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Release Date: 06 April, 2004 Retail Price: $51.98 OUR Price: $41.99 You SAVE: $9.99! Cast: Complete Cast (17 total) |
Police Academy - The Complete Collection Reviews
MONO SOUND?
Don't by this product! Somebody at Warner hit the wrong button when copying these movies to dvd. All movies, but 1, have been recorded in Mono(1 channel). I have a Bose system, and all I get from these movies is the center channel. Am I crazy, or did everybody writing these "great" reviews watch the movies with no sound?
The first three are the best, PC 4 was saved by the girl*
The Police Acedemy movies are, sometimes, the greatest films to put in your DVD player on a lazy Sunday afternoon for a "guilty pleasure-eighties flashback", escape from our millenium age high pressure current lifestyle. The films from the eighties are fun, non-sensical, and simply comforting compared to today's highly tense, bad taste comedies.
The first Police Acedemy was the only one of the 7 which was rated R. The rest were PG-13. The first one was great because it was fresh and new. I agree with many of the positive reviews Amazon's readers and reviewers said about it. Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment, was improved and remained fresh because it added Tim Kazurinsky and Bobcat Goldthwait as new comic relief characters. Police Acedemy 3: Back in Training, made these two new characters into police cadets. Absolutely farcical, but yet, all the more reason that Police Acedemy maintained it's charm.
However, it was at Police Academy 4: Citizen's on Patrol, that it seemed that they were starting to "clutch at straws" to get a laugh. I'll admit, I enjoyed these "Police Academy" movies back in the eighties. Honestly, I really only have seen the first two in the theatre. The third one I saw on cable TV. Now that I've bought the box set on DVD, I can honestly say that it is at this 4th sequel of the "Police Academy" films, that they really should have stopped right here. A lot of the humor is predictable and (most annoyingly) often repeated. For example, Winslow (Larvell Jones), was doing his silly "karate man" humor excessively through many of the "Police Academy" films. If he only did this in one film, the humorous impact would have been cherished more. The first three "Police Academy" films are the best. Taking this predictable slapstick into four more follow-up films (with totally forgettable stories) was just a bit too much. On a positive note, "Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol" starred Corinne Bohrer* as Laura. What a gorgeous blonde babe she is! And also, I'll have to admit that on the documentaries of the making of the "Police Academy" films, Leslie Easterbrook is still quite an attractive looking woman. Marian Ramsey still looks good, too. Bubba Smith? Man, he's got a stupid haircut these days. How embarrassing!
As a whole, the price for this comple 7 DVD box set is a bargain, even if you do have to end up with the last three excruciatingly dull films. It's cheaper to buy this box set than it is to just buy the first 4 seperately. I suspect that the last 3 Police Academy DVD's will be filling the shelves of used DVD outlets very quickly. I'm glad I got rid of mine.
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