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The Simpsons - The Complete First Season

The Simpsons - The Complete First Season

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Rating: 3 stars
Summary: A WARNING:
Review: The Simpsons didn't hit it's stride until season 3. There were some bright spots in the first two seasons (mostly in the second), but it's not prime Simpsons - the sarcasm, irreverence, & dead-on satire hadn't set in yet. Hope they get to the meat of the Simpsons run, seasons 3 - 8, sometime soon :)

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Great series, Bad DVD...
Review: The Simpsons is overall to me one of the greatest Cartoons ever. Now The 1st season is not the best, but it was the begining. Some people say that it was the worst season, but there never was a best season. The Video is presented in fullscreen, not that good but the reds and all the colors are very vivid. a little grain would be seen. Although I would love to see it in widescreen!
The audio is a bit on the poor side as well, the LFE usage on the sub is slow and boring.
Extras are also low and boring. Not much other than an excellent commentry, and deleated episodes.
Overall Fox did a slack of a job. Not the best Fox DVD, but mabey they could get the other seasons to be like Fight Club, or CastAway!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: FINALLY
Review: Jeez, about time FOX! I'm buying this DVD tomorrow right away. Simpsons are the best TV show ever on television. Tomorrow should be a holiday because its finally being released. ... rules. Liebe is weird
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-Hans Moleman
-"Cowabunga...dudes"

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Something of a disappointment
Review: Fox delivers the episodes, but little else in their first Simpsons DVD endeavor. Fans will buy it in droves, but will walk away wanting more.

It's not that the transfers aren't great--they are, and the Dolby 5.1 soundtracks are superb, particularly the atmospheric sound effects that create a rich audio field lacking on some film releases. What's missing is the extras.

Apart from Groening's commentary, there's nothing to get excited about. The foreign language clips wear thin fast (they're all the same scene), and there's no "Lost Episode," but rather some unfinished animation from the "Some Enchanted Evening" episode. As for the documentary, it's a segment from the excellent BBC piece created last year, which fans truly deserve to see in its entirety. Fox has stepped on that, however, as it shows the actors doing the voices.

It's great to have The Simpsons on the little disc, but don't buy it if you're looking for more insight into the series. Given the volume of additional material relating to the series that's floating around, it's surprising that so little is included in the package. At the very least, a complete set of clips from the Tracey Ullmann show should have been included. Still, it holds the same appeal as having an entire season of The Sopranos on DVD, and in that respect, it's excellent.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: BEWARE TRUE FANS
Review: Wow, what a disappointment this is. If you'll remember in the initial release information of this we were told that this set would contain ALL of the Tracy Ullman shorts...something like 48 of them if I remember correctly. This was to be done in an effort to kind of fill in this first season's meager set of 13 episodes, since it was in actuality, really only a half season. Well, the only Ullman short it contains is "Goodnight Simpsons" which is featured in a later Troy McLure hosted "best of" episode anyway....You've seen it before a million times. Where are the shorts we haven't seen in nearly 15 years? I can only hope that subsequent releases contain them.

Don't get me wrong. It is of course great to see these on DVD with the full openng sequence and all. The Simpsons is still the best American animated show ever produced, with Batman The Animated Series as a close second (please release these on DVD somebody!). But it is still quite disappointing for completists and geeks. The Comic Book Guy would be most infuriated with this DVD set.

Rating: 3 stars
Summary: Buy it, but the best is yet to come....
Review: The Simpsons' first season is like any first season show: they're still developing characters and getting the bugs out.

The animation is not as clean, and the laughs are fewer than in later seasons when the show really develops a groove. I tend to turn the station if a first season episode is ever on TV.

Many of the episodes are unnecessarily sappy, a trait gladly absent from the majority of episodes from later years. But for the price, it is probably a worthy addition to any DVD collection. At the very least, you get to see the transformation of the show towards greatness and a hint of laughs to come.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: There's no 'Doh' in this.
Review: Think about it...any creation by Matt Groening (Might be mis-spelled not sure) must be a masterpiece...or at least quite close to it. A disfunctional family...Bart, Lisa, Maggie, Marge and without a doubt the funniest man ever...AKA My Hero!! Homer.J.Simpson. I taped the entire 1st Season of Simpsons but unfortunatly the tape was eventually going to degrade down to it's naked shell so when this DVD came out, I was happy.

The extra features make this DVD ever more interesting. I do not concern myself so much with the commentery, but the menu screen was cool enough...

Having the DVD of the first series of Simpsons is like a prized possession...I've watched it once already...I have a sudden tendancy to re-order another one and make up a shrine (Sad I know) and place the series one box set in it...lol I recommend this...Simpsons will forever be the greatest cartoon ever.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: WORST SEASON EVER!!!
Review: Sure, the animation is awful (DOH!), the music is bad (Aw, where Alf Clausen when we need him?), and "Life In The Fast Lane" is the WORST EMMY-WINNER EVER, but, this collection is the entire first season (And, tons of extras to boot. OOO!!!) is well worth owning and playing on your DVD. This is the greatest Impy & Chimpy set ever!!!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Its about time!!!
Review: For ANYONE with a sense of humor, a passion for primitive animation, and anyone not afraid to take a 'pee' take on our culture. Simpsons fans and fanatics rejoice. I have struggled far too long trying to get all of these episodes on tape. All that can be said is.. its about time!!!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Tough but fair.
Review: OK, lets get one thing strait: I am a self-proclaimed die-hard Simpsons fan. And if you also, are truly a die-hard Simpsons fan, you'd know why I gave the first season 4 insted of 5 stars. For those of you that can't comprehend why it should get 4 insted of 5 stars the reasons are simple; (1) First and foremost-once you watch season 1 again, you will see that it is dry and the humor rather bland compared to the season 4-7 prime. And (2) they only included 1 of the several Tracy Ulman shorts and it's the one that every simpsons fan saw parts of on the 138th episode spectacular. This warranted me giving this DVD set a 3 out of 5 stars. The kicker to give it the extra star was the excess bonus materials that will be seen on this set. Seeing how the first season had considerably fewer episodes than every season following it, Groening and producers decieded to compensate with an exciting set of bonuses. None-the-less, this DVD box set is a must have for any Simpsons fan; even if the first season wasn't that great.

I'm also willing to bet that these DVDs will inculde at least one, if not many, "easter eggs" with hidden features...


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