| |||||||||||||||||||||
 Trade In This Movies & TV Item for $9.15
Trade in Ally McBeal: Season 2 for a $9.15 Amazon.com Gift Card that can be redeemed for millions of items store wide. See more Movies & TV eligible for trade-in
|
Frequently Bought Together
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Product Details
Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
|
Special Features
The second season of Ally McBeal is when the show really hit its stride. Introducing two new cast members, the willowy Nelle Porter (Portia de Rossi) and the (almost literally) fiery Ling Woo (Lucy Liu), this season of Ally compounds the sexual tension around the politically incorrect law offices of Cage & Fish--as if that randy group needed more encouragement. Calista Flockhart's performance as Ally is truly career defining, and she makes her acting look so effortless that it's easy to overlook the fact that she is in nearly every scene. Ally is smart, capable, and a blithering mess when it comes to her social life--a combination many fans can relate to. And the plot twists are demonically hilarious. In one episode, Ally and her bosses (the wryly funny Peter MacNichol, as John Cage, and Greg Germann, as Richard Fish) are asked to defend a 39-year-old woman accused of having an affair with a 16-year-old boy. When Ally meets the now-18-year-old dreamboat, professional demeanor leaves her completely--as it does often. A big bonus of this boxed set is the inclusion, finally, of all the episodes' original music, including original and cover songs by the great soul singer Vonda Shepard--and even Barry White, who appears as one of Ally's frequent, and extremely entertaining, hallucinations. This season, Ally seems determined to conquer her neuroses and has enlisted the help of a therapist (Tracey Ullman) who glibly reassures the self-involved Ally that "Narcissism is a wonderful thing." Ally, surprised: "It is?" Therapist, crisply: "Yes. For me. Nuts like you heat my pool." Ally McBeal also features great performances by Jane Krakowski, Lisa Nicole Carson, Courtney Thorne-Smith, and Gil Bellows--with any or all of the lawyers gossiping, eavesdropping, and most importantly, taking pratfalls in that famous unisex bathroom. Ally is a heroine of the postfeminist era, and one who's willing to laugh at herself--and that makes Ally McBeal a must-watch for fans of TV comedy, drama, romance, and anything else in between. --A.T. Hurley
Editorial Reviews
ALLY MCBEAL SEASON 2 - DVD Movie
Customer Reviews
|
Share your thoughts with other customers:
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
The complete season 2!,
By Peabody "macmurphy" (Nowhere, USA) - See all my reviews
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Ally McBeal: The Complete Season Two [Region 2 Import - Non USA Format] (DVD)
The menus and navigating is a little awkward, but its the best we've got so I can't complain: I'm thrilled to see Ally again just as the episodes aired in good quality and with music in tact.Don't worry if you don't have a Region 2 DVD Player: You can Use VLC Player to watch any Region DVDs on a PC or Mac set to any region. Google: VLC Media Player software, its a free download. ****UPDATE 11/2011: It seems Amazon has once again combined many reviews on various formats of this DVD into one. The above review I did a few years ago was for the Region 2 version of Ally which was the only Ally McBeal Season 2 DVD that contained the original music. This new version of the DVD that Amazon has put my review on is for the new Region 1 US Canada version that finally has the original music.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Five Stars for the show, ZERO for the studio!!!,
By COLBERTNOTION (La Fayette, Georgia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Ally McBeal: The Complete Second Season (DVD)
Not only has it taken FOX over a decade to finally get around to releasing this show for the American viewers but they release the box set first with no tentative dates for the individual seasons (save season one which I suppose they HAD to release at the same time as the box set just keep the uproar to a minimum). Its these actions of studios, like FOX, that encourage bootlegging and piracy which they claim to hate. Then they have the audacity to boast that these DVD's contain the "original" music. I'd like to be naive enough to say, "what else would they contain?" Of course, many times that is just the greed of the original music artists demanding too much money for something they did 10-15 years ago.
4.0 out of 5 stars
Ally McBeal,
Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?)
This review is from: Ally McBeal: Season 2 (DVD)
Ally McBeal was a romance comedy that took on some very controversial topics, even in today's society. Every episode builds on the last storyline between characters and new subject matter from new clients. There are always funny/sad events between the main characters, with some morality questions coming to my mind, which makes me consider other points of view than just my own. The show was very well written, and the actors did amazingly well portraying the individual quirks of their character.
Share your thoughts with other customers: Create your own review
|
|
Tags Customers Associate with This Product(What's this?)Click on a tag to find related items, discussions, and people.
|
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Look for Similar Items by Category
Look for Similar Items by Subject
|
