(Note: This review is of the 2018 DVD & Blu-Ray Combo)
BOX-ART
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While I like the box art of the original DVD better, (Which I believe is one of the theatrical posters) this artwork is still better than the incredibly generic box-art the following re-releases get! Underneath the logo we get a render of Mrs. Doubtfire rocking a broom, with a render behind shushing us from telling "her" secret. Later cover's of the film are simply a render on top of a solid color, so at least this one has some creativity.
The Blu-Ray I have is the 2018 one, which includes both DVD & digital copies. The artwork does use the more generic artwork, rather than the nicer Behind-The-Seams or theatrical versions.
MENUS
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The main menu has the options, Play, Language, Scene Selection, and Special Features. Language, of course, has audio and subtitle options. In the background we have renders of the characters moving around. Special Features are deleted, extended, and alternate scenes, leaving the rest to disc two. The Blu-Ray has the same menu as DVD, but altered slightly as all the extras are now one disc now.
AUDIO
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A full bit-rate 5.1 track is included. This is one of two DVD releases of the film to include the bass channel, with several others including only a 5.0 mix. The film was mixed in Dolby Surround, so all these tracks are a remixed version. In addition the the 5.1 we also have Spanish & French Dolby Surround dubs at 192 KB/s.
The main mix on BD is a 24 Bit 5.1 English DTS-HD MA track. The same 5.1 Dolby mix from the DVD is here too, along with slightly higher bitrate dubs. While the lossy English 5.1 mix is still only 448 KB/s rather than 640 KB/s, the two dubs are raised to 224 KB/s from the 192 KB/s on DVD.
VIDEO
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The DVD Is very sharp, some slight aliasing is visible at times. The two main issues with the transfer is the dull colors and edge enhancement. The saturation seems quite low, not sure if it's intentional or not. Edge enhancement is mostly noticeable during the opening & credits while the text is on screen.
The Blu-Ray is obviously using the same master as the DVD, so there isn't huge improvement. The edge enchantment is gone, and compression is much better, but the video looks quite filtered at times. There is some over sharpening as well as, what looks like, noise reduction at times. The digital copy seems to be using a newer, remastered source and looks quite a bit better; barring compression.
EXTRAS:
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Several behind-the scenes featurettes, screen tests, retrospect's, deleted scenes, etc. The interesting thing abut the deleted scenes is that they look very good, which makes me think they must have cut them very late in production. All of the extras from the Behind-The-Seams edition are present on the Blu-Ray disc, which is intentional because the combo pack only includes disc one of the Behind-The-Seams Ed. (It's a 1:1 copy, the special features menu even states that there are more extras on disc two; which isn't technically present.)
FINAL THOUGHTS
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N/A
TECH. SPECS.
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ASPECT RATIO: 2.35:1 (Original Widescreen)
NUMBER OF DISCS: DVD 2 | BD 1
DISC SIZE: Dual-Layer ( 7.63 Gb / 7.24 Gb)
REGION: 1 / NTSC
AUDIO: English 5.1 (448 KB/s)
24 Bit English 5.1 DTS-HD MA (BD Only)
French, Spanish 2.0 Dolby Surround (DVD 192 KB/s | BD 224 KB/s)
SUBTITLES: English, Spanish, (BD Only) French
RUN-TIME: 2 Hour 5 Minutes
