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Why I hate Autopsy. Movie Title: Autopsy Average customer review: Autopsy is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download Autopsy

this so-so “giallo” was directed by ARMANDO CRISPINO, not Josè Marìa Forquè. Set during a sizzling Roman summer, “Autopsy” opens with a grim montage sequence depicting various people committing suicide/homicide. Straight after this we are plunged into a startling episode at the central morgue: as overwrought heroine Mimsy Farmer looks round, grotesquely leering corpses seem to come to life and get up from the slabs. Powerful stuff, but unfortunately the rest of the movie doesn’t come up with anything to top it. What follows is an involved, but not very interesting murder mystery, fleshed out with exclusively unlikeable characters - Farmer included - and occasional touches of cruelty. Certain scenes - the deadly trap in the crime museum, for example - are effectively suspenseful, but the tricksy narrative outstays it’s welcome long before the 100 minute running time is up. Picture quality, however, is excellent and the DVD includes a trailer for the film under it’s official export title, “The Victim”. If you’re new to the “giallo” and are looking to build up a good collection on DVD, invest your money in films like “The Girl Who Knew Too Much”, “Blood and Black Lace”, “The Bird With The Crystal Plumage”, “Deep Red” and “Torso”. “Autopsy” is passable entertainment, but hardly essential.

“Autopsy - A Chilling Slab of Unspeakable Horror”

Or so we read on the box of this DVD. Of Italian origin and first released in 1973 as “Macchie Solari”, Autopsy has not aged well as a horror movie. Interestingly, I believe the original title referred to suns spots, which are a recurring theme in the movie.

Autopsy starts brilliantly depicting a number of suicides that invariably end up in the autopsy room, where we meet the protagonist played by Mimsy Farmer. Mimsy is studying forensic medicine and writing a thesis on how to distinguish between real and fake suicides. Something happens and Mimsy begins to see the cadavers moving around.

After this promising opening, the movie strays away from the moving cadavers and turns into a murder mystery. A young woman that Mimsy briefly meets in her apartment is found dead in what appears to be a suicide. However, dead woman’s brother (played by Barry Primus) is convinced that it was murder.

Eventually, Mimsy realizes that the dead woman’s brother, who is also a priest, is correct. By then, other suicides/murders start occurring around her, and even she becomes the target of one attempt. Suddenly, she doesn’t know if she can trust the priest, her father, her father’s business associate, her boyfriend (who also is a target of a murder attempt) or even herself.

By now, this movie is no longer a horror film. Instead, it has become a classic who-dunnit film, with occasional sunspot flare- ups depicted a certain intervals. Surprisingly, the mystery is actually well-done. Agatha Christie couldn’t have written a better murder mystery.

Why the movie was titled Autopsy in English is beyond me. Scully and Mulder (X-Files) spend more time in the morgue than do Mimsy and Barry. Furthermore, the autopsies in the X-Files are sometimes even more graphic than in this movie. I can only speculate that the studios felt that “Autopsy” would draw more movie-goers than “Sun Spots”. On the subject of sun spots, the movie tries to suggest a relationship between sun spots and suicides, which doesn’t really fit into the murder mystery.

Overall, it is an excellent movie-if you like mysteries. But a horror movie it is not, certainly not one of “unspeakable horror”.

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… it really does. I had a chance to see this video when it was shown on my local educational public television station quite a few years back. For those who are true Buddy Holly fans, this is an absolute must to add to your collection of Holly memoralibia. The interviews are top-rate and are probably the most accurate I have seen as they are from the people most closely connected to Buddy Holly and give a closer look and insight into both his musical as well as his personal life. This is one video you will definitely want to keep and watch over and over again (I still do every February).

This mans music was pure genius.I dont care how old it is this man was the most tragic thing to happen to rock and roll when he died.I wasnt even born when he got on that plane,but you cant go through life and not hear his music.

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The one thing that you enjoy seeing about musicians is their film clips.But with Buddy Holly there is not many available.
But here is some rare clips,and interviews with family members and friends.Well put together.I like to see the places where he lived and visited in his short career.Its all here.
While i am a Beatle fan i would have rathered they talked about Buddy Holly more than filling space with Paul McCartneys versions of the songs.Now im not saying i didnt enjoy them,i just felt there should be more Buddy Holly information instead.
But upon saying that this is a real informative video and almost everything you want to know about him is here.

