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Summary: A Must-Have For The Fans Of The Animated Series
Review: "The Phoenix Saga" is the first DVD of the animated series...and what a great choice they've made! This DVD is a collection of the five-part series which tells the tragic story of the legendary Phoenix saving the universe from the evil Shi'ar emperor D'Ken. Unfortunately, the X-Men member Jean Grey is the Phoenix's host, which causes confusion among everyone, including her. In addition to this, Charles Xavier (Professor X) is psychically linked to D'Ken's sister, Llandra, bringing the battle to the planet earth. All this results into a war against good and evil that may cost the life of one of the X-Men. All that being said, the DVD looks great, of course. Since this was produced before Dolby Digital was commonplace, it is presented in two channel mode (stereo), but it does ok for Dolby Pro-Logic mode. The animation is a bit choppy in some places, but considering how fast they have to pump out cartoons, it's forgivable. One noticable difference is the changing of the voice-overs for some of the characters. The original cast seems to be intact, but the most obvious was that of Gladiator, the Defender of the Shi'ar throne. For those with copies of the original series on VHS, listen to the difference and you'll see what I mean. Otherwise, this is a must-have for the fans of the original animated series. Now if they'll only release, "The Dark Phoenix Saga"......
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Summary: A Must-Have For The Fans Of The Animated Series
Review: "The Phoenix Saga" is the first DVD of the animated series...and what a great choice they've made! This DVD is a collection of the five-part series which tells the tragic story of the legendary Phoenix saving the universe from the evil Shi'ar emperor D'Ken. Unfortunately, the X-Men member Jean Grey is the Phoenix's host, which causes confusion among everyone, including her. In addition to this, Charles Xavier (Professor X) is psychically linked to D'Ken's sister, Llandra, bringing the battle to the planet earth. All this results into a war against good and evil that may cost the life of one of the X-Men. All that being said, the DVD looks great, of course. Since this was produced before Dolby Digital was commonplace, it is presented in two channel mode (stereo), but it does ok for Dolby Pro-Logic mode. The animation is a bit choppy in some places, but considering how fast they have to pump out cartoons, it's forgivable. One noticable difference is the changing of the voice-overs for some of the characters. The original cast seems to be intact, but the most obvious was that of Gladiator, the Defender of the Shi'ar throne. For those with copies of the original series on VHS, listen to the difference and you'll see what I mean. Otherwise, this is a must-have for the fans of the original animated series. Now if they'll only release, "The Dark Phoenix Saga"......
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Summary: Good Writing - Excellent Storytelling - Good Characters
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While these X-Men cartoons are not known for their outstanding animation, I can whole-heartedly recommend them for their storytelling alone.
The animation is acceptable - standard Saturday morning cartoons (not cgi, but animation).
If you've not seen the X-Men cartoons featured here, we are presented with this main group as the X-Men Team: Cyclops, Jean Grey, Gambit, The Beast, Wolverine, Julibee and Storm. And, of course, Professor X leads them. Rogue is around, but not in the first couple of episodes.
These combined episodes make a wonderfully told story. The characters are very faithful to their comic book counterparts, and have a depth that a lot of other cartoon characters lack. Be that praise for the comics or these episodes, matters not.
The DVD comes with few features. You're given the option of viewing all episodes or each episode individually. Please note - there are no chapters within each episode.
The sound quality was good and the voice-actors are effective.
It's the writing though, that lifts this series. It's a great story.
I recommend this DVD for the comic or cartoon fan. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Good classic cartoon
Review: At least on Dvd.This Dvd includes 5 episodes of the Phoenix Project shown in 1994. Jean Grey converts onto Phoenix to save the galaxy from the evil emperor D'Ken who wants the M'Kraan crystal to control the galaxy and have their own world. Lilandra the sister of D'Ken have taken the crystal with her and needs the help of the X men to defeat D'Ken evil plans. Fun and entertaining.More episodes are on Vhs I hope they transfer soon to Dvd.
