DVD : Justice League Unlimited - Saving the World (DC Comics Kids Collection)

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Rating:

- Not that bad, but should have been better
Of course I preferred the complete season if it was available. It is not bad for a season start, but the publisher should have selected better episodes for this package.

Rating:

- Poor choices all around
If I could give this set a 0 I would, as others have said only three episodes on the disk and none of the episodes are really worth seeing, in my opinion their three of the worst episodes in the entire run of the series (JL and JLU) so I guess the only good thing about it is that WB got the crap out of the way so it doesn't dirty up future disk. Still three episodes on a disk with no extras is pretty poor when other similarly treated series (Batman Beyond) have had six episode disk, and even some of the JL DVD's had 4 episodes and decent extras.

If you want a JL fix, pick up the JL:Starcrossed DVD, its easily the best of JL availible on DVD at this time, sadly they decided to do half of season 1 and then skip all the rest of the first season the majority of season 2 (only Starcrossed in on DVD) and jump right into JLU and on top of that produce vastely inferior products.

I wouldn't mind episode disk like this, if they were in some sembence of order, and each disk had at least four episodes on it, heck I'd even settle for three episodes if they were at least entertaining episodes.

This disk is none of those things.

Rating:

- Not A Very Good Disc...
Not even a 'good' disc. I am appaled that WB is still releasing this three episode BS.

If they think that they will make more money by releasing 3 shows at a time, I have news for them. I REFUSE TO BUY ANOTHER JLU DISC UNTIL THE ENTIRE SEASON IS AVAILABLE! CAN I GET AN AMEN!!!!!

Rating:

- Something needs to be done.
This is my favorite Animated series in a long time, but the '3 Random Episode' DVD format is appauling. I would happily spend good money on seasonal box sets, and have on shows that I like less (Batman AS, GI Joe, Transformers). Between Justice League and X men Evolution it is a shame that this can't be accomplished. Obviously there's a reason for it, it just doesn't seem like it's a good one.

Oh well maybe we can look forward to a compilation in 5 or 6 years, but it's too bad. I thought the entertainment industry liked money, and by snubbing adult collectors they're missing out on a fortune.

Rating:

- Skip it.
Either wait for a DVD set or a better single DVD. Saving the World conatins 3 early episodes from the new Justice League season. It's a shame that they are mainly unenjoyable. Justice League's strength was that it relied on episodes being 2 parts to get the entire story across, and when it was shortened to half hour stories the writers no doubt had to adjust to the less amount of time for a story to occur. As a result, many of the early episodes were poorly written and missing the magic from before. Nowadays the series seems to be back on track, but if the series is continued in 3-episode sets, not to mention that amount of time before Warner puts out a new volume, who knows when we'll see those episodes released. Cutting to the chase the 3 episodes in particular weren't that great. Initiation is my most hated episode in the series, with a rushed plot and characterization, and even a bit lacking in animation and the action sequences. Hawk and Dove isn't that much better, and as a previous reviewer said winds up having a moral at the end. The last episode, Kid's Stuff, is the only episode that's actually watchable, but even that can push the limits(although Batman does have a good line there). What is beyond me is that the 2nd episode, an absolutely brilliant adaptation of Alan Moore's For the Man Who Has Everything from Superman Annual 11, wasn't included. Worst of all in this set is aside from the episodes this disk includes nothing. The other Justice League DVDs aren't the best, but they at least included a few special features. Saving the World can't even bother doing that. All in all, unless you have a 4-year-old nephew/niece/son/daughter/cousin/brother/sister that REALLY wants this DVD bad, don't buy it.

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