5.5 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 2.0 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected...
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Bubba Smith, David Graf, Michael Winslow, Marion RamseyComedy | 100% |
Crime | 67% |
Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.85:1
English: DTS-HD Master Audio Mono
French: Dolby Digital Mono
German: Dolby Digital Mono
Italian: Dolby Digital Mono
Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono (Spain)
Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono
Portuguese: Dolby Digital Mono
English SDH, French, German SDH, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region free
Movie | 2.0 | |
Video | 2.0 | |
Audio | 4.5 | |
Extras | 1.5 | |
Overall | 2.0 |
Jerry Paris' " Police Academy 3: Back in Training" (1986) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment UK. The supplemental features on the disc include an original trailer for the film as well as an archival featurette with cast and crew interviews. In English, with optional English SDH, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, German SDH, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish subtitles for the main feature. Region-Free.
The American dream
Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Jerry Paris' Police Academy 3: Back in Training arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
The release is sourced from an old master, but unlike the older masters that were used for the first and second Police Academy films, here there are plenty of very odd anomalies that give the film a very unpleasant digital appearance. I don't want to speculate why that is, but there is a lot of footage that looks very flat and smeary. In fact, in some areas the smearing is so prominent that it basically looks as if a filter was applied to repolish the image as best as possible (see screencaptures #19 and 20). Rather predictably, on a large screen it instantly becomes obvious that a lot of existing detail was eliminated and nothing looks as it should. The film's color scheme is quite nice. Image stability is also very good. (Note: This is a Region-Free Blu-ray release: Therefore, you will be able to play it on your player regardless of your geographical location. For the record, there is no problematic PAL or 1080/50i content preceding the disc's main menu).
There are seven standard audio tracks on this Blu-ray release: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 (48kHz, 24-bit), German: Dolby Digital 1.0, French: Dolby Digital 1.0, Portuguese: Dolby Digital 1.0, Italian: Dolby Digital 1.0, Spanish: Dolby Digital 1.0 (Spain), and Spanish: Dolby Digital 1.0 (Latin America). Optional English SDH, French, German SDH, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish subtitles are provided for the main feature.
The lossless English track is clean and stable. It also has a good range of proper dynamics. The dialog is very easy to follow and is free of digital imperfections. There are no audio dropouts or distortions to report.
NOTE: All of the supplemental features on this Blu-ray release are perfectly playable on North American Blu-ray players, including the PS3.
Back in the '80s the overwhelming majority of the mainstream critics got it right -- while it does have a few funny sequences, Police Academy 3: Back in Training is simply not in the same league with the first two films (and I would say even a couple of the other Police Academy films that came after it). I just don't think that Jerry Paris had a decent script to work with, and to be honest I don't think that the top brass at Warner Bros. actually cared that he didn't. But it did not matter really because the film still sold quite well, especially overseas, and then performed equally well on the home video market. The technical presentation of Police Academy 3: Back in Training is not good. The film has a very unappealing digital appearance that I think a lot of people will find problematic. Currently, it is available only in this Region-Free seven-disc box set with the rest of the Police Academy films.
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