DVD Review: X-Men, Volume 1 (Marvel DVD Comic Book Collection): Iona Morris, Lenore Zann, Alison Seasly-Smith: Movies & TV
DVD Review: X-Men, Volume 1 (Marvel DVD Comic Book Collection): Iona Morris, Lenore Zann, Alison Seasly-Smith: Movies & TV
Product Description
In a world that hates and fears them, several mutants (humans who are born with unique powers and abilities) have banded together to fight the hatred, and eventually fight for their very lives. Under the tutelage of Professor Xavier, the most powerful telepath on the planet, they learn to master their powers. Cyclops, the team leader, can shoot laser beams from his eyes. The rebellious and feral Wolverine can heal himself and has metal claws. Jean Grey is a telekinetic and telepath. Rogue has super-strength and the ability to fly, but can never touch another human being. The eloquent Storm can control the weather. The Cajun thief Gambit can charge any object with kinetic energy… making the smallest objects powerful bombs. The Beast has superhuman intelligence, agility, and has a body covered with blue fur. Jubilee is the new girl, a confused teenager with the ability to shoot plasma from her fingertips. Together they form the X-Men, fighting mutants like Magneto and Mystique, as well as stopping hate-mongers like Graydon Creed, Henry Guyrich, and Senator Kelley.
FINALLY ON DVD!,
By Maras Memcevic “DJ PAPA C”
(OH USA) -
Walt Disney Home Entertainment has passed along the following official details about the upcoming X-Men: Volume One and X-Men: Volume Two DVD releases. The details are posted below.
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Story: Experience the classic Marvel® legacy as the X-Men animated series finally explodes onto DVD for the first time. Featuring stories adapted directly from the original comic books, this collection is a piece of Marvel history and a must-have for every X-Men fan.
Discover the origins of your favorite characters and uncover the secrets of Magneto and more of the world’s most diabolical villains in X-Men: Volume 1. Relive 32 episodes of the series, from the 2-part “Night of The Sentinels” through the 5-part amazing epic “Phoenix Saga,” in this must-have collection!
Episode Guide:
VOLUME 1
Disc 1
Night of the Sentinels (Part 1)
Night of the Sentinels (Part 2)
Enter Magneto
Deadly Reunions
Captive Hearts
Cold Vengeance
Slave Island
The Unstoppable Juggernaut
Disc 2
The Cure
Come The Apocalypse
Days Of Future Past (Part 1)
Days Of Future Past (Part 2)
The Final Decision
Till Death Do Us Part (Part 1)
Till Death Do Us Part (Part 2)
Whatever It Takes
VOLUME 2
Disc 1
Red Dawn
Repo Man
X-Ternally Yours
Time Fugitives (Part 1)
Time Fugitives (Part 2)
A Rogue’s Tale
Beauty & The Beast
Mojo Vision
Disc 2
Reunion (Part 1)
Reunion (Part 2)
Out of the Past (Part 1)
Out of the Past (Part 2)
The Phoenix Saga (Part 1): Sacrifice
The Phoenix Saga (Part 2): The Dark Shroud
The Phoenix Saga (Part 3): Cry of the Banshee
The Phoenix Saga (Part 4): The Starjammers
The Phoenix Saga (Part 5): Child of Light
VOLUME 1 STREET DATE: April 28, 2009
Direct prebook: March 3, 2009
Suggested retail price: $23.99 US; $29.99 Canadian
Rated: `TV-Y7-FV’
Run time: Approximately 368 minutes
DVD aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Language: French and Spanish
VOLUME 2 STREET DATE: April 28, 2009
Direct prebook: March 3, 2009
Suggested retail price: $23.99 US; $29.99 Canadian
Rated: `TV-Y7-FV’
Run time: Approximately 391 minutes
DVD aspect ratio: 1.33:1
Language: French and Spanish
TV Was Best In The Nineties,
By Reconnecting To My Childhood “Time Won’t Let … -
Is it just me or was television overall, but especially children’s, better in the nineties? Growing up we had such intelligent children’s programs introducing us properly to mature themes of adulthood, Batman: the Animated Series, Spiderman (the 90’s version that often crossed over with X-men), and X-Men itself among many more.
Even Disney had more mature shows back then with the likes of Gargoyles on the air (which I’m upset they never finished releasing on DVD) and children’s shows with well done premises like Recess. Nickelodeon had it’s greats back then too (Rugrats, Doug, Rocko’s Modern Life, etc.), now all they have are Dan Schneider productions and Spongebob.
Animated sitcoms/series were smart and edgey not stupid and in your face trying to get shocks, we had the likes of King Of The Hill, Daria and Simpsons at its peak.
Now all kids have are Ben 10 and an onslaught of angularly drawn super hero revamps (which are sometimes enjoyable but not nearly of the same calabur), along with the recent Disney sitcoms that have become so wrongly popular amongst the youth. I wish I could go back to the nineties, luckily this set will help me and anyone else longing to do that by allowing us to revisit these classic episodes.
1 Night of the Sentinels (Part 1)
2 Night of the Sentinels (Part 2)
3 Enter Magneto
4 Deadly Reunions
5 Captive Hearts
6 Cold Vengeance
7 Slave Island
8 The Unstoppable Juggernaut
9 The Cure
10 Come The Apocalypse
11 Days Of Future Past (Part 1)
12 Days Of Future Past (Part 2)
13 The Final Decision
14 Till Death Do Us Part (Part 1)
15 Till Death Do Us Part (Part 2)
16 Whatever It Takes
I can’t wait to watch Volume 2, which is also announced, because it has the Dark Pheonix Saga which I remember so vividly still today. It’s amazing to me how true to source material and how few liberties comic book based animated series took back then.
There are no special features on this set but I don’t think we as fans care as much about that as we do being able to own these episodes. (I hope they release Marvel’s 90’s Spider-man series in sets like this).
Anyways, here’s hoping they’ll finish releasing this whole series. I still remember the final episode where Xavier leaves the X-men truly on their own. 5 stars series.
All of X-Men TAS in order at last!,
By Norman Wolf (Regina, Saskatchewan Canada) -
Neil K has it wrong. The first two volumes (4 dvds) contain the first 33 episodes in order…all of seasons 1&2 plus the first half of season 3. The last half of season 3 plus seasons 4 and 5 (43 episodes) will be on the next two volumes (another 4 dvds or so).
That works out very nicely, and makes a total of 8-9 dvds for the series, which is nice and compact. Definitely looking forward to it, and the price is fairly reasonable at $18 US per 2-disc volume
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