Rating: Summary: ALF has been butched! Boycott !! Review:
I was so happy when I saw that ALF finally had been released on DVD, and I orded it immediately without even having read the customer reviews. Huge mistake!
Who in theire right mind would release a DVD-box leaving out 3-7 minutes of eatch episode?
NEVER mind about the hopeless packaging and the rather grainy picture quality (newly remastered??) - it's the more than 100 MINUTES of great ALF-material that are missing that makes me want to burst out in tears.
Great job Lions Gate! Thumbs up!
Let's boycott these DVDs so that the ORIGINAL ALF-episodes will be released!
Rating: Summary: Sweet show Review: Alf is a sweet show, becuase for the show, it has comedy, drama, and all of the between. For Luckey and Alf, it is like whoa. I would like to buy season 2 of Alf. So if you are looking for a good show, then Alf would do it.
Rating: Summary: Great Show Review: ALF is histerical! The episodes are absolutely brilliantly crafted. The episodes are syndication reruns, but that doesn't bother me. The packaging is poor, but the episodes are so funny that I forgot all about the problem. All in all, this is a really cool set that features all 25 episodes - including the pilot - from the first season. I can't wait to get the second season!
Rating: Summary: Could have been five stars if all episodes were uncut ! Review: ALF was and still is one of our families favorites shows. The interactions bewteen Willie and ALF were side splitting to say the least.
Yes I recognized immediately that these episodes were not the original that aired on NBC. In fact just more than the three minutes that someone stated is missing !
Paul Fusco (creator and voice of ALF) did a ton of "voice overs" for ALF using a more "normal" voice than the lower pitched voice that he originally used - which by the way we all thought was much better.
The three minutes that were cut out of the episodes leave out a lot of humor. For example on the episode "Oh Tannenbaum" when Willie has his dream, we don't get to see one of the funniest sequences in that episode of Lynn dressed up like a "biker chick", Brian dressed up in a military unifrom "to stem the tide of communisim in some unnamed Central American country" and of course Kate dressed very sexy and being taken out by Trevor who tells Willie "Don't wait up".
The quality is outstanding and the extras are great - especially the outtakes and the original pilot.
I am still waiting for one of my favorite episodes - the one were ALF becomes a butler and blows up the kitchen "one minute to go luck miester - then I'll be down on you like a buzzard on a gut wagon"
All in all a very good effort. But please someone get us the original uncut episodes without the voice overs !
Rating: Summary: ALF the troublemaker is baaaaaaaaack Review: alf was the best show as a kid. i remember not long ago watching them on the hallmark channel but know i preordered this dvd and i will have to say im glad i will have alf on my dvd shelf to own for life. i will own all 4 seasons when they arrive. you need to buy alf as soon as it comes out for your kids but before you pop it in the dvd player pleeaassee i mean pleeaassee hide all your cats. LOL LOL LOL.
