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Steve Martin and John Candy star in John Hughes’ classic tale of holiday travel gone awry. Neal Page (Martin) is an uptight advertising executive trying to get home to Chicago for Thanksgiving. When his flight is rerouted to Wichita, he reluctantly partners with Del Griffith (Candy), an obnoxious yet loveable salesman. Together, they embark on a cross-country adventure that includes various modes of transportation, hilarious mishaps, and unforgettable rental car shenanigans. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is “a screwball comedy with a heart” (Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times). Loaded with special features, the “Those Aren’t Pillows!” Edition is a perfect holiday treat that lasts all year. 92 mins approx.
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful
This review is about the actual Blu-Ray, not the film:
Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment
Catalogue Number: BSP 2291
Certificate: 15
Running time: 92 mins
Ratio: 1.78:1 Anamorphic widescreen
Audio: English 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio, Portugese Mono, Spanish Mono
Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Portugese, Spanish
PICTURE QUALITY:
The hi-def transfer is surprisingly very good for a film of its age (1987), I must admit I was expecting a slight upgrade from the DVD print and was pleased to see a substantial improvement in picture quality.
BLU-RAY EXTRAS: (HD = Hi-Definition)
*"Getting There Is Half The Fun: The Story of Planes, Trains And Automobiles" (a post-film press conference with John Hughes, Steve Martin and John Candy talking about their involvement in the film with a crowd of reporters).
*John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast featuring John Hughes: The Voice of a Generation (HD)
*Heartbreak And Triumph: The Legacy of John Hughes (HD)
*John Hughes For Adults
*A Tribute To John Candy
*Deleted Scene: "Airport Food" (HD)
Note: These are the same extras that appear on the Region 1 DVD "Those Are Not Pillows" Special Edition DVD.
I hope this helps viewers/potential customers.
Distributor: Paramount Home Entertainment
Catalogue Number: BSP 2291
Certificate: 15
Running time: 92 mins
Ratio: 1.78:1 Anamorphic widescreen
Audio: English 5.1 dts-HD Master Audio, Portugese Mono, Spanish Mono
Subtitles: English, English SDH, French, Portugese, Spanish
PICTURE QUALITY:
The hi-def transfer is surprisingly very good for a film of its age (1987), I must admit I was expecting a slight upgrade from the DVD print and was pleased to see a substantial improvement in picture quality.
BLU-RAY EXTRAS: (HD = Hi-Definition)
*"Getting There Is Half The Fun: The Story of Planes, Trains And Automobiles" (a post-film press conference with John Hughes, Steve Martin and John Candy talking about their involvement in the film with a crowd of reporters).
*John Hughes: Life Moves Pretty Fast featuring John Hughes: The Voice of a Generation (HD)
*Heartbreak And Triumph: The Legacy of John Hughes (HD)
*John Hughes For Adults
*A Tribute To John Candy
*Deleted Scene: "Airport Food" (HD)
Note: These are the same extras that appear on the Region 1 DVD "Those Are Not Pillows" Special Edition DVD.
I hope this helps viewers/potential customers.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
I often get wary about Blu Ray releases which are just remasters these days - guess I have been hit with a few like Robocop, so I advanced cautiously with this classic, which is probably one of John Candy's finest moments.
You know the story, hapless guys trying to get home are lumbered with each other as they head home to Chicago. The usual gaffes and silly things happen on the way, and you know the rest. So I won't bore you with my opinion on the movie, it's a fine piece of work from John Hughes and is considered a cult classic. The important thing is whether the transfer is worth talking about? I would say yes, it is a slight improvement from the DVD, but it's only slight. It's a grainy film anyway - so don't expect miracles from this, but it's a nice mixdown, with the music soundtrack pumping away. You'll find yourself swaying to the rock music in the taxi, and enjoying the main theme from Yellow all over again. The image is rather good with a 35Mbit/s average AVC - which is ample for a move of this type. The scrolling is smooth and it makes it look good.
