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Angels Sing (2013/Lionsgate Blu-ray w/DVD)


Picture: B & C+ Sound: B & C+ Extras: D Main Program: B+



Michael Walker (Harry Connick, Jr.) is a good man, husband, father, and son, but everytime when it comes to Christmas, he seems not to care. Even with a loving family, well intended parents, he can't muster any Christmas cheer. Traumatized by an accident years ago on Christmas as a child, he become a total Grinch on Christmas, but when tragedy falls on his own son, Michael gets a chance to make up for all the lost Christmas over the years. With the help of caring neighbors, and a mysterious man named Nick, Michael tries to find the courage to believe in Christmas once again in Tim McCanlies' Angels Sing (2013).


Michael was already haunted by the death of his brother drowning on Christmas when he fell through the ice with their new Christmas skates, since then he has never celebrated Christmas. While searching for a new house, he is given a beautiful grand house by a mysterious man named Nick, the only catch is he has to keep the traditions of Christmas lights with the neighborhood, but when his own son gets into an accident, his own son loses faith in Christmas, Michael then realizes his own mistake and has one chance to save Christmas for his boy and his family.


This is yet another Christmas movie (in a record year of them), like most Christmas movies I have seen though, it is beautiful and heart warming, but from the start you can seen where the movie is going. A man loses faith in Christmas and then regains it. The interesting part is not as much the story, but the sheer amount of characters in the neighborhood who are into music, lights and the Christmas spirit. To have your entire neighborhood show up at your door, work together to save one man, his family and Christmas, if that doesn't move you, I don't know what will.


The 1080p 1.85 X 1 digital High Definition image transfer on the Blu-ray is not bad for a Holiday release, most of which tend to be purposely on the soft side and the color is not bad either, but the anamorphically enhanced DVD version is more than a bit soft. The DTS-HD MA (Master Audio) 5.1 lossless mix on the Blu-ray also has a pretty consistent soundfield, though music makes a little more of this than usual, but that is expected for the genre and the lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 mix on the DVD is the same, but with less fullness and warmth. Extras include gallery and trailer, but that is like coal in your stocking.



- Ricky Chiang


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