Product Details

• Actors: Matt Weitzman Mike Barker, Scott Grimes
• Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
• Subtitles: Spanish, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: October 6, 2009
• Run Time: 22 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000NNK4DM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,748 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "American Dad!, Vol. 2" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

The "Laugh Alert" level is Elevated with the release of this second volume of episodes that chronologically span seasons 1 and 2. You know the "there" that people talk about when they say, "Don't go 'there'?" Seth MacFarlane's American Dad! leaves "there" in the dust. Take the holiday--excuse me, Christmas--episode, "The Best Christmas Story Never," which somehow melds Charles Dickens with a Ray Bradbury-esque cautionary tale of tampering with the past. CIA Agent and true patriot act Stan Smith (voiced by MacFarlane) loses the spirit of the season in a blizzard of PC secularism in which even the fugitive "Christmas rapist" must be referred to as "the holiday rapist." In the "is nothing sacred" world of American Dad!, Christmas can only be saved by Stan accompanying the Ghost of Christmas Past (Lisa Kudrow) back in time to (don't ask) kill Jane Fonda (or Donald Sutherland), take over the direction of Taxi Driver from a drug-free Martin Scorsese, and shoot Ronald Reagan. The Smith family--wife Francine, geeky son Steve, and "peace-pusher" daughter Hayley--is still not as vividly drawn as the Griffins on MacFarlane's Family Guy (even Klaus, the talking German-accented goldfish admits in one episode that his "fish shtick" is getting thin), but one can't help salute the audacity of the oft-inspired writing. In "Stannie, Get Your Gun," Stan becomes a National Gun Association spokesperson after being accidentally paralyzed by his anti-gun daughter. "The American Dad After School Special" has an A Brilliant Mind-like twist as Stan battles an eating disorder brought about by Steve's new overweight girlfriend. In "Helping Handis," Steve becomes the big man on campus after he develops steroid-enhanced breasts.

Two episodes are standouts for their animation. "Dungeons and Wagons," as did South Park with "Make Love, Not Warcraft," creates a video game universe in which Steve rules. Near the end of "Failure Is Not a Factory-Installed Option," the screen adjusts to widescreen format, and the saga of the golden turd, begun in the first season episode, "Homeland Insecurity" compellingly continues with the jewel-encrusted oddity becoming the last temptation of an honest cop (Beau Bridges). American Dad! is, as should be apparent, not for all tastes (or more sensitive viewers--the episode "Tears of a Clooney" drops some unbleeped F-bombs), but fans of the series are rewarded with this three disc-set's prodigious extra features, including rowdy, chaotic commentaries for all the episodes, a wealth of hit and miss deleted scenes, and a segment devoted to the production of "Dungeons and Wagons." --Donald Liebenson

Product Description

The last 10 episodes from season one and the first nine episodes from season two--including "Stannie Get Your Gun," "Star Trek," "Tears of a Clooney," "Camp Refoogee," and "The Best Christmas Story Never"--are collected in a three-disc set. 7 hrs. total. Standard; Soundtrack: English Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles: English, French, Spanish; audio commentary; featurettes. **19 episodes on 3 discs. 7 hrs.**

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Each season gets better,finding own voice from "Family Guy" February 3, 2008

By KerrLines

Format:DVD

Seasons One and two of AMERICAN DAD are full of wild and witty spoofs on America.Like FAMILY GUY,Seth MacFarlane's and Dan Vebber's "all-American" Smith family has had to find it's own voice with each season having it's characters fleshed -out and situations developed.This happens with all shows (FRIENDS was NOT a huge hit, nor terribly funny in Season One!).AMERICAN DAD has had to be original while not copying the earlier and still running FAMILY GUY.Don't compare these two shows because as Season Two concludes and now Season Three is available,AMERICAN DAD had developed it's own outlandish and totally absurd identity that has me laughing (and feeling guilty about it sometimes) at the spoofing of "American Values" through the eyes of CIA operative Stan Smith and his family.Roger The Alien has slowly emerged as the funniest character (modeled after comedian Paul Lynde) and the situations and the pacing start hitting on all cylinders in Season Two.Season Three is solid in all of it's episodes.I am crazy about FAMILY GUY, but AMERICAN DAD has crept into my spoof-loving heart and is neck and neck in the running.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Can't live without my American Dad! May 17, 2007

By RogerLover33

Format:DVD

I didn't think it could get any better than last season but season two is so freaking funny. There's not a bum episode in the bunch. This show is consistantly smart and hilarious; it never disappoints. Stand-out epidodes this season are the Christmas Special, where Stan goes back in time and Roger invents disco, Camp Refoogee, where Stan, Steve and Hayley end up at a Refugee Camp, and an episode where Stan gets so obsessed with his appearance, he ends up anorexic. Hooray! How do they come up with this stuff? I don't know but I hope it keeps coming...I need my American Dad fix!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Extras kick it up August 17, 2007

By Seaweed

Format:DVD

I like this show, have for a while, and was excited to get the DVD's in Volume 2- as it contains some of their best episodes yet. I have to say though, beyond just enjoying the shows, the extras were really cool too. it was intresting to see how Dungeons & Wagons was put together- and take a tour of the studio. The commentary is entertaining and interesting. i have a few more left to view, but it keeps me giggling.
The humor is not for the faint of heart, or easily offended, but that is what I love about it. i say, get it, watch it, love American Dad.