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Mari Mar

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For those of you who like drama/romance and are a big fan of Thalia (who sang with Fat Joe), the pop Mexican singer and actress, this 1994 soap launched Thalia as an international star. Translated into all languages MARIMAR is the most popular and beloved soap that Thalia made and is the second of the so-called "Maria triligoy" in which she plays poor peasent girls named Maria.
STORY PLOT: Marimar, who's name means "Maria from the Ocean" lives by the sea with her grandparents in a small broken down shack. One day she meets a local soccor player named Sergio (Eduardo Capetillo) the son of Renato, the owner of an Hacienda (mansion.) Sergio's only desire is to recieve his part of the family inheritance in order to leave the small town along the coast and move into Mexico City. One day while stealing vegatbles from thier garden to feed her starving family, Marimar meets Sergio and falls in love immediately. Due to her innocence and lack of education, Marimar marries him shortly thereafter, unaware that Sergio was using her to further anger his father and cruel stepmother Angelica (Chantal Andere) because his father refused to give Sergio his part of the inheritance. Angelica does everything she can to embaress Marimar and force her out of the house. When Marimar returns to the shack, her husband informs her that he must go to the big city and find work...and so he leaves her despite her pleas not to. Angelica goes as far as forcing Marimar to her knees and pulling a bracelete out of the mud with her bare teeth, believing that the expensive bracelet belonged Sergio's mother. Angelica then accused her of theft and Marimar is sent to jail. While she's there her grandparents are killed when the small shack in which they lived is burned to the ground during the night as ordered by Angelica. When the charges are dropped by her, Marimar is forced to leave the small town and head into the big city to find work and make a living...where months later her path crosses once again with her husband. Believing that his wife is still at her home, Sergio at first does not recognize Marimar, as by now she had changed her name to "Bella" (Precious) and she had become a very-well educated woman, who appeared to have a very wealthy family. Marimar had in fact been taken in as a houseemaid by her own father, who had been looking for her. Not knowing that Marimar was his daughter and she not knowing that Gustavo was her father, he taught her how to walk, dress, speak, read...in the ways of the wealthy society. Eventually they both realize through Marimar's birth certificate who she really is. Months later when Marimar gives birth to a daughter and conceals that fact from everyone, except her family and close friends, she once again crosses path with not only Sergio, but also Angelica. Suspecting but not believing who she was, Angelica slowly falls victim to Marimar's plan to strip her and her husband of their fortune. Now the tables turn as it becomes an eye for an eye. Marimar would seduce Sergio only to reject him at the last minute. While she was in prison, Angelica had written and sent her a false letter suppoesdly written by Sergio in which he says he never loved her and that he wanted to divorce as soon as possible. Marimar does everything Angelica made her do when she was just a poor innocent girl...she manipulates Angelica, embaresses her, humilates her...by the time they all realize who Bella really is, it's too late. Marimar had by then forced them onto the street, becoming the new owner of thier Hacienda. In raged, Angelica vows to avenge herself and her husband by making Marimar "vanish from the face of the earth," however...the story has several more twists...including Sergio divorcing Marimar and then marrying another woman, thus adding yet another rival to the story. Marimar vows to avenge her grandparent's death and will stop at nothing until her enemy, Angelica, whom she knows is responsible for thier death, pays dearly "with tears of blood."
Altough MARIMAR losses her innocene and becomes a bitter cold woman, she is still very good at heart. The story never does cease to surprise and capitivate audiences worldwide! The soap, along with the theme song, earned Thalia the title as "The Queen of Telenoelas."
OTHER SOAP TITLES STARRING THALIA: MARIA MERCEDES (1991)
MARIA LA DEL BARRIO (1995) ROSALINDA (1999)
NOTE: THIS PARTICULAR NOVELA DOES HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES.

MARIMAR is 5 stars, TELEVISA HOME ENT. SUCKS!

I am not even to get into the telenovela being chopped like all others or the sub-standard (midi) music, I will give them credit for using the telenovelas original opening and theme song

BUT COME ON, DOES TELEVISA HOME ENT. HAVE QUALITY CONTROL!

