Customer Reviews

Defenders of the Earth - The Complete 65 Episode Series

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This show was pretty great and it still holds up for the most part. The problem here is the terrible product provided. The image and sound is awful. They've crammed too many episodes onto each disc. The artwork and packaging in general is very substandard. No extras whatsoever. It is priced very low but not even worth that.

The stories are worth watching with the antagonist actually a general challenge for the heroes, coming up with new and interesting ways to fail. Unfortunately the animation is very primative. Some of the set pieces are worth viewing but you are almost better closing your eyes and listening to the voices over watching the jerky animation.

I must say i have really high praises for cartoons from the 80's era... although, some parts look like its just paper dolls moving, the level of effort and detail greatly surpasses a lot of todays animations...
however, like a lot of cartoons from the 80's, there are so many episodes that just doesn't have certain excitement factors in them... after 1 cd, i had to take a break from it and move on to the next series that i bought. I will still watch it though, but alternating is the best way to go. I dont think i could stand watching all 65 episodes in one go.

wasnt sure this set would be good but my child wanted it and have watched it with them. It turned out to be a very good show.

I was suggested this box set of DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH from one of my previous pruchases. After taking a good look at the box's artwork, the memories of this cartoon came back to me.

I used to watch this cartoon on Sunday mornings back in the 80's on a UHF channel. To me, these were the best stories and incarnations of the characters Flash Gordon and The Phantom.

After getting this DVD set and watching the credits, I was surprised to see that Marvel's STAN LEE actually was involved with the show--Even writing the lyrics to the them song! I also spotted Frank Paur's name--Who is known for his great work with the Batman: The Animated Series and, recently, with Marvel's Animated Feature--Planet Hulk!

This cartoon has great scripts and was done in the style of the GI Joe & Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends animation. Many of the sound effects and some of the scores from those two shows can be heard in DEFENDERS OF THE EARTH. The cartoon series was also a Marvel Production associated with King Features.

If you enjoy action packed 80's cartoons, this is one to be added to your collection. I was glad Amazon suggested this item to me!

If you've read my reviews, I like to review the product, not the title. After all, do people really get movie reviews at Amazon & not IMDB? I'm here to buy, not to see what other people think about a movie or TV show. I will say that the transfers on these DVDs is very good. Not perfect, but they look better here than they did on my TV back when this show first aired, so that's an improvement.

The thing I will say is that these discs came packaged in a DVD box, but with the DVDs in little black sleeves inside the box. That doesn't really matter, as long as the discs are protected. But the thing is, I don't know if they protect, as the first side of the second disc (Oh, did I mention the discs are double-sided. Yuck!) had a big scratch on it. I could see the scratch before even taking it out of the sleeve (the front of the sleeves have a clear plastic to see through) & naturally, the disc didn't play. Figuring I should return it, I see that it would have cost me money to do so, & since I paid $10 for it anyway, decided to keep it as is, with 8 or so episodes unwatchable.

So a bit of a disappointment, but at least I can see most of them. If not for this disc being damaged, I would give my review 4 stars.

I was surprised at just how good this cartoon is from what I remember it. The characters a brill: Flash Gordon and the Phantom together in one cartoon. It has to have the best theme music ever created for a cartoon - including anime. Sadly though the disgustingly cheap presentation of this box set ruins it. The DVD's come in paper bags which are placed inside the case. The picture on the outer box looks photocopied. When I received it I first thought it was a bootleg copy. Still it's a cheap way to get all the episodes and the quality of the picture and sound on the disks is good. It really is one of the best cartoons to come out of the 80's. The animation is far ahead of others at this time. The stories are good too and all the characters except for maybe the little monster thing called Snarf. Could've done without him.

This was purchased for our collection. In arrived in perfect condition ahead of schedule. We would defintely buy again from this vendor.

Bought it to add it to my collection of the 80s cartoons i grew up on. Happy with the purchase.

This was nice not so much for the shows themself but when I wanted this on TV in the 80's life was so much simpler. Thanks for that.