41 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
severely shortchanged, July 28, 2005
This review is from: Mtv / Wet Shorts: Best of Liquid Television (DVD)
Is MTV for real? LqTV, for a few years, was the finest showcase for original and imaginative animation on MTV. But that was before the onslaught of reality-TV, a genre we can blame on shows that MTV pioneered, like "Real World" and "Road Rules". While MTV reality shows have gotten the season-box-set treatment, the best they can apparently do with this fine show is to merely excerpt it. While I'm happy to see almost any reminder of this great show from the days when MTV was actually worth watching, the monumental gap in the way this show has been treated is infuriating.
First off, we get some "Beavis & Butthead" and "Aeon Flux" really don't belong here. Not that they're not great - they are, but each got their own show anyway. If we're gonna be picky, we should have more of the stuff from animators who didn't get their own shows, or even much time on LqTV. This disc is even more annoying because of what was left out - much of Brad Dharma, psychotic postcards ("Dear Mum, met up with `Operative...X'".) and "Stick-Figure Theater". The disc seems to concentrate on the mini-franchises" - ongoing work recurring throughout the series, like "Winter Steele", and ofcourse "Aeon Flux" - likely because they think just one "episode" is sufficient reminder of all of them. (Though I guess that there's an argument to be made for this given "Art School Girls, of Doom".) The work that collectively became LqTV was funny, poignant, biting savage but also tender. And much of it was apparently tossed, just so we could concentrate on whole seasons of "Pimp My Ride" and "Cribs". Unless you somehow recorded and kept this show when it appeared in the early `90's, or got a bootleg copy of it, or a video disk "ripped" from a bootlegged VHS, it's sad to say that this will be your only reminder of what MTV once was, and your only respite from what MTV has become.
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42 of 43 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not long enough, January 4, 2003
This review is from: Mtv / Wet Shorts: Best of Liquid Television (DVD)
There is so much cool stuff that was on Liquid TV that is not on this DVD that one struggles to consider it 'The Best of'. Where are the 'Dear Mum' sketches, or the Oingo Boingo song 'Don't go in the Basement', or the 'Istanbul was Constantinople' song, or 'The Art School Girl's of doom, or 'Dog Boy'? None of it is here. Sure we have some cool stuff like couple of 'Stick Figure Theatre' sketches and some 'Bobby and Billy' and, the way past cool, Aeon Flux. But I reckon there won't be any other DVDs of Liquid TV so go right out and buy this. It's still worth it.
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35 of 38 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Best of Liquid Television. Don't think so..., April 9, 1999
This review is from: Mtv / Wet Shorts: Best of Liquid Television (DVD)
These are far from the strange and bizarre shorts that I remember. Other than a few "Aeon Flux" shorts and a "Bobby & Billy" or two, you probably won't even recognize this DVD as "Liquid Television". Remember the crap that had to be waded through to get to the good stuff? Well here is a 90min. showcase of it. Typical Mtv... All fluff... NO SUBSTANCE!
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