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Home Movies - Season Two

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"Home Movies" is the best of all Adult Swim shows, and when it was cancelled Cartoon Network instantly lost a large percentage of their more intelligent viewers. The show has the ability to amuse with subtlety better than any other cartoon I have ever seen, and this season is one of the finest. For season two the show changed from Squigglevision to Flash animation, largely for the better. Simultaneously the characters began to develop into more complete entities, yet remain complex and flexible enough to handle many diverse situations.

Of the episodes in season two, I particularly like "Hiatus" (the "jazz fight" is just wonderful), "Identifying a Body" (which has one of the strangest plotlines ever in a cartoon), "Pizza Club" (which features a wonderful scene of Walter and Perry going on about their inability to eat pizza due to lactose intolerance and spastic colon), and "The Wedding," which is perhaps the funniest episode in the set, once again featuring lots of subtlety (the floral arrangements, the rash, and the new minister ["I haven't done this recently...or in the past..."] all come to mind), and perhaps the best exchange of all time from Walter and Perry.

There are many excellent commentary tracks and extras, which fans will definitely appreciate.

I can't recommend this set or this series highly enough. Do yourself a favor and check it out: I can't imagine not loving this show!

To me it has always been a breech of decorum to review something on Amazon before it has actually been released but to me, "Home Movies" Season 2 is an exception from where I stand. I've seen the second season of Home Movies many more times than I can count.

Adult Swim (for those who don't or can't tune in) can be considered the home of "cutting edge" (though cheaply animated), gutsy, adult oriented animated programming. That's what they, and anyone with low enough standards thinks. What the block really consists of is exhaustively rerun cartoons and every half year something new--- which they will rerun until you can spout out any line of any show on demand.

These days, I change the channel until it's time for Home Movies. I've seen the other programs worth watching on the block a hundred times squared anyway, and Home Movies has always been the one gem to consistently make me laugh, even though I know every line from every show thanks to Adult Swim's lack of up-to-date programming. I can't explain it.

The first season DVD was great, simply because the show is. They could leave the commentaries, Brendon Small's attempts to display his below average musical ability, and the cast's attempts to convince us that they have careers away from Home Movies off the DVD and we'll still have a 5-star boxed set to add to our growing collection.

They did us all a favor and switched from Squigglevision to Flash Animation. The colors are brighter, movements more fluid and the lines hold still, thank God. The shows are less improvised and more scripted, and after hearing Loren Bouchard explain how episodes were recorded in the first boxed set: hours and hours of Jon Benjamin and Brendon Small goofing around, improvising dialogue and then editing the choicest stuff into the episode was probably a huge waste of time and money. One can certainly understand scripting the episodes, and letting the actors go from there and it never once changed the overall feel of the show at the core.

My favorite episodes of Season Two are "Therapy", "Class Trip" and especially "The Wedding" ("I am Elfor, The Landstander! I stand on land!"). The show has so many great moments that choosing a favorite is harder than it looks.

I was happy to read that Melissa Galsky is joining the cast on the commentary track. I missed hearing her cute voice on the first season commentary. It seemed incomplete to have Brendon and Jason on the track, but no Melissa. I am keeping my fingers crossed that they offer more to us than just a goof-off session on the commentary tracks. I hope to learn something about the process, but if I don't I'll still enjoy this.

The show stands by itself, and with or without DVD extras this set is worth the price. I imagine they put extras there just so people wouldn't shell out their money and complain about how the dvd had no extras. I personally could care less about dvd extras, though I harbor some hope that Soup 2 Nuts learned from the mistakes of the last boxed set.

Many thanks to Soup 2 Nuts for continuing to release Home Movies on DVD, and I hope to see the rest of the show on DVD all the way to the very last episode. I'd hate to have to keep tuning to Adult Swim at 2AM to get my "Home Movies" fix. Their new shows, such as "Tom Goes to the Mayor" and "Robot Chicken" are so painfully un-funny and difficult to sit through (even for 15 minutes) that I end up watch reruns of South Park or Chapelle's show. The new stuff Adult Swim Sunday offers aren't fit for streaming video, let alone a slot on a TV network, but I guess there's no school like the old school.

Many thanks for reading my worthless opinion and I hope it helped a little bit.

I became addicted to this show a couple of years back, when my employer had me living out of a hotel room for month. After a 14-hour workday, I'd get back to the room mentally drained. While flipping channels to fall asleep, I happened upon this irreverent little cartoon show that was as hillarious anything I'd seen since the early days of The Simpsons, or the comedy of Jake Johansen.

The smart silliness of this animated show was, for me, the perfect antidote to fried-brain syndrome; and needless to say, I became hooked. Only thing is, I've never had cable at home; so when I got back, I went through withdrawls from no longer being able to see the show every night. FINALLY, I spotted the Home Movies: Season 1 box set at Tower Records and immediately had to get it. And I'm so hyped to know that the second season is about to be realesed!