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Buddy is the true master of Rock and Roll.Often it makes me wonder what he would have done had he lived.But as it says in the DVD,The Beatles were inspired by him,would they have had the same success had Buddy Holly lived?And The Rolling Stones first hit was a Beatles song,seems to me he started a chain reaction.

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I don’t understand this at all. Why are they releasing the My Little Pony story Pony Puppy again, but this time not with all the others. I even think that My Little Pony Two Great Pony Tales was also unnecessary because it had The Glass Princess and The Magic Coins, and they are already on the Complete First Season DVD set. I want to tell all of you My Little Pony fans to say no to a second release from My Little Pony unless it is released uncut unlike last time.

As much as my daughter loves My Little Pony and dogs, she really did not like this movie very much.

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Who would have understanding that a lecture on Creation stories and Quantum Physics would be so instrumental in conveying the truth of a holistic perspective of spirituality?

Buy,Download, Or Stream Everything Is Spiritual! Click HereAs one who has been trying to introduce the perception of spirituality being interwoven with every facet of life, I would say that this DVD is far more effective in conveying that message to audiences uncommon with the opinion than I realized. Though, I feel the subject could have been presented more effectively in my perspective, it would seem that once again, this beloved speaker finds resonance with his audience; leaving them in the lap of revelation.

I’d say that Nooma is like a share of candy and this is like a steak dinner, yet somehow the Nooma videos tend to pack a minute more punch and cater to more discussion. This is sort of done when it’s done. The discussion will happen, but unlike the Nooma DVDs, this DVD doesn’t reach along with a discussion guide.

Buy,Download, Or Stream Everything Is Spiritual! Click HereBrilliant stuff. Gracious revelation as one would examine. Yet I write as one who has been anticipating this for nearly a year and a half, so it might be that my expectations were overly titillated.

Rob Bell has received a mountainous deal of criticism in his career for a variety of reasons. Some might have some merit, but most near out a desire for him to be something he is not. He is not a world class Biblical Scholar; he is not the greatest theological mind; he is not a person that will champion conservative ideologies, nor liberal. If you desire any of these things from this man, do not engage his work for you will be disappointed.

But if you are looking for a thoughtful person intriguing with faith, culture, and life, then you might have found someone that will really disclose to you in a refreshing confession of Christian faith.

Rob Bell is a pastor with a heart for humanity. He is a person that desires to unite, rather than divide. He is a person who recognizes the burden of our society and addresses them in faithful ways and “Everything Is Spiritual” is a astonishing testimony of God at work within Humanity.

I was blessed to seek this. And I trust that those who have ears to hear will near away from this experience moved in profound ways.

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I’ve always wanted to see POSSESSION in its Director’s Cut, although I’ve never seen it before but saw the video box in the horror section. A favorite of Dario Argento’s, POSSESSION is the greatest horror allegory on divorce since David Cronenberg’s THE BROOD. Sam Neill and Isabele Adjani are excellent in portraying the emotional distress of growing apart. It’s also a comment on the state of Germany when the Berlin Wall was still erect and the Cold War was in full effect. As an added bonus, it’s also a bizarre monster movie, kind of a psychosexual Frankenstein story. Great camerawork, music and ending! Highly recommended for open minds and strong stomachs!
I remember watching SHOCK when I was a kid on television (as BEYOND THE DOOR 2). The last half-hour of the movie has stuck out in my mind ever since. Mario Bava’s final film (aided by his son Lamberto, a great director in his own right) is about possession, repressed memory, and psychological torment, with an excellent performance by Argento veteran Daria Nicolodi as the woman who experiences all of the above. Terrific music score by I Libra, a side project of Goblin; wish the CD soundtrack to this film would come out because I really love that opening theme! SHOCK is scarier upon repeated viewings and a must for Bava buffs!

