Challenge of the Super Friends - Attack of the Legion of Doom

Challenge of the Super Friends - Attack of the Legion of Doom

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• A nostalgic compilation of theic 1978 TV cartoons. Superman leads a superhero team composed of the greatest DC Comics superheroes against a team of 13 of the most notorious DC Comics supervillians. Episodes include Wanted: Ten Super Friends, Invasion of the Fearians, The World's Deadliest Game, The Time Trap.Running Time: 88 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN Rating: NR Age:

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DVD Review: The Legion of Doom Is Ridiculously Powerful
Summary: 3 Stars

"I always get a chuckle out of these because it seems the LOD can do ANYTHING! They can travel through time, space, send our fearless heroes into famous storybooks...whatever makes an entertaining story. It's always a hoot watching Wonder Woman float in space wearing her bustier, hot pants, boots and a plastic bubble on her head with no breathing apparatus on her back."

The original stories with Marvin and Wendy were more grounded in a plausibly contained world. Each week the status quo was interrupted by a scientist who appeared to break some law of physics or an alien coming to Earth and causing trouble, but usually the status quo was restored by the end of the show (the process that turns gold into other metals turns out to be unstable, the asteroid mining operation has to be shut down because the particles are proven too dangerous on Earth, the alien's problems are solved and they leave, Superman seals off the subterranean "lost world" from human contact forever).

It seems like in many of the versions of the Superfriends that followed, even Challenge of the Super Friends, they don't set up the breaking of the laws of physics with a "new discovery," they just assume they've been broken all along: an episode begins with the Legion of Doom using a time travel machine--no explanation given as to how they got it, making it seem they always had it; if they always had it, they would have destroyed everything a long time ago. The Legion of Doom has teleportation devices all over the place, yet none of the Super Friends seem to be able to get their hands on one or figure out how they work. Episodes begin with them making deals with aliens as if this were an everyday event. I just saw one last night where they were putting the Super Friends into a fairy tale book--no explanation as to how they got it (maybe it was cut?). Too many stories seemed to use magic, like the fairy tale book and the Swamp Witch. I know Mxlplik (not even going to try to spell it) was magic, but magic didn't seem as pervasive in the original comics as it became in the later Super Friends. If the Legion of Doom truly has the fantastic powers over time and space that the episodes portray, the Super Friends don't really have a chance and the Legion would have destroyed everything by now. Sure, the Super Friends have some fantastic powers but they're not bent on destroying or conquering everything. It's just not logically consistent to have the Legion be so powerful and yet the Earth is still intact and unconquered.

Now, the Super Powers version weren't as bad because they seemed to return to more plausible stories. At least Darkseid had to come from another dimension where our physical laws didn't necessarily apply. An episode opens with the Penguin actually in jail instead of flying around in a time machine. The villains have more LIMITS.

The originals with Marvin and Wendy had plenty of gaffes and mistakes, poor animation, etc., but they seemed more science-based. They didn't have humans operating in space without suits--only Superman. They didn't have ANY magic episodes. When an alien came to Earth it was a big deal requiring the attention of the government and the Super Friends, not a ho-hum every day event. Best of all--no time travel episodes at all.

I'll probably buy this DVD though--it's still bound to be interesting.

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