Blu-ray Review Escape to Witch Mountain Blu-ray Review (1 Viewer)

[Matt Hough]

Matt Hough

Escape to Witch Mountain Blu-ray Review

A typical Disney fantasy-adventure circa 1975, John Hough's Escape to Witch Mountain offers moderately paced thrills with middling special effects of the era to fashion a family friendly romp that younger kids will find more appealing than their older kith and kin.

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[Charles Smith]

Thank you for the review, Matt.

Disney's practice of shitcanning every commentary and extra feature that adorned their DVDs, in transferring these films to Blu-ray, is mindboggling and infuriating.

It's impossible to imagine what their thinking is.

This movie and its sequel are two instances where I've retained my feature-rich DVD and stored it alongside the Blu-ray in a two-disc BD case. It's now a very nice package deserving of a 5/5 rating for Special Features -- thanks to me.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

Disney's practice of shitcanning every commentary and extra feature that adorned their DVDs, in transferring these films to Blu-ray, is mindboggling and infuriating.

It's impossible to imagine what their thinking is.

I agree completely. I can understand why they're no longer in the business of producing new bonus content, but it makes no sense not to preserve and re-release the material that already exists.

 

[Matt Hough]

It IS labeled an anniversary edition. It would have been nice to have the bonuses worthy of an anniversary release.

 

[Dave Moritz]

I maybe focusing on 4K content and upgrading my home theater but this movie sounds like the 1080p version is going to be good enough and I am not sure it would make a good candidate for 4K. I guess if there is a 4K transfer and maybe done with Dolby Vision that might make the colors pop more in a 4K transfer then it might be worth it. But with all the other movies to get since I do not have a huge collection this movie might be a good choice on 1080p blu-ray.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

FWIW, Disney does not support UHD at this time, so I do not believe it is likely that there will be a UHD version in the foreseeable future. Also, considering that Disney has determined that there is not a big enough audience to justify releasing these titles to retail outlets and instead sells them only through their club, I think it's highly unlikely that it will ever be released in UHD on a physical format.

 

[Dave Moritz]

Am hoping Disney climbs on board eventually but if they do not release anything on 4K UHD Blu-ray then other studios that do will get my money. My finances will no longer allow me to double dip anymore!