Double features from Anchor Bay on one disc (one on each side). Side A.) is 1981’s “Possession” with Sam Neill as Mark who works for a mysterious agency employing him to track down a man “in pink socks.” His marriage to Anna (Isabelle Adjani) is disintegrating. They’ve become emotionally estranged. They also have a small son. Mark wants to save the marriage, he suspects she’s having an affair, so he has her followed after she moves out. Anna has become increasingly erratic and deranged and has moved into an old run down apartment where she harbors a hideous secret. And commits grisly murder. Their son’s teacher (also Adjani) is a dead-ringer for Anna—only softer and more nurturing. But Anna’s situation is something else again. “Possession” is a strange horror film with Neill and (especially) Adjani going all out. The “secret” is truly astonishingly gross. But the ending will leave your jaw dropping. Recommended for lovers of challenging films and Adjani fans. She’s incredible. Side B.) is Mario Bava’s “Shock” from 1979. (AKA “Beyond the Door II”) “Shock” concerns a woman whose first husband (a junkie who supposedly committed suicide) seemingly comes back to haunt her through her small son. Daria Nicolodi is excellent as Dora, the devoted mother who has remarried and moved back into the house where the first husband died and soon regrets it. Bava flourishes abound in a beautifully directed shocker with good set pieces and a creepy score. Scary, bloody with some bizarre nightmare sequences and a chilling ending. Both “Possession” and “Shock” are presented in good prints and are worthwhile for horror lovers. But “Possession” is not for the squeamish. Enjoy…

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I have for a long time been a fan of apocalyptic, WW3-type thrillers, and this HBO Current tops my list as one of the best ever! Based on the fresh Trinity’s Child by William Prochnau and starring Powers Boothe and Rebecca DeMornay, By Dawn’s Early Light is an agreeable cautionary myth of what would happen if a nuclear exchange were started by dissidents in another country’s military and how the members of two different governments would work together to discontinuance it. It is also the record of Captain Moreau (DeMornay) and Cassidy (Boothe), two B-52 pilots assigned to knock out the leadership bunkers of the Russian military, and their struggle to do what they hold is the true thing. At first they feel themselves drag by duty to their country, but as they inaugurate to pick the chunky scope of objective what it is they’re doing, each of them must struggle with their have doubts and fears about what would happen if the conflict they’re fervent in were to escalate into an all-out war.Boothe and DeMornay are impartial two of a very astronomical cast in this film. Martin Landau turned in a bravura performance as the President of the United States, who is disabled in the aftermath of a nuclear strike on Washington and who alone holds the key to stopping the conflict. I loved Darren McGavin’s trigger-happy Secretary of the Interior who, thinking the President is lifeless, issues orders that could lead to the destruction of his country. James Earl Jones was stout as “Alice”, commander of Strategic Air Command’s “Looking Glass” plane and a man with legal and ethical doubts of his hold about this conflict, and Ally McBeal’s Peter MacNicol as Sedgwick, the young Emergency War Orders officer who is with the President when he is injured, was honest terrific. I also want to give a nod to Daniel Benzali as Bascombe, director of the FEMA bunker at Olney. Although his was a minor role, he made the most of it.As stated before, this is a valid film, but it’s definitely not for the faint-hearted. It probes deeply into the American psyche and forces us all to assume of fair what we would do in a position such as the one presented. Overall, though, it is an marvelous film.

In the tense, edge-of-the-seat tradition of Fail Noble, By Dawn’s Early Light is a lustrous depiction of how the hair-trigger reactions of the superpowers can be manipulated by persons outside ordinary power circles, and how the technology and pre-ordained response patterns buy on an inexorable life of their believe.Buy,Download, Or Stream By Dawn’s Early Light! Click HereAs a retired military man, I found that this film grew more horrible as the initial nuclear exchange dilapidated into the background and both the civilian and military leadership struggled with the apocalyptic expect of how or even whether to turn off the brutal cycle of escalating retaliation. The technical accuracy of the film, both in the equipment and the tactics displayed, heightened the effectiveness.What makes this movie stand out from other doomsday thrillers is its ability to present the dreadful strain of responsibility and indecision on people at all levels of the notify structure, and the personal ticket paid by those who could handle the pressure and those who could not. One particularly harrowing and very plausible scenario shows two Navy fighters in the process of preparing to shoot down an Air Force bomber that has been judged to have “turned”, both figuratively and literally.There are many apt dramatic performances in this film. Foremost among them are Martin Landau as a desperate and badly injured President, Darren McGavin as the Secretary of the Interior, suddenly thrust into a region of leadership for which he is unprepared, and James Earl Jones as an Air Force General commanding the Looking Glass affirm center aircraft.

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Powers Boothe is kindly as a hot-shot pilot who finds himself slowly beginning to examine his murky and white understanding of the nature of warfare and his site in the overall report. Rebecca DeMornay shows that, when she isn’t given the makeup and savor costumes to rely on, she has mighty acting talent to tumble attend on.