Rating: Summary: My all time favorite sitcom finally on DVD! Review: At long last, my favorite sitcom is being released on DVD. I remember when my father had me watch the show ehn it first aired. I was 5 years old at the time. He taped several episodes which I continued to watch. A few years ago, I was able to gat all the episodes on tape from a friend. The humor became much more understandable as I was 20 years old.An interesting fact is that almost all the episodes are named after songs and that the episode name often describes the plot. Here is a brief synopsis of the episodes Pilot Episode ALF crash lands his spaceship in the Tanner family's garage and he begins to live with them Strangers in the Night The next door neighbor babysits Brian and ALF causes trouble but later catches a burglar Looking for Lucky After ALF trashes the house and the family cat, Lucky disappears, the family falsely accuses ALF of eating him. Pennsylvania 6-5000 When ALF usus Willie's shortwave radio to call the president on Air Force One, Willie is arrested for the crime Keepin' the Faith ALF buys $4000 worth of cosmetics and convinces the family to resell them at a higher price For Your Eyes Only ALF meets a blind woman on a call in radio show and wants to meet her in person. Help Me Rhonda ALF manages to contact his girlfriend, Rhonda, on the shrtwave radio and debates about whether he wants to live with her Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue ALF has a crush on Lynn and makes a rock video to woo her. Jump ALF convinces Willie to try again on a skydive that he chickened out on years earlier. Baby You Can Drive My Car After Lynn complains about not having a second car in the family, ALF sells the gold on his spaceship to buy a $90,000 Ferarri On the Road Again The family go on a camping trip and Willie gets mad at ALF and ALF gets lost. Oh, Tannerbaum After ALF cuts up the family Christmas tree, and all the places are sold out, ALF convinces Willie to go out to the mountaians to cut one down. Mother and Child Reunion Kate's mother comes to visit but stays because she has nowhere else to go. Fed up with having to stay in the garage. ALF decides to meet her. A Little Bit of Soap When Kate and her mother get in a fight, ALF turns what they say into a script and sends it in for a soap opera which airs on TV I've Got a New Attitude ALF helps Kate's mother, Dorothy with finding a new friend. Try to Remember (two part episode) After getting electrocuted in the bathtub, ALF gets amnesia and believes that he is an insurance salesman from Michigan. The family helps him jog his memory and we see flashbacks of what they talk about. Border Song A teenager from Mexico meets ALF and they become friends Wild Thing ALF enters a day long phase that his species goes through were extreme craziness occurs. Going Out of My Head Over You Fed up with ALF's antics, Willie consults a psychologist to meet with ALF Lookin' Through the Window ALF believes he saw the next door neighbor murder his wife and begins to investigate It Isn't Easy... Bein' Green When Brian plays an asparagus in a school play, ALF tries to help him overcome stage fright. The Gambler After ALF loses a lot of money betting on a horse race, he changes the prices on the items on the garage sale. Weird Science When Brian adds planets to his solar system model at ALF's suggestion, he flunks the contest and ALF covinces Willie that the extra planets do exist there. La Cucharacha A cockroach from ALF's spaceship gets loose and a can of bug spray causes it to greatly increase in size. Come Fly With Me The family goes on a trip with their neighbors, the Ochmoneks. I have waited a long time for the show to be released and am glad that they are finally doing so.
Rating: Summary: Incomplete versions Review: I absolutely have to agree with the previous reviewer: The shortened/cut/mutilated versions of the episodes are totally unacceptable. Some episodes have been cut by as much as five to seven minutes! This is a shame because the DVDs themselves are designed nicely, the menues have intros by ALF himself - cute. But what use is this if you don't get what you paid for in the first place - the episodes?
Rating: Summary: ALF IS BACK IN STYLE!!!! Review: I have been awaiting the release of this DVD set forever! I was very pleased with the quality and the extra bonus featrues. The blooper reel was the best part! I am a huge ALF and am so happy that ALF is back in style. Gina Y. Wisconsin
Rating: Summary: Long gone evenings... Review: I like this show very much. I especially remember sitting in front of the TV set with my two brothers. We would watch the Transformers, followed by Alf. Those evenings are now gone; that's why I'm glad to own this DVD set. It contains some episodes that I hadn't seen (or didn't remember at all) and I find Alf as funny as it was a dozen years ago.
I do agree with some comments on the fact that the chapters are edited. But at least this set is better than nothing, and the editing is not that bad as to compromise the storytelling.
Rating: Summary: PLS, SPANISH LANGUAGE TRACK Review: I love alf, i think is the most representative lazy, not worried, cat eater, careless, etc alien ever was. Is my favorite after all Jim Henson's characters. I love ever since the first episode that i saw in Mexico. Unfortunally, i realized this DVD came only with english track language, wich is ok with me as far as i want to know how Alf originally sounded. But for me, that i grew up listen every episode in spanish (and we're proud our dubbed in whole Latinoamerica, is the best), is sad that i couldn't listen again in that language. I hope and you can do something about it, or at least take this review and send it to the person in charge and see what happened. The people in latinoamerica like Alf too, and we want to hear him in spanish. Pls, do something, i can't wait to buy it with this special set up. thank you.
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