The Best of the Wonder Years

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Summary: I totally disagree with the bad reviews
Review: I totally disagree with the bad comments of this cd. The quality of the cd i received was excellent, the editing was fine, and of course, it brought back a lot of good memories. I bought this dvd from amazon.com along with the other wonder years cd and they arrived in perfect order, before the time they thought it would. I think that the quality of the footage that people are referring to, is the lines that can be seen on the show's opening credits, this was how they intended it to look, i recall 10 years ago when it was shown on tv looking like that.

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Summary: Awsome Show
Review: I used to watch this show when i was a little kid, right before it ended. I really felt that this show was an accurate depiction of life issues and i really feel that alot with what i am going through in high school is shown in this show with great accuracy.

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Summary: Awsome Show
Review: I used to watch this show when i was a little kid, right before it ended. I really felt that this show was an accurate depiction of life issues and i really feel that alot with what i am going through in high school is shown in this show with great accuracy.

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Summary: What Could Have Been...
Review: I would have started out this review by saying that "LaserLight" should be ashamed for putting something like this out, but then I realized I have never heard of "LaserLight" and DVDs of this quality may very well explain why. I am a closet Wonder Years fan, and I was eagerly anticipating this "Best of" compilation. Unfortunately, all the reviews before mine accurately sum up every one of the faults of this DVD. The disc only has one episode on it, with a "Highlights" section preceding this lonely episode to round out the paltry 71 minutes of material. Admittedly, I found that the editing done during the "Highlights" portion was accomplished reasonably well, with no harsh jumps or obvious transition flaws. The section does not, however, lay any type of background down about the show or its characters before sending the viewer off to the Series Finale. Tech. wise my biggest complaint was the audio, it was atrocious. A TV show of this caliber deserves so much more and I can only hope that at some point (in the near future?) a company goes back and does it justice, for this DVD surely doesn't.

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Summary: What Could Have Been...
Review: I would have started out this review by saying that "LaserLight" should be ashamed for putting something like this out, but then I realized I have never heard of "LaserLight" and DVDs of this quality may very well explain why. I am a closet Wonder Years fan, and I was eagerly anticipating this "Best of" compilation. Unfortunately, all the reviews before mine accurately sum up every one of the faults of this DVD. The disc only has one episode on it, with a "Highlights" section preceding this lonely episode to round out the paltry 71 minutes of material. Admittedly, I found that the editing done during the "Highlights" portion was accomplished reasonably well, with no harsh jumps or obvious transition flaws. The section does not, however, lay any type of background down about the show or its characters before sending the viewer off to the Series Finale. Tech. wise my biggest complaint was the audio, it was atrocious. A TV show of this caliber deserves so much more and I can only hope that at some point (in the near future?) a company goes back and does it justice, for this DVD surely doesn't.

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Summary: ....I feel I got ripped off.
Review: I'm a huge fan of the Wonder Years, and have most of them on tape recorded from Nik at night. Some are very depressing, but still great to watch. This DVD contains a clip show and the series finale. The finale is a great double episode, but horrible quality and awful changes ruin it. To my astonishment the theme from 'The Natural' has been cut out of the final scene. A similar generic flute solo replaces it. This completely takes away from emotion and importance of the ending. Also, when Kevin drives to meet Winnie at the country club, CCR's 'Up Around the Bend' is replaced by some generic sound-alike song. Did they lose the rights to these songs or something? Plus the sound needs to be turned way up to hear the dialog, thus static is heard throughout. It's even hard to recognize 'With a Little Help From My Friends' during the intro because of extreme mono. To tell you how bad the picture is, during Kevin and Winnie's first kiss, the color flashes between twilight and nighttime. And during a scene in the school hallway, everyone turns kind of blue for a split second. I hope no one sees the finale for the first time in this version, because you wouldn't even think it's that good. The reviewer from Canada must have a black and white TV with one speaker not to recognize this horrible quality. It's like someone took the original version, put it through a trash compactor, eliminated the best songs, and then put it on a DVD to fully expose its distortion. I recommend watching recorded VHS versions (even extended play) because they sound better, look better, and haven't been tampered with.

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Summary: Wonder about this DVD?
Review: Other viewers are right...appears to be grainy and transfered from video tape. Surely slapped together by some third-rate post house. You do get the final episode in it's complete form but the highlights do little in explaining the series to the unfamiliar. However, seeing this series once again more than makes up for the faults. If you grew up in the sixties, went to school, met a girl and held a job this show will do more for bringing back all the emotions, feelings, sights, sounds, and wonder of that era and make you wish you were still wondering all over again...

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Summary: Content is great, picture quality is poor.
Review: The content of this DVD is great as you'd expect from any episode of the Wonder Years. However, the picture quality is poor. The transfer to DVD was obviously not done with care. Unless you're desperate, stay away from this one...

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Summary: Stay away from this one....
Review: The highlights episode dragged on a bit - definately not the best moments of The Wonder Years, and the picture quality on this was really dissapointing -- you could get similar quality from recording reruns of The Wonder Years onto a VCR.

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Summary: Great Show, Fair DVD
Review: The visual side of all The Wonder Years DVDs are certainely good enough for the average viewer. The audio, however, for some reason does not contain the original WG Snuffy Walden score music. I'm sure it had something to do with licensing but its very unfortunate. The original score was so seamless and powerful, I hated to see a cheesey replacement used instead. Maybe someday we'll have a newly remastered entire series on DVD like we finally go for My So-Called Life.