This is a nerve-wracking, very credible lumber on the tightrope of nuclear devastation, tautly directed and masterfully paced, from its suspenseful beginning to its thought-provoking waste. By Dawn’s Early Light remains an effective thriller even after the slay of the cool war. Highly recommended.

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William Castle usually marketed his movies with gimmicks, and for MR. SARDONICUS the gimmick was “the punishment poll.” When the film played in theatrical release, audience members were issued a voting card, and near the movie’s conclusion Castle himself appeared on the screen and asked the audience to vote: show the card thumbs up to show mercy, thumbs down for none. Now, in theory, there were two different endings, and the ending shown depended on the audience vote–but no one ever saw the “show mercy” ending and it seems unlikely that it ever existed at all. And you certainly won’t find it here: Sardonicus is punished every time.

For once Castle should have left well enough alone. The Punishment Poll is the only seriously weak thing in the entire film, which has a considerably better script and over-all better cast than most Castle outings. The story, which shows influences from everything from PHANTOM OF THE OPERA to DRACULA to THE MAN THAT LAUGHED, concerns a grotesquely disfigured man who uses his wife to lure a noted specialist to his castle in the wilds of “Gorslavia”–and who then proceeds to make every one’s life as miserable as possible, and that’s throwing roses at it. Young women are molested, hung from the ceiling, nibbled on by leeches, and threatened with surgery designed to make them look as hideous as Sardonicus himself.

The cast is quite good, with Oskar Homolka a standout as Krull, Sardonicus’ equally depraved servant. The lovely Audrey Dalton is also memorable as Sardonicus’ unwilling wife. But the real star of the film is the make-up, which was quite famous in its day and is still capable of giving you a jolt. And along the way we’re treated to a number of campy Castle florishes that add to the fun. But MR. SARDONICUS is surprisingly cohesive for a Castle movie, and it moves along at a smart pace and has an interestingly atmospheric look. Most Castle films appeal almost exclusively to fans of cult and B-movies, but just about every one will find this one entertaining. Lots of good Gothic fun!

William Castle…producer, writer, director, and sometimes actor, but first and foremost a showman. All right…the man was a hack (in the kindest possible sense), pure and simple, often regarded as a Hitchcock imitator (he even adopted a number of Hitchcockian mannerisms like appearing briefly in his own movies, etc.), and his films maybe have not been of the highest caliber, but he knew how to draw in and entertain audiences by use of sometimes very clever gimmicks, at least in terms of his horror films of the 50s and 60s, and made going to the movies an interactive event, rather than a passive activity, ensuring those who came got their money’s worth. While Mr. Sardonicus (1961) isn’t my favorite Castle film (I’ve always been partial to House on Haunted Hill and The Tingler), it’s still a lot of fun, especially if you’re a fan of schlocky, sleaze-tinged, lurid spectacles like I am…written by Ray Russell (The Premature Burial, X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes) and produced and directed by William Castle (House on Haunted Hill, The Tingler, 13 Ghosts), the film stars Guy Rolfe, whom I last saw in Ivanhoe (1952) as the evil Prince John, Audrey Dalton (The Monster That Challenged the World, Kitten with a Whip), Ronald Lewis (Taste of Fear), and Austrian born actor Oskar Homolka, who was nominated for an Oscar for his role in the film I Remember Mama (1948)…you’ve come a long way since then, Babaloo…

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The story begins in London, the year being 1880…Castle comes on the screen for a brief intro, which leads into our tale proper in that we meet Sir Robert Cargrave (Lewis), a young, prominent English physician who’s done quite well for himself. After receiving a urgent letter from his ex-love (And then there’s) Maude (who’d gone off and unwillingly married another), played by Dalton, Robert hops a boat to the continent, and makes his way to a central European country named Gorslava, which, I think is near Freedonia, but I can’t be sure…anyway, turns out the man Maude married, a nasty fellow named Baron Sardonicus (Rolfe), has a bit of a problem with his mug, one caused by an unpleasant past experience gone into in great detail by use of a lengthy flashback of ghoulish proportions involving a lottery ticket, a dead body, and a money grubbing spouse, which I won’t go into, but suffice to say the good Baron now sports a giant, permanent, toothy grin which he hides by wearing a mask. He’s exhausted nearly all means of treatment, and his last hope lies in Sir Robert, whom he makes an offer the English gentleman can’t refuse. Sir Robert agrees and the local canine population dwindles dramatically as he researches the possibility of using a poisonous tropical plant to treat the disfigured Baron. Will the cure work? Or will Sir Robert find himself and Maude at the very un-tender mercies of the Baron’s sadistically cruel, one-eyed manservant Krull (Homolka)? Don’t fret my frightful fiends, as all will be revealed…even that dark, disgusting secret the Baron keeps locked away in the upstairs room…

