4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray + Digital HD

Toy Story 2 4K Blu-ray, Video Quality 4K

1080p

's 2160p/HDR UHD presentation fares much like that accompanying the first film, offering a superior color experience while fine-tuning detailing when comparing the image to the existing Blu-ray. The first point of interest is the colorful red, yellow, and blue opening title card against a starry outer space background. There's a modest add to color depth and brightness, with the hues clearly deeper but at the same time a little more expressive and bold. HDR adds some impressive luminance and color intensity to the sequence featuring Buzz on the alien world immediately thereafter, particularly some of the more intensive hues that compliment rather than define. There is greater color depth and saturation to the blue walls and yellow stars in Andy's room, a deeper, denser green on Rex and the army figures, and the beat goes on for the duration, with every scene finding agreeable increases -- sometimes subtle, sometimes dynamic -- for pop, punch, intensity, and stability across the entire color spectrum.The textural bumps are more subtle. Viewers will note more clearly defined seams on the plastic army figures, improved definition to Rex's scaly body, the wool coming out of Woody's wounded arm, the scuffs and wear and tear on Buzz's space suit, and Jessie's hair. Various elements and environments find more pinpoint clarity, too, whether sweeping details like furnishings in Andy's room or the darker details in Al's place. Airport conveyer belts, the foam padded cases that hold the figures...everything enjoys a modest boot in clarity that enhances the experience in conjunction with the HDR colors. Perhaps the greatest contribution is the UHD's ability to more fully view the very fine, minute sights throughout the film. The resolution affords the opportunity for better analysis of these details, like little raindrop smudges on a window next to Rex when he's seen playing a video game. These are a little more clear on the UHD, but more impressive is how much easier it is to appreciate just how much love went into making the movie and ensuring little details that all but a few viewers were ever going to notice are there and contributing to the overall feel, even if they are not front-and-center. Even two decades later, kudos to the digital artists for their painstaking work. It was well worth it.As was the case with the first picture's UHD, there are some inherent source flaws that appear, and appear a little more obviously, on the UHD. The red directional pad on the game controller Rex is using at the five-minute mark shimmers around the edges. Such artifacts continue, whether considering a downward driveway shot as seen from Andy's room's window in the 10-minute mark or an idyllic landscape in chapter 22 where both clusters of trees and the edge of a television in the back of a truck serve as some of the most obvious examples. On the whole, however, the movie looks quite nice on the UHD format, even if it's more of as stabilization rather than a revelation.