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Spawn 3: The Ultimate Battle

5 star:		(17)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

Pretty much all it is. It has a few extra goodies such as some of the music videos McFarlane directed.

Out of all the Spawn seasons I've come to like this one the best. This particular season gets much more into the characters and gives them quite a bit more depth. The story lines are very entertianing and interesting.

This particular season has many shifts in overall mood. One moment in shock over seeing someone get torn apart in graphic fashion and the next feeling compassion and pity for the situation Al is in.

The things that knocked this thing down to only 3 stars is: 1. DVD Menu exhibits unusual behavior on my player, a Sony 530D. The menu background loop has to start over before I can pick anything. Very annoying!

2. The sound seems badly mixed. The music is coming through WAY too strong and makes the dialog difficult to hear. I was trying all kinds of different combinations to alleviate that to no avail.

3. OK HBO, what is up with double sided DVD?!? I own numerous other discs, some of them animated like Record of the Lodoss War (highly recommended!) and they put everything on ONE side of the DVD, eliminating the annoyance of flipping it over.

Bottom line, if you're a fan of the series I would recommend it. I would even buy it again if I were to lose the disc. My only issues are that the disc could have been done much better.

The movie was one of the worst I had seen in my life. I did not have high hope for the animated series but I was very much surprised. The dialogue and, bizzarly enough, the acting are a hundred times as good as the film and the plot and characters are also much more intriguing.

This is the third season of Spawn and it just seems to be getting darker and darker. But the one thing I can be sure of from this is that it's going to have one hell of a send-off when the entire story finally climaxes.

I'd start watching this if I were you. But be prepared. The violence is quite graphic and the overall tone of the stories ranges from kiddie fiddlers to satanic demons. Needless to say, it's not a cartoon for kids. It's an animated series for adults.

The DVD is in full screen format, as originally drawn and is in Dolby 2.0 surround.

I love the animated version, not that i'm a fan of the comic but when i saw the animated show at HBO which was actually a pilot episode, featured crazy charecters, a dark detective, and now one of my all time favorites, Spawn, it just got me buzzin and hungry for more of this new out of this world dark animation. This is a dark, very dark and mature tv show and provides sarcastic humor, chillers, suspense, thriller, drama and action. If you liked Outlaw Star or The Big O, then make no exeption to get this DVD Special Collectiors edition of Spawn, because by the end of the night, Spawn will be what you regurarly watch.

The animation is superb, dark and spooky, but viewers expecting a slam-bang orchestration of comic book violence, as the title misleadingly suggests, better look to the first Spawn animated videos. This is not a negative thing, as this is the first of the Spawn videos to add a human element and some complexity to the characters. It is the best written of the series, and you come away understanding much more what motivates Spawn and his surrounding cast of characters. While the first two videos were technical achievements, they left me feeling cheated because they presented the chracters in a dull and lifeless way. You actually care about the characters in this video. Even the battle between heaven and hell is not presented as merely good versus evil, but as a choice between the lesser of two evils. As usual, the voice acting is superb, particularly Keith David who is Spawn. There is a small documentary segment at the end where the actors talk about their roles, and one of them even says how this was the first time he felt like he could really do some acting in the series. I hope they don't stop making the animated Spawn, because it is getting better. Finally, like the WB Batman Animated Series, the animated Spawn is greatly superior to the live-action film representation of the character.

I own the comic and all the seasons on tape on hbo home video but My concern is WHEN THE HELL IS THERE GOING TO BE A 4TH SEASON! ITS BIN TO LONG! I KNOW U GUYS HAVE BIN WORKING ON THE COMIC BUT THE FANS ALSO WANT TO SEE THE 4TH SEASON YOU KNOW!!!
ITS BIN EXACLTY 6 TO 7 YEARS NOW AND STILL NO 4TH SEASON. Plus the last season didnt give much answer to the season finale......

I don't think I will get another one but I wish I knew why. I never even knew this was a show on HBO. I just stumbled upon the first Spawn and of course had to get the 2nd and 3rd. Overall the 2nd and 3rd seasons of Spawn don't live up to the first but it always entertains. This one starts out setting up the ultimate Hell vs. Heaven scenario. The old man who keeps talking to Spawn whether he likes it or not explains his backround and also explains how this war is being played. Heaven of course sends the angel bounty hunter to eliminate Spawn and we end up getting a pretty good story here. But they also send a vampire creature to take Spawn out since the first killer isn't getting the job done. Not exactly the Heaven I grew up knowing.

The show continues to be very violent but not anything too sickening. I liked how it felt like a good cop drama with the story between Twitch and his mindless partner. But they give him a lot more of a role in this one and can you believe you may end up respecting that fat slob of a cop? I never thought it would happen. Overall, I enjoyed this series very much and hope that it will comes back one day.

I use the term cartoon lightly, because Spawn is anything but a cartoon. It's got some good animation, but it's not kids animation. It is a very dark and twisted tail of both love, death, mentality and politics. And all of this coming from an animated show is brilliant.

The first two seasons basically set up the premise. The first season set the plain and the second season fleshed out all the characters. Now, the third season is where everything starts getting cooler. To start, we have some more words thrown back and fourth between Spawn and the old man who use to be one himself. He has many names, but you can just call him Merlin. Despite the help Merlin offers to the Spawn, Al still refuses to trust Merlin. He lets his anger for not being able to see Wanda consume him, but you already knew that.

There are also some new characters introduced. The newest one is a hunter from heaven named Jade, aka Woo the reporter. She is after the Spawn, but soon show an interest in him. Also, many characters get some more character development here. Like the detective, Twitch, comes too close to the truth about Spawn, his own superiors conspire to kill him which makes Twitches partner want to lash out. There are also "one-shot-characters" that are quite intersting like Al's mother (granny), Al's old friend and a hooker\vampire.

DVD extras here are great. Aside from the featurette and music videos, there is audio commentary by Todd McFarlane. What more could you ask for?

Overall, Spawn 3 is the best season of Spawn yet. If you haven't seen this show, do so now. It is more than what it seems.

If you haven't seen either of the other spawn tapes you should probably watch those first. If you liked them you should love this. And even if you didn't like those 2 you still might like this one very much. The other two seem to drag on, and on, and on. But they're still very entertaining if you watch it in segments. However this one has a LOT more action. My favorite part is when Spawn fights the vampire girl. Thats the closest thing in america to anime. I think the next season, hopefully another will be made, should have a lot more of that fighting in it. But still keep the dark and twisting plot.

Man its great how this whole story shows how one, (meaning Spawn)can rise from where he once was and grow more concious about what is going on and what he has to do and sacrifice with himself and the world.This was a great season and I loved how Todd continues to mix things up and give a twist to things.In a way its all the beginning of spawn fighting to be a warrior of peace.The action was great the characters were on thier mark the actors did a great job.Thanx Todd for a deeper twist I look forward to more of spawn the animated.Any fans of spawn or animated suspense get all the spawns especially #3.

Spawn 3 is fabulous. I thought the first season was okay; it dragged at parts. The second season started to pick up and got much better (although the violence was a bit over the top). But here, the third season: this is where it's at. This is without a doubt the best season. It has a rock solid story. The mystery with the detectives is excellent. You keep wanting to learn more and more about the characters and this world. I'm really impressed with the third season. I can't wait for the next episodes. Do yourself a favor and check this out.