Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3107 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-02-04
• Rating: Suitable for 18 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Box set, Dubbed, PAL, Widescreen
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Swedish, Turkish
• Dubbed in: French, German, Italian, Spanish
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 309 minutes

Amazon.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 gun", 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 from regular Verhoeven collaborator Basil Poledouris, whose splendid march theme returned from the original score.

On the DVD: Packaged in a fold-out slipcase these three discs make a very collectable set. All are presented in 1.85:1 anamorphic prints, although only the first movie has any extra material worth mentioning. Here the Director's Cut option allows the viewer to see Paul Verhoeven's more explicitly violent versions of Murphy's "assassination", ED-209's bloody malfunction and the shootout finale. These extended sequences are handily signposted in the scene selection menu, and the filming of them can be seen in a sequence of Director's Cut footage. Deleted scenes include "Topless Pizza" ("I'll buy that for a dollar!") and there are two contemporary "making of" featurettes plus a good, new half-hour retrospective. Both the latter and the director's commentary make abundantly clear the Reagan-era satire and are chock full of quotable lines from Verhoeven--"I wanted to show Satan killing Jesus"--and his producer--"Fascism for liberals". Stop-motion animator Phil Tippett gives a commentary on the storyboard-to-film comparisons, and there are the usual trailers and photos. Showing just how much the sequels are rated in comparison, the second and third discs have nothing but theatrical trailers and their sound is just Dolby 2.0 whereas the original movie has been remastered into Dolby 5.1.--Mark Walker

DVD Description
DVD Special Features:

Featured on Robocop Special Edition:
Option to watch Directors cut or original theatrical version
New documentary: Flesh 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

Synopsis
This collection features ROBOCOP and its two sequels. In Paul Verhoeven's original urban sci-fi Western, Peter Weller stars as Murphy, a good Detroit cop who literally gets shot to pieces while on duty and winds up reborn as a crime-fighting machine--RoboCop. His former partner (Nancy Allen) tries to help RoboCop remember his human past, but his circuitry blocks whatever dim memories remain. Luckily, a chance encounter with one of his killers wakes up the human essence in RoboCop, causing him to rebel against his programming and commence on a one-cyborg mission of vengeance that leads all the way to the top of OCP, the omnipresent corporation that created him.
ROBOCOP 2 is an even darker, more violent sequel to the first film. This time around, in addition to the corporate goons who are busy exploiting the blighted city of Detroit, RoboCop (Weller) must battle a psychotic drug lord who has been transformed into a second robot enforcer. Finally, in ROBOCOP 3, the heroic cyborg (this time played by Robert John Burke) joins an underground guerrilla army of homeless people united against OCP.

Customer Reviews

Bargain at £7
Robocop is one of the finest action films of the 1980's.

Robocop 2 and Robocop 3 never live up to expectations and don't have the same dark atmosphere. They are worth owning and watching if you have nothing better to do..

I paid £7 for the box set so I am more than happy.

Robocop - 5 Stars
Robocop 2 - 2.5 Stars
Robocop 3 - 2 Stars

The set deserves 4 stars overall.

Do not try to play on PC
hi
all said and done by other reviewers - do not have much to add
but here's the 'Caution' word being added for all who wish to play this set on PC
To my surprise - none of the discs play on the PC
My PC [nero dvd software] software reported the discs as "BAD" - unplayable - which shocked me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! [ as i play mostly on my PC ]
I then tried on my DVD player - the disc [robocop 1] played fine [have not tested others yet ] - so this set 'd be "un-PC" or it might have "RCE" [regional coding enchanced] which does not let the pc play !!!
Anyhow - guys owning PC be forewarned that this set will not play on the PC at all - so just be Cautious !!! - that's all i have to add - may be i gotta get the box set available on amazon usa [region 1] i guess it may not be 'un-PC'- anybody , being able to play - suggest me!!

thankx
Anchal Nigam , India

Kein deutscher Ton auf Disc/Teil 1!
Deutsche Kunden sollten wissen, dass nur Teil 2+3 deutschen Ton haben, Teil 1 gibt es nur in der englischen Originalfassung. Dennoch ist es ein Genuss, den ersten Teil nach vielen Jahren wieder einmal ungeschnitten zu sehen.
Aus der Disc-Discription (wenn schon Denglisch, dann bitte richtig!) /Produktbeschreibung ist nicht ersichtlich, dass Teil 1 keinen deutschen Ton hat.