I've heard complaints that TREK III is far too dark and serious, leaving the joyous TREK spirit behind. Just consider the destruction of the Enterprise, the death of son Kirk's and the rejoining of Spock's Katra and body with the crew anxiously looking on. The emotions drawn by those events are what movies are supposed to do to us and STAR TREK III handles the chore much better than often given credit for. Again, Paramount has supplied the latest TREK release with a brand new anamorphic widescreen transfer. The improvements over the old widescreen laserdisc are remarkable.
Colors are natural with staggering solidity that never bleeds.
Anyone who's seen the old laserdisc knows that the red lit interiors of the Enterprise when the Klingons first board it played havoc on the picture with a loss of detail and badly smeared coloring that really distracted. Not so here. The colors are excellently rendered and could stand as a wonderful example of how a digital picture can better the analog formats. The framing also is improved over the prior widescreen transfer. I've never seen the film on video where Dame Judith Anderson's opening credit wasn't cropped of due to overscan, but it's completely visible here with lots of room on each side to spare.