Blu-ray Review – Abbott & Costello: The Complete Universal Pictures Collection

Taking a look at a specific time in the career of Abbott and Costello, Shout Factory brings a whopping 28 films from the comedy duo's time with Universal Pictures to Blu-ray. There's an incredibly wide range of efforts here, starting with Abbott and Costello's screen debut in 1940's "One Night in the Tropics," to their final Universal effort, 1955's "Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy." The rest of the collection examines their big hits ("Buck Privates"), strange experiments ("Little Giant"), and iconic forays into genre interests ("Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein"), while the rest of the set showcases all sorts of madcap action and slapstick intensity, pinpointing the genius of the Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, and their incredible comfort with formula, trying their very best to deliver a good time for appreciative audiences. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com