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Survivor - Season Two - The Australian Outback: The Greatest & Most Outrageous Moments

Survivor - Season Two - The Australian Outback: The Greatest & Most Outrageous Moments

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Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Wake up CBS
Review: I hope CBS wakes up for survivor 3 and makes a real dvd for the season at the end....or are they just lazy? We want COMPLETE episodes! Not this fast re-hash stuff. No one likes this chopped down garbage, we want DVD's brimming full of new features that we can watch for hours. Please, make it right with S3, and do something good for a change. We are sick of these bad dvds from S1 and now S2.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I need to preface this review with this note: I am a HUGE fan of "Survivor," and despite the bad reviews, I actually enjoyed the DVD of the first season quite a bit.

There's nothing very interesting in this "best of" compilation. It basically starts off with each contestant's audition tape/interview, then proceeds to one scene of something that happened to them during their stay. This is immediately followed by tribal council and their final words. Unlike the first season's video release, there are no additional challenges here, there isn't any additional nudity or profanity (other than the one of Alicia and Kimmi fighting, which we've seen on TV at least a thousand times by now), there isn't any graphic footage of Michael slaughtering the pig. In fact, even the "Symbolic Tribal Council" for Michael's departure that Mark Burnett said wasn't shown on TV but would turn up on the DVD didn't make the final cut.

What do you get as far as additional features go? There's footage from all the contestants' appearances on The Early Show. If you have a DVD Rom drive, they've recreated the official CBS web site for the show on disc - including the weekly show summaries, contestant profiles, popularity poll ratings, Outback feature, games and the Real Media video clips. This is rather interesting, since you can read about what happened during their stay in the Outback in full detail, with pictures and video supplementing the experience. However, not all of the video clips on the online site made the transfer to the disc. So basically, if you have an internet connection, logging on to the official site is still a better option.

What's good about the DVD? The transfer is brilliant. You can see actual rainfall during scenes where it didn't seem to be raining when the scenes were aired on network TV. But for me to be writing a review about a show and to have to focus on this aspect should tell you what you really need to know about this DVD. After months of anticipation, it's quite a letdown.

Rating: 2 stars
Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I need to preface this review with this note: I am a HUGE fan of "Survivor," and despite the bad reviews, I actually enjoyed the DVD of the first season quite a bit.

There's nothing very interesting in this "best of" compilation. It basically starts off with each contestant's audition tape/interview, then proceeds to one scene of something that happened to them during their stay. This is immediately followed by tribal council and their final words. Unlike the first season's video release, there are no additional challenges here, there isn't any additional nudity or profanity (other than the one of Alicia and Kimmi fighting, which we've seen on TV at least a thousand times by now), there isn't any graphic footage of Michael slaughtering the pig. In fact, even the "Symbolic Tribal Council" for Michael's departure that Mark Burnett said wasn't shown on TV but would turn up on the DVD didn't make the final cut.

What do you get as far as additional features go? There's footage from all the contestants' appearances on The Early Show. If you have a DVD Rom drive, they've recreated the official CBS web site for the show on disc - including the weekly show summaries, contestant profiles, popularity poll ratings, Outback feature, games and the Real Media video clips. This is rather interesting, since you can read about what happened during their stay in the Outback in full detail, with pictures and video supplementing the experience. However, not all of the video clips on the online site made the transfer to the disc. So basically, if you have an internet connection, logging on to the official site is still a better option.

What's good about the DVD? The transfer is brilliant. You can see actual rainfall during scenes where it didn't seem to be raining when the scenes were aired on network TV. But for me to be writing a review about a show and to have to focus on this aspect should tell you what you really need to know about this DVD. After months of anticipation, it's quite a letdown.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: If You Really Liked Survivor 2, You WONT Like This
Review: I really enjoyed both Survivor 1 and 2, and have purchased both DVD's. While very disappointed with the first DVD, I purchased the second DVD in hopes that there would be some improvement. Unfortunately, it is worse than the first DVD. Where the producers of the DVD could have taken a full two hours to tell the story of Survivor 2, they instead chose to really show clips of the survivors, followed by audition footage. For someone who has never seen the show, the DVD will seem incoherent and impossible to follow. For example, there is no insight given as to why anyone votes the way they do, all we see are five people voting a particular way. There is no mention of any tie votes or strategies going on. All of the suspense and drama that made Survivor so enjoyable is lost. I can only hope that the third time will be the charm on making Survivor DVD's.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: no challenges
Review: I saw this series and I think its completly boring, and diferent than the tv series, they barely put the fun parts, like all the challenges, for rewards and inmunity, I think that they made this video, more seing the personalities of the people than the fun and excitement of the real adventure of surviving. I dont recommend anyone to buy it, and to the producers I tell them to put more action and not that many boring stuff like all the tribal councils, they should put the whole series even if it takes them more than one disc.

Rating: 1 stars
Summary: 122 minutes ONLY?!
Review: I thought it would be the whole season of Survivor 2, who wants only 122 minutes of high-lights from the show?!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "Survivor: The Australian Outback" DVD Much Better!
Review: If you bought "Survivor: The Greatest and Most Outragous Moments: Season One" DVD/Video and were very dissapointed (as was I) Have no fear! "Season Two" has many improvements! More of the episodes and challenges we love and not so much "interview" garbage. Also, all the Tribal Councils are on this one as well. I have seen the DVD because I work for a video/dvd distribution company and got a sneak peak of it, and it's great! Enjoy!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: "Survivor: The Australian Outback" DVD Much Better!
Review: If you bought "Survivor: The Greatest and Most Outragous Moments: Season One" DVD/Video and were very dissapointed (as was I) Have no fear! "Season Two" has many improvements! More of the episodes and challenges we love and not so much "interview" garbage. Also, all the Tribal Councils are on this one as well. I have seen the DVD because I work for a video/dvd distribution company and got a sneak peak of it, and it's great! Enjoy!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: Survivor - Season Two - The Australian Outback: The Greatest
Review: it should off had every episode even if it took up 3 disc it would off been much better

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: EXCELLENT SHOW
Review: IT WAS A WONDERFUL SEASON OF THIS FANTASTIC SHOW. I AM A BIG FAN AND WOULD HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS TO OTHER FANS IT IS THE GREATEST.


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