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Summary: Really unique version of the classic Spider-Man.
Review: I bought this DVD blind just because I wanted to see it and I've been getting into animation lately in my DVD collecting. Let me tell ya folks, this is a great series...for several reasons.
1) The CG animation, although a bit awkward at times with "regular" human movement and such, it really shines during the Spidey and villian "battles". Just the fact that the animation is all in 3D (put with a 2D look), allows the camera to do some really interesting things, from pans, to spins, to rotations, and fly-thrus, and of course, the ultra-cool slo-mo effects. This kind of camera control is something that just isn't possible in a traditionally hand-drawn cartoon.
2) The action sequences in general. This isn't your grandfather's Spider-Man. Much like Mainframe Entertainment's other CG shows, the action is much more mature than your ordinary animated show. By that I mean the fight scenes and the "chases" are much more intense and, shall I say, violent than anything else I've seen in a cartoon such as this. In fact, there's actually moments of blood from both Spidey and his enemies. And as some of you may know, blood is almost always a "no-no" for childrens' animated shows. So just with that, the viewer can easily tell that this show was made for a much more mature audience, which is always good in this circumstance, especially for comic book heroes.
3) The audio and video presentation. The video is presented in 1.78 anamorphic widescreen and is extremely sharp. Even looks good on a computer via DVD-ROM drive. And the soundtrack is recorded in both DTS and DD 5.1 (always a plus for any show, eh?) Also the widescreen presentation gives the show a bit of a epic cinematic feel to it. How many cartoons do you know that were created in widescreen?
4) The villians. The villians, some classic (with new looks), others new, were all great with maybe the exception of one, but that's to one's taste. I thought the Terradax group were awesome. Their suits and weapons were just too cool. And again, the maturity of the dialogue for the villians and actions are just what makes these villians great.
So with all that said, let's all hope that this series gets picked up by some outlet for another season or more. I'd love to see what the creators could do with the Venon and Carnage saga. Hell, even Doc Oc, Green Goblin, and Hobgoblin would be great. But can we get Parker out of college? Being almost 10 years out myself, I despise the college atmosphere anymore. Too many crazy activists and party animals.
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Summary: Writing and directing make it shine
Review: As someone who doesn't have cable tv, the first time I saw this show was on a screen at a Sony store. I bought the DVD based on the unusual look of the show and I was blown away. Thank god someone is producing cartoons with gutsy writing, outstanding acting direction and a great stylized look. I thought that great cartoons had died with Batman - The Animated Series. Watching lame cartoons (like the mid 90's rehash of Spiderman that came along with the incredibly dull X-Men cartoon)makes you wonder why the creative 'geniuses' can't come up with something great. I guess, having watched the informative featurettes included in this DVD set, the difference is money. A lot of money has gone into this CGI SpiderMan and it's apparently all been well used. I'm really hoping that I get to buy a second season DVD set next year.
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Summary: Awesome!
Review: This Collection has them allll !!1 13 episodes on two discs: Heroes and Villains, Royal Scam, Law of the Jungle, Sword of Shikata, Keeping Secrets, Tight Squeeze, Head Over Heels, The Party, Flash Memory, Spider-Man Dis-Sabled, When Sparks Fly, Mind Games Part 1, Mind Games Part 2Each episode has audio commentary by various contributors to the series, including producer Adu Paden, Stan Lee, and Neil Patrick Harris Amazing spider facts Test footage Outtake reel Building with Layers (multi-angle featurette) The Making of Spider-Man Creating the Models Animating Performance Spider-Man Music: The Composers Production artwork DVD-ROM: Character Modeler Widescreen anamorphic format Number of discs: 2
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Summary: Spiderman Entertainment At It's Best
Review: I've been wanting to see this for ages!! And finally i rented it. I really enjoyed it. This show isn't excatly a link between the 1st movie and teh sequel, but just a movie-tv-series sort of thing. All 13 episodes go for 20 -and-a-half mins. The enemies we see are Turbo Jet (either to the comic version or not, I'm unsure - halfway through the episode I knew who he was), the Lizard (Connors is pretty tense and more annoying than he ever has been before), Kraven the Hunter, Talon, Silver Sable, Kingpin (mix-up of original comic & Michael Clark duncan version from DareDevil, same actor), the "Psycho" twins (I HATE THEM!!), Electro (much better than ever before), 2 Big Motorcycle buys (forgot their names, sorry!), Shikata (new) and Christina (new - crazy!!), Pteradox (new, guys in uniform). I haven't finsihed watching all of it, but I'm nearly done. There's even a funny 'feature' for fun - Blooper, where the CG characters make mistakes as though they were real. The animation is really good, although Spiderman looked muscular, he was also skinny. I guess this was slightly modelled after "Ultimate Spiderman". Just like in the earlier shows, his spider-lens-eyes open and move to match his emotions. A little mistake they make is incorrectly say when rino Romano played Spiderman. The Audio commentaries talk about them discussing about making a Season 2. I hope they do - "maybe Season 2 will be better than Season 1" - It certainly would help, after what happens . . . !! Er, anyway. They change Mary-jane's hair-length, but they explain why and I understand. Stan Lee also appears as a character a few times. there are also trailers to other anime's on DVD and "coming soon". That's as far as I can remember, soI hope this review helped you.
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