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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0883929059416
Feature: Powerful super heroes Batman, Robin, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna and their rascally blue space monkey Gleek battle evil, protect humanity and save the world from unthinkable dangers in these 24 action-packed adventures. These cool cartoon actionfests showcase a gallery of DC Comics heroes and fan-favorite villains like Brainiac and Mr. Mxyzptlk, plus the Hanna-Barbe
Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 40
Label: Warner Home Video
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
MPN: 883929059416
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 11, 2009
Running Time: 168 minutes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
Features:- Powerful super heroes Batman, Robin, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna and their rascally blue space monkey Gleek battle evil, protect humanity and save the world from unthinkable dangers in these 24 action-packed adventures. These cool cartoon actionfests showcase a gallery of DC Comics heroes and fan-favorite villains like Brainiac and Mr. Mxyzptlk, plus the Hanna-Barbe
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Product Description:
SUPERFRIENDS-LOST EPISODES (DVD/2 DISC/24 EPISODES
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The goofy run of Super Friends continued through this unusual detour: when the animated series was canceled in 1983, Hanna-Barbera continued to produce new episodes, which in most cases took years to show up after the series kept returning to TV in various forms. These Lost Episodes are gathered on this two-disc set, which, although it claims to be 24 "episodes," is more like eight half-hour programs (each consisting of three short adventures). The Super Friends are in the house, or more exactly the Hall of Justice: Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin, and Aquaman forming the key group of comic-book holdovers, with new superheroes Black Vulcan, Apache Chief, Samurai, and El Dorado gaining opening-credits status. In fact, other D.C. Comics heroes and villains thread through the series, The Flash, Green Lantern, and Brainiac among them. Some of the episodes are self-contained little adventures, but a few play around with original mythology; for instance, in one brief story Superman returns to Krypton, and for a moment prevents the destruction of his home planet. Another notable episode, "Bulgor the Behemoth," has a distinctly postmodern kick: a writer for an animated TV show is struck by lightning and morphs into a super-villain, and can't be stopped by Superman because he's a fictional character.
The animation is simple but the designs pop in a pleasing way, with plenty of color and some classic comic-book imagery. The action and cornball messages are skewed toward young viewers of Saturday-morning cartoons, and at times the dialogue is painfully "clever" ("If you don't like this hotel, you're gonna have to deal with the Complaint Department--Superman!"). Biggest stumbling block is the emphasis given to the Wonder Twins, the brother-sister team whose "Shape of..." and "Form of..." shtick gets old fast. Unless you're ten years old. Of course their mischievous monkey Gleek is around too, and in "Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One," he's replicated as an "android duplicate of Gleek," which is definitely overkill. Even if you don't like those three, there's a great deal of childhood fun in these lightweight adventures. And in the final episode there's a trip to "Bizarro World," trapping Superman and Wonder Woman in an Atari-style video game. Bizarro indeed. --Robert Horton
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Love this show! Glad these episodes were released on DVD. Fans of the Superfriends and DC comics should check this DVD set.
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I loved it! I grew up on this show and never knew about these episodes!
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There are other reviews giving episode content, and there's no reason to repeat that.
After Challenge of the Superfriends (starring the Legion of Doom), these episodes seemed like a step backwards. It's like they stepped back in time to retarget 5 year olds like the very first seasons. Challenge of the Super Friends - The First Season (DC Comics Classic Collection) was particularly nice because it used a large variety of super heroes and villians and got rid of the annoying and useless sidekicks ... Read More
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Love the cartoon shorts. They really bring me back to a time when you had a Large variety of cartoons to choose from. But the extras are null and void. Most of the extras on the other Super Friends releases were nothing special but this one has ziltch. A digital comic?...who cares. Where are the voice actor interviews? Not much effort into this one. It's like Disney releases.....NO EXTRAS. Plus some of the remastering was sloppy. Some of it looks like I'm watching a VHS tape recording. I still ... Read More
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First, to clarify the number of episodes. This DVD set consists of 8 half-hour shows of "Super Friends" from what would have been their 1983-1984 season on ABC Saturday mornings. Each half-hour show is composed of 3 episodic shorts running about 7 minutes each. A total of 24 shorts (8 X 3) are on this DVD set. These 8 half-hour shows are complete with both their original opening and closing credits.
Unfortunately, ABC never aired any of these half-hour shows during their network 1983-1984 Saturday ... Read More
