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Mill Creek Entertainment | 1992 | 115 min | Rated PG | Mar 09, 2021

The Babe (Blu-ray Movie)

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Movie rating

6.4
 / 10

Blu-ray rating

Users0.0 of 50.0
Reviewer2.0 of 52.0
Overall2.0 of 52.0

Overview

The Babe (1992)

The Babe is a biopic of George Herman 'Babe' Ruth. The film follows his seemingly bi-polar life from being abandoned by his father at an orphanage, to the discovery of his tremendous home-run hitting ability and finally to his later days. Several items from his legend are included (whether true or not) including: His calling of of a home run, the promise to a dying youngster to hit two home runs in a game that day, and the quote that he had a better year than the president.

Starring: John Goodman, Kelly McGillis, Trini Alvarado, James Cromwell, Bruce Boxleitner
Director: Arthur Hiller

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Specifications

  • Video

    Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
    Video resolution: 1080p
    Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
    Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1

  • Audio

    English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0

  • Subtitles

    English SDH

  • Discs

    Blu-ray Disc
    Single disc (1 BD)

  • Playback

    Region A (B, C untested)

Review

Rating summary

Movie2.5 of 52.5
Video2.5 of 52.5
Audio2.5 of 52.5
Extras0.0 of 50.0
Overall2.0 of 52.0

The Babe Blu-ray Movie Review

Reviewed by Martin Liebman March 11, 2021

Mill Creek has released the 1992 John Goodman film 'The Babe' to Blu-ray. The film was previously released to Blu-ray by Universal in 2017. This release includes essentially identical video and audio presentations but loses the few supplements included on the Universal disc.


A young Baltimore lad named George Ruth is taken to an orphanage where he's burned by a stigma of being "incorrigible." He's not particularly good at anything and is often derided by his fellow orphans, but one day it's discovered that he can smack a baseball farther and harder than anyone else. The Baltimore Orioles come calling, hoping to take the now young adult in an effort to salvage their abysmal season. Ruth (John Goodman) eventually lands with the Red Sox where his star grows. But when the team's owner finds himself in debt following a flop of a stage production, he's sold to the New York Yankees where his stardom explodes and home run balls fly over the fence at a rate never before seen in the game. The film follows Ruth's exploits on and off the field, exploring his natural talent, lust for women and food and drink, and penchant for getting himself into trouble both in uniform and around the city.

For a full film review, please click here.


The Babe Blu-ray Movie, Video Quality  2.5 of 5

This Blu-ray release of The Babe appears to be mostly identical to the Universal disc. Close inspection reveals perhaps microscopic, or at times modest, changes in textural finesse and grain management, likely from differences in authoring between the releases. These are clearly sourced from the same master, though this Mill Creek disc struggles with some obvious, albeit usually minor, compression artifacts that didn't plague the Universal disc quite this much; a scene in the 17-minute mark serves as a good example. Please click here for a review. While not fully identical, the Universal release review essentially suits this release again with the caveat of some compression issues here not entirely present there.


The Babe Blu-ray Movie, Audio Quality  2.5 of 5

Mill Creek presents The Babe on Blu-ray with a DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 lossless soundtrack, the same encode utilized with the Universal release. Again, as with the strikingly similar video presentation, listeners would be hard-pressed to notice any major difference. Please click here for a review.


The Babe Blu-ray Movie, Special Features and Extras  n/a of 5

No extras are included. The Universal disc included four featurettes and a trailer. This release does ship with Mill Creek's "retro VHS" slipcover.


The Babe Blu-ray Movie, Overall Score and Recommendation  2.0 of 5

The Babe isn't a failure of a film, but it's a disappointment all the same. It capably captures Ruth's life highlights, but the film is hardly a Ruthian effort, not narratively, not structurally, not in John Goodman's performance. The picture lacks cohesion and a sense of dramatic intensity, happy to simply throw memorable moments at the screen in a chronological order. Mill Creek's Blu-ray is not seriously altered from the Universal disc. It's missing the quartet of featurettes (and a trailer) but the video and audio qualities are not drastically altered. Those who don't mind the supplemental absence would be well served by picking this version up.


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