The Venture Bros.: Season Three
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Brand: TurnerPerformer: Christopher McCulloch
Performer: James Urbaniak
Performer: Patrick Warburton
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.77:1
Running Time: 286 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-03-24
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Turner Home Ent
DVD Reviews of The Venture Bros.: Season Three
DVD Review: Hilarious
Summary: 5 Stars
Absolutely awesome show! Every episode is very funny, I would highly recommend if you are fan of showDVD Review: can't match the first two
Summary: 3 Stars
The third season of what is one of my favorite shows, animated or live action, has truly let me down. The plot drags on from beginning to end, and even though it has it's funny parts, they didn't lighten the disappointment i felt after watching every episode. Honestly i can't suggest it to anyone considering i just want to forget it exists in the first place; which is mainly because the first two seasons were so good, but the fact remains the same. DVD Review: The Venture Brothers Season 3
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a big fan of this show, this season is another hit just like the other two seasons before it. Amazon i found offers harder to find dvd's for less money just like this one. DVD Review: Snarky, Sly, Funny
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm guessing that since you're reading a review of Venture Brothers Season 3, you're already a fan of Seasons 1 and 2. This is more of the same grown-up and sophomoric in-your-head and laugh-out-loud entertainment, plus a few more back stories on the characters we've grown to know and love. Enough questions are left unanswered that you'll find yourself eagerly anticipating Season 4. DVD Review: Venturtastic to the middle, then kinda "cliche", leading to the great explosive ending!
Summary: 4 Stars
The design of this product continues the retro distressed style of the previous sets. It has great artwork on the outside and looks like an old video game. There is no credit for the artist, but I found out it was Bill Sienkiewicz who did this one and Season One's art (not sure about the Second Season). It looked familiar to me, but I tend to like to guess for a while instead of looking it up. Being into design, I feel the box should have opened top and bottom like an old video, maybe having a black and white info booklet, but maybe that would be too much money to make.
Inside, there isn't any information about what episodes have commentary and what the special features are. The artwork inside is of a real life Venture family playing video games. I am not sure about this. I almost panicked when I read about the "live action" stuff on Season One, not knowing it was a joke. It gets cliche that a series has to go to thinned out "let's get some more fans!" areas by making live action movies. I will be using the word cliche a lot in this review, so be aware.
The copy inside the DVD is more about Sgt. Hatred, one of my least favorite characters and how to fight him in the video game, yet he isn't even featured in the graphics before playing the episodes. I do like the 8 bit imagery, but I did like when the other two seasons started out with J. G. Thirlwell's music, which made me excited and happy to be viewing the show. I assume the 8 bit stuff has to do with MUTHER, but it was only featured in one episode. Stg. Hatred didn't seem too prominent in Season Three either, or at least, didn't stick out to me.
What brings this down a star for me is that the Blu-Ray version of this has the J. G. Thirlwell soundtrack in it, but the regular DVD doesn't. It's a little hard to swallow some of Adult Swim's merchandizing tactics, like their Katze im Sack grouping of plastic figurines, but I wish I would have gotten the soundtrack with it. I would have bought it on LP anyway and it feels like the people who don't want to spring for a Blu-Ray player are out in the cold.
The season itself is hot and cold. It starts out the gate with the cliffhanger which is then never explained. That's amusing! It jumps into episodes with the Monarch and Dr. Monarch's Wife. In the Venture World, everything is done by the books, so both heroes and their arch enemies have to file paperwork in order to do anything, like normal life. Contracts, notes, reports, filling out applications. Then it goes into a Rusty Venture Boys' Club episode think is one of the better ones. I tend to want to buy these on DVD, instead of watching them on TV or online, so I can see details of the graphics and written papers of the show clearly. Like the notes on the back of people as they try to guess the famous person they are at the supervillain party.
A few of the episodes, especially towards the middle, tend to be very bare bones. Like a lot less of the main characters, maybe 3 people doing all the voices, main people missing, etc. This makes it not as strong as the other seasons. My problem was that since I never follow things closely enough to know when new shows are coming up, I leaped into watching the 3rd season midway through. The writing wasn't up to the high standard I give the Venture Brothers. Like the historical or odd music references were down to one or two an episode. Plus, some words would repeat, especially my favorite "This is so cliche" and it was said so much during 3-4 middle episodes that it itself became a cliche. See I told you I would use it again. It is so cliche!
Just as my ears were done burning from that and some other overused phrases, swearing not being part of it, the quality came back. Speaking of swearing, I am happy as a two tailed pup over the lack of censorship to this DVD set. Now I get to see all of Jonas Venture, maybe way too much. There seems to be a lot of male nudity in this season, but next to no female nudity. Since I am a woman, it's almost welcome. See, I am going back to the Rusty Venture/Henry Killinger episode that had a lot of psychology and getting over demons.
Ah, the middle. I was beginning to think the series was getting to be too normal, the two episodes before The Orb being half-hearted to me. But then the Orb is one of my favorites. It goes back into the barrage of pop to obscure references, especially people like Crowley and Wilde in their own Venture type League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and it has the only line it the show I bothered to memorize, except "Nice shot, William Burroughs" from season two and that was "Rusty Venture, brought to you...by smoking!" and there's a nice graphic of Venture cigarettes. The graphics of that and some episodes are really what brings a joke around to me. I am a tiny bit disappointed that the ending credits are so streamlined this year. The font is very simple. I don't know what happened to the design there, I was hoping for amazing graphics.
The last two episodes are really great and bring the Venture Brothers back to the high note they were on in the last two seasons. With that turn, I will watch the next season, though I am trying to stay away from any information on it. I like the season to speak for itself without me knowing anything about it. I think 24 might be dead. Or 21, I always get them messed up. Maybe that cliche thing was built up to have you be surprised the henchman that never get killed will get killed in the end, not sure.
I'm hoping Season Four keeps up to the standard from the end of Season Three. I have read some reviews that this show has content that they can't show their kids. I don't have kids, so I don't care, but I feel if they toned it down so that it was 14 and up, it would lose its charm. Who wants to watch a show that has to change itself so that tweens can watch it? Don't they have enough to watch? I think it should get more and more obscure and subversive, so it's more of a joyride.
If the creators quit the Town Called Malice and Gore Vidal jokes, it would be like every other cartoon show. It would have just gross out humor and lose its wit. I noticed even the music was even in the background and not as strong as it once was. It doesn't jump out much or crescendo and I think I only heard the Dr. Orpheus theme a few times. The Dr. and his daughter seem painfully absent in this season too, replaced with characters like Dermott, that didn't resonate with me as much. Though I did like HELPER doing the drum work in the scene where Hank, Dermott and the robot are trying to make music.
This season is recommended by me, only if you watch the other seasons first. I feel the first two seasons could be watched show to show, but now, it is a bit plot heavy. I liked the complicated plot lines though. The more complicated the better.
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"Dig deeper into the world of Venture with Season 3, a rich tapestry of past and present, cause and effect, unitards and bodystockings. Witness the genesis of villainous personae, the clash of sporadically opposing forces, and the birth of debilitating neuroses in this, the sturmiest, most drangful season yet. "General DVDs
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