The audio is a steady 3Mbit/s, which is what we're accustomed to with Paramount. Sadly the English track is the only decent thing, the Spanish and Portuguese tracks are poor at only a mono mix, you would expect better - but as it's an English release, guess we can't really complain.
The extras are not bad either, a nice interview with Candy, Martin and Hughes, but it really isn't that insightful. It's a bit of nostalgia rather than anything else, and it's nice to see John Candy and John Hughes at their happiest.
There's a lot of tribute work for John too, but I did find some of it rather repetitive as it was in other features on the disk. The 3 minute John Candy tribute was far too short and only really paid homage his work on this film. It felt like a filler rather than a main meal.
The biggest extra on here is the deleted scene from the flight part of the movie. It is in HD so that's one decent thing.
All in all this is as good as it's going to get for fans, sadly with no John Hughes we won't get any commentaries or any new insightful views - we have to rely on stuff from 1987. The extras felt more like filler, but at least the film looks fabulous, and if you're a big fan this is a big plus. I doubt they can do much better with this, but I bet I'll be proved wrong...
You know the story, hapless guys trying to get home are lumbered with each other as they head home to Chicago. The usual gaffes and silly things happen on the way, and you know the rest. So I won't bore you with my opinion on the movie, it's a fine piece of work from John Hughes and is considered a cult classic. The important thing is whether the transfer is worth talking about? I would say yes, it is a slight improvement from the DVD, but it's only slight. It's a grainy film anyway - so don't expect miracles from this, but it's a nice mixdown, with the music soundtrack pumping away. You'll find yourself swaying to the rock music in the taxi, and enjoying the main theme from Yellow all over again. The image is rather good with a 35Mbit/s average AVC - which is ample for a move of this type. The scrolling is smooth and it makes it look good.
The audio is a steady 3Mbit/s, which is what we're accustomed to with Paramount. Sadly the English track is the only decent thing, the Spanish and Portuguese tracks are poor at only a mono mix, you would expect better - but as it's an English release, guess we can't really complain.
The extras are not bad either, a nice interview with Candy, Martin and Hughes, but it really isn't that insightful. It's a bit of nostalgia rather than anything else, and it's nice to see John Candy and John Hughes at their happiest.
There's a lot of tribute work for John too, but I did find some of it rather repetitive as it was in other features on the disk. The 3 minute John Candy tribute was far too short and only really paid homage his work on this film. It felt like a filler rather than a main meal.
The biggest extra on here is the deleted scene from the flight part of the movie. It is in HD so that's one decent thing.
All in all this is as good as it's going to get for fans, sadly with no John Hughes we won't get any commentaries or any new insightful views - we have to rely on stuff from 1987. The extras felt more like filler, but at least the film looks fabulous, and if you're a big fan this is a big plus. I doubt they can do much better with this, but I bet I'll be proved wrong...
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a highly regarded but sometimes criminally overlooked comedy classic from 1987 that showcases perfectly the very best of the talents of both John Candy and Steve Martin. It is a personal favourite. Directed by the late great John Hughes ( Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Home Alone), the film is essentially an odd-couple comedy, often bittersweet, but frequently very very funny and surely one of the best films of the 80s.
The plot is simple. High flying advertising executive Neil Page (Martin) finishes a meeting in New York on Thanksgiving and has to get home to Chicago for his daughter Thanksgiving Pageant and Thanksgiving dinner. Unfortunately, his efforts are frustrated and complicated by icy weather, grounded planes, trains that break down, hire cars that don't turn up and worst of all, overweight blabbermouth but well-meaning curtain ring salesman Del Griffith (Candy). These two mismatched travellers are thrown into the mix together and forced to pool their resources to reach home safely or risk spending their Thanksgiving holiday alone out in the middle of nowhere.
