Follow Ice Cube and Chris Tucker on their frantic quest to pay back Big Worm and make it to Saturday in this hilarious comedy, arriving on DVD from New Line Home Entertainment. Presented letterboxed at the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1 and featuring an English Dolby Digital Surround audio track with optional English, Spanish, or French subtitles, Friday fans are also treated to seven deleted scenes, interviews with star Cube, director F. Gary Gray,and producer Pat Charbonnet, a Dr. Dre music video, an Ice Cube music video, theatrical trailers, and cast and crew filmographies and biographies.

It's nice to see Columbia TriStar putting so much effort into a DVD package. The transfer is brilliant, both in image and sound. A subtlety of light is captured in the widescreen frame, successfully communicating the film's sultriness. The color is rich and definite, with the pastels and shadows of a 1940s Los Angeles shining through majestically. A key element in creating ambience is the soundtrack, with composer Elmer Bernstein's score interlaced with classic jazz and blues themes. The Dolby Digital 5:1 Audio is pristine and a balanced surround is achieved. The main menu is classy, depicting the features as matinee neon lights, in sync with the overall feel of the film. Scene selections are not run of the mill static shots but mini-screened versions of each scene's beginning. There is an informative commentary with director Carl Franklin, as well as a booklet containing more background. Don Cheadle's screen test, with off-screen involvement heard from both Franklin and lead actor Denzel Washington, is a treat, giving audiences an opportunity to view an event that normally is not accessible to them. Other features include three language and subtitle choices and the theatrical trailer. It would have been nice to see more extensive biographies and filmographies, but all in all, this package is an impressive enhancement of an already attractive film.

This single-layered DVD version of the '80s film comes in two picture formats -- widescreen anamorphic (1.85:1 aspect ratio) and standard full-screen (1.33:1 aspect ratio) -- plus the following audio track options: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround and Spanish, with subtitles available in English, Spanish, Chinese, Korean, Portuguese, and Thai. Closed captioning is also included. Special or bonus features include an audio commentary narrated by the film's director, a featurette-documentary called "March to Freedom" narrated by Paul Winfield, some production notes, and the usual original theatrical trailers. Picture quality is crisp and natural-looking, but sound quality is what might be expected from an unremastered Dolby 2.0 Surround, much of which comes off as mono.