Posted by Chris on August 31 2010 20:39:40
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during the golden yester-years of the 1970’s and 80’s the English speaking world was treated to a set of television shows based upon the popular DC Comics “Super Friends.” While the shows took on about 800 different iterations ranging from the Challenge of the Super Friends to the Super Powers Team the gist of the shows stayed the same. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman would fight crime alongside their assortment of friends presumably consisting of whoever happened to be hanging around the Hall of Justice at the time. The ancillary heroes changed but the tone pretty much stayed the same. Read the rest of the review by clicking READ MORE!
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during the golden yester-years of the 1970’s and 80’s the English speaking world was treated to a set of television shows based upon the popular DC Comics “Super Friends.” While the shows took on about 800 different iterations ranging from the Challenge of the Super Friends to the Super Powers Team the gist of the shows stayed the same. Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman would fight crime alongside their assortment of friends presumably consisting of whoever happened to be hanging around the Hall of Justice at the time. The ancillary heroes changed but the tone pretty much stayed the same. If you were a kid during these days (or a drunken/high college kid watching Boomerang nowadays) these shows were/are can’t miss affairs. But with a global economy on the brink of complete meltdown and a bloated entertainment industry all begging for your hard earned dollars, can the Super Friends topple perhaps their most dreaded nemesis yet – thrift?!
Season One Volume Two of the Super Friends is being released soon to video stores everywhere and the question on everyone’s mind is – do I *really* need this? Eight hour-long shows consisting of 32 cartoons divided amongst two discs really isn’t that bad of a deal when you break it down. Each of the eight episodes features four different segments following a fairly easy to deduce formula. You’ve got your opening act featuring the big guns taking on some dire threat. Following that is a showcase on the Wonder Twins (regular teens Wendy and Marvin are out of the picture by the time this DVD rolls around). Then we get to meet the more tangential ‘Friends’ most of whom feature some kind of racially derivative name/power set. You know, the likes of Black Vulcan, Samurai or Apache Chief. Then, to keep things moving we’ve got the occasional how-to segments like arts & crafts or magic tricks.
You can practically taste the Saturday morning cereal from here, right?
But that’s not all – as they’d say in the commercials. For the price of the set you’re also treated to some fairly unimpressive set of extras. There’s a documentary on the pop culture importance of the Wonder Twins plus some trailers. Not a whole lot. I don’t know that the lack of special features is a make-it-or-break-it deal. I think that by this point fans of the series should be used to the fact that their DVD releases aren’t going to be packed with any astounding array of extras. Still, it never seems to take the sting out of it each time another nearly bare-bones set hits shelves.
So, should you buy the set? There are, after all, a lot more important things to spend money on. Heck, there’s even more well packaged sets out there. But for me the Super Friends will always own a piece of my heart. Just hearing that music or seeing Zan and Jayna tell me about the dangers of hitch-hiking is enough to cause a stir in the cockles of my heart. Or maybe that’s just my restricted arteries after too many years of all that Saturday morning cereal. I don’t know. But what I do know is that I’ll be buying this set. Though, your mileage may vary.
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