Arnold Schwarzenegger Comedy Favorites Collection (Twins / Kindergarten Cop / Junior)
by Ivan Reitman
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Actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVitoDirector: Ivan Reitman
Brand: Universal Studios
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 329 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-09-18
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Universal Studios
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DVD Review: Kindergarten Cop, Widescreen... but not
Summary: 4 Stars
Our copy of the Arnold Comedy Collection arrived in the mail on Monday. Everyone was excited to see the movies. I haven't seen Twins in a long time. Junior was as I remember it. I only saw it once when it came out. The reason we bought the set was to have Kindergarten Cop in the wide screen format. We have the individual copy which is in full screen. And, that was fine, back in the olden days, before the advent of wide screen TVs.
This isn't a review of the movies. I like all the movies, and I'm glad to have two that I didn't have before. This is an observation about the formatting of the Kindergarten Cop movie. The DVD claims that it's in 1:85, wide screen format. But, is it?
My daughter was watching Kindergarten Cop this afternoon and she asked me, "Is this really wide screen? It seems kind of cramped." I looked at it, and she was right. It fills up the wide screen, but it's like the full screen with the zoom turned on. We popped in the old disk and, sure enough, the Universal folks have pulled a fast one! This isn't a transfer of the original, wide screen movie. This is a crop of the full screen cropped edition to fit a wide screen TV!
I don't have any other versions of the other 2 movies, so I don't have a basis for comparison on those. But, if you're purchasing this set in order to get a wide screen version of Kindergarten Cop, this isn't it. Altogether, there is about 30% less picture in this movie than the full screen edition, taken from the top and bottom of the screen.
Perhaps one day, when the movie is released in Blu-Ray, they'll actually make a print of the original, wide screen movie. I tell you what, though... before I buy it, I'm going to rent it to make sure that it's not just an expensive, high definition copy of the cropped edition of the full screen version.
As I said before... I'm glad to have Twins and Junior. I didn't own a copy of them. I don't know if Universal pulled a fast one on those. But, they certainly did with Kindergarten Cop, so I don't guess I would put it past them on the others.
Just be aware that, even though this Kindergarten Cop says it's a wide screen version (and even though it will fill up your wide screen TV), it's really not. You're getting less picture overall than you'd get with the full screen.
Good luck!
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