On days when I come home for lunch, I end up watching Home Movies for an hour--it's way better than Judge Judy--and return to work ready to serve out the rest of the day with a grin on my face. I can't wait to own 13 more episodes of this great show.

I was terrified that sales of Season One wouldn't be good enough to justify further releases.

My hope for this set: That they mixed the commentaries properly, so the episode audio doesn't interfere with the commentary hijinks. I would love to be able to hear the commentaries without getting an extreme headache.

Brendan Small is a . . . GENIUS (musical and comedic) . . . and H. Jon Benjamin may be the only performer who can steal the show from him! Janine DiIlulio is admirable for IMPROVING on Paula Poundstone's role (and lending the character sex appeal), and Melissa Bardin Garsky is a witty foil. Not to mention the great guest performers, and semi-regular Jonathan Katz. It's really amazing: "HOME MOVIES" is OVERLOADED with TALENT! No, seriously . . . I think the show would have lasted longer, if there had been less talent.

This has got to be my favorite season of home movies. For those of you who have never heard of it, Home Movies was an adult oriented cartoon airing occasionally on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. I know how hard it is to see this show, usually it'd only be on, on Sunday nights at like 12:30am or something. This is why owning these dvd's is SO important. The animation isn't the best, its got a rough around the edges quality, but I think it just makes the show more loveable. The main story line is about a boy named Brandon and his friends who direct and star in their own "home movies". The second season is just as hilarious as the first. I fell in love with this show the first time I saw it (oddly enough a season 2 episode) and I hope you do too.

I know I could have used this when I was purchasing the first season, but if anyone is looking for the particular episode in which the coach inherits a sausage, this is the season!!! =D Priceless, my favorite home movies moment!

Ok, I'll be honest with anyone who's interested in the Home Movies series 2 collection. It's a shade different than season 1.
Be prepared for a few changes, most of which ARE good. I loved season 1, and when I read the reviews about season 2 being different, I didn't like the idea too much. I went ahead and got it and at first, I almost missed the Squigglevision! (I'm probably the only one!) One more thing- the dialoug is a little more stylized, and it takes a minute to get used to it. However, put that aside and season 2 is hilarious! The more I watched it the more it grew on me! I love it now, and wouldn't change anything about it. I'm not gonna talk about any episodes in particular because I don't wanna ruin the surprises, but it's great. This is one case where change is a good thing.

When some friends got me into Adult Swim, I enjoyed it at first but largely tired of the silly, but sometimes too stupid and/or random to even be funny shows that populated the majority of the block. Except Home Movies. Home Movies became the only show that I regularly tuned in to, and when I discovered it was cancelled I scoured the internet in hopes that they'd put it out on DVD. Lo and behold, someone made the call and let us watch this great show whenever we want.

What holds Home Movies above the rest of Adult Swim is that the series is very character driven, and the characters and situations are very real. The show is able to take situations like a kid growing up in a single-parent household and simultaneously approach from a child's perpsective and an adult one. I think that if Home Movies had been a live-action sit-com it would've gotten a lot more respect for being the brilliantly funny and insightful show that it is.

The show is as always subtly hilarious, and what's better is that some of the commentaries are like getting a whole new episode. While I do miss hearing H. Jon Benjamin on the tracks, Brendon, Loren and Melissa have got more than enough clever and interesting commentary to keepthe commentaries fresh. The interviews are quite funny as well.

What more can I say? The show is superb and season 2 is even better than the first one. It deserves a spot in any TV fan's collection.

First of all it has to be said, "Season two" is not better than "Season One". OK. Now that we got that out the way let it be said "Home Movies" still represents in "Season two". The show is just plain funny, with a solid mix of comedy and light hearted drama, that will keep you coming back for more. New characters such as the Walter & Perry, the mulitied-rolled spanish guy/kid, really round out an already allstar cast of characters. 4 stars. Only show better than "Home Movies" is "Dr. Katz" and good luck getting your hands on that!

Phew....I was unsure whether they would release another season of Home Movies on DVD. By the grace of God, or someone superior to myself, we are thankfully graced with this opportunity to bring home this great entertainment on DVD. I came upon Home Movies whilst flipping through the channels late one night. I recognized the "Katz" style animation and decided to check it out. I had no clue what i was getting into. This show is the sole reason that i got into Adult Swim, and now im a regular watcher, except for the anime crap. I would like to see more Home Movies on Adult Swim and especially new seasons of it, but Aqua Teen Hunger Force pulls its weight easily. This is a great day and i ordered it the second i saw it for sale, if you like the humor of shows on Adult Swim, Home Movies is for you, grab it, watch it, love it; i know you will.

Home Movies has to be one of the funniest cartoons ever done for American TV. I really miss this show, and I wish it had achieved a larger audience.