Product Details

• Actors: Paul Dobson, Mark Oliver, Enuka Okuma, Garry Chalk, Tasha Simms
• Directors: Dwayne Beaver, Owen Hurley, Raul Inglis
• Writers: Christy Marx, Ken Pontac
• Producers: B.F. Painter
• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Adv Films
• DVD Release Date: February 27, 2001
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000055WFP
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #113,606 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Shadow Raiders - Uncommon Hero (Vol 1)" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

When the evil Beast Planet destroys the Planet Tek, only Princess Tekla escapes. She crashes on the distant Planet Ice and warns King Cryos and some raiders from Planet Rock of their imminent danger. Graveheart, a Stallone-type hero made of rock, swears to fight the menace. But defeating the Beast Planet's forces will require the four worlds of the solar system to abandon centuries of internecine warfare and unite. King Cryos and his feisty daughter travel with Graveheart to Planet Rock. King Mantle rejects the idea of an alliance and exiles Graveheart, but Graveheart's friend Jade joins the group. On Planet Fire, they recruit young Prince Pyrus, whose fiery hair unfortunately makes his head look like an unsuccessful flambé dessert. The dedicated cadre fights their first major battle on Planet Bone. King Femur, a leering Gremlins look-alike, tries to play both ends against the middle and finds himself attacked by Beast. This derivative motion-capture/computer-graphics series borrows heavily from the Star Wars films: Planet Ice looks like Hoth, Planet Rock resembles Tatooine, and the space battles with the Beast Drones are lifted from the attack on the Death Star. Rated "suitable for all ages," but violence and grotesque imagery are inappropriate for children under 8. Contains the first four episodes: 1. "Behold the Beast," 2. "On the Rocks," 3. "Born in Fire," 4. "Bad to the Bone." --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Sic--Fiction Show!!! (A viewer from Australia ), June 8, 2001

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ERIN (Austrila, Canberra [ACT}) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadow Raiders - Uncommon Hero (Vol 1) (DVD)

Shadow Raiders is a show that is full of good twists.You can HATE Lord Mantel for exiling Graveheart from his home world, Planet Rock. I like he part when Graveheart's best friend Jade joins him on his mission(she would have to be my favourite). At some times I hate Emperor Femur because of all the truouble he courses for everyone(like the time he used Tekla to steel Planet Rock's Battle Moons).At times we see different views of each of the creatures in the show. But its a great show, worth watching.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great DVD set of a Great series, November 1, 2001

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SiC "siccoyote" (Burton on Trent, Staffs United Kingdom) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadow Raiders - Uncommon Hero (Vol 1) (DVD)

This disc is great the quality of the picture an sound is supurb, and the extras are interesting and well organised throughout the set. The series is great and everyone who likes cgi stuff and Transformers should see it. It works quite well as a prelude to Transformers the Movie, kind of like a story of what unicron did before he got into what he did in that movie. Although of course the beast in this is not unicron but he could be, I think the series ran it's course and did all it could do, if it hd carried on longer it would just have gotten thinner and dragged out. Also it's great that every episode is here just as they were originally, only two tiny things to fault with this set. One, there is one episode that didn't really need to be there, but that's a problem with the original writing. Also all the episodes have 1 advert chapter break instead of two, but this is such a minor point it's not even worth mentioning.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent!, January 4, 2002

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LadyMatrix (Lawrence, MA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shadow Raiders - Uncommon Hero (Vol 1) (DVD)

This is a great show not to be passed by. The story line is superb the charcters are all great.

If you are a ReBoot fan who has never seen War Planets/Shadow Raiders do not hesitate to check it out you will not be dissapointed. I have only just recenty seen this show after buying it on DVD and fell in love with it and was disapointed when I found out there were only 2 seasons made, but those 2 seasons are both on DVD and play out extreamly well.

This is definatly not just a kids show.
If you are a scifi fan I highly reccommend Shadow Raiders!