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Summary: Finally Friends
Review: For fans of the show, this release of 10 episodes is way overdue! It includes numerous examples of the reasons why people fell in love with the show. I personally feel the Ross/Rachel angle was overdone, but this collection gathers the best moments of it. A nice little bonus: there are two episodes included that were actually double episodes so it really holds 12 episodes. My only quibble with the DVD is the lack of extras. The music video is nice, but the cast bios are lacking in details (according to this, Matt Leblanc has never made a movie!). Overall, an excellent buy!
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Summary: Good collection, with a couple of flaws
Review: This is a good collection of shows, although the extras on the DVD version don't add that much. The cast biographies are nice, although you can look at that on the Friends website. Additional extras include the theme song video as well as two short documentaries on their trip to London. (Why they were even split is beyond me. The shorts should have been combined.) One thing that is REALLY annoying is the software the DVD tries to have you install if you watch it on a PC. The software, called "PC Friendly" launches everytime you drop in the DVD, even though you most likely already have something like WinDVD installed. It's not a big deal though, just don't agree to the license window and then watch it with your regular software. Warner apparently does this to entice you to visit their websites. Yippee! You can do that anyway.As for the episodes themselves, the best shows were indeed selected. It would have been helpful though to add a section to the DVD Menus with summaries of each show, and specifics regarding any added footage. Supposedly there is additional footage on the DVD, but apparently very little. I certainly couldn't tell any difference from the aired shows.
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Summary: Nothing Better Than The Best
Review: This DVD box set is the best of the best. I have read many reviews from people complaining the US only gets 10 episodes. I for one think that is the way it should be. With these 2 disks there are over 5 hours of Friends. The purpose of the box set was to give the viewer the best of FRIENDS not a complete series. I feel they did a fantastic job picking out the best episodes and will definitely watch this DVD again and again. I would much rather spend $30 for the 'BOF' than hundreds for a complete season with all the not so good episodes thrown in. Not to mention this leaves the door open for a follow-up with the best of the last 2 seasons.
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Summary: Now if they'd just release the rest of them...
Review: One of the most consistently funny shows finally releases a collection and it seemingly is the only 10 episodes that really could have been worthy of inclusion (save the season finale last year). When I first saw this advertised and I saw the episodes, I thought that the One With the Lightning Round was not present. I was so pleased when I realized that it was actually named the One With the Embryos. That is my favorite episode, but I have a newfound appreciation for several of the other episodes included, like the One With All the Poker and the Pilot. If you are a Friends fan (and I can't imagine anyone who is not), this is essential to your collection.
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Summary: It really is the Best of "Friends"
Review: While this video collection may skip around a bit and not show the outcome of a key cliffhanger, in all, this collection shows why "Friends" took the nation by storm in 1994 and 1995. The collection is heavy on the first season episodes, and we see how well-written the show was in that first year. The episode entitled "The One With All the Poker" is a model for scriptwriting. Each gag is set up well, and the characters have a bit more substance that they may not have in later years. The collection has some "missing" scenes, but when you see them, you realize you're not missing much. Oh, so Bevery Garland also appeared in a second scene in the poker episode. Okay, but that second scene doesn't really add much to telling the story. That's essentially the case for most of these missing scenes. You also get the Rembrandt's video for "I'll Be There With You" on both tapes, which is unnecessary, and shows poor planning by those who released the episodes in this boxed set format. The second video also has a brief feature on the show's cliffhanger which was filmed in London. It's interesting to know that the show is popular in England (where these episodes have been available on videotape for years), but really not that enlightening. Still, this collection is a good start and these episodes are among the best of the show. Anyone interested in broadcasting, or situation comedy should have these episodes as part of their library. They're as vital as "I Love Lucy," "All in the Family" or "The Andy Griffith Show."
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Summary: Very Funny
Review: I wanted to write a short note about this video, I thought this video is excellent. I am a huge fan of the show, and am very glad that they finally made a video of it.
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Summary: Totally Awesome
Review: This video is great! I'm a true fan of Friends and to see backstage info from London, un-cut episodes, and never-before-seen footage, it was just great! These episodes are my favorite and I just love the music video at the beginning of the tape! I definetly recomend this video to anyone who is a true Friends fan! (Phoebe is my favorite!) If you are one of those people who know every detail about this show, be prepared to become an expert in the field of sitcoms- there is so much new stuff that you (and only you will get to recieve)! Trust me, all of my friends want to borrow my video- get it today and see the wonder! (Sorry if I sound like a commercial!!)
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Summary: dvd very long overdue
Review: the most consistent comedy from NBC/ warner bros. television has finally arrived on DVD. and americans can blame themselves for not embracing the VCD (that's video compact disc) format. did those 2 sentences seem totally unrelated? let me explain: here in sterile, censored and sunny singapore, we've been enjoying the six seasons of friends in its entirety on VCD for the last few years. and the most recent season was the best: the VCDs were released the week after it aired on TV (it's on monday nights here, followed religiously by many people). and the appeal is universal. i had to read up on some of the more 'americanised' jokes to fully understand them, but most of them worked like an arrow shot straight. case in point: the testosteroni joke between phoebe and chandler, punning on 'rice-a-roni' as the real san francisco treat (watched it one too many times *smile*.) do yourself a favour: buy this and put it on repeat. laugh at rachel's hair, see how much weight chandler has put on, and how slim joey used to be... and thank god for the writers and creators of friends for giving you a, actually funny alternative to the crap that networks shamlessly call 'sitcoms'.
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Summary: Over-rated trash TV
Review: Friends is a popular show with young people around the world, yet anyone with a half decent sense of humour can see that this is pretty poor stuff. The lines are weak, the situations are too obvious to be remotely funny and the characters are so over the top it makes you sick. It's amazing that such a show could be spawned from what is argueably the greatest sitcom ever; Seinfeld. It's set in New York, it's centered around a coffee shop, and it tries so hard to be about "nothing", yet the difference here is that Friends fails to make "nothing" funny. The only hint of talent in the cast is in Lisa Kudrow's masterful flakieness, Pheobe. It's a sign of the times when a show like this can be considered "Must See" The young kiddies may keep watching while they'res nothing else on, but this won't go down as a classic, just something NBC cooked up to milk the Seinfeld bandwagon.
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Summary: short and simple
Review: I am a big fan of Friends and I've been waiting forever for them to release some uncut episodes on DVD. For those of you who don't know which episodes are included on this here they are: Disc 1: The Pilot, The One With Two Parts (One Hour), The One With All the Poker, The One Where Ross Finds Out, and The One With the Prom Video. Disc 2: The One Where No One's Ready, The One With the Embryos, The One With Ross's Wedding (One Hour), The One With the Thanksgiving Flashbacks, and The One Where Everybody Finds Out. This DVD set makes a great gift for any extreme Friends fan out there. You all know who you are.
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