In terms of gimmickry, Mr. Sardonicus doesn’t rate as high as some of Castle’s other films (for The Tingler, vibrating devices would be affixed to the bottom of a few of the theater seats and activated during certain thrilling sequences), as it involved patrons being given cards with a glow in the dark hand printed on them. Near the end of the film, Castle would appear onscreen and request the audience to participate in a `punishment poll’, in that if they thought the main character deserved leniency, they would hold the card with the thumb point up, but if they thought the character deserved more punishment, they would hold the card with the thumb pointed down. Castle would then make a production about counting the ballots, and however the audience voted would dictate how the rest of the film would play out (reminiscent of a thumbs up/thumbs down verdict used within the Roman Coliseum), indicating there were two possible endings…which there wasn’t (apparently there was a separate version shown to drive in audiences, where Castle would ask patrons to flash their headlights rather than use the card, but it ended the same way). Castle knew his audience, and knew they would always opt for `more punishment’, but I can’t help but wonder how many viewers bought into the illusion, thinking they were actually influencing the direction of the story (to this day rumors persist there’s an alternate ending, but there isn’t). As far as the story goes, I didn’t think it was particularly scary, but, as others have stated, it does emote a feel of those wonderful horror films produced by Universal in the 30s and 40s. There is a slightly inexpensive (i.e. cheap) sense to the production, but Castle made the most of what he had, and a little imagination goes a long way, aided by spooky, gothic settings thick with atmosphere (leeches, torture chambers, bloodcurdling screams, etc.), surprisingly rich in detail, all tied together with a suitably creepy musical score. The actors do well (Ms Dalton’s character seemed a bit drab), most notably Rolfe in his role as the lead character. His makeup looks a little hokem compared to today’s standards, but I’m sure it was pretty effective some 40 years ago. As nasty a character as he was, there was still underlying sense of pathos that stemmed from the portrayal of his character during the flashback, prior to the disfiguring incident, but, had I been in the audience, by the end of the film, I would have voted thumbs down, along with most everyone else (thousands of years of civilization still have yet to extinguish humanities animalistic desires). Also, Homolka did very well in his over the top performance of the brutish, obedient, scarred lackey (he lost an eye to the Baron for a past indiscretion) Krull, gleefully applying leeches to the house servants, perhaps in an effort to develop his own cure for his cruel and demanding master. Overall this is a macabre little tale, worth checking out if only to see the work of a Castle, a penultimate showman the likes of we’ll never see again.

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The widescreen (1.85:1) print on this DVD looks very sharp and clean, and the audio comes through loud and clear. As far as special features, there’s a relatively new featurette titled `Taking the Punishment Poll’ (7:36) and a trailer for this film, along with some of Castle’s other films available on DVD including 13 Ghosts (1960) and Straight-Jacket (1964). The one thing that would have put this release over the top would have been the inclusion of a reproduction of the `thumbs up/thumbs down’ ballot, but oh well…missed opportunities…

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Why I hate Azumanga Daioh: The Complete. Movie Title: Azumanga Daioh: The Complete Average customer review: Azumanga Daioh: The Complete is available for streaming or downloading. Click Here to Stream or Download Azumanga Daioh: The Complete

Do I have qualifications for this review?? Well Yes I think so, I have seen a LOT of Anime!

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If you have not seen this series yet I recommend it to you. If you are an “Action” fan then it may be a bit slow so have a peek on UTube first! then rush out and buy it!
Thats where I saw it first, it gained my immediate interest and soon I had seen all the episodes, and loved the whole lot.

I believe I have this edition, as I live in anaother country than the USA, It was released here as the six disks, in fat packs with the translator/character art booklets and all the extras on disk. Also a special “father” or “Chiyo-Dad” broach. There are 6 disks of episodes and the last disk has several “extras” including a “mini movie”. I LOVE this boxset.

