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Disney / Buena Vista | 2014 | 97 min | Rated PG | Sep 24, 2019

Maleficent 4K (Blu-ray Movie)

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Movie rating

6.8
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Blu-ray rating

Users4.0 of 54.0
Reviewer4.0 of 54.0
Overall4.0 of 54.0

Overview

Maleficent 4K (2014)

Driven by revenge and a fierce desire to protect the lands over which she presides, the scorned fairy Maleficent places a cruel curse upon the human king's newborn daughter, Aurora. As she grows and comes of age, Aurora is caught in the center of the dangerous conflict between the forest kingdom she has grown to love and the human kingdom which is to be her legacy. Maleficent realizes Aurora may hold the key to peace in the land and is forced into bold action which may change both of their worlds forever.

Starring: Angelina Jolie, Elle Fanning, Sharlto Copley, Lesley Manville, Imelda Staunton
Narrator: Janet McTeer
Director: Robert Stromberg

Adventure100%
Family96%
Fantasy90%
Romance16%

Specifications

  • Video

    Video codec: HEVC / H.265
    Video resolution: 4K (2160p)
    Aspect ratio: 2.40:1
    Original aspect ratio: 2.39:1

  • Audio

    English: Dolby Atmos
    English: Dolby TrueHD 7.1 (48kHz, 24-bit)
    French (Canada): Dolby Digital 5.1
    French: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
    Spanish: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
    German: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
    Italian: Dolby Digital Plus 7.1
    Spanish = Latinoamerica, French DD+ 7.1 = Parisian

  • Subtitles

    English SDH, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Swedish

  • Discs

    Blu-ray Disc
    Two-disc set (2 BDs)
    Digital copy
    4K Ultra HD

  • Packaging

    Slipcover in original pressing

  • Playback

    Region free 

Review

Rating summary

Movie4.5 of 54.5
Video5.0 of 55.0
Audio4.0 of 54.0
Extras2.0 of 52.0
Overall4.0 of 54.0

Maleficent 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Martin Liebman October 3, 2019

Disney's live action 'Maleficent' released to Blu-ray in November 2014 to excellent technical result. Disney has re-released the film to the UHD format ahead of the sequel's release. New specifications include 2160p/HDR video and Dolby Atmos audio. The bundled Blu-ray is identical to that which launched in 2014 and no new extras appear on the UHD disc.


Maleficent (Isobelle Molloy) is a fairy who lives a peaceful life in the Moors, a simple land filled with wonder where its inhabitants live in harmony with one another, which is in stark contrast to the more hierarchical and violence-prone human land which sits adjacent to the Moors. One day, a young thief named Stefan (Michael Higgins) is caught stealing jewels from the river but is forgiven when Maleficent grows closer to him. They develop a bond that grows more closely over the years. One day, the human king (Kenneth Cranham) lays siege to the Moors. He's mortally wounded but promises the throne to anyone who can avenge him by bringing him a prize: proof of Maleficent's (Angelina Jolie) demise. Stefan (Sharlto Copley), hungry for power, uses his friendly history with Maleficent to lure her to him. While he cannot bring himself to kill her, he does take her wings as a trophy. He ascends to the throne and gains the power he's always wanted. When Maleficent learns his queen has birthed a child, she curses the infant, foretelling of a simple prick at the tip of a spindle on her sixteenth birthday that will forever render her in a state of sleep, a spell that can only be broken by true love's kiss, a thing Maleficent believes does not, and never will, exist.

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Maleficent 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality  5.0 of 5

The included screenshots are sourced from a 1080p Blu-ray disc.

Maleficent's UHD upgrade is a pleasant surprise. The movie was reportedly per IMDB digitally photographed at a resolution of 2.8K and finished at 2K. Disney's upscaled UHD is quite nice altogether, delivering a fairly sturdy boost to textural clarity and color reproduction alike. The 2160p resolution brings a new feel for total image clarity and textural finesse to the movie. Skin details are much more accurately pronounced, with clarity boosted by quite a bit and visual firmness and razor-sharpness increased to plainly obvious levels, even without conducting a comparison; anyone with eyes accustomed to 1080p limitations will immediately notice young Maleficent's skin clarity and the dazzling detail evident in the movie's first close-up in the opening minutes. It's an eye-opening and very auspicious beginning that carries through the film. As noted, overall clarity is on the rise within the UHD's presentation. It's a very smooth, well defined picture that manages to bring out the best in the ornate costumes and complexly designed set pieces, not just skin and makeup. The UHD does have the drawback of showing a few of the digital seams; some of the creatures and other special effects have a noisy look about them, but for the most part this world sparkles with a clarity and sheen well beyond Blu-ray's capabilities.

The HDR color gamut is also of benefit to the presentation. It brings with it the usual adds to depth and contrast, punch and intensity. The color gamut appears more accurate across the board, from bright red lipstick to beautifully honed natural greenery. The movie is very dark at many points, and blacks hold deep with impressive tonal accuracy, maintaining a strict level of output without veering towards crush or, perhaps even worse for a movies of this sort, appearing too washed out or gray/purple. Additional benefits include perfectly dialed grays and blues, expertly presented skin tones that are a product of surrounding lighting and atmosphere, more intensely luminous bright light sources (look at the purple points of light in chapter 10), and impressively brilliant whites. Factor in the absence of distracting noise in quantity and other source or encode artifacts and Maleficent looks marvelous on UHD.


Maleficent 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality  4.0 of 5

Though a typical Disney soundtrack with the usual issues, Maleficent's Dolby Atmos soundtrack makes for a fairly good compliment to the movie. The lack of range is not a death sentence, and with the volume upwardly adjusted the proceedings are adequately pleasing, with good, healthy musical spacing and clarity. Surrounds engage as needed to support both music and effects, which can be fairly fluid and large in support of the more intensive action scenes, including a ferocious dragon attack in chapter 18 which brings with it a solid low end output, well defined and seamlessly fluid surround integration, and a good overall feel for the raucous chaos that ensues as people scream and flee, fires rage, and structures collapse, combined with a prominent but balanced musical explosion, itself full of stage-saturating goodness and intense low end usage. Overhead channels are mostly complimentary in output, never really standing apart with plainly discrete effects but serving the track's more fluid essentials with suddenly vital flavoring. Dialogue is clear and detailed from a well prioritized front-center channel. Despite some limitations the track is very enjoyable with the necessary tweak to volume from reference level.


Maleficent 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras  2.0 of 5

This UHD release of Maleficent contains no supplemental content, but the bundled Blu-ray, which is identical to that which released back in 2014, contains the following extras, a paltry package then and particularly now. For full supplemental content coverage, please click here. This release also includes a Movies Anywhere digital copy code and ships with an embossed slipcover.

  • Aurora: Becoming a Beauty
  • From Fairy Tale to Feature Film
  • Building an Epic Battle
  • Classic Couture
  • Maleficent Revealed
  • Deleted Scenes


Maleficent 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation  4.0 of 5

Fans will find Maleficent's UHD well worth the upgrade. Both the increases in clarity and the boosts to color make for noticeable gains. The Dolby Atmos track isn't half-bad when it's all said and done. Extras are rather scant and nothing new is included, but at least Disney has made the previously issued content available to UHD buyers. Highly recommended, and there's also a SteelBook packaging variant aimed at collectors.


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