DVD : Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show - The Complete Series (DC Comics Classic Collection)

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- Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show Review
The DVD treatment for The Legendary Super Powers show is fantastic. It was great fun watching these episodes again. Any of the old DC cartoons shouldn't be criticized for their simplicity because at the time they aired they were awesome. If you grew up watching any of the Super Friends series then you're in for a treat. This set in particular is the best out of all the Super Friends releases so far. You'll see Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and more battle Darkseid and his crew. There's a few extra featurettes and the one about the Super Powers Toy Line is phenomenal. There's a charm that these cartoons have that the new "The Batman" and "Justice League Unlimited" lack. These new animated series are of course beautifully animated and much more modern but nothing beats the Super Friends! You won't be bogged down in storylines or drama, you'll just have a good time and it'll bring you back to when you were a kid sitting on the floor watching cartoons on Saturday morning. Buy it!

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- Cartoons!
This is a set of DVDs. You need a DVD player, because if you put it under your arm, it justs gets sweaty and slightly smelly. I think that is from the chicken livers I ate though, not the DVDs. Do you love cartoons? I love TMNT, but this is good. It has Wonderbra Woman, and Batman. I think they are real parents, because I am an animated superhero. I fell last week, and someone had to pick me up like a piece of paper.

When I go out into the field, I see many dandelions, but they don't smell as good as these DVDs under my arms after eating hershey's nuggets.

Try 'em today!

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- I miss the Legion of Doom!
These episodes aren't bad they're just not as much fun as some of the earlier ones. The new characters don't add a whole lot which is probably why they still aren't around today aka El Dorado, Firestorm and the Wonder Twins. These new episodes totally ignore some of the other characters such as Green Lantern, Flash, Hawkman etc.

My other biff is each episode is only 10 minutes long. These short episodes doesn't give much time for story development it's just "ha ha.... I'm being evil. We will stop you and then they do."

If you like the old school superfriends stick with the ones involving the Legion of Doom. Those are a lot more fun than these are.

With that being said my small children (ages 2 to 4) love these episodes every bit as much as the Legion of Doom ones and I can show them these older episodes in lieu of the newer ones which are way too violent.

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- SUPERFRIENDS-SUPER SHOW
I really like old 70's shows. I really like WONDER WOMAN and this video collection has a episode I really liked when I was younger. The graphics on this DVD are great so is the sound. SO if you like or remember the SUPERFRIENDS, I would definately have this in my collection.

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- Legendary Super Powers Show
In this, you'll see the introduction of the charismatic DC hero "Firestorm".
Traditional Superfriends Batman voice actor Olan Soule moved over to voice the Professor Martin Stein half of Firestorm's dual persona.
Who voiced Batman? Adam West (the definitive Batman voice, who previously voiced the character in his live action series of the 1960s, and then in Filmation's 1977 New Adventures of Batman - now on Warner DVD).
Old villains like Luthor and Brainiac are retooled for the series, with new costumes and powers, or just return for more fun, like Mr Mxyzptlk..
New villains have been imported from the comics, such as Darkseid, Kalibak, Desaad, and Mirror Master.
Hanna-Barbera did go a little overboard on playing up their multicultural characters, created in earlier seasons of Superfriends specifically for TV (unnecessary really, as they could have used DC characters like Black Lightning, John Stewart, etc)
The writing improved in this season, and both art and writing will improve again in the upcoming release of sequel series "Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians" in late Oct 2007. Watch for that too.
You'll also have the opportunity to watch some of the stories with/without commentaries by writers/DC staff.
A must for any Hanna-Barbera / DC Comics / Superfriends collector

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