Product Details

• Actors: Regina King, John Witherspoon, Cedric Yarbrough, Gary Anthony Williams, Jill Talley
• Directors: Bob Hathcock, Dan Fausett, Seung Eun Kim
• Writers: Aaron McGruder, Andre Brooks, Jason Van Veen, Rodney Barnes, Yamara Taylor
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: June 10, 2008
• Run Time: 325 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (75 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0016KCCCM
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,008 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Boondocks: The Complete Second Season" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Genre: Television: Series
Rating: NR
Release Date: 10-JUN-2008
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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32 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Aaron McGruder is a genius! Funny as hell!, August 17, 2008

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DJ Come of Age "DJ COA" (Germany/France/USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Boondocks: The Complete Second Season (DVD)

Length:: 2:59 Mins

15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best..., June 25, 2008

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Kenneth A Holloway (ATL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Boondocks: The Complete Second Season (DVD)

This is easily one of the smartest and funniest shows on television... animated or otherwise! It's a shame that Sony has yet to greenlight season 3 (possibly due to the fact that the two episodes that were banned from airing stateside appear on this set and Sony might be taking a wait and see attitude to see what BET will do in response since it was BET's threat to sue that got the episodes banned in the first place). If you are easily offended by any sort of vulgar language or racial humor and satire, this show is NOT for you! However, if you enjoy great animation coupled with intelligent writing, non-stop laughs and great underlying messages, BUY THIS SET NOW AND DEMAND SONY GREENLIGHT SEASON 3!!!

As for BET... if BET execs are so concerned with how they're portrayed in these episodes, perhaps they should consider improving the quality of their programs rather than broadcasting... whatever it is they continue to pass off as entertainment. Sorry... I'll get off my soapbox now.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still the best all-around animated show on television, January 16, 2009

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trashcanman (Hanford, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Boondocks: The Complete Second Season (DVD)

Length:: 3:40 Mins

So what do I think about "The Boondocks"? It's good. How good? Reeeeaaaal good. What do I like about it specifically? Everything. the first season knocked me upside my head and made me laugh until I begged it to stop. Season two is a step down, but still has the show going strong and laying the social satire, cutting parody, and excessive vulgarity nice and thick while battling the evil forces trying to make the world a stupider place. Aaron McGruder is a superhero. Do not doubt this. Not only did he create a successful and controversial newspaper comic strip that lashed out at nearly every reader who came across it and dared them to say they didn't deserve it, but he created an even less friendly animated version pairing the most crude and vulgar content imaginable with even more in-your-face racial commentary and somehow got it aired on basic cable. Unbelievable. This man has enriched my life and given me hope for a better future. God bless him and Cartoon Network.

10 things I love about the Boondocks season two DVD set:
1) Killer kung-fu wolf b!+ches voiced by the heavenly Aisha Tyler.

2) "Soul Plane" sequel parodies featuring a mumbling 50 Cent as a heroic air marshal.

3) An episode commenting on the baffling "no snitching" culture while simultaneously mocking bluetooth headsets and other useless technology.

4) Katt Williams reprising his role as A Pimp Named Slickback (That is his actual full name. Like A Tribe Called Quest) to act as marriage counselor to an emasculated Tom Dubois. Example: "Has NOT hitting the b!+ch been working? I mean, scientifically speaking, has not hitting the b!+ch achieved the desired result?"

5) Lines like "It's not the fact that you clearly have a possessed man tied to a bed upstairs...it's that you lied about it." GOLD!

6) Watching the voice actors at work on the extras with the N-bombs all cut together.

7) Spending an entire episode systematically linking gay and hip-hop cultures while puzzling about how rappers and those who idolize them could be so homophobic. Then giving you the answer. Come out of the closet already, Fiddy.

8) Not one, but TWO unaired episodes blasting the corporate ignorance-peddlers known as BET for their incessant mongering of negative black stereotypes to the world at large. Talk about selling out your own people.

9) Not one but TWO episodes parodying a certain overweight, overexposed media hog posing as a civil rights activist for personal gain.

10) Showing us the truth behind snarky Fox News darling Ann Coulter's parade of ignorance. Speaking of hot conservative bee-yatches, I long for the day when Michelle Malkin's racist BS comes back on her and Rupert Murdoch only allows her to speak using the Vietnamese prostitute's lines from Full Metal Jacket. "Me so horny, baby."

What else is there to say? This show still swings for the fences, devours every sacred cow, pays homage to the finer things in life (like Bruce Lee flicks), and causes fits of laughter that could be mistaken by a passerby for epilepsy. There are a few bits that don't work out as well as they could have (did we need an entire episode about Usher macking on somebody's wife?) and the gaps in production are starting to take a toll, but I still can't get enough of "The Boondocks". There is no more socially relevant series out there and even South Park dares not tread where this show lives. It asks the hard questions and delivers the answers that some may not want to hear, but that's reality. This is the show that dared to wonder aloud in it's very first season just what the immortal Martin Luther King Jr. would think of what his people have done with the freedom he and so many others sacrificed so much for.

Uncalled-for message from the soapbox incoming.

Screw BET, Fox News, MTV, and every other corporate entity feeding and profiting from our country's ignorance epidemic. Why bother teaching pride in one's race while glorifying ill-gotten material wealth, demeaning women, promoting violence, and ridiculing any sign of intelligence? Every person who sees a person different them them, be it ethnicity, nationality, religion, or political party and sees them as the other side only plays into the divide-and-conquer strategy that allows us all to be perpetually exploited by those in power. And as for an entire cable channel that claims to represent the values of entire race, what happened to "a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character"? What kind of character is being fostered in American culture by the garbage on BET and MTV? Forget race. That's WHAT you are. What matters is WHO you are. This is what Dr. King taught, this is what Boondocks preaches, and this is what I personally believe. But it's way funnier when Boondocks tells it.

4 1/2 stars rounded up for telling it like it is.