6.8 | / 10 |
Users | 0.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
A group of good-hearted but incompetent misfits enter the police academy, but the instructors there are not going to put up with their pranks.
Starring: Steve Guttenberg, Kim Cattrall, G.W. Bailey, Bubba Smith, Donovan ScottComedy | 100% |
Crime | 9% |
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 (48kHz, 24-bit)
German: Dolby Digital Mono
Japanese: Dolby Digital Mono
Portuguese: Dolby Digital Mono
Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono (Spain)
Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono
Brazilan Portuguese, Castilian Spanish and Latin American Spanish options are available; the Dolby Digital Mono dubs are all 48kHz/192kbps.
English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, German SDH, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
Region free
Movie | 3.5 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 5.0 | |
Extras | 3.0 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Hugh Wilson's "Police Academy" (1984) arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment UK. The supplemental features on the disc include an original trailer for the film; making of featurette; and archival audio commentary with director Hugh Wilson, producer Paul Maslansky, and actors Steve Guttenberg, G.W. Bailey, Leslie Easterbrook, and Michael Winslow. In English, with optional English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, German SDH, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish subtitles for the main feature. Region-Free.
A different kind of establishment, eh?
Presented in an aspect ratio of 1.78:1, encoded with MPEG-4 AVC and granted a 1080p transfer, Hugh Wilson's Police Academy arrives on Blu-ray courtesy of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment.
The release is sourced from an older but quite healthy remaster. Obviously, delineation and density are not optimal -- and these will undoubtedly the two areas where a future 4K remaster will offer notable improvements -- but are very much in the range that I like to see on older masters. Also, some encoding optimizations would have been great to eliminate a few of the light artifacts that try to sneak in, but even on a larger screen the visuals remain quite good. A few of the darker sequences exhibit light black crush, but again the limitations of the master are not distracting. Color balance is very good, though this is another area where stability and saturation improvements can be made. Overall image stability is very good. Lastly, there are no distracting age-related imperfections. All in all, while there is room for improvement, this is certainly a fine organic presentation of the film. (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 six standard audio tracks on this Blu-ray release: English: DTS-HD Master Audio 1.0 (48kHz, 24-bit), German: Dolby Digital 1.0, Japanese: Dolby Digital 1.0, Portuguese: Dolby Digital 1.0, Spanish: Dolby Digital 1.0 (Spain), and Spanish: Dolby Digital 1.0. Optional English SDH, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, German SDH, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Swedish subtitles are provided for the main feature.
The lossless track is excellent. Depth is consistently pleasing, clarity is great, and there is a proper range of dynamic nuances for an '80s film. If the film and the audio are fully remastered i the future, I honestly do not expect any sizeable improvements. There are no audio dropouts or digital distortions to report in our review.
NOTE: All of the supplemental features on this Blu-ray release are perfectly playable on North American Blu-ray players, including the PS3.
I was stuck in traffic last month when I heard on the radio that director Hugh Wilson had passed away. The guy on the radio then mentioned Police Academy and all the other people that made the film with director Wilson that are no longer with us. It was awful. You know, Police Academy is not exactly a masterpiece, but as far as I am concerned it is one of those silly films with a great attitude that made the '80s such a special decade. In the United States this film is not yet out on Blu-ray, but this single-disc release as well as this seven-disc box set are Region-Free. If you enjoy revisiting Police Academy from time to time, pick up a copy for your library. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
(Still not reliable for this title)
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