Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 4k Blu-Ray Review

January 13, 2020 at 3:08am
By Jason Stettner

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is a sequel that focuses more on the goddaughter Aurora (Elle Fanning) as she’s about to be wed. It’s about the royal wedding, as two kingdoms want to have peace but some shadowy characters in the background are attempting to prevent this from happening.

We also have Maleficent (Angelina Jolie) as she discovers more of her history, and takes a bit of a seat in this one being part of a secondary narrative. This leaves room for Queen Ingrith (Michelle Pfeiffer) to make some big plays within the kingdom. It’s not necessarily something with a lot of depth, but it does present action and acts as a continuation to the story if you’re invested in it.

I had some issues with the general narrative, and attitudes of individuals as things work towards a conclusion. It seemed also too enchanting in terms of how everyone ends with an array of happiness, at least to a degree.

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 4k Special Features

The Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 4k Blu-Ray comes with a number of special features. These are available to view on the traditional Blu-Ray disc as opposed to the 4k one. They include the following selections that can be viewed individually.

"Aurora’s Wedding”, “The Magic of Maleficent”, “Gag Reel” “VFX”, “Extended Scenes” and more. While it sounds like a lot, I felt they could have gone further. There are only a couple of extended scenes, some of the extras are rather short, though I will say that the gag reel was fun. The visual quality of the 4k was excellent, the HDR helps set the mood and scenes very well.

The Conclusion

The Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 4k Blu-Ray package has some extras to round out what’s a generally alright film. This leans on the first movie, but you really don’t have to watch that one to understand what’s going on here. It’s got the magical elements that one might expect from this take on the source material and it does do some special things from there.

Keep expectations tame and it’s an enjoyable time. It’s nothing too deep, but does have some darker elements being focused on this particular “evil” Maleficent. This does look great with the resolution, and the HDR helps set the tones of the world much better. It does however make that CGI stick out a bit more, the fairy faces will always haunt me.

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil 4k Blu-Ray Review
Provided by Disney

Rating Overall: 6.4