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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0053939752625
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: May 30, 2006
Running Time: 291 minutes
Sales Rank: 5227
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: August 07, 2004
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Product Description:
Once a child prodigy Dr. Venture now fails as both a scientist and father. Luckily his twins Hank and Dean are too stupid to care. And they've got their vicious macho bodyguard Brock looking out for them. Together they'll get in all sorts of situations involving wild alligators street ruffians and booby traps. Brock really likes the booby traps.Running Time: 338 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/ADULT SWIM UPC: 053939752625 Manufacturer No: T7526
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If Jonny, Haji, Race Bannon, and the rest of the Jonny Quest gang were idiots, their animated adventures might play out like The Venture Bros., a consistently funny spoof on '60s adventure cartoons from the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming. The premise should be immediately familiar and nostalgic for any Saturday morning TV aficionado who grew up in the '60s and '70s: Dr. Venture (James Urbaniak from Henry Fool) is an inventor, while sons Hank and Dean's insatiably curiosity lands them in hot water with supervillains, robots, magicians, and the like. Brock Sampson (voiced by the very funny Patrick Warburton of The Tick) is the good doctor's right-hand man, who rescues the boys with good old-fashioned manpower. The twist in The Venture Bros. is that every single character, down to the supervillains' henchmen, are complete and utter dolts, and their adventures are inspired more by foolishness, personal obsessions (for Brock, it's sex and violence, and for Dr. V, it's diet pills and a daddy fixation), or just plain cosmic weirdness than any sense of post-Kennedy-era adventure and derring-do. The result is subversive and occasionally shocking insanity (Dr. V loses his kidneys in the series opener 'Dia de Los Dangerous'; Dean suffers an unmentionable personal injury in 'Are You There, God? It's Me, Dean'; the boys believe that Dr. Venture's stomach tumor is actually a pregnancy in 'Return to Spider Island'), but with enough flashes of surreal brilliance to make this a must-have for modern animation fans. The Season One two-disc set contains all 13 episodes, as well as two bonus episodes--the show's original pilot, 'The Terrible Secret of Turtle Bay' (for Hank and Dean, the secret is something decidedly salacious), and 'A Very Venture Christmas,' as well as a handful of deleted scenes. Commentary by the show's creators and cast can be heard on five episodes, including 'Turtle Bay,' and the extras are rounded out by 'Behind the Scenes of the Live-Action Movie,' a 20-minute mockumentary that features much of the voice-over talent dressed in some ridiculous costumes. --Paul Gaita
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Rating: - I LOVE buying direct from Amazon!
This item came within a week. Nearly brand new. True to posted condition, maybe even better. I wouldn't hesitate to purchase from this seller again.
Rating: - Great satire
I was always a fan of Johnny Quest as a child (the original cartoon, not the awful remake). The Venture Brothers series is funny enough on its own, but if you have any knowledge of Johnny Quest or are a follower of comic book heroes, you'll enjoy this show.
The bad guys are all colorful characters with strange quirks, yet they are often put into "average Joe" situations. For instance, Dr. Venture's neighbor has a skull for a phone answering machine, which he uses to leave a message for his daughter to tell her she can help herself to pudding that's in the refrigerator. It's so far out there it is hilarious.
Other regular villains include The Monarch, Dr. Girlfriend, and the Phantom Limb. The Limb has invisible arms and legs, which engenders some predictable jokes -- yet they're still funny.
A caveat is in order: the episodes tend to deal with adult content (i.e., sexual innuendos and occasional language), so this is not a cartoon for children.
Rating: - "There are 4 puddings in the fridge, you may partake of 1 of them..."
I wasn't sure about the Venture Bros. at first. The old "boy-adventurer", Johnny Quest cartoons of the '70s were not my favorites... but then I realized this is why I would LOVE Venture Bros. This series seems like it is based on the distant cousins of The Tick. The Tick got me out of bed at 9am on Saturdays in the '90s... and Venture Bros. would do the same, had I not had the DVDs at my disposal. I don't know who I like the best, the deep-throated Dr. Girlfriend, or the Necromancer next door... this series is a must-see for anyone who likes Ren and Stimpy, The Tick, Family Guy, Cartoons, has a soul, a voice to laugh with and eyes... actually, you'd laugh without eyes too.
Rating: - venture 1
A must have! Goes well with season 2! Action, adventure, comedy. What els could you ask for?
Rating: - amazing Shows Exclent commentary
O man this is pure cartooning prefection
don;t forget to watch the creators commentary hilarious and insightful
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