6.4 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
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 BoxleitnerSport | 100% |
Drama | Insignificant |
Biography | Insignificant |
History | Insignificant |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
English SDH
Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region A (B, C untested)
Movie | 2.5 | |
Video | 2.5 | |
Audio | 2.5 | |
Extras | 0.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
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.
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.
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.
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 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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