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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
| CATEGORY: | DVD |
| THEATRICAL RELEASE DATE: | 07 August, 2004 |
| MANUFACTURER: | Turner Home Ent |
| MPAA RATING: | NR (Not Rated) |
| FEATURES: | Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC |
| TYPE: | Cartoons & Animation, Feature Film Action Adventure, Movie, TV Shows, Television |
| MEDIA: | DVD |
| MPN: | DT7526D |
| # OF MEDIA: | 2 |
| UPC: | 053939752625 |
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Customer Reviews of The Venture Bros. - Season One
Animation & Satire doesn't get much better than this! Absolutely clever and hilarious takeoff of lots of cartoon series we watched as young teens in the early 1960s. Plus lots of TV and alternative music references from the '80s. I love cartoons (even at my age!) but rarely consider buying any for fear of tiring of them quickly. That has yet to happen with this and/or the second season of "The Venture Brothers." It's simply brilliant satire and great fun. The extras of the creators and cast dressed as some of the characters they to whom they give voice is fun (no sign of Patrick/Brock, unfortunately, anywhere except in the episodes themselves), the deleted "scenes" are just draft storyboard images and are thus not very interesting. The only negative I have to report concerns the episode commentaries (not every episode has a commentary, but you won't mind --trust me on this!). They suck. The guys (the creators) are obviously not into it, are bored, and are making the best of a chore-like situation. I have yet to make it through all the commentaries as I really don't find the guys' personal interchanges to be of any interest. Occasionally, one reminds the other they are supposed to be talking about the show, of which they do very, very little. Nonetheless, I do love the show in spite of the disappointing commentaries; I'm glad to have this and season two (and three when available)in my collection, regardless of any commentary.
extremely satisfied
my item arrived in brand new condition and i was very happy with my purchase
A sidesplitting ode to failure
While there are many characters out there who are models of failure, Jason Alexander's character from Seinfeld being a prime example, I don't know that I've ever seen an entire program based around the theme.
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>In the tall shadows of the rocket age, Dr. Venture and company still figure out a way to keep on chugging down the bumpy road of life, even if it includes hosting yard sales to make a few extra bucks.