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Like many, I have watched the English and Japanese versions, Both are great but I do enjoy the Japanese version more, it is cuter and seems more natural.

So you havent seen it? well simply put it is the story of 7 student girls, 2 female teachers and the leacherous Mr. Kimura! We follow them through 3 years of high school, to their graduation. The humor is light but enjoyable, animation is very good, the characters are drawn as not to appear 15-17 years old, but that is their supposed age. There are times their characters turn to almost exagerated stick figures as necesitated by the “moment”.

The cast is: (no particular order)

Chiyo-Chan, the 10 year old prodigy, Cuteness is her fortay!,

Kagura, The not to studious but very sporty type, alway wants to compete with Sakaki

Koyomi, (Yomi) studious, smart and tends to worry about her weight.

Sakaki, Tall, clever, athletic and loves cats.

Kaorin, regular student infatuated with Sakaki.

Osaka, The space cadet! renown for her off beat non relevent statements, is good at puzzles and is a horror/ghost story fan.

Tomo, the exuberant, competiative dunce, does everything but her homework,

Miss Yukari, The home room teacher, very competative, and has to be first!

Miss Minamo the PE Teacher, the more sensible of the 2 female tachers, and Miss Yukaris friend and rival.

Mr. Kimura, the Math teacher and has self confesed “loves school girls” and is a bit of a pervert.

Quote an Osaka-ism: “You believe in ghosts when you are alone, and you smell a fart that is not yours!!”

Well this is a good view, light, entertaining and humourous and in the end a bit sad when the girls all graduate, why sad? well thats the end of the series, and you want it to keep going!! wheres episode 27?? AAAHHHHH!!

The set is now reasonably priced if you find the right retailer, the set is in large boxes, and so takes a bit of space on the shelf, but heck! it deserves heaps of real estate in my book! Has all the features of the single episode boxes, with a few extras to boot! Great value and a great Anime!

Episodic? Sort of. Similar to Lucky Star, the Azumanga Daioh anime is compiled from 4-panel gag manga comics of the same name; either you get the joke, or you don’t. The manga is wonderful, to see it in anime is exceptional. Azumanga Daioh has also been compared to, strangely enough, the U.S. sitcom “Seinfeld”, because of the episodic feel… supposedly a non-story arc affair. But realistically, the character development and day-to-day life (in this case, three years of Japanese high school) IS the story arc. The repetition of comic relief is quite intentional, this stems from the characters personalities… which makes you grow closer and founder to them. Also, like Lucky Star (and Seinfeld), what makes this series extra special is the reviewable opportunities… you don’t feel weighed down by a series that is story-arc driven, this is all about the characters. No matter how many times I hear Elaine bust out “Get OUT!” on Seinfeld, it does not get old; either does this anime.

I would highly recommend viewing the anime with Japanese DUB and English subtitles… mainly because of Osaka’s character. The character is from Osaka, which regionally, would be considered “down south” for us in the States. And like the English translated manga, the character is obnoxiously portrayed as being from Boston, which is a far cry… the joke in the manga, is that even though the nicknamed transfer student Osaka is from Osaka, she’s expected to be cutting-edge and city-slick cool by the other students when they first meet her… but in actuality, she’s quite spacey and slow on the uptake which does NOT come across in either the English translated manga or the English dubbed anime. You’ll get and understand the true identity and hilariousness of Osaka by listening to the Japanese DUB with English subtitles… the original dialogue is always portrayed/delivered correctly… dub is often… lost in translation as they say.

Another treat, on a personal level, is that the characters are all Japanese girls, with dark hair and dark eyes… none of the westernized and often whitewashed look or feel of other anime character design… with bright hair and eyes of every color of the rainbow… which is still quite enjoyable, but a breath of fresh air for this anime. If you enjoy this series, I would also highly recommend Lucky Star; although much more in your face fun, it’s also derived from the same 4-panel gag-style of manga and isn’t story-arc necessary.

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1. How many episodes are there, in total?

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20! 460 minutes long, in total; 114-115 mins long for each DVD.

2. How many episodes are there, per DVD?
They count each half-episode as an entire episode. But, if you’re counting the whole half hour (or 22-minutes, more-like)… each of them have 5 episodes. Disk one has 5 eps, Disk two has 5 eps, etc…

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3. Are there any extras?

