Spider-Man - The New Animated Series (Special Edition)

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Summary: A great Spider-man series once again!
Review: I remember watching the 90's cartoon animated Spider-man series and when I saw that a new CG Spider-man series was coming out on DVD, I was jumping with joy! I immediately ordered it and I must say that it is an awesome Spider-man series. This DVD is for the first season of the MTV show. The CG graphics make the show seem like a 3-D cartoon, as opposed to a more realistic-looking world like Beast Wars or Reboot. The characters all sound like you would think. I myself never saw this show on MTV but it sounds like it takes place after the Spider-man movie since Harry blames Spider-man for his father's (The Green Goblin's) death. The shows are very intense and keep you on the edge of your seat. The fights are really cool and don't look dorky like some other CG fights. The movement is very fluid in this show. My favorite fight has Spider-man going against a green-clad female hunter. They rebound off of lamp posts and by the end of the fight, Spider-man is actually cut and bleeding pretty bad. The cool thing about this hunter is that she can block bullets with her sword, even if 3 guns are being fired at her. Some of the episodes do have some blood in it and some scenes may not be appropiate for children. In one scene, a person's head gets cut-off (but you don't see it) and later on, a girl walks into the room and sees it (but you only see her expression and the head, not the body). Because of this, some scenes may be inappropiate for young children. Still, the majority of the episodes don't have any blood or anything like that scene in them. I would definitely recommend this DVD to any Spidey fan. Even the music is awesome. This series, IMO, is just as good as the 90's cartoon series. So go and get this great DVD. And hopefully, the 90's cartoon series seasons will come out on DVD soon.

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Summary: Lemme guess... you low scorers enjoyed the Fox one, right?
Review: Okay, for the 1st season, it lived up to the hype, but by the second, it failed to be what this one was... ENTERTAINING. Brian Michael Bendis once again shows he deserves any money thrown his way, as he pens some pretty good stories here. Dropping this series is yet another bit of proof that MTV sucks... I mean it has for some time, now... or are you just noticing? I'm really impressed that they squeezed all 13 episodes in this thing. That's real good to hear.

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Summary: absolutely amazing
Review: a must buy for anyone who's a spiderman fan or just likes cartoons.great graphics and storyline,i'm surprised this didn't last longer on mtv.to bad they didn't continue this series

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Summary: Splunge
Review: I actually liked this series the minute I saw it I don't have a problem with the CGI, the motion looks realistic while retaining the look of 2_D comic book art. I like the updated characters. The non-action sequences and relationship banter do make me want to reach for the FF key on the remote (much like Smallville's scenes like that vs. the action ones) but overall, I like this much better than the poorly animated series that still plays on the FAMILY channel sometimes. I just wish they had not made Harry Osborne look like a post-pubescent MacCauly Kulkin for some reason.

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Summary: A WASTE OF THEIR TIME AND MINE
Review: Being a fan of both animation and the Goddess that is Lisa Loeb I was very interested to see this series. Unfortunately I missed every episode when it premiered on MTV. When I heard it was being released on DVD I ran right out to buy it. With a six pack in one hand and remote in the other I retired to the couch ready for the amazement of Spider-Man
The first thing to ruffle my proverbial feathers was the animation. Using a process of computer graphics to resemble traditional line art the animators were able to capture the worst of both worlds. All the lack of depth of two-dimensional painting, with the stiffness of CGI.
The actors, working with bad dialogue, just don't seem to capture the characters. Neil Patrick Harris does fine as Peter Parker but as Spider-Man he toughens his voice, ala Kevin Conroy's Batman, and can't deliver the lines convincingly. Lisa Loeb, seems the perfect choice to spout Mary Jane's "Hi ya Tiger". Instead she loses all her cutsey sweetness and makes the character sound like a bitter scorned lover. Ian Ziering's Harry Osborn is the most tolerable, but I must wonder if it's a result of his lack of screen time.
The writing lacks the depth and character analysis of Batman: The Animated Series and the action of the previous Spider-Man animated series. The villains are both updates on classic comic book characters and new ones created for the series. Unfortunately none of them have any use except as a way for the animators to say "Isn't this cool?" "No, as a matter of fact it isn't".
What a huge disappointment. I just don't understand how this much talent could be assembled together to make this much mediocrity. The best thing about this DVD is the fact that it is easily forgotten.

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Summary: Cool rendition
Review: Although the storyline wasn't very good, and the dialogue was mediocre at best, I thought the first season was pretty good. It could have been WAAAAAYYY better of course but overall, I liked it. And even though the rendering technique used is the flavor of the month for all the suits in charge of producing things, the look and feel of the series was pretty cool. If you consider how long it takes to produce this much animation I'm sure at the time it was being made it was a pretty new technique. I hope season two doesn't look like season one because it will be really outdated. There are scenes where the Spider-Man animation is so much better than the movie version of Spider-Man (especially when SM fights off the thugs in the alley in the movie...horrible animation). The series could have been darker and used a better musician (who hired Digweed?) but again, overall, for a cartoon, this series did try to go beyond the earlier incarnations of any Spider-Man cartoon. If you like Spider-Man cartoons, this one is a step above your typical Saturday morning fare.

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Summary: Spider-Man rocks
Review: This is awesome! My favorite is the one with the Shikata girl. Awesome fighting scene and Spider-Man lifts a car up over his head! The main villian gets his head cut off and another looses a finger.

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Summary: Way Cool Spidey
Review: I love this DVD! Animation is awesome, stories are cool and disc is full of extras. If you're a Spidey fan this is a must have. I hope they have a season 2 in production.

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Summary: Congratulations!
Review: Let me only say this-this show is a wonder to watch.I am over forty years old but to see Spider-Man with such movements and bodylanguage and the fantastic filmed fight scenes gives me goosebumps.There are so much worse animated shows(all the other Spidey Shows are for an adult viewer horrible),that it is great to see what CGI can do on Dynamics.With Batman and Roughnecks this will stand on his own for decades.Go on make more seasons,there is so much animated trash out there,it is time we get something that is worth to watch!

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Summary: MTV had a wonderful hit, let's bring it back
Review: I had seen a couple of episodes on MTV before it got taken off the air and I loved the show and when it came to DVD I had to check it out and I loved it even more. The new Spider-Man starts after the movie, where Harry's father is dead and Harry is vengful and hates Spider-Man and of course we have the romantic tention of Peter Parker and Mary Jayne.

The series was well done and well thought out and got really good actors to play the parts of the charicters. My beef is this, I really liked and was stunned by how it ended and it needs another season to really show what it can do so this is to MTV please bring Spider-Man back you want regret it if you do. We have already had one show done that way in the past few years with the cliffhanger episode of Team Knight Rider and it needed an ending and this is the same way, bring back Spider-Man you want regret it.