Police Academy 1-7-The Complete Collection

Ultra funny comedy.

As a child growing up in the 80's, it was impossible to not have seen at least one of the Police Academy films. The first released in 1984 was a surprise comedy hit and along with other films such as "Porky's", "Revenge of the Nerds" and "Bachelor Party" helped symbolize R rated comedy in the early to mid 80's. "Police Academy" was a huge success so sequels were released each subsequent year with the first sequel instead being rated PG-13 and the rest PG as they were made with less raunchy humor which was featured in the first film and instead were targeting families. The quality and box office also dropped off with each sequel before bottoming out with part 6 in 1989. A cartoon series also ran from 1988 to 1989 for 65 episodes. The film series would lie dormant for a few years before returning with the beyond awful seventh entry in 1994 which is rightfully regarded as one of the worst movies ever made. (There was also an equally bad live action television series which ran for a single 26 episode season in 1997-1998 but only the films are included with this blu-ray set.) Warner Brothers saw fit back in 2013 to compile all 7 Police Academy films in a region free blu-ray box set which delivers exceptional value for fans. Each film gets its own disc and all extras from the previous DVD releases were carried over as well. Each film is presented in 1.78:1 widescreen even though the packaging states 1.85:1 so you gain just a tiny bit of picture information on the top and bottom of the frame. The discs utilize the AVC codec and are a significant improvement over the previous DVD releases. Detail is much improved and it appears that no digital scrubbing was done so each film retains a nice natural grain structure. The bit rates for the first two films hover around the upper teens and low to mid 20's for the most part but the 3rd through 7th entries feature more robust bit rates getting into the mid to upper 30's during busy sections which leads me to believe that parts 3 through 7 feature more recent scans. Audio for the first 6 films is presented in lossless 1 channel mono for the default English track and 2 channel lossless stereo for part 7. There are also lossy audio options for French, German, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese dubbed tracks for importers. Subtitles are also included for each audio option too and then some. While the Police Academy film series is by no means high art, the first film is definitely an 80's comedy classic while the 2nd and 3rd entries have their moments. After that watch at your own discretion. But considering you can get this box set for only 20 dollars from most sellers, it is nice that all 7 films were included. While the inclusion of the animated and live action television series would have made this set truly definitive, it still contains tremendous value for fans of 80's comedy and the series in general.

The bluray transfer of the films looks great! I wasn't sure how they would look for HD, but to my joy they look absolutely beautiful. The movie are great be themselves, but to have them in HD is so much better! And surprisingly several of the discs had more special features than just a standard trailer. If you grew up on these movies like I did, then you will not be dissapointed with this collection!

If you're a fan of the police academy franchise this set is everything you could ever want. The positives: * This set is region free ( what that means is it will work on any Blu-ray player including North American ones even though it's not an American Blu-ray set) * Every movie has its own disc. * The picture and sound quality is nice, these movies have never looked better. * Every film has several special features included The negatives: Police Academy 7 is still terrible. ( no amount of special features or high definition will ever fix that) In conclusion: If you're a fan of the police academy franchise there's nothing not to love about this set, it's baffling that we never got this set in the states but thankfully it will work on any Blu-ray player. Highly recommended to all Police Academy fans.

I'm not going to comment on the movies themselves. Obviously, I'm a fan of the Police Academy franchise, if I bought this collection. Instead, I'll focus on this collection in general. I found the picture and sound quality of the movies to be good. I don't know if they've been digitally remastered, but they didn't feel like 40+ year old films. I have only two complaints, which kept me from rating this five stars. The first is that I would have preferred a little more in the way of special features. There were exactly one per movie, and, except for the first one, they were all quite short. There were no audio commentary tracks for any of the movies. I realize that movies this old, it's probably not as easy to put together special features, so I'm grateful that we got any at all. My only other complaint is that on the special features the volume is turned down WAY low. I had to turn my soundbar up to max volume to hear them, and even then they weren't very loud. They movies themselves, fortunately, had very good sound quality, but the special features not so much. That being said, I would still recommend this collection to Police Academy fans. Given the surprisingly low price I paid, the purchase was well worth it, even with that problem with the special features. If you like the Police Academy movies, do yourself a favor and get this collection. You'll be happy you did.

Hard find.. great deal

This DVD collection contains 7 DVDs (one per each movie, divided into 2 dvd standard boxes). Perfect for replacing old VHS. Quality is VHS comparable. Police Academy 1,2,3,6 & 7 are in Widescreen and Police Academy 4 & 5 are in fullscreen (4/3). Some of the movies have extra (commentary or deleted scenes). Region 2 (Europe). All 7 movies have ENGLISH and other languages. ITALIAN soundtrack (mono) is always present. I raccomend for those who grew up with these movies.

Its a classic comedy I grew up watching. Never get tired of watching it.