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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: Turner
EAN: 0883929053155
Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Turner Home Ent
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
MPN: 1000088222
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Region Code: 1
Release Date: March 24, 2009
Running Time: 286 minutes
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: 2009
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Studio: Turner Hm Entertainm Release Date: 03/24/2009 Run time: 286 minutes Rating: Nr
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Rating:  -
Absolutely awesome show! Every episode is very funny, I would highly recommend if you are fan of show
Rating:  -
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.
Rating: -
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.
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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.
Rating:  -
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 ... Read More
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