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Summary: No seriously, it's the friggin bomb!
Review: I used to watch Zim when Nick aired it back in the day. Normally I'm not the whole Nicktoons kind of guy (Spongebob needs to die) but my brother showed me Invader Zim one Saturday morning and I couldn't stop watching it. Invader Zim is so different then anything I've ever seen. The dark humor, fast action, and incredible animation makes Invader Zim one of the greatest. I think if they would have aired the show on another channel (cartoon network) it would have been accepted a little better and wouldn't have gotten canceled so soon. I'm hoping that if the DVD does well that maybe the creators could bring back the show. Hey, the same thing happened for Family Guy.
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Summary: FINALLY!!!
Review: FINALLY! Invader Zim on DVD! I have suffered every day since Invader Zim was cancelled on Crapalodeon...err...Nickelodeon.
I love all of Jhonen Vasquez's brilliant,sick,and twisted work.I have one word to all who dislike Invader Zim:DOOM YOU!
*Also,I have to also say (beep) you*
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Summary: "Can I be a mongoose dog"
Review: 5 STARS!Invader Zim is the most awesome show ever.I seriously don't watch Nick anymore because they cancelled it.I did watch Nick on May second just because they showed one episode on alien invasion day.That was the only show on that special worth watching.When I first saw the commercial's I was really confused because they made no sense at all.But once I saw the show I fell in love with it.It's about a troublesome green alien that get's sent to the unknown planet earth.So Zim was sent there to conquer the planet.Actually they just wanted to get rid of Zim.The reason Nick probably cancelled it is because of the dark humor.And sometime's it can be disturbing like a giant zit exploding.Here's the cast of character's.Zim:The main character.He has a lot of attitude.His so called mission is to conquer earth.But he has alot of patience since he has to deal with...
Gir:Zim's crazy robot dog.Gir is where most of the humor come's from.He has the IQ of...well...nothing.And he has the attention span of...nothing.Gir's a taco loving,cupcake munching,pig loving freak.Now do you see why he's funny.
Dib:Zim's human enemy.Dib is just a poor,poor boy since almost nobody believes what he ever say's.
Gaz:Her plot through out the whole series is to play video game's and say how much she hate's Dib.
Miss.Bitter's:Miss.Bitter's is zim's bitter "SKOOL" teacher.
Scary monkey:Zim and this monkey have some problem's.He is seen a few time's through out the show.The monkey actually is on a T.V. where it just...stare's...at...you.It's Gir's favorite show.
Zim's parent's:Zim's parent's are actually robot's he made to seem human.There kinda creepy. There are a few more character's but they don't really matter.Zim is compleatly allergic to water.And there is 1 episode based around that.They should have just aired the show on another station.But I'll just wait for the DVD.The reason I said the show can be disturbing is because Zim develope's a huge hypnotic zit named Postulio that control's people by wiggling around.The disturbing part is when postulio explode's and everybody is floating around in zit juice.For some odd reason they have soda called diet poop.I love the episode when Gir take's over the house.There are very little time's when Gir turn's serious but as you were guessing a few second's later he goes back to stupid mode.On the first episode the doom song is so awesome.Well Invader Zim is a drop dead funny show!Well I gotta leave.So listen to Postulio...and buy this DVD.Bye!!!...(...).
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Summary: The reviews are right!
Review: I own a bootleg copy with 38 or so episodes of Zim. It's not a good DVD--the sound is out of synch with the animation, each episode ends about 1 second before it should, the picture sometimes looks murky or grainy, the "Nick" watermark is stuck down in the corner, etc., ad nauseam. Even so, I (age 57) and my son (age 8) love this show and watch the DVD over and over again. It's that good. I'll be getting a copy of the boxed set when it becomes available, even though I have NO MONEY. The reviewers (here) are right: Zim is the greatest.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: Sheer madness, in DVD format! The DVDs themselves are great; the Media Blasters and Animeworks opening graphics were a bit cheesy, and the menus are nothing special, which put me off momentarily, but all the actual content was done really well. I suppose I don't have much to add to what other people have said, except to say that on my system the Irken subtitles are Off by default, so I didn't have that problem mentioned in another review. The "Pig Commentary" you may have noticed on the features list is great (only available on the Bad, Bad Rubber Piggy episode, but still), and overall they did a great job bringing Zim to the flat-spinney-disc format. Looking forward to vols. 2 and 3.
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Summary: Zim's returned, and is selling big time. In your face Nick!
Review: A certain store had an exclusive early release of this product, so I picked it up. So, this is coming from someone who actually OWNS these DVD's. Now, everything about these DVD's is great. High quality, not watermarked (no annoying Nick symbol!) Zim toons along with many special commentary guests and animatics. Since I'm a huge fan on Zim, I naturally enjoyed every bit of it. There's also video interviews with the voice artists who make the voices of Zim, Gir, Gaz, Dib, Tallest Red, and more. Also has the original Pilot episode featuring the voice of Stimpy as Zim. The only possible bad thing is that the Irken subtitles are set to default and, even when turned off, the following episode plays with the Irken subtitles. If you don't like them, you'll need to change the setting at the start of every episode. I like them, so I have no problem.* If you love Zim, you'll love these DVD's. Don't buy bootlegs, they're trash compared to this beautiful materpeice of Zim goo. Buy one for every person in your house, for every room in your house. Then get all your friends, relatives and enemies to do the same. *UPDATE: The default irken thing is only on APEX DVD Players. It does it on both of mine, different models. At a friend's house, I didn't have this problem.
