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

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Rating:

- Just as corny as I remembered!
Along with "Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians" & re-runs of "Challenge of the Superfriends", this cartoon was a highlight of many a Saturday morning. Next to "Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends" this particular cartoon was one of my favorites as a kid.

This 2 disc set complete with commentaries of select episodes (by comic book writer Mark Waid no less!) and 2 short documentaries will certainly hit the spot if you're a child of the '80s.

Before the legendary DC animated incarnations of today, this camp fest was the best there was in it's time. These episodes are still entertaining despite their dumbed down scripts and low-end animation. The only thing keeping me from giving this 5 stars is the fact that I've been so spoiled by modern day cartoons which finally take all this super-hero schtick seriously. Still GREAT fun though!

Rating:

- Good but should cost Less
The shows are exactly how I remember them. Not my favorite seasons like challenge or galactic guardians, but have some fun episodes with firestorm replacing Aquaman. The extras are cool and fun to watch the toys in action.
The set cost too much since challenge of the superfriends had 16 full episodes while this is half that with only 8 episodes for 16 shorts. But im
a fan so I paid the full price! But the set should cost less. Maybe they have to pay the Firestorm creator more money for the sets??

Rating:

- Superman (pukes!)
The Superman overload is toooooo much. Almost every villian on this collection is a Superman Rogue. That includes Darkseid, Lex Luthor, Brainiac, Mxypltlk?, etc... We only get one segment that features another hero's rogue and that is Mirror Master. What is odd is that The Flash is not even in that one...it is all about friggin' Superman getting trapped in mirrors! Geez. DC really needs to realize that there are other heroes and villians outside of Metropolis.

Rating:

- These were just AWFUL!!
These were the absolute WORST of any of the animated superhero shows.
As a kid I loved the Super Friends of the 70's, I loved the JL and JLU of the 90's, I loved Batman, and Batman Beyond and Superman of the 90's and 2000's as well. If its a cartoon with a superhero and doing super stuff I am for the most part happy. I am not not what you would call picky. So I dont give a one star lightly. But I couldnt stand these when I first saw them when I was 10 and after watching a couple on Boomerang I like them even less. This edition of the Justice League was pure campy garbage. Its really THAT BAD!!

Rating:

- Good stories, but missing a few stars as well
The plots/storylines were good in this series. It is good to see a variety of superheroes in this series as well. However, there is no Aquaman, Flash, Hawkman (and Hawkgirl), or the Atom, 4 of DC's more prominent characters as well as characters of the superfriends. Also, Green Lantern appears only for a short time in only one episode. In my opinion, this series gives too much attention to the "affirmative action" superfriends such as Apache Chief, Black Vulcan, Samurai, and El Dorado. However, this could be somewhat fair since Samurai especially was neglected during Challenge of the Superfriends. Also El Dorado had not been created during that time.

If the 5 or 6 missing superfriends stated up above appeared in this series, then this one would have been the best superfriends season in my opinion.

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