Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
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Brand: Warner BrothersDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 168 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-08-11
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Product features:
- Powerful super heroes Batman, Robin, Superman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Wonder Twins Zan and Jayna and their rascally blue space monkey Gleek battle evil, protect humanity and save the world from unthinkable dangers in these 24 action-packed adventures. These cool cartoon actionfests showcase a gallery of DC Comics heroes and fan-favorite villains like Brainiac and Mr. Mxyzptlk, plus the Hanna-Barbe
DVD Reviews of Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
DVD Review: Superfriends: the lost episodes
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved it! I grew up on this show and never knew about these episodes!DVD Review: a step back
Summary: 2 Stars
There are other reviews giving episode content, and there's no reason to repeat that.
After Challenge of the Superfriends (starring the Legion of Doom), these episodes seemed like a step backwards. It's like they stepped back in time to retarget 5 year olds like the very first seasons. Challenge of the Super Friends - The First Season (DC Comics Classic Collection) was particularly nice because it used a large variety of super heroes and villians and got rid of the annoying and useless sidekicks - no Wendy/Marvin/Wonderdog or Zan/Jana/Gleek, just the superheroes. Sadly, this collection has the Wonder Twins, who even as a kid I found quite annoying. Although there are a few scattered episodes with various members of the former Legion of Doom, they are not as much fun as their predecessors, and given all segments are around 7 minutes each, the stories are pretty lame and are targeted towards a younger audience than Challenge of the Superfriends. The Wonder Twins segments typically had a 'message' for little kids like an episode where two bullies were taught the error of their ways or one where two kids jumped a fence into a restricted area and got into trouble - reminded me of the very first series in 1973 but without the charm of those early years. Of course, this style may appeal to some, just not me.
As a fan of Challenge as a kid, I just found this series to be of much lower quality in terms of stories, art, format, and even the voice casting, and they were written for a much younger audience (5-6 as opposed to 10-11 for Challenge).
DVD Review: What is this....Disney?
Summary: 4 Stars
Love the cartoon shorts. They really bring me back to a time when you had a Large variety of cartoons to choose from. But the extras are null and void. Most of the extras on the other Super Friends releases were nothing special but this one has ziltch. A digital comic?...who cares. Where are the voice actor interviews? Not much effort into this one. It's like Disney releases.....NO EXTRAS. Plus some of the remastering was sloppy. Some of it looks like I'm watching a VHS tape recording. I still love it though.DVD Review: Yes, this is the complete 1983-1984 "lost" season of Super Friends
Summary: 4 Stars
First, to clarify the number of episodes. This DVD set consists of 8 half-hour shows of "Super Friends" from what would have been their 1983-1984 season on ABC Saturday mornings. Each half-hour show is composed of 3 episodic shorts running about 7 minutes each. A total of 24 shorts (8 X 3) are on this DVD set. These 8 half-hour shows are complete with both their original opening and closing credits.
Unfortunately, ABC never aired any of these half-hour shows during their network 1983-1984 Saturday morning season. They did, however, air the first half-hour's worth of shorts the following year during the 1984-1985 season of "Super Friends: The Legendary Super Powers Show". Since then, these 8 half-hour shows (or more specifically these 24 shorts) eventually all aired years later in syndication and have become known as "the Lost Episodes" of Super Friends.
Each half-hour usually (but NOT always) consists of:
1. a team-up between two or more primary Super Friends
2. a team-up between the Wonder Twins and one or more Super Friends
3. a team-up between one primary Super Friend and one secondary Super Friend
Because the original Superman movies with Christopher Reeve were still fresh in the public's mind, these shows are heavy on Superman and Superman lore.
