Barbie

Their Ultra HD Blu-ray delivers a likely unsurprisingly stunning image, with a popping pink-dominated colour palette, and HDR working overtime to keep up with the vibrance on offer....

There's everything here you'd like from a modern soundtrack here, maintaining priority for the all-important dialogue, but hitting you with with palpable LFE right from the outset with its 2001-esque prologue,...

Warner offer a limited salvo of half a dozen Featurette-based extras to accompany Barbie (perhaps unsurprisingly given one of the movie's in-jokes, there's no Commentary here), but at least they port them...

Greta Gerwig deserves all the real praise though, for doing the utterly unthinkable, unimaginable, impossible - taking a property which, by any rights, should have landed on the Blockbuster playing field...

Barbie is the hit that nobody ever saw coming, an insane commercial success matched by a perhaps even more surprising critical reaction, with unsuspecting audiences faced with a considerably more thoughtful...

Black levels, contrast, and subtle gradients hold up perfectly, and the supportive bit rate provided by this UHD's ample 100GB disc space ensures a smooth and stable presentation that doesn't fall victim...

Vibrant scenes in Barbie Land are obvious standouts, where front-forward music combines with occasionally enveloping background effects and swirling dialogue, while "the real world" follows suit with a...

Welcome to Barbie Land (12:01) - Barbie's production design gets a bit of love here, including its colorful sets and other "authentically artificial" elements, as well as the importance of a childhood...

This sequence serves up a few solid gags (none better than a decades-late takedown of Matchbox 20's irritating 1997 single "Push") but is otherwise hampered by major mixed-message issues, temporarily derailing...

The surprisingly something-for-everyone enjoyment value of Barbie was a mild shock to yours truly, proving that its 2023 box-office dominance was hardly a fluke....

With all of the world-building of Barbieland from the plastic houses and cars to the “water” on the plastic beach to the amazing costume design work, this film is a pink-hued visual feast....

The narration feels stronger and more pronounced, the dialog feels livelier, and the dance numbers have a whole lot more impact....

But considering there was a wild lack of any retailer exclusives for Warner Bros. biggest movie of the year (or ever by certain mathematical metrics), this has me believing there’s got to be a much more...

All said, it's not a perfect film, I did think some of the A-plot points drifted a little too close to The Lego Movie for comfort (complete with a hilarious Will Farrell as the clueless president of Mattel),...

Not every movie needs to be for everyone but for those open to having a big silly time with a great cast, colorful world-building, and a great audio mix, this fits the bill nicely....

This is a fantasy-based film that is essentially boldly colorful throughout, and this Ultra HD rendering makes the most of its elements....

• Welcome to Barbie Land – featurette • Becoming Barbie – featurette • Playing Dress-Up – featurette • Musical Make-Believe – featurette • All-Star Barbie Party – featurette •...

The plot is simple, Standard Barbie’s perfect world, where she lives with ALL of the other iterations of Barbie (as well as the iterations of Ken), is thrown into chaos when she begins to exhibit human...

It arrives on Ultra HD in this Ultra HD Blu-ray/Digital release from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment featuring sparkling video, solid overall sound, and a fun assortment of extras....