Nope, lol. ^^; (But maybe if we ask nicely, Nick will put them in future volumes, or include a whole bunch of them on a separate DVD.)

4. Are the episodes in production order?

No, I believe they are in the order that they aired (in the U.S.)… See below for the order…

5. What episodes are included?

DISK 1:

Downtown as Fruits, Eugene’s Bike, The Little Pink Book, Field Trip, Arnold’s Hat, Stoop Kid, Helga’s Makeover, The Old Building, 6th Grade Girls, The Baseball.

DISK 2: Heat, Snow, Operation Ruthless, The Vacant Lot, The List, Haunted Train, Mugged, Roughin’ It, Door #16, Arnold as Cupid.

DISK 3: Arnold’s Christmas, Beachwarmer, Cool Jerk, Das Subway, Wheezin’ Ed, Tutoring Torvald, Gerald Comes Over, Spelling Bee, Pigeon Man.

DISK 4: Olga Comes Home, Sally’s Comet, Abner Come Home, The Sewer King, False Alarm, World Records, Magic Show, 24 hours to live, Arnold’s Valentine.

6. What did it play on?

It plays on my Playstation 2 (but it seems to skip during the lightning parts/scenes– if that’s your only DVD player, you might not want to get it, unless you just don’t mind the skippage/slippage XD).

It works perfectly fine in my other DVD players tho: An HP Pavilion dv9700 Laptop/Notebook PC (which is a DVD+RW and runs on Windows Vista), my desktop downstairs (which is a Dell 9100, CD/DVD-R and runs on Windows XP)… and our normal DVD player, which is a Toshiba DVD Video play/Video Cassete Recorder SD-V280 ^__^;; That’s all I had to test it on, lol, but it worked on ALL of them!!! So, success! :DDD

OH! The only thing that it didn’t work on is the bottom DVD+-RW drive on my desktop PC… (I have two DVD drives on the desktop– the one on the top works) but I think the bottom one is just for burning, not for *playing* DVDs. (This is to the best of my knowledge.)

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Additional comments: WOW, what a crystal-clear picture!! On the computer, it let me take screen shots easily. To my eye, it looks better on T.V. than on the monitor, but maybe it’s just my monitor…? Sound quality is good. It doesn’t mention anything on the DVD if it’s Dolby Surround Sound or anything, but I don’t know if it needs to. No captioning available. It shows the opening theme/sequence at the beginning of the DVD (like, before “Downtown as Fruits” on Disk 1, for example, and once after all of the episodes are finished (like, after “The Baseball” on Disk 1).

Let me just say that “Hey Arnold!” in general deserves a 5/5 (in fact, it deserves an 11,000,000/5, but that’s probably impossible, lol)

If you are worried just about the episode quality, you shouldn’t be, as this definitely has great quality, Dolby Surround Sound or not (I don’t know how to test that without actually having speakers that work for it). Just don’t expect any extras, lol.

To Nickelodeon: If you’re listening/looking at this, please give the fans some DVD Extras in the upcoming disks, or all of them on one, big disk.

To the Current Fans: If you guys REALLY want The Jungle Movie, I urge you to buy the HELL out of these DVDs (and/or at iTunes, if you prefer). Never Say Never!!! Just as long as we stay as optimistic as our favorite Football-Shaped Head :DD lols

All in all, I definitely believe it is worth the money, and I’d buy it again if I had the chance. Instead, I’ll just wait for my Pre-order of Season 2 to come. :))

To the Un-awakened, “Old Fans”: If you haven’t watched “Hey Arnold!” in a very long time (or not at all…), this’d be a good set to get addicted to, LOL. Hey Arnold! has some of the best humor, entertainment and wit that I’ve ever seen in ages. Some kinds of humor in other shows can get old, but Hey Arnold! is as entertaining watching it the 100th time or just the 1st time. I remember seeing this cartoon when I was younger (I was 9 when it first came out), but I didn’t appreciate the humor and the writing enough until last year. I am 23 years old now! lol! If you haven’t seen it recently, you don’t know what you’re missing!!

Just a warning… you might get as obsessed about HA! as Helga is to Arnold, himself! LOL!!!

Yes, it’s that good! T_T!!! <3<3<3 XDD

Thank you so much, Nickelodeon! I look forward to the future volumes. Please consider finishing “The Jungle Movie” (and “The Pataki’s”? haha ), and accepting Craig Bartlett as a part of your team again. We would love to see you guys working together again. It’s not just me.

