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5.0 out of 5 stars
To any and all Happy Tree Friends fans..., November 15, 2008
This review is from: Happy Tree Friends - The Complete Season One (DVD)
This item is a fantastic addition to the Happy Tree Friends DVD collection. I have owned a box set for a few months now, and I still watch it oftenly. Special features range from destroying a yellow rabbit phlush to interviews with the cast to a parody of the show "Cribs" featuring Warren Graff, show writer. Some people love this show, others dispise it. So please, before you buy it, make sure you like this kind of stuff. In includes major blood and gore.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Discontinued? For shame, April 23, 2009
This review is from: Happy Tree Friends - The Complete Season One (DVD)
It's too bad that this box set was discontinued back in February (2009). As I write this (late April, 2009), it is still available from some smaller on-line retailers, and intermittently here on Amazon. Do some searches, you'll probably locate one for a reasonable cost ($40 or less).
If not, at least take heart in the fact that this box set is fundamentally no different from individually collecting the four separate volumes, which are still available. The only differences are: (1) the box set is traditionally cheaper; (2) this set contains a paperboard box for the DVD cases, and (3) it contains a HTF-themed sticker-pack to "pimp the box" (their words, not mine) to your tastes. There is no extra content on any of the DVDs, and while the stickers are highly amusing, I think neither they, nor the box itself, are worth paying extra money for.
(Personally, I was hoping that the box set would consist of a gatefold sleeve that would take up less shelf space, but no such luck. Rather, it's just a thin paperboard box that holds the four standard-size jewel cases.)
The above said, do I still need to review the content? Well, here goes: it's gross, it's alarming, it's over the top, and it's 100% pure awesome. There are lots of cartoons here, cartoons where cute furry animals die hideous and shocking and crimson-spurting deaths. You'll either love it or hate it, and you probably know the answer to that dichotomy without much introspection. Myself, I happen to love it.
These specific HTF cartoons have a different feel than their pre-TV, web-based material, for a couple of reasons. (1) The stories are longer (seven minutes instead of appx. three minutes), to accommodate the TV format. (2) The animation is of a slightly different style, being the product of their new high-throughput computer-animation method (so the animators can crank out twenty-plus minutes per week instead of ten minutes per month), and the lower quality is slightly palpable. But really, animation quality is not why we're here. The characters are the same, their antics and scenarios are the same, and they're just as funny as ever.
Although if any complaint can be made, it's just that: too much of the same thing can get old, and the hazard of having many hours of these cartoons in a box is that they can get old really fast. How much territory can you cover with a bunch of cartoon characters dying in the worst ways possible? Well, it turns out to be quite a lot, but I still recommend taking this in light doses.
Also, note that while this box set contains nearly eleven hours of content, you should know that roughly half of that is due to special features. W/r/t actual episodes, there are nine on each DVD, each which are seven minutes long. This equals roughly five hours of episode material for the entire box set. This can be disappointing if you're hoping for 10+ hours of pure cartoon mayhem. (I'm tempted to remove a star because of this, but $40 for five hours of "true content" isn't that bad of a deal, and the true content is gold.)
So dig up the box set if you can (you'll save a few bucks and get the cool stickers), otherwise accumulate the individual volumes at your own leisure. If you're an HTF fan (or an aficionado of violent cartoons), you can't go wrong.
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