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Summary: wonderful but cancelled
Review: This is simply one of the finest (and funniest) works of sci-fi to be aired on television, ever. A lot of mystery revolves around why Nick found the "wisdom" to cancel the show, after only one season and a rotating ,illogical time slot . Here is what I've learned during a recent covention at which Jhonen Vasquez spoke about Invader Zim: during an episode called "Game Slave 2", their is a part where Gaz's nemesis in the episode (Igines), is killed falling with an elevator. Nick execs thought that it was horrible having a child die on their network, a family network. To please the censors and to hopefully give a cheeky response to the execs, an epilogue was added of Igines leaping from the broken husk of the elevator and shouting his name with "IGINES!" splashed across the top in a victorious manner. This was an "in your face!" to Nick execs., who DID GET IT!! Soon after, the show was canceled. (Not directly quoting) Many elements that were suppose to be added later were simply thrown into "the worst x-mas ever"; (minimoose, Tak's ship, the Massive coming to earth0, all larger story features for other episodes. Condensed down, they actually killed the episode (as well as the brutal chopping it got on the editting floor). Saddly, an actual story with some meat was beginning to take shape (again, Tak's ship, the Resisty from "Backseat drivers from beyond the stars",Invader Skoog joining Zim on Earth and Foodcourtia mentioned in many episodes). As well as a definite final episode (titled "Invader Dib" acording to rumor) which woud have brought the everything to a proper end (see TVTOME.COM for further information). None of which will ever be shown. (Some bootlegs do exist of some of these episodes) Worse yet, in signing over the rights to Zim, Jhonen lost all creative rights to the charecters that were in the show (luckily Squee or Johnny never cameoed in the show). I hope this gives some explanation to the whole debate. Favorite episodes: "NanoZim","PLanet Jackers", "The Sad, Sad Tale Of Chickenfoot" (funniest episode ever), "Tak: The Hideous New Girl", "Dib's Wonderful Life Of Doom", "Backseat Drivers From Beyond The Stars" (favorite episode)
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Summary: Its About Time!
Review: Probably one of the top 5 cartoons of all time. I'm surprised it took Nick so long to release these, as the only reason the series got cancelled was that more adults were watching it than kids. A classic that now will live in infamy in its DVD form.
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Summary: Ride the PIG GIR!
Review: OH, there is no words to describe how great this is: apart from being totally awesome - yes, that will do! So buy this DVD, Invader Zim is one of the funniest TV shows ever to air, humor that rivals all the popular shows like Simpsons. Futurama comes close with its off beat Sci-Fi humor, but we all see what happens when TV shows try and be creative - sadly enough. The same fate that met this show, cancelation. Oh will, DVD TV is the greatest thing to come out of the switch over from VHS-DVD.
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Summary: Behold the Power of ZIM!
Review: A little over two years ago, a little cartoon named Invader Zim premired on Nickelodeon. Then, just as the show had developed a large fanbase, Nick cancelled it. Think that's the end of the story? Fear not, IZ Fantaics, your time as come! Zim is finally available on DVD! If you never have heard of Zim, here's a newbie's Cliff Notes: Invader Zim is about an alien named, you guessed it, Zim. With a megalomaniac personality that makes up for his short stature, Zim isn't exactly in the Top Ten of the Almight Tallest's (Zim's advisors) favorite invaders list. After nearly ruining Operation Impending Doom I, OID II is underway and Zim wants a slice of the pie. But the Tallests have other plans. In order to get rid of Zim (and having OID II go smoothly), they send him to an unknown planet called Earth (which they themselves have no idea who, or what, inhabits it) on a "special misson". Being complete blind to the Tallets' true nature of this "mission", Zim happily accepts and decends to Earth, in hopes of completing OID II and pleasing the Tallests. Along with Zim, you get a colorful cast that includes GIR, an "advanced" robot that has garbage for brains (literally) and acts like a two year old on a sugar high. Dib, Zim's antagonist, is a kid who is an inpiring paranormal investigator and will stop at nothing to prove of Zim's exsistance and plans to take over Earth. Gaz, Dib's younger sister and sometimes partner, just wants to be left alone and go about her daily way of life and Miss Bitters, Dib's teacher at "SKOOL", who main priority is to crush children's dreams and be blunt of the "evils" of life in general. Why take notice? For one, Zim's creator, Jhonen Vasquez, is the brillent, twisted genius behind the popular comics Johnny the Homacidel Manaic, SQUEE! and I Fell Sick (which have already a large fanbase). Plus, it still amazes me that this is a kid's show. While most children's shows are just carbon copies from yesterday and beyond, Zim brakes the mold by portraying childhood as a dark, disturbing period of a person's life that involves odd and random humor, jabs at how society has gone downhill since the 1980s (maybe even earlier than that given time period), and how one must deal with everything inbetween...all through the eyes of an alien, a robot, two kids and a bitter old woman. This, I believe, is why many have grasped on to this show. Truly a cult classic, it's no surprize that the IZ DVD will included a nice, heeping helping of much anticipated bonus features, including commentaries from the show staff and actors, the orginal pilot that gave way to show, and many more. Plus, all the episodes are uncut and edited according to Jhonen's true vision, which promises to please all IZ fans alike. If you are a fan (like myself), then this is a must-buy and a perfect addition to add to your DVD collection. If you are not, give the show a go and discover what all the excitment is about. You'll never look at cartoons the same why again once you have gotten a taste of Invader Zim.
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