Cheap X-Men Evolution - Mutants Rising (DVD) (Curt Geda, Steven E. Gordon, Boyd Kirkland, Doug Murphy, Gary Graham (II), Frank Paur) Price

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The best cartoon series on the planet!
I think Warner Bros. made a huge mistake by marketing this for little kids instead of to more mature X-Men fans. There isn't many cool extras, and the background stories X-Men Evolution producer Boyd Kirkland gives, last only about 20 seconds each episode. I would have loved to seen more stuff. Still, it was so great to see the awesome and vibrant colors of X-Men Evolution on DVD, I'll forgive them. One of the big selling points to this DVD is the footage that was cut out of the television broadcasts by the WBKids censors. Growing Pains, Power Surge, and Bada-bing bada-boom, all get restored to their original condition. It is really hard to imagine why they would cut any of this out in the first place, but it did make the episodes more exciting for the DVD. One particular new scene made me see the Lance and Kitty romance in a whole new way. I hope the Evolution guys use this avenue as a way to get around censoring in the future. Just put it all on the DVD. Now I only hope they put the rest of the series on DVD.

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could've been better
includes the first four eps of season 2:

ep 201 growing pains -- season opener, first appearance of the younger class (jubilee, cannonball, etc.), avalanche exposes the mutants to the school, but the professor wipes their minds
ep 202 badda bing badda boom -- boom boom's father forces her to steal money
ep 203 power surge -- jean grey's powers threaten to overwhelm her
ep 204 fun and games -- the x-men throw a party while the professor is away, but a student named arcade accidentally stumbles into the danger room

extras inc: language features, episode intros by the director frank paur, and a few other things that i haven't checked yet, prob. just bios on the characters. all in all sort of disappointing, since the rest of the episodes from season 1 haven't been put out and the first 4 eps of season 2 were def. not the best of the season. still, it's better than nothing.

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Better than the 90's crap
This series doesn't mince words with the comic. If you are looking for cheesy characters and the same old story line as the comics go for the 90's episodes. If your going for something new and a revitilized x-men than watch this. This is a new day for mutants and shows the trouble of high school teenage mutants. My son and I watch it and both enjoy it, so it is good from 4 yr's old to 27. Those of us who have been reading for a while will recognize and be amazed by how many chaaracters are brought to the new generation that we remember from our youth. really a great show and worthwile buy.