They actually use the theme song from "Maria la del Barrio" for the back drop of the TRAYECTORIAS and for the backdrop song on discs 2 and 3!

I love "Maria la del Barrio", but it ruins the "Marimar" expereince.

It seems as though they just messed up or dind't care.

To the THALIA fan and collector, this does matter.

TELEVISA HOME ENT. SUCKS!!!

How will they mess up "Maria Mercedes" now???????

MariMar one of Thalia and Televisa's biggest hits finally makes it to DVD. Was it worth the wait? NO. For those of you who fell in love with this series when it first hit the air waves in 1994 you will be in for quite a shock. This is a butchered version of the original story.

It really makes no sense in releasing these famous Televisa telenovelas if they are not going to be faithful to their original presentation.

The butchering done to these episodes in inexcusable! The storyline makes absolutely no sense now as it jumps to plot point to plot point. It's laughable. Actually it's infuriating.

Granted we're not talking about "Gone With the Wind" here, but still MariMar, Maria La Del Barrio, Maria Mercedes and Rosalinda are four of Thalia's biggest and best in the telenovela genre and have garnered fans on an international level.

This past year alone there was a very successful remake of this series in the Philippines, which proves how popular and far reaching these programs are.

It's an injustice that just to make a quick buck these shows are being rushed out on DVD in such a careless fashion.

People who have never seen these shows to begin with are going to think this is what was originally aired on television. It is not. Not by a long shot.

Televisa needs to get their act together and release these shows in their COMPLETE, UNEDITED ORIGINAL VERSIONS or just quit scamming loyal fans with this inferior product.

Mari Mar is a wonderful series that I watched in my childhood. I was so excited when I've ordered this DVD but was terribly disappointed when I found out that it is NOT the whole series. They chopped it down so much that it is barely recongnizable. They cut out so many excellent parts and the sound quality was awful. If you have a true yearning for Mari Mar, by all means buy it. But please do not expect to see the whole thing.

I knew this Novela would be chopped up, but not like this. They left a lot of stuff that was not necessary and deleted some very important scenes. It seems like they added a lot in the beginning, then heavily edited at the end of the Novela.

What also angered me is that the last disc is also double sided, but only one has video. Why use a double sided DVD and only use one side when there is at least 2 more hours of story line they could of added?

I thought I was going crazy because the story line of the telenovela, Mari Mar, lacked continuity. I thought I was missing a disk somewhere. After reading other reviews, I realized "I am not the problem." It is because the novela was chopped in all places. I could not understand why something was happening to the story and how the characters got there. I thought perhaps my DVD player skipped scenes.

One of the most annoying things about the DVD telenovela is that the background music is too loud that I can hardly hear the characters speaking. It is not the music I bought the telenovela for. I wanted to hear the spoken Spanish! I wanted to understand the dialog and not have to deal with the music. I believe the intention was to "set up" the scene for some drama but instead it just offends the sensibilities of the viewer.

The opening has original music that was Good! When switching disc to disc the song instead of MariMar it was Maria la del Barrio that's a hige "bubu". The novela a times didn't make sense. There was good and exciting parts cut as it was when Angelica had her accident on the original version you could see all burned and saying that she didn't regret anything also when Angelica sister lost her baby things that were very interesting. I think this novela was terribly edited as well as boring.

COMPRENLA TODOS LAS RECOMIENDO; MARIMAR, MARIA MERCEDES Y MARIA LA DEL BARRIO Y ROSALINDA POR SU PUESTO, . . . TODAS, TODAS SON EXCELENTES!!!!!Mari MarMaria La del BarrioRosalinda

There isn't much to say about the DVD with out giving away the story so here I go. Mair Mar, is one of the best written Mexican soup opreas I have seen. When I was going through amazon I was so happy that I found this DVD that I bought it right there and then.

This is a really good story of love, jealousy, hate and revenge. If you've never seen this novela before or haven't seen it since it first aired a decade ago....this DVD is for you. If you have seen it more recently, you'll notice what's missing and will not like this version.