Beast Wars Transformers - The Complete Second Season
from Rhino Theatrical
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Media Type: DVD
Artist: BEAST WARS TRANSFORMERS
Title: COMPLETE SECOND SEASON BOXED SET
Street Release Date: 03/23/2004
Genre: CHILDREN'S VIDEO
The Adventures of the Black Stallion - The Complete Second Season
by Laurent Brégeat
from Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
LIMITED EDITION EMBOSSED 4-DVD DIGIPACK. Based on Walter Farley's best-selling novels, this spirited series revolves around a young boy and his magnificent horse the Black--one of the fastest racehorses in the world. Experience their thrilling adventures, both on and off the track, in all twenty-six episodes of the complete second season!
The Adventures of The Black Stallion: The Complete First Season (4-DVD Digipack)
by Laurent Brégeat
from Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Inspired by Walter Farley's Best-Selling Novels. First time ever on DVD and presented in a Limited Edition Embossed 4-Disc Package. Experience all of the excitement and adventure that Alec and the Black share, both on and off the track, in this complete first season containing all twenty-six episodes.
Reboot - Daemon Rising / My Two Bobs
by Owen Hurley
from Starz / Anchor Bay
Mr. Rice's Secret
by Nicholas Kendall
from Mti Home Video
On a dare, twelve-year old, terminally ill Owen Walters sneaks into the mortuary and videotapes Mr. Rice's funeral. Later, Owen and his friends break into Mr. Rice's house to watch the tape. In the bedroom, they discover a sealed envelope addressed to Owen - a letter from Mr. Rice, written in his secret code. Owen soon discovers that Mr. Rice has left him a medieval code ring, a treasure map and a series of clues. Clues that will lead him on a surreal treasure hunt and one steop closer to his destiny - which may save his life.
Beast Wars - Transformers
by Ezekiel Norton
from Rhino
The 1996 American update of the 1985 Japanese Transformers series is based on a computer game and a line of toys from Hasbro. Like Voltron: The Third Dimension (1998), which it resembles, Beast Wars reveals just how quickly computer graphics evolved. The weightless characters move in simple, repeated cycles and never come in contact with the ground when they walk or run. The pseudo-Valley Dude dialogue ("Cool your circuits!") and the way the filmmakers trot out every toy in every episode (to remind potential buyers of their existence) recall the bad old days of He-Man and the Masters of the Universe. Fans of video games and/or toys will enjoy the screaming battles between familiar characters in their organic and robotic forms; others will quickly weary of the repetitive story and over-the-top vocal performances. Unrated; suitable for ages 8 and up: Violence. --Charles Solomon
Catch the action-packed, popular animated series for the first time on DVD and VHS. Originally aired on Fox Kids, "Beast Wars" follows the adventures of two robotic factions, the Maximals and Predacons, that have crash-landed on an Earth-like planet. The DVD includes six action-packed episodes.
The Black Stallion
by Laurent Brégeat
from Good Times Video
The Black Stallion
by Nicholas Kendall
from Allumination
Reboot - Season III, Vol. 4: The Viral Wars
by Ezekiel Norton
from Mainframe Studio Films
The third season of this computer-animated series stumbles to a conclusion in these last four episodes. Despite the numerous writing credits, each episode juxtaposes long stretches of filler, where nothing really happens, with periods of frenzied but difficult-to-follow action. In "Showdown" archvillain Megabyte, who sounds like George Sanders as Shere Kahn in Disney's The Jungle Book, prepares to escape in a reddish sphere after a duel with Enzo. Mouse does something on a keyboard that causes tentacles to sprout from the sphere and destroy Megabyte. What she does and how she does it is never explained, and her preemptive strike prevents Enzo from destroying the villain, as a hero should. Simulations of Megabyte pop up in the next episode, while Bob struggles to save the cybercity, only to vanish inexplicably. The first all-computer-animated television series, Reboot inadvertently showcases the limits of the technology. The motion-capture technique gives the characters an unsettling weightless look, which robs their fights and gymnastics flips of any power. The elaborate surface patterns, brightly colored special effects, and three-dimensional camera moves can't disguise the fact that motion capture is still inferior to limited drawn animation. Rated "suitable for all ages," but violence (including suggestions of torture), grotesque imagery, and ethnic stereotypes are inappropriate for children under 10. The show played in an edited form on the Cartoon Network. --Charles Solomon
Returning from the wastelands of the Web, our hereos find themselves in the ruins of what was once their beautiful home. Through stormy skies and collapsed buildings, the battle for Mainframe continues as they reunite with their family and friends, overcome personal demons and find themselves face-to-face with their old enemies, Megabyte and Hexadecimal. Third season, episodes 13-16.
Beast Wars - Transformers (Vol. 2)
from Rhino Theatrical
The American update of the 1985 Japanese Transformers series is based on a computer game and a line of toys from Hasbro. Beast Wars may have looked snazzy in 1996, but computer graphics have progressed so far, so quickly, that the weightless animation and simply rendered backgrounds pale beside contemporary games, let alone series. The ongoing struggle between the good-guy Maximals led by Optimus Primal and the evil Predicons continues. Although there are lots of battles and shootouts, the high-tech weapons do very little damage. The characters screech and argue before undergoing transitions from their animal to mecha forms to cries of "Maximize!" or "Terrorize!" The target audience for the disc is clearly Gen-Yers who grew up watching the show and/or playing the game. Unrated; suitable for ages 8 and up: Violence. --Charles Solomon
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