Since the titles of each short are listed by other reviewers, I've decided to list the stars of each short for those of you who are looking for particular heroes in this set:
Disk 1:
1.1 Superman and Batman
1.2 Wonder Twins and the Atom
1.3 Batman/Robin and Apache Chief
2.1 Superman, Wonder Woman, and Robin
2.2 Wonder Twins and Batman/Robin
2.3 Aquaman and Black Vulcan
3.1 Superman, Batman/Robin, and Wonder Woman
3.2 Wonder Twins and Aquaman
3.3 Wonder Woman and Samurai
4.1 Superman and Batman/Robin
4.2 Wonder Twins, Wonder Woman, and the Flash
4.3 Superman and Wonder Woman
Disk 2:
5.1 Superman and Batman
5.2 Wonder Twins, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern
5.3 Superman and Apache Chief
6.1 Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman
6.2 Wonder Twins and Hawkman/Hawkgirl
6.3 Batman/Robin and Black Vulcan
7.1 Superman and Green Lantern
7.2 Wonder Twins and Batman/Robin
7.3 Aquaman and El Dorado
8.1 Batman/Robin and El Dorado
8.2 Wonder Twins, Superman, and Batman
8.3 Superman, Wonder Woman, and Samurai
The animation and storylines on these shorts are pretty much standard fare for this time period of the late 1970's to early 1980's. So those of you who grew up on the 1990-2000's DC animated series will most likely groan while watching these.
However, there are some unexpected high-points for comic fans: (1.1) another appearance by Mr. Mxyzptlk, (2.1) Jor-El and Lara when Superman returns to Krypton before it explodes, (3.1) the return of the Legion of Doom with all 13 members, (5.2) Gorilla Grodd and Giganta, and possibly the only appearance of 13 members of the Super Friends together (sort of, and no, I'm not counting the Wonder Twins and Gleek), (7.1) the return of the Phantom Zone villains who travel back in time to Smallville and Superboy, (7.3) Brainiac, and (8.3) the return of Bizarro and Bizarro World.
The only special features are two Super Friends digital comic book reprints from the late 1970's that you can page through screen by screen, and the usual trailers for other DC animated DVD sets.
All in all, this DVD set is recommended for anyone who is a fan of the Super Friends and/or the Legion of Doom, and for anyone who is a fan of this era of Saturday morning television.
DVD Review: Wonderful,Super,Batty...
Summary: 5 Stars
Why would Black Vulcan volunteer to go on a mission to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean?
Why did his powers work under the sea?
Doesn't EVERYBODY know that electricity and water do not mix?
Other than this I have no complaints (but this does really bug me).
It is a solidly good season(even the Wonder Twins seem less annoying in this season).
Description of Super Friends: The Lost Episodes
Studio: Hanna Barbera Release Date: 08/11/2009 Run time: 168 minutes Rating: NrThe goofy run of Super Friends continued through this unusual detour: when the animated series was canceled in 1983, Hanna-Barbera continued to produce new episodes, which in most cases took years to show up after the series kept returning to TV in various forms. These Lost Episodes are gathered on this two-disc set, which, although it claims to be 24 "episodes," is more like eight half-hour programs (each consisting of three short adventures). The Super Friends are in the house, or more exactly the Hall of Justice: Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman and Robin, and Aquaman forming the key group of comic-book holdovers, with new superheroes Black Vulcan, Apache Chief, Samurai, and El Dorado gaining opening-credits status. In fact, other D.C. Comics heroes and villains thread through the series, The Flash, Green Lantern, and Brainiac among them. Some of the episodes are self-contained little adventures, but a few play around with original mythology; for instance, in one brief story Superman returns to Krypton, and for a moment prevents the destruction of his home planet. Another notable episode, "Bulgor the Behemoth," has a distinctly postmodern kick: a writer for an animated TV show is struck by lightning and morphs into a super-villain, and can't be stopped by Superman because he's a fictional character.
The animation is simple but the designs pop in a pleasing way, with plenty of color and some classic comic-book imagery. The action and cornball messages are skewed toward young viewers of Saturday-morning cartoons, and at times the dialogue is painfully "clever" ("If you don't like this hotel, you're gonna have to deal with the Complaint Department--Superman!"). Biggest stumbling block is the emphasis given to the Wonder Twins, the brother-sister team whose "Shape of..." and "Form of..." shtick gets old fast. Unless you're ten years old. Of course their mischievous monkey Gleek is around too, and in "Two Gleeks Are Deadlier Than One," he's replicated as an "android duplicate of Gleek," which is definitely overkill. Even if you don't like those three, there's a great deal of childhood fun in these lightweight adventures. And in the final episode there's a trip to "Bizarro World," trapping Superman and Wonder Woman in an Atari-style video game. Bizarro indeed. --Robert Horton
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