Let me know if you guys have any extra questions.

Thanks for reading. ^_~

-Rejena

This is an Amazon exclusive and won’t be sold in stores. Amazon worked out a deal with nickelodeon to “Burn on demand” meaning upon receiving an order that Amazon will create the dvd and insert then ship it to the buyer…

I’ve been waiting a long time for hey Arnold episodes on dvd, so heres another reason to luv Amazon!

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The name says it all on this one. This is probably the best non-TV-series Slayers release to come out so far. It’s at least on par with the best of them: “Slayers the Motion Picture”, “Book of Spells”, and “Slayers Great” and a great introduction to those who haven’t yet experienced the insanity and fun of this incredible anime series. This DVD compiles three separate episodes of Lina and Naga adventures, including the first meeting of the two in the first story, “Labyrinth”. This is the strongest of the three and is worth the price of the whole DVD by itself. This one pits Lina and Naga first against each other, and then against a vampire. Lina’s rant about the pretentious-sounding speech of vampires is an absolute riot. Second, we have “A Frightening Future” in which Lina is hired as a bodyguard for a spoiled (and well-endowed) rich girl whose laugh is just a little bit too much like Naga’s for Lina to stand. Naga shows up (of course) to drive Lina even further to the brink of insanity and some brilliant S&M humor ensues. Lastly, there is the weakest and most over-the-top of the three stories, “Lina-Chan’s Lovely Makeover Operation” which pits Lina and an extremely over-zealous formal wear fanatic against Naga and a snotty punk girl who designs unorthodox clothing. This one had a lot of potential, but fails to live up to it. Still, this is one Slayers DVD you must have. The only thing missing is a Dragon-Slave. Some may argue that a Slayers episode without a Dragon-Slave is like a day without sunshine, but I think we’ve all seen our fair share by now, haven’t we? Anyhow, we also get a couple of tasty extras in this edition in the form of two interviews: one with the adorable Cynthia Martinez (who gives her best performance ever as Lina Inverse on this DVD), and another with Kelly Manison, Naga’s english voice. All in all, a great collection for both the Slayers newcomer and the veteran otaku.

After three feature-length movies, we get back to short, half-hour O.A.V. episodes.

Finally, at long last, we get to see how Lina Inverse and Nahga The White Serpant first met. (In SLAYERS: THE MOTION PICTURE, where Nahga made her first appearence, Lina and Nahga already knew each other from sometime back, and we were never told how they first came to meet.) We begin in the present, when Nahga destroys the inn Lina’s staying at, and destroys the meal she was about to eat as well. This triggers a flashback to when Lina first met Nahga, who was determined to get a reputation as the world most powerful sorceress by defeating Lina. Later the two of them are hired by some village people to kill a vampire. (Yes, this is the only time in all of the Slayers anime where a vampire makes an appearence.)

Next, Lina is hired by a rich man to escort his teenage daughter Serena (spoken for by veteran actor Tiffany Grant) to their vacation villa. The problem is that Serena has a personality and laugh quite simular to Nahga, she splurges like crazy (she even refuses to wear the same set of clothing more than once and buys lots of suveners which she then expects Lina to carry,) and she slows them down greatly. Finally Lina gets sick of it so she actually hires some guys to kidnap Serena. But then Serena gets kidnapped by some different bandits, so Lina must save her with the help of Nahga.

Finally we get to see Lina’s last adventure with Nahga ever. Lina comes to town and finds Nahga has a new cult of teenage girl followers (led by preppy valley girl-type Marti) who think her taste in clothing is really cool, and Lina is horrified by the idea of a future world where everyone dresses and acts like Nahga, so she joins up with a seemstress sorceress and her followers who want everyone to stick to formal attire to stop Nahga and Marti and the others.

The shows are funny, the animation is…well, excellent, and the voice actors are superb-particularly Kelly Manison, (who was born to play Nahga,) Cynthia Martinez, who had really grown into the role of Lina Inverse by the time she returned to play her in SLAYERS RETURN, and Tiffany Grant as Serena. Finally, there are the interviews mentioned in the other reviews with Miss Martinez and Miss Manison. They are almost as much fun to watch as the episodes themselves, since it’s neat to see what the voice actors look like and see them speak as themselves and hear what they think of the shows and the characters. A great DVD to own.