The central performances are marvellous. John Candy has never been better than as Del Griffith, a man with serious `foot-in-mouth' syndrome, but a big heart. By contrast Steve Martin's Neil Page, a hard-working family man, is uptight, impatient and doesn't realise just how lucky he is. Each man in his own way is far from perfect and both have valuable lessons to learn from each other. What makes this such great comedy is its warmth, compassion and the pitch-perfect portrayal by Martin and Candy of two very different men destined to follow the same path. Some have criticised the ending as overly-sentimental, but there is no more overriding feel-good image than that of the final freeze frame of Candy's beaming face.
The quality of blu-ray transfer of older films like this can be a worry and I approach all of them with some caution. Some releases have exceeded expectations, others have simply not been good enough. In this blu-ray edition of Planes, Trains and Automobiles, thankfully this outstanding movie gets the transfer to high definition that it deserves. With excellent depth of colour and clarity without excessive removal of natural grain, and enhanced audio, the film looks and sounds better than ever and an immeasurable improvement on DVD quality. The extras included on the disc are none too shabby either, with a deleted scene, documentary behind the making of the film and tributes to John Hughes and John Candy who have both since passed away.
The plot is simple. High flying advertising executive Neil Page (Martin) finishes a meeting in New York on Thanksgiving and has to get home to Chicago for his daughter Thanksgiving Pageant and Thanksgiving dinner. Unfortunately, his efforts are frustrated and complicated by icy weather, grounded planes, trains that break down, hire cars that don't turn up and worst of all, overweight blabbermouth but well-meaning curtain ring salesman Del Griffith (Candy). These two mismatched travellers are thrown into the mix together and forced to pool their resources to reach home safely or risk spending their Thanksgiving holiday alone out in the middle of nowhere.
The central performances are marvellous. John Candy has never been better than as Del Griffith, a man with serious `foot-in-mouth' syndrome, but a big heart. By contrast Steve Martin's Neil Page, a hard-working family man, is uptight, impatient and doesn't realise just how lucky he is. Each man in his own way is far from perfect and both have valuable lessons to learn from each other. What makes this such great comedy is its warmth, compassion and the pitch-perfect portrayal by Martin and Candy of two very different men destined to follow the same path. Some have criticised the ending as overly-sentimental, but there is no more overriding feel-good image than that of the final freeze frame of Candy's beaming face.
The quality of blu-ray transfer of older films like this can be a worry and I approach all of them with some caution. Some releases have exceeded expectations, others have simply not been good enough. In this blu-ray edition of Planes, Trains and Automobiles, thankfully this outstanding movie gets the transfer to high definition that it deserves. With excellent depth of colour and clarity without excessive removal of natural grain, and enhanced audio, the film looks and sounds better than ever and an immeasurable improvement on DVD quality. The extras included on the disc are none too shabby either, with a deleted scene, documentary behind the making of the film and tributes to John Hughes and John Candy who have both since passed away.
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absolutely brilliant
smart, emotional very funny. John hughs at his best this is Steve martin and John candys best film to date. Definitely worth having in your collection
Published 10 days ago by dazdad360
"Those Aren't Pillows!"
Small point worth noting about this BLU RAY - the print is a frame-by-frame LOWRY DIGITAL RESTORATION. Read more
Published 17 days ago by Mark Barry, Reckless Records, London
Great comedy, quality release
Planes, Trains & Automobiles is easily in my Top 3 comedies ever made, and I am happy I own it on a Blu ray disc. Read more
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Published 6 months ago by Sam Tyler
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I hope that the transfer is good but i dont,t know
this is candy greatest movie, i love him. martin is also good.
This movie must be on bluray
this is candy greatest movie, i love him. martin is also good.
This movie must be on bluray
Published 9 months ago by bakker
Those aren`t pillows!
Lets hope the transfer is good. A HD doc on John Hughes is included, shame JC aint around to do a commentary with Steve. Hopefully other extras may appear. :0)
Published 9 months ago by Mr. K. johnson
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