American Pie 2 (2001)
Comedy, Romance • 1h 48m
Director: J.B. Rogers
Cast: Jason Biggs, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Chris Klein, Seann William Scott, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Alyson Hannigan, Shannon Elizabeth, Tara Reid, Mena Suvari, Natasha Lyonne, Chris Owen, Eugene Levy, Molly Cheek, Denise Faye, Lisa Arturo, John Cho, Justin Isfeld, Eli Marienthal, Casey Affleck, George Wyner, Steven Shenbaum, Matthew Peters, Joelle Carter, Matthew Frauman, Larry Drake, Lee Garlington, Tsianina Joelson, Bree Turner, Lacey Beeman, Lisa Gould, Brian Lester, Nigel Gibbs, Ernie Lively, Kevin Cooney, Marilyn Brett, Morgan Nagler, Jack Wallace, Jesse Heiman, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Serah D'Laine, Nora Zehetner, David Smigelski, Luke Edwards, Adam Brody, Amanda Armato, Nancy Stone, Kevin Kilner, Cole Petersen, Paityn James, Brian Turk, Mike Erwin, Robert Peters, Amara Balthrop-Lewis, Jay Rossi, Joseph D. Reitman, Adam Herz, J.B. Rogers, Brett Shuttleworth, Amanda Wilmshurst, Devon Davidson, Daniel Spink, Tamia Richmond, Rachel Blasko, Laurie Reeves, Derrick Harper, Kelley Schneider, Hallie Bird, Nicole Brunner, Christina Cindrich, Curt Clendenin, Tony Collucci, Jennifer Coolidge, April Florio, Phil Hawn, Matt Hobbie, Spencer Kayden, Sandra Luesse, Tara Rice, Marco Sanchez, Tadpole Triplett, Clyde Tull, Bryan C. Watkins, Don Yesso
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Overview
After a year apart - attending different schools, meeting different people - the guys rent a beach house and vow to make this the best summer ever. As it turns out, whether that will happen or not has a lot to do with the girls. Between the wild parties, outrageous revelations and yes, a trip to band camp, they discover that times change and people change, but in the end, it's all about sticking together.
Germany Filmjuwelen 4K Blu-ray is disappointing with AI upscaling
Director: Michael Mann
Director: James Wong
UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray in November encoded by FiM
Director: Deran Sarafian
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
MVD 4K Blu-ray beautiful remaster but with frame rate skips (encoding error)
Directors: Brian Taylor & Mark Neveldine
UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray in November
88 Films and Vinegar Syndrome have different extras
Sources: Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab) · slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
UK 88 Films 4K Blu-ray See caps
DE Nameless 4K Blu-ray is an extremely poor AI upscale. See caps
Director: Charles Band
Full Moon Features Blu-ray or 88 Films Blu-ray is better than 4K Blu-ray, which is poorly encoded
Director: Iain Softley
Sources: slow.pics (opens in a new tab)
Both 88 Films and Germany Capelight are superior to the Shout! Factory in HDR10 but their FEL layer may even things out. Objectively, the Capelight looks best as they avoided the chroma blocking that’s visible in 88’s disc but they in turn include an Atmos mix. I have the Shout! Factory, love how it looks and the 4K transfer is spectacular. https://slow.pics/c/vPmFQSAH
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4K restoration from Original Camera Negative for all episodes
Director: Norman Taurog
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Delbert Mann
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
4K restoration from Original Camera Negative
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Preston Sturges
No information on French Elephant Films Blu-ray
Director: Ralph Bakshi
Director: Tommy O'Haver
Director: Peter Bogdanovich
Sources: Criterion Forum (opens in a new tab) · Blu-ray.com (opens in a new tab)
Eureka UK are considering doing a 4K and actively exploring the possibility: https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=24363810&postcount=264
Wonderful underlying remaster by Criterion and Resillion, but NexSpec encode has clipped highlights with the occasional blockiness. The Criterion Blu-Ray, sourced from their 4K remaster, ironically makes for a more consistent and overall pleasing experience.
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