Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 4K Blu-ray Movie

Rating summary

Movie		4.0
Video		5.0
Audio		5.0
Extras		5.0
Overall		4.5

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 4K Blu-ray Movie Review

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again took ten years to arrive, but that's OK. The original has had time to breathe and to mature, the cast time to gracefully age a little, and after all, ABBA never gets old or goes out of style. The time feels right, and Here We Go Again delights. The movie is built around paralleling stories, one set now, ten years after the original, and it's also peppered with fun and compelling flashback sequences that take viewers back to the late 1970s, where they can get to know the characters all over again and, yup, enjoy more takes on ABBA's greatest hits. It's not necessarily superior to the original, but it's a delightful complimentary add-on that manages to reuse the same soundtrack in an entirely different way.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 4K Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality 

The included screenshots are sourced from a 1080p Blu-ray disc. Watch for 4K screenshots at a later date.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again was reportedly digitally photographed at a resolution of 2.8K and finished at 2K. The movie radiates off the screen in upscaled 4K, giving off an impeccably clear, bright, vivid, colorful, and finely appointed image that takes the wonderful underlying qualities of the excellent Blu-ray and tightens the image, often considerably, from the top to bottom. The movie is richly textured and abundantly colorful in nearly every scene; even sourced from an upscaled DI, the UHD format's benefits are obvious throughout. Clarity is extremely high, and the resultant boost in textural intimacy and sharpness cannot be missed. Expanded definition of skin, clothes (particularly woven straw hats), roughhewn environmental details, even large-scale elements like water and grasses enjoy an effortless visual complexity. Noise is refined and not particularly intrusive, even across some darker backgrounds or lower-light locales. Other source or encode issues are essentially nonexistent.

Colors are just as much of a highlight. The Dolby Vision presentation offers a brilliantly refined palette that gives just as much attention to detail and vividness to loud, bold colors as it does less dynamic, but no less critical, earthy backgrounds or otherwise would-be flat or bland colors. Certainly more colorful attire, rich blue ocean waters and deep blue skies, and intensely colored and finely nuanced natural greens are amongst the seemingly ever-present highlights, but pay attention to simpler backgrounds and essential hues that are given just as much a say in the visual shape of any given scene as the loudest primaries. Black levels are impeccably deep and detailed with nary a hint of crush or gray push. Whites are noticeably more crisp and bright compared to the Blu-ray, where they're a bit more flat and less dynamic. The increases in brightness, saturation, and color nuance certainly help tighten up the image, and combined with the added upscaled resolution and dramatic increase in clarity and the disc is a winner, on its own and definitely over the Blu-ray.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 4K Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality 

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Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 4K Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras 

The UHD disc contains all of the supplements found on the 1080p Blu-ray. For full supplemental reviews, please click here. For convenience, below is a list of what's included. The UHD disc also has a "Play with Sing-Alongs" option in the main menu that plays the film with karaoke-style lyrics that appear on the screen with each song. A Blu-ray copy of the film and a Movies Anywhere digital copy code are included with purchase.

• Deleted/Extended Songs and Scenes (2160p/SDR): Included are Deleted Song Performance - "I Wonder" (3:04), Extended Song Performance - "The Name of the Game" (3:13), Extended Song Performance - "Knowing Me, Knowing You" (2:41), and Deleted Scene - Tahini (1:38). With optional commentary by Director/Screenplay Writer Ol Parker.
• High Jinks (2160p/SDR, 1:09).
• Enhanced Sing-Alongs (2160p/SDR, 46:37): Included are Thank You for the Music; When I Kissed the Teacher; One of Us; Waterloo; S.O.S.; Why Did it Have to Be Me?; I Have a Dream; Kisses of Fire; Andante, Andante; The Name of the Game; Knowing Me, Knowing You; Mamma Mia; Angel Eyes; Dancing Queen; I've Been Waiting for You; Fernando; My Love, My Life; and Super Trouper.
• The Story (2160p/SDR, 5:33).
• Mamma Mia! Reunited (2160p/SDR, 3:33).
• Playing Donna (2160p/SDR, 2:28).
• Sophie's Story (2160p/SDR, 3:30).
• Meeting Cher (2160p/SDR, 3:43).
• Costumes and the Dynamos (2160p/SDR, 4:59).
• Choreographing Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again (2160p/SDR, 7:25).
• Cast Meets Cast (2160p/SDR): Includes Tanya Meets Tanya (3:10) and Rosie Meets Rosie (3:15).
• Curtain Call (2160p/SDR, 3:59).
• Dancing Queen: Anatomy of a Scene (2160p/SDR, 3:26).
• Cast Chats (2160p/SDR): Includes Dynamo Chit-Chat (2:42) and Dad Chat (2:19).
• Performing for Legends (2160p/SDR, 2:46).
• Class of '79 (2160p/SDR, 3:48).
• TODAY Interview with Cher & Judy Craymer (2160p/SDR, 4:34).
• Audio Commentary: With Director/Screenplay Writer Ol Parker.
• Audio Commentary: With Producer Judy Craymer.

Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 4K Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation 

Universal's 4K/Dolby Vision/Dolby Atmos release of Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again makes for a first-class UHD release. The 4K Dolby Vision picture, even upscaled from a 2K DI, is gorgeous. The soundtrack is fantastic and the supplements are ample. Highly recommended.