DVD : Super Friends, Volume Two (DC Comics Classic Collection)

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Rating:

- COMPLETE SEASON, BUT CONFUSING TITLE.
This is the second series to be called simply The Super Friends (1978-1979) Thus the label volume 2. The First series under the same title which ran from 1973-1974 is the one that featured Wendy, Marvin and Wonder Dog. The episodes on this disc were not part of the All New Super Friends Hour. Or any other Super Friends incarnation. This was a stand alone series. Check out Hanna- Barbera's Super Friends Chronology. It's a great source for helping you keep track of all the Super Friends series and their actual titles.

Rating:

- What a Waste of Time and Money
What a disappointment. I thought this DVD will include episodes with the rest of the Super Friends (GL, Hawkman, Flash, Samurai, Apache Chief and Black Vulcan) Like in the season 1 DVD. Challenge of the Super Friends - The First Season (DC Comics Classic Collection) Instead as I start watching this DVD and it only contained episodes with the Wonder Twins, don't get me wrong I Liked the Twins when I was a kid (I Never stopped hating that monkey... like the monkeys in Space Ghost and Speed Racer)but about three hours of them I fed up after a few episodes. Even though in the package's picture some of the other Super Friends can be seen; none of them appear in the DVD. After I bought this one a long time ago, A new DVD was released including the episodes I was looking for in the Season 2 DVD. What a rip off. I bought this DVD, which I Like very much, and I gave the season 2 to my nephew. I couldn't even keep it as a collector's edition, to me it is a waste of room too. Now the Super Powers Team has been released in two different DVD sets Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show - The Complete Series (DC Comics Classic Collection)The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians (DC Comics Classic Collection), I do like this ones with some new characters and the Inclusion of the El Dorado (whose English is as pathetic as mine). If you think on buying this DVD Super Friends, Volume Two (DC Comics Classic Collection)better yet... DON'T. Buy this one instead The All-New Superfriends Hour: Season One, Vol. 1 Bye I hope my review was not a waste of your time like this DVD.

Rating:

- Great Superfriends, Bad WonderTwins
This video has excellent storylines involving some of DC's best superheroes. The downside is the WonderTwins. Half of the time you see these two nimrods and their stupid pet monkey, you'll laugh at how ridiculous they are. The other half will spent wishing they would just go away.

Rating:

- Essential Piece to the Puzzle
Despite how it might appear, the Super Friends, Volume Two (DC Comics Classic Collection) is the second part of the 1978 season (red box set) that featured the Wondertwins and Gleek (in addition to 5 of the 11 Justice League Members). It appears that the Amazon description of this set is filled with errors.

For starters, this is not the 1973 season as the title of this page suggests. In addition the plot synopsis says to expect 'apprentice' super-heroes Marvin, Wendy, and Wonder Dog. In reality, by 1978 the two junior members and their dog were replaced with the Vulcanized versions of Donnie and Marie Osmond and their pet space monkey, Gleek. Finally even the special features aren't immune to such inaccuracies, promising a retrospective featuring Kevin Smith (of Clerks fame). Nowhere is Mr. Smith found on this two-disc set. Although Paul Dini (eating a Pop-Tart no less) makes a pretty funny appearance in the retrospective.

Errors aside, this collection contains 16 episodes that ran as the second portion of the season that introduced us to Challenge of the Superfriends back in 78. The show's writers were clearly making strides in the right direction (especially compared to the 1977 season which also featured the Wondertwins). The shows each run for just under a full half-hour and unlike their Challenge counterparts, do not offer a villain (or legion of villains) to battle. Instead the show takes a similar (if not slightly improved) approach that was taken in the previous season where scientists and aliens make up the threats to the world. Actually, expect a dose of alien activity that could put X-Files to shame! Among the strangest villains encountered is none other than Count Dracula himself who, rather than bite his victims to infect them, merely sprinkles dust on the exterior of a jumbo jet to transform the passengers into vampires. In most every episode on the set, the Wondertwins disobey orders to stay at the Hall of Justice and wind up saving the day in the process.

Having never been a big fan of the Wondertwins in the first place, I do feel that this set pales in comparison to the Challenge of the Superfriends box set but remains an essential piece to the complete SF collection.

1: Rokan: Enemy from Space
2: The Demons of Exxor
3. Battle at the Earth's Core
4: Sinbad and the Space Pirates
5: The Pied Piper from Space
6: Attack of the Vampire
7: The Beasts are coming
8: Terror from the Phantom Zone
9: The Anti-Matter Monster
10: World Beneath the Ice
11: Invasion of the Brain Creatures
12: The Incredible Space Circus
13: Batman: Dead or Alive
14: Battle of the Gods
15: Journey through inner space
16: The Rise and Fall of the Super Friends

Rating:

- Cool, But
They need to release the ORIGINAL SUPER FRIENDS with Wendy, Marvin, And Wonderdog. Did they forget about that series?

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