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Summary: Loved it
Review: Being a huge X-Men fan, I love nearly all of the cartoons, but the Phoenix Saga is by far my favourite. I can't help thinking that the reason they chose Jean Grey to be the main character of this series, is because before she was very much what I like to call a "nothing" character, with her mutant ability rarely being of use, and whenever she did use it, she would collapse into the arms of Cyclops afterwards. She didn't even have a cute little code name like the rest of the X-Men! This series greatly improved her, though it ended rather tradgically. The romantic scenes between Jean and Cyclops only helped to carry the story line, and were even assisted by one romance scene between Gambit and Rogue. The story line was excellent, though I believe that the parts between the Empress of the Shi'ar and Proffesor Xavier dragged a bit... I loved this, and would definataely recommend it.
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Summary: BUY IT IF
Review: BUY IT IF
1. You're a fan of the caroon.
2. If you like to see Jean Grey in action. The cartoon serious seriously neglected one of the best most powerful Xmen.
This DVD collects all of the episodes in the finest story arc that he xmen cartoon had to offer. YES
1. The animation sucks and
2. There are no good extras (but it's kinda fun to watch in French)
But what are you gonna do? It's still good.
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Summary: It's the freakin' "Phoenix Saga"!! Come on! ;-)
Review: Every X-fan should at least have seen this at one point in their lives. LOL - It's practically the most important storyline that Marvel has ever done. This also is somewhat educative to the new comic readers as well. I think it's really great how the original X-Men Animated Series is making its way onto DVD. This disc includes a bundle of high-quality episodes and is definitely worth the cash. If sales go well, hopefully more episodes will be released as well. :-)
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Summary: The quality of the disc is very disappointing.
Review: First of all, this disk is not DTS not even dd5.1 no extra, very poor video quality, this one shouldn't have been on DVD.
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Summary: The best animated TV version of X-men
Review: Firstly a lot of people seem to think this is the original X-men cartoon which i don't think is the case. My friend actually has one episode of an 80s X-men cartoon & i'm not talking about Spiderman & His Amazing Friends although it had a similar style or feel to that or maybe more similar style to the early 80s Hulk cartoons. It seems to be very rare though & i can't even find anything about it on the net.
This series with The Pheonix Saga episodes first aired in the early 90s. It is probably the best X-men cartoon so far. The later series X-men Evolution was a bit of a joke as far as i'm concerned & i don't know why most reviewers seem to think that the earlier 90s series has poor animation because so far it's the best animation & storyline for any X-men cartoon series that's been released & i mean animation & not CG. This is the best adaption we're probably gonna get folks, even if the storyline is not 100% faithful to the comic. The characters on the other hand are very much like they are in the comic. I think it is well done & this is about as good as it gets.
As for this DVD itself it's quite good & the quality is great, not many features though. I just don't like the idea of episodes released all over the place, i'd much prefere a boxset with the episodes all in order in a nice neat little package. Worth the dollars but you're better off going for a DVD boxset of this series. If anyone out there knows anything about this ever elusive 80s X-men cartoon by all means please let me know.
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Summary: Would "Return of Jean Grey" be the next released ?
Review: I don't know why Universal had sudden released the DVD disc of X-men animated series: The Phoenix Saga. If the released is relied to the live X-men moive, it seems that Fox would be much more reasonable to get the rights of released. Anyway, as a X-fan, you should known that "The Phoenix Saga" is a most important storyline in X-universe. Although the animated version may be quite different with comics (It seems that Madelyne Pryor would not appeared, because Jean Grey will return very soon); however if you don't hate the animated series, the disc is much worth to collect. At present, there is still no sign to telling us that there would be more released of X-men animated series on DVD. I wish "The Phoenix Saga" would not be the only disc in the market. I'm glad to see more major storyline could be released, for instance: return of Jean Grey and "Days of future past". Finally, I'm pleased the subtitles feature is available on the disc. The feature has really a helping tool for non-english viewer to understand the contents. If you have got DVD of "Transformer: the Movie" and "G.I.Joe: the Movie", you should known what I mean.
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