NOTE: The below Blu-ray and 4K UHD captures were taken directly from the respective discs.

NOTE: For Atmos many non-compliant systems will recognizes it as TrueHD 7.1, but from Wikipedia: "Because of limited bandwidth and lack of processing power, Atmos in home theaters is not a real-time mix rendered the same way as in cinemas. The substream is added to Dolby TrueHD or Dolby Digital Plus. This substream only represents a losslessly encoded fully object-based mix. This substream does not include all 128 objects separated. This is not a matrix-encoded channel, but a spatially-encoded digital channel. Atmos in home theaters can support 24.1.10 channel, but it is not an object-based real-time rendering. Filmmakers need to remix and render the TrueHD and Dolby Digital Plus soundtracks with Dolby Media Producer."

"Barbarella" is filled with various types of quirky electronic sci-fi sounds and the Atmos advances on the, perfectly adept, mono tracks and, frankly, it does suit the pristine 4K UHD visuals but purists may opt for the mono - and sample the French DUB. Atmos adopters may be surprisingly pleased. It's great to have the options. The songs in Barbarella are credited to a band known as 'The Glitterhouse'. But in the commentary Tim Lucas informs us that it was all composed by Charles Fox and lyricist Bob Crewe. These include 'Barbarella', 'Love, love, love Drags Me Down', 'I Love All the Love In You' and 'An Angel is Love'. Tim says these were really cut by studio musicians although it is Michael Gayle (The Glitterhouse) singing. It's all quite psychedelic, with a Morricone-vibe, and adds to the viewing experience with lounge-y overtones. Arrow include an isolated score track of this music. The disc offers optional English (SDH) subtitles - and is, like all 4K UHD, region FREE, playable worldwide. The Blu-ray of extras is also region free.

There are extras on the 4K UHD disc - firstly a new commentary by DVDBeaver's favorite, novelist (The Book of Renfield: A Gospel of Dracula) and critic (Video Watchdog) Tim Lucas. He informs us that Dino de Laurent's first choices for Barbarella had been Brigitte Bardot or Sophia Loren (who had both refused) and how Jane Fonda had thrown the letter with the offer from Dino into the garbage telling her husband, eventual director Roger Vadim, that is was for a role based on a French comic strip. Tim tells us how the effect of the anti-gravity striptease at the beginning of the film was achieved - he includes other examples where it has been utilized in films. He gives us a primer on the history of French comic books, he talks about the oil-wheel projector creating the large lava-lamp-like effects, costume designer Jacques Fonteray, director of photography, Claude Renoir, details on special effects guru Carlo Rambaldi, Durand-Durand and the subsequently named British Pop Group (Duran Duran), he informs us that Jean-Louis Trintignant DUB'ed David Hemmings on the French version of the film and Jane Fonda DUB'ed herself... in French! (this DUB'ed track is included as an option on the 4K UHD disc.) He identifies many differences from the graphic novel and much more. It is as entertaining and informative as he always is. Excellent. Also on the 4K UHD disc are an alternative credit opening, running over 2-minutes, and closing credits running just over a minute - both in 4K with Dolby Vision. The feature disc also offers the opportunity to listen to the isolated score track.

The second disc Blu-ray, does not include the feature film but instead has a girth of extras. These include the 23-minute appreciation of Barbarella by Glenn Kenny entitled Another Girl, Another Planet, which was nice to hear his thoughts (and see him!) We get a 1/4 hour of a behind the scenes featurette; Paul Joyce’s Barbarella Forever! with wonderful photos and tidbits on production. Love, is a two-hour in-depth discussion between film and cultural historians Tim Lucas and cartoonist Stephen R. Bissette (co-author of Studio of Screams. I really enjoyed his commentary on the recent 4K UHD of Gorgo) They discuss the impact and legacy of Barbarella... and it covers a lot with many references and keen observations. Very fun - and deep. Dress to Kill spends a 1/2 hour with film fashion scholar Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén on Jacques Fonteray’s world-changing costume designs used in Barbarella including Fonda's unique outfits. He made costumes for many films including H.G. Clouzot's Inferno (L'enfer), 1965's "Rapture" by John Guillermin, René Clément "Is Paris burning ?" with Kirk Douglas, Sydney Pollack's Castle Keep from 1969 with Burt Lancaster, Jacques Deray's Borsalino, Frankenheimer's "French Connection 2" among others. Framing for Claude is a 17-minute interview with camera operator Roberto Girometti (Starcrash.) Tognazzi on Tognazzi, has actor/director Ricky Tognazzi discussing the life and work of his father and Barbarella star Ugo Tognazzi (he played Mark Hand.) This runs just shy of 22-minutes. An Angel’s Body Double, has actor Fabio Testi (The Garden of the Finzi-Continis) discussing his early career as a stuntman and body double for John Phillip Law on Barbarella for almost 25-minutes. Dino and Barbarella, is a video essay by Eugenio Ercolani on producer Dino De Laurentiis for 1/4 hour. I thought this, also, was excellent. Lastly are a trailer, US TV and radio spots and an image gallery. The package has a reversible sleeve featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Tula Lotay and a double-sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Lotay plus there are six double-sided collector’s postcards and lastly an illustrated collector’s booklet featuring new writing on the film by Anne Billson, Paul Gravett, Véronique Bergen and Elizabeth Castaldo Lundén, and select archival material.