/WCG picture, though, it never looks forced, or leads to such issues as detail/tone ‘clipping’, an unbalanced palette, or color noise. The Lego Batman Movie crams more jokes into five minutes than most comedies manage in an hour. The film explodes off a decent HDR screen thanks to a dizzying combination of extremely elevated base brightness levels versus the normal Blu-ray much more spectacular brightness peaks tailor made for showing off the extreme, often multicolored light sources and plastic, shiny three-dimensionality of the Lego characters and colors so rich and voluminous it makes the HD Blu-ray look like it’s been shot in pastels. The result is a joyful spectacle that provides the basis for a demo-grade 4K Blu-ray picture performance.Īside from the ‘natural world’ imagery of Planet Earth II, I can’t think of another 4K Blu-ray release where the combination of high dynamic range and wide color gamut has been given such consistently full rein. Fortunately the makers of The Lego Batman Movie seem almost obsessed with proving him wrong, gleefully counterpointing his dark, brooding presence against an endless spool of gloriously bright, colorful backdrops and other characters. Key kit used for this test: Samsung UN65KS9800 TV, Oppo 203 4K Blu-ray player, Panasonic UB900 4K Blu-ray playerīatman famously claimed in the first Lego Movie that he only worked in black, or very, very dark grey. Extra Features: Director and crew commentary, four ‘spin-off’ short film comedies, various ‘making of’ featurettes, assortment of promotional material, four deleted scenes, Rebrick community mini-movies, Ninjago short film
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