RoboCop Trilogy [DVD]

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Product Description ------------------- DVD Special Features: Featured on Robocop Special Edition: Option to watch Directors cut or original theatrical version New documentary: and steel, the making of Robocop Featurette: Shooting Robocop Featurette: Making Robocop Deleted scenes including directors cut footage with live stage direction Trailers TV Commercial Photo Gallery Storyboard comparison with Phil Tippett commentary Commentary with director Paul Verhoeven, screenwriter Edward Neumeier and Jon Davison Collectable booklet Language Information: Robocop Special Edition: Languages in Dolby Digital 5.1: English Subtitles: English, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, Portuguese, Polish, Greek, Hungarian, Hebrew, Turkish, Czechoslovakian, English hard of hearing Robocop 2 and 3: Languages in Dolby Surround: English, German, French Italian Dolby, Spanish Dolby Subtitles: French, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Finnish, Norwegian, Danish, English hard of hearing, German hard of hearing 1.85 widescreen 16:9 version .co.uk Review ------------- Paul Verhoeven was almost unknown in Hollywood prior to the release of RoboCop in 1987. But after this ultra-violent yet strangely subversive and satirical sci-fi picture became a huge hit his reputation for extravagant and excessive, yet superbly well-crafted filmmaking was assured. Controversial as ever, Verhoeven saw the blue-collar cop (Peter Weller) who is transformed into an invincible cyborg as "an American Jesus with a ", and so the film dabbles with death and resurrection imagery as well as mercilessly satirising Reagan-era America. No targets escape Verhoeven's unflinching camera eye, from yuppie excess and corporate backstabbing to rampant consumerism and vacuous media personalities. As with his later sci-fi satire Starship Troopers the extremely bloody violence resolutely remains on the same level as a Tom and Jerry cartoon. The inevitable sequel, competently directed by Irvin Kershner, thankfully continues to mine the dark vein of anti-consumerist satire while being reflexively aware that it is itself a shining example of that which it is lampooning. Sadly the third instalment in the series, now without Peter Weller in the title role, is exactly the kind of dumbed-down production-line flick that the corporate suits of OCP might have dreamed up at a marketing meeting. Its only virtue is a decent music score ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000262YA/%24%7B0%7D ) from regular Verhoeven collaborator Basil Poledouris, whose splendid march theme returned from the original score ( /exec/obidos/ASIN/B000025HWH/%24%7B0%7D ).