Song Sung Blue Blu-ray review
Feb 16, 2026- Permalink
Written and directed by Craig Brewer, 2025’s Song Sung Blue is a biopic based on Greg Koh’s 2008 documentary of the same name. Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson play Mike and Claire Sardina, who perform together as the Neil Diamond tribute act Lightning & Thunder. The film is sentimental and melodramatic and chock full of Neil Diamond song performances. Sixteen to be exact. For some that will be a great thing and for others maybe not, but performances by Jackman and especially Hudson make it engaging. Universal is releasing a Blu-ray and I had a chance to take a look.
The 1080p AVC encoded digital transfer is presented in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio. The video presentation has great detail in the trio of facial features, textiles, and locations. The colour palette pops and black levels are good with details in shadows and darker scenes. It’s a clean transfer with no sign of digital compression or noise.
On the audio side of things, you have the choice of an English Dolby TrueHD 7.1 soundtrack, a descriptive video service track, as well as French and Spanish Dolby Digital Plus 7.1 tracks. Subtitles are available for English SDH, French, and Spanish. The musical numbers sound great and dialogue is always clear and centred. The surrounds put you in the audience and the subwoofer gives nice power to the bass in the musical numbers.
Song Sung Blue comes with the Blu-ray disc and a digital code, though there is no code for the Canadian edition. Extras include a commentary track by writer/director Craig Brewer, extended performances of “Crunchy Granola Suite” and “Sweet Caroline”, Hugh and Kate discussing their characters’ love story, a piece with Brewer on bringing the story to life, and a featurette on the costumes.
Song Sung Blue is highly sentimental and melodramatic, but Hudson and Jackman are engaging to watch and the musical numbers are done well. With a very good audio and video presentation, I’m sure fans of Diamond will enjoy adding this to their collection.