The missing lines are in the English Captions. Although the captions are missing a few lines that are said on screen, which is odd.

I too confirm the missing dialog. As already said. You can see his mouth move when we should be hearing him say "very nice" Although You cannot visually tell the female stats part is missing, the section does sound odd.

Has anyone watched Sixteen Candles yet? I wonder if I spotted a potential problem on that one too. The part where Jake is looking over his house after the partygoers have destroyed it. As he stands there looking around you can see his mouth move, but nothing is heard. I did not check the subtitles, but I will later today. The dialog is pretty well drowned out by the music at that point, so maybe it is there, but very quiet. Did anyone else notice this?

Edit:
Scratch that. Subtitles say something like "mouthing words" so apparently it is supposed to be silent. Sixteen candles is OK.

I just watched it the other night, and the transfer is awesome. The alleged missing audio doesn't bother me much at all, it would have been nice if they had gotten everything right, and I understand the frustration for people who have every single line memorized, but... for me it isn't a big deal. It cost $11 and is certianly better than the older release that I sold for $45 a few months ago on eBay.

Does anybody remember hearing this line when watching the movie at the cinema back in 1985 ?
I've read that John Hughes has removed/added lines for the TV/Home Video versions of other movies too - so it could be that the line was added later and when they went back to the original soundtrack it wasn't there.
Maybe the subtitles have been recycled from the earlier DVD - that would explain any missing/additional lines in them - we may have gotten the original soundtrack (the way the movie was screened in 1985) and the subtitles of the Home Video version.

I remember watching the movie in a cinema - but it was the German dubbed version (and my memory wouldn't be that good anyway).

Huh? I missed that one. What was wrong with Ferris Beuller?

Some people swear that when they saw the movie in the theater they saw Mia Sara's character change into a bathing suit in front of Alan Ruck's character.
On the DVD (and any other version I've ever seen) they only talk about her changing in front of him.

I can't see how this is anything other than yet another cock up from Universal.

You see Gary's lips move, he appears to mouth "Very nice" but all you can hear is the soundtrack music. The soundtrack music continues, subs have Gary saying "I tell you what Wyatt, if there's one thing I know it's female stats ..." but you don't hear him say anything - just the soundtrack music. Then the dialogue comes back with Gary saying "Anything bigger than a handful, you're risking a sprained tongue" (i.e. halfway through the sentence).

Disregarding the rest of the faults, simply having Gary's lips moving with nothing coming out looks entirely stupid and ruins the 'feel' of the entire scene.

It's like the guy who did the sound mix hit the mute button on the dialogue channel accidentally!

Anyone have a contact e-mail for Universal? They should be told about this.

Couldn't find a "Problem with DVD'S" section on the Universal site. But you can try this......

http://www.universalstudios.com/home...ml/contact_us/

Weak.

Yeah, it's a flub. F***ing universal.

Are the lines missing from both the DD and DTS tracks?

And on a semi-related note, are the boobs still in the film (from the piano-playing girl at the party?)

I am trying to figure out if I should sell my original version to Blockbuster for $8+, E-bay it, or keep it.

Yes, littlefuzzy, there is a Booby Scene.

Yup. Both English DD and English DTS are affected.

The Spanish DD dubtrack appears to be just fine though.

These people are smokin' some good stuff. I saw the film on its original run, on video, and at a revival theatrical showing, and never, NEVER has Sloane been shown changing in front of Cameron. They only talk about it after the fact.