Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5253 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-11-12
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 5
• Running time: 502 minutes

Synopsis
The late Canadian comic actor John Candy stars in Uncle Buck, The Great Outdoors, Brewster's Millions, Going Berserk, and The Blues Brothers.

Customer Reviews

The Candyman
John Candy seems to fall into the 'Marmite' category. Luckily we love Marmite. We were both feeling a bit low recently and put on a couple of these films. If you love him, the blues don't last for long in his company. The price is terrific and meant we could create a bit of space by removing videos from our shelves. Buy it and have a really good laugh.

Not widescreen friendly
This is a review of the Region 2, 2007 edition of the DVD "John Candy Collection", not the movies themselves.

"Uncle Buck" and "The Blues Brothers" are presented in decent anamorphic transfers.

"Going Berserk" is anamorphic but the picture's a bit grainy, and lip-synching is out in places but this could well be the original movie.

"Brewster's Millions" is non-anamorphic 4:3 full-frame, pan-and-scan. That means on a standard TV it fills the screen, whilst on a widescreen TV you get black bars left and right where the rest of the picture should be. To be fair to the publishers here, the back of the collection box is correctly labelled. At the time of writing, there's never been an anamorphic release of this movie outside Region 1 America so that's the version to go for if your equipment is multi-region / NTSC compatible. It's also available as part of the all-anamorphic Region 1 "Richard Pryor 4-Movie Collection".

Finally, "The Great Outdoors", and what a mess. The back of the collection box says "1.85:1 ANAMORPHIC WIDESCREEN". Wrong! The back of the individual disc case says "2.35:1 WIDESCREEN". Wrong again! It is in fact non-anamorphic 1.85:1 letterbox. That means on a standard TV you get black bars top and bottom. On a widescreen TV you get a thick black border, left, right, top and bottom, or zoom in for very low definition.

So, if you have a standard TV and have no intention of changing, you may consider this collection good value. For everyone else, perhaps get it for "Uncle Buck", "The Blues Brothers" and "Going Berserk" (ignoring the other two movies) if you think it's cheap enough.

great for Candy fans
Very good collection for avid John Candy fans. Only gripe would be that would have preferred to have 'Planes, Trains & Automobiles' instead of 'The Great Outdoors', not one of his better films, which is surprising considering its got Dan Akroyd in it as well.