The space-mullet wearing fellas over at Den of Geek! have released their review of 'Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan' on Blu-ray.  In the review they discuss the finer points of the moive itself as well as the actually transfer and HD quality of the disc.

Blu-ray brings to this a movie combination of positive and negatives, and I'll get the issues out of the way first. This is the theatrical cut of 112 minutes and not the four minute longer director's version, sadly. My other concern is how grainy or soft some scenes are, despite this being pitched as "fully restored in high definition". There aren't many of these soft scenes, but you'll not need telling which they are. But balancing those issues, the colour saturation is excellent with lots of vibrant colours on show in a movie that's predominantly dark. In a strangely parallel fashion the sound is strong and dynamic in places, yet slightly reticent in others. With the remix into lossless Dolby TrueHD 7.1, I was expecting slightly more punch than is actually here.

The extras provided are nice enough, although if you have the director's two disc DVD you'll have seen most of them already. These include a director's commentary by Nicholas Meyer, a 27-minute making-of featurette, trailers, storyboards and other featurettes, which cover designing the look, effects and short interviews with the cast.

These are acceptable but they're not in HD. Thankfully, there is some new material including a featurette by James Horner about composing the superb theme music for this title, and others detailing what happened to the props. There is also a slightly cringe-worthy salute to Montalbán, and another audio commentary by Nicholas Meyer and Manny Coto where they argue about, among other things, the virtues or otherwise of The Motion Picture. Nothing astounding here, but at least they tied to find some original material not on the DVD releases.

The bottom line is that, even with the few faults I've mentioned, this is still the best way to see this movie, unless you've a pristine 35mm print and your own cinema. (source Den of Geek!)

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