Horrible Bosses: Totally Inappropriate Edition (2011/New Line/Warner Blu-ray + DVD w/Ultraviolet
Digital Copy) + It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
– Season 6 (2010/Fox Blu-ray)
Horrible Bosses: Totally
Inappropriate Edition
Picture:
B+/B- Sound: B/B-
Extras:
B- Film: B-
It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia: Season 6
Picture:
B Sound: B
Extras:
B+ Episodes: A
Horrible Bosses: Totally
Inappropriate Edition
is new to Blu-ray and the film is anything but horrible. In the same vein as films like Office Space, Horrible Bosses highlights some poor schmucks that are just trying
to get through the day, but life keeps dragging them down.
The plot
is simple as three friends played by the talented Jason Bateman, annoying Jason
Sudeikis, and amazing Charlie Day agree to help each other dispose of one
another’s psychopathic bosses.
Brilliantly cast the manipulative crazies are played respectively by
Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell, and Jennifer Aniston. It is a classic Throw Mama from the Train scenario as the boys take a seemingly
‘simple task’ and run into road block, after road block. Not that the boys are morons, but it is their
ineptitude as murderers that slows them down.
Not knowing the first thing about murder or discreteness the trio
bumbles, stumbles, and falls as they try to get the job done. Even if the bosses are perfectly executed,
the film is as the charismatic cast and simple, yet refined plot pulls together
to make an overwhelmingly wonderful viewing experience.
As
previously mentioned Charlie Day is amazing and for all intents and purposes,
he steals the show in Horrible Bosses;
but it was on It’s Always Sunny in
Philadelphia where we first fell in love with him. It’s
Always Sunny in Philadelphia returns for a Sixth Season on Blu-ray and is a fast technical improvement over
previous season releases, though the brand of funny just keeps getting better!
In Season Six we get to see Mac (Rob
McElhenney), Dennis (Glenn Howerton), Dee (Kaitlin Olson), Charlie (Charlie
Day), and Frank (the great Danny DeVito) delve deeper into the rabbit hole of
debauchery that is their lives. The crew
of Paddy’s Pub had me hooked from the First
Season, but it amazes me how the seasons just keep delivering the same and
better quality of comedy. The cast of Always Sunny is insanely talented and
not only act, but they created the series AS WELL AS do the bulk of the
writing. This hands-on approach has most
definitely given the series its edge and overwhelmingly exposes the passion the
crew has for this show. The cast even
having gone as far as to host live stage shows of their act (refer to Season 5 review for more on this).
In Season 6 we see the crew of Paddy’s Pub
tackles topics like gay marriage, the class system (or lack there of), owning a
boat, pregnancy (guess who!??!) and many more lude, crude topics that most
series wouldn’t dare touch.
That is
the brilliance of Always Sunny as it
goes where no series has gone before.
The characters are horrible, horrible people with even more horrible
ideas AND those horrible ideas turn out even more HORRIBLE than anyone could
imagine…did I mention they are horrible?!
The
topics are presented like that of South
Park (but much less formulaic), satiring society in an inappropriate way to
make viewers crawl out of their skin, but at the same time making you
think. On some level I may be giving
their satirical abilities too much credit, but on the other hand it is just all
too good.
I can’t
express in words how WONDERFUL this series is with its oddball, off center humor
that boasts of creativity. The most
talented people throughout history were a bit insane and there is no doubt in
my mind that the cast of Always Sunny is
absolutely bonkers. I can only hope that
the level of greatness they have achieved to date continues and from the little
I have seen of Season 7 there is
only more greatness to come.
The
technical features on Horrible Bosses and
Always Sunny: Season 6 are very
similar, as they are by no means demo quality but watchable. They are a vast improvement over DVD, yet
lack the crisp edge of other recent Blu-rays.
Always Sunny it is hard to
say how much is intended to be gritty as the series has that edge; Horrible Bosses on the other hand
should look a bit better. The picture on
both is a 1080p High Definition but Always
Sunny is a 1.78 X 1 Widescreen, whereas as Horrible Bosses is 2.40 X 1 both of which being mostly a crisp/clear
image that flounders here and there. Bosses is the better picture of the two
with better textures. The colors are
nice, but don’t ‘pop’ as they should and the lighting issues are more than
apparent (this lighting issue referring to solely Always Sunny). The sound on
both Horrible Bosses and Always Sunny is a 5.1 DTS-HD Master
Audio that is crisp, clean and clear with dialogue being the focus for both
film and series. There is some use of
the surrounds, but neither release is amazing with panning effects.
The
extras are as follows:
Horrible Bosses
All
extras on this set are short and sweet, but well done and fun to watch.
- Deleted Scenes
- My Most Horrible Job
(cast/crew name their WORST experiences)
- Surviving a Horrible Boss
- Being Mean is So Much Fun
(the bosses speak out about how they love their roles, but very out of
character for them)
- The Making of the Soundtrack
Always Sunny
The
extras on this set are AWESOME! Not plentiful by any means, but the content is
wonderful.
- The Sunny Flip Cup Trivia
Challenge [Blu-ray Exclusive] (not the best, but worth a look)
- “Lethal Weapon 5” Extended
Cut (BEST EXTRA!! Take a full look at the crews over the top shot at
making a movie)
- Dennis and Dee’s
Podcasts (watch the brother and sister’s narcissism take over)
- Blooper Reel (Hilarious!!)
- Deleted and Extended Scenes
(always welcome)
- Audio Commentaries (very
funny, not so insightful)
- Michael P. Dougherty II
