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Crime Busters [VHS]

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Now, this is a great film, much better than "Odds and Evens" and slightly better than "Go for It".....terence hill and bud spencer's better movies...the plot is 2 guys, matt kirby and wilbur walsh are sick of having no money and they are too lazy to get a job...so they want to rob a crocery store. When they jump in the back door of the building, they jump into the police recruitment office....pretty good movie to get people to like terence hill and bud spencer, but their 2 best movies are "Watch out, We're Mad!" (this is thier BEST movie no matter what! ) and of course, thier silliest outing, "I'm for the Hippopotamus". It's too bad these great films werent released in the united states!

Terence hill & Bud spencer star in this hilarious comedy about a runaway sailor (Hill) and an out of work fat bloke (Spencer), they meet whilst looking for work at the docks and soon get into all kinds of funny situations, they end up bungling a robbery at a supermarket, joining the police force in the process, then smash a drug smuggling ring. The film is funny throughout. Highly reccomended. END

Non-fans may find this film too corny compared to the Trinity films, but that's why they are not fans! For me, this film is definitely one of Terence Hill and Bud Spencer's best. The opening sequences are priceless, and are followed by episode after episode of hilarious slapstick. Only at some parts toward the end does the pacing of the film feel a bit slack, but this is a film with everything fans could want from a modern Spencer/Hill film.

Somerville House has aquired a near perfect print of Crime Busters. Lets hope Somerville House will follow this with more quality Hill/Spencer films. For those of you who dont know Hill and Spencer - Crime Busters is typical - A modest budget, with the general mood of a Tom amd Jerry cartoon, (Hill = Jerry, Spencer = Tom, the bad guys = a multitude of Elmer Fudds). Lots of funny gags, "good natured" fist fights, bean eating, property destruction, and automobile damage. Grunts, glares and hammer fist hits (by Bud), goofy acrobats (by Hill) - and no sex or bad language. Great for kids,fun for adults.

This Bud Spencer/Terrence Hill movie is another classic spaghetti movie. The quality could be better but it is entertaining in that slapstick kind of way. It actually has a story and plot which makes it easier to follow than some of their other movies. Bottom line - you will like it if you like these two humorous cowboys in action.

I saw this movie years ago. I laughed then and I laughed now. I thought the experience of shopping online with amazon was great. Pricing was good and they got it to me when the said they would. I was very satisfied.

This is one of the best Trinity films but like many later Hill & Spencer films its set in Miami not the Wild West.

Through a series of accidents the two guys meet each other and end up signing up for the Polcie Force. The films proceeds at a gentle pace and the laughs keep coming. The slapstick fighting is very good and there are some classic comedic moments in which the guys have fun with the hoods' cars.

Definently one for the collection.

From the moment you realize the flickering during the opening sequence is actually the shadow of the helicopter blades they filmed the shot from...to the end when you realize the soundtrack contains exactly ONE SONG played over and over again, you know very little money went into this. Doesn't matter...it's a hysterical cult classic made known to most by extensive runs on HBO in their early days.

I kind of worried when ordering the DVD that watching the movie today wouldn't be as positive an experience as it was back then, having not seen it in about 20 years. But it is. You'll laugh so hard, you'll get kicked out of Canada.

I am not going to tell you story of a movie but I can say that is a great comedy movie. Recommended to everybody.

- Police Captain, gazing at Hill's messed-up police car: "Isn't there, ah, supposed to be a door on both sides?"
- Terence Hill: "You don't miss a trick, eh, Chief?"

Before MIAMI VICE came along, Terence Hill and Bud Spencer patrolled the streets of Miami, which probably sucked for the good citizens of Miami. CRIME BUSTERS, a.k.a. I DUE SUPERPIEDI QUASI PIATTI (its Italian title), is the first Terence Hill/Bud Spencer movie for me, and from what I hear, this is one of their very best pairings. It's certainly good enough that I now plan to check out other pictures teaming up these two.

CRIME BUSTERS came out in 1977, so there's a dated look and feel to it, as well as a whole bunch of dubbing going on. Doesn't stop it, though, from being dang entertaining and a very funny odd couple film. Two strangers, Matt Kirby (Terence Hill) and Wilbur Walsh (bearish Bud Spencer), cross paths and, both fed up with not getting work, plot to rob a supermarket. Deciding to break in thru the supermarket's service door, they instead land in a police recruiting office - and end up signing on reluctantly. Unwilling recruits that they are, they don't go out of their way to conform, hoping to get bounced off the force. Except that every bumble seems to result in a crook being nabbed and the police captain heaping praises on Kirby (as for Walsh, the captain just keeps ordering dude to shave).

I got a good vibe from the very start. The opening sequence features thugs in suits at the dock getting beat down silly and their auto demolished by Bud Spencer. A bit later, Terence Hill comes around and administers the same treatment. Having seen Terence Hill before in the classic western My Name Is Nobody and now here, I'm betting that this is his patented film persona - innocent, piercing blue eyes masking a quick-thinking, playful demeanor, until the boyish grin gives it away. My guess is that gruff, surly and laconic is how the bearish Bud Spencer usually plays his roles. These cats remind me in some ways of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby in their Road pictures. There's that goofy synergy between Hill and Spencer, the crackpot premise and the wacky tone of the flick, not to mention the cheerful incidental backstabbings they inflict on each other. Even closer to home, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that CRIME BUSTERS partly inspired the zany POLICE ACADEMY series.

It's a rugged brand of slapstick, as our likeable rogues often get themselves in fighty fight situations. Thankfully, the brawls are staged interestingly and rife with amusing touches. Case in point, the diner skirmish in which Hill pretends to be a cripple and Spencer, a deaf-mute, or the rumbles at the football stadium and at the bowling alley. There's a hint of Jackie Chan in these fights, not so much in the way of wushu or nimble gymnastics, but more in that there's kind of a Three Stooges flavor in the way that Hill and Spencer (and Jackie Chan) conduct themselves. And, like Jackie, the guys make use of whatever props are handy to deliver their smackdowns. And, as a wink at Terence Hill's spaghetti westerns, included in the training segment is a scene at the police firing range, in which Hill fires off his weapon in the Old West's quick draw fashion and then states: "I've got bullets in my blood."

This DVD does offer up some bonus stuff: text biographies on Terence Hill (who was christened Mario Girotti), Bud Spencer (christened Carlo Pedersoli), and Director Enzo Barboni; an interview with Bud Spencer (almost six minutes long and kinda dribbles out); "Funny In Any Language" offers up four brief clips from various Hill/Spencer flicks; and trailers for CRIME BUSTERS, ODDS & EVENS, KEEP YOUR HANDS OFF THE ISLAND, and DOUBLE TROUBLE.

CRIME BUSTERS isn't as strong a film as MY NAME IS NOBODY, but it's no weak sissy, either. CRIME BUSTERS pretty much dispenses with believability and leans on Hill and Spencer's brawny schticks as its primary storytelling vehicle. And you may just find yourself whistling along with that distinct easy-breezy score. If I got it right, Terence Hill and Bud Spencer co-starred in 19 films. So, for me, CRIME BUSTERS is one down, eighteen more to go.