Police Academy Complete Collection - November 11

[Gizz]

Originally Posted by Spirit Zero

Re-watched and reviewed all seven films recently and I must be honest, only the first three are worth watching/owning in my opinion. Those three are aimed more towards adults in that naughty toilet humour filled slapstick kinda way, you half expect to see John Belushi in them.

After that they become terribly childish and soft, repeating the same gags over and over merely in different locations. I also think Art Metrano was totally brilliant as the slimy 'Mauser' and way better than 'Harris'.

Basically without that slight adult edge to them the films are pretty poor, number 4 being the worst for me. Number 5 did slightly get back on track and 6 had some nice noir-ish visuals but that's about it. 7 had the right idea but was just bad.

You gotta be a real PA nut to own all of them haha

I to have re-watched all 7 recently and while I did enjoy most of them I do agree that they did over use many gags in each film and after the 2nd film thay did become more family friendly. I did enjoy numbe 4 for me number 5 and 7 are the worst. However I have always liked G.W.Bailey peformances as Harris.

[Poshteh1]

Has anybody received their copy early? Mine hasn't been shipped from Sainsbury's yet.

[Sodslaw]

My box set was shipped by amazon today

[bb8977]

Originally Posted by Sodslaw

My box set was shipped by amazon today

Would love to see a video of it, curious to see what the packaging is like !

[Vintrus]

I'm ordering mine Friday.

[Poshteh1]

Originally Posted by Sodslaw

My box set was shipped by amazon today

Weird, the release date on Amazon has changed to the 19th, my Sainsbury' order still has release as tomorrow (Monday), but still no shipping email.

[malcy30]

My Amazon order is also not even processing yet.

[Sodslaw]

My order didn't arrive today but my copy of my tutor did,I'm off tomorrow so fingers crossed,will watch the first at least then

[Poshteh1]

Mine was shipped from Sainsbury's today, so hoping will receive it tomo.

[Chris60119]

All I want is 1,2, and 3.

[Sodslaw]

Arrived today, each film has its own seperate disc.
The covers are all the same as the cover of the box set, so awful.
On the back there is descriptions of each film with credits but the posters are on there but with different colour border surroundings.
For £25.44 its great value but the design of the covers is just awful.

[Aussie_M]

Hey

So can anyone please let us know what the Picture and Sound is like for these movies.

Are the all in widescreen
What is the sound DTSHD 2.0
Are the movies uncut, remastered
any special features.

Any other info you can provide would be great.

seen a few people got the box cheaper, I'm from Australia and good sites you recommend for getting a copy sent.

Thanks

Aussie

[Poshteh1]

Originally Posted by Sodslaw

Arrived today, each film has its own seperate disc.
The covers are all the same as the cover of the box set, so awful.
On the back there is descriptions of each film with credits but the posters are on there but with different colour border surroundings.
For £25.44 its great value but the design of the covers is just awful.

The cover art really is terrible, but was expected from the pics. Still waiting on my copy from Sainbury's which was shipped on Monday.

[Sodslaw]

All movies are in anamorphic widescreen 16 x 9 with DTS-HD Master Audio in 1.0.
The discs all have the following audio in 1.0 :-
Brazilian Portuguese
Cashilion Spanish
German
Latin Spanish
Subtitles :-
English,
Brazilian Portuguese,
Cashilion Spanish,
Danish,
Finnish,
French,
German,
Latin Spanish,
Norwegian,
Swedish.
Special features by film
1 :- Commentary with Director Hugh Wilson,Producer Paul Maslanky and actors Steve Guttenberg,GW Bailey,Leslie Easterbrook and Michael Winslow ( I recall having read somewhere that George Gaynes was involved in a commentary for the first movie but according to the features on the back he is not on there).
Behind Academy Doors: Secret Files Revealed (featurette).
2 :- Accidental Heroes :The Best Of Police Academy (featurette)
3 :- All Washed Up:Floating Memories
4 :- Remembering a Lofty Investigation,Deleted Scenes, Winks Behind The Scenes Movies
5 :- Mistaken Identity :Case Re-opened
6 :- Unholy Alliance : A Retrospective
7 :- Underneath the Mission
That's the complete set of information for the discs,a bargain at £25.44.
Now for the dilemma ,wait for the price to go down,at £42 on amazon it is not worth it unless you have to have it.
Also next year is the 30th anniversary,at a guess I'm thinking that the US will have a box set released next year with potentially more features and better cover art.
I picked it up at a reasonable price,I'm not into extras personally,I hardly get time to watch the movies I have so rarely watch extra features and can't recall visiting extra features again on a disc in years.
I don't need to tell you about the cover art but there's sites out there that will have better covers up in a matter of time to replace the current travesty.

[mikezilla2]

ah cheers so there are Deleted Scenes - is that all of them? ether way got my set for 21 pounds so cant complain

[IndyMLVC]

Originally Posted by mikezilla2

ah cheers so there are Deleted Scenes - is that all of them? ether way got my set for 21 pounds so cant complain

Nope. Nothing additional over the DVD version.
The numbers in the above post correspond to the particular film. In that case, the "deleted scenes" are only for part 4, which was on the DVD for that movie.

[GOMEZFAN69]

Originally Posted by Aussie_M

So can anyone please let us know what the Picture and Sound is like for these movies.

As far a picture quality I think these all look great, with the exception of part 3, which unfortunately has been hit pretty hard with the DNR stick. This is something I don't expect from Warner, so I'm unpleasantly surprised. Here are a couple of shots, I'm reminded a bit of The Sword in the Stone.

http://i.imgbox.com/adkPUr3X.png
http://i.imgbox.com/acz0lUsK.png
But Aside from that these look very good. It's too bad this couldn't have happened to one of the later entries instead.

[Vintrus]

Originally Posted by Aussie_M

Hey

So can anyone please let us know what the Picture and Sound is like for these movies.

Are the all in widescreen
What is the sound DTSHD 2.0
Are the movies uncut, remastered
any special features.

Any other info you can provide would be great.

seen a few people got the box cheaper, I'm from Australia and good sites you recommend for getting a copy sent.

Thanks

Aussie

best price I have found is Zavvi or The Hut who are one and the same I think there asking price is £32.95.

[bb8977]

Originally Posted by Sodslaw

Arrived today, each film has its own seperate disc.
The covers are all the same as the cover of the box set, so awful.
On the back there is descriptions of each film with credits but the posters are on there but with different colour border surroundings.
For £25.44 its great value but the design of the covers is just awful.

Any chance of posting some pics ?

[Sodslaw]

Originally Posted by bb8977

Any chance of posting some pics ?

I actually tried after I put the details of the set up but it's not accepting my pics