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Viva La Bam - Volume 1 [UMD for PSP]

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3 star:		(11)
2 star:		(4)
1 star:		(11)

 

 

No matter how bad your parents thought you were as a kid, they should thank their lucky stars that they aren't Phil and April Margera. Professional skateboarder and all-around pain in the ass, Bam Margera is the Dennis the Menace for the new millennium. After the Jackass show ended it splintered off into two strains, one of which, Viva La Bam, stars Bam and his crew (other Jackass survivors, Ryan Dunn, Raab Himself, Rake Yorn, Brandon DiCamillo) as they find new ways to torment his long-suffering parents. Bam and his gang pull all sorts of pranks and stunts to make his parents' lives a living hell. Throw in the nearly incomprehensible Don Vito (Phil's rather large brother) and you've got the makings for one of the more entertaining reality shows.

Fans will be pleased to know that all the episodes are featured gloriously uncut with all the cuss words intact! Breathe easy, parents. The uncut nastiness is limited to the language. The shameless nudity is still blurred.

There are audio commentaries for every episode by Bam, Phil, April, Ryan, Brandon, Rake, Tim and Raab. As you can imagine, these are pretty funny, chaotic tracks as Bam and co. dish on all sorts of behind-the-scenes stories. Bam, obviously, dominates these tracks, but his mom does comment quite a bit as well. Although, the glaring omission of Don Vito is unacceptable!

There are nine deleted scenes, including more footage of Bam building a skate park in his parent's house and Raab under the thrall of a hypnotist while the boys were in Las Vegas.

"Scavenger Hunt List" is the entire list of tasks that had to be accomplished from the season's climatic final episode.

"Q&A**Holes" is a bunch of text screens with the cast answering several questions not so seriously.

There is a small collection of behind-the-scenes photos.

There is also music video's for Bam's brother's band, CKY, Clutch, Turbonegro and the DiCamillo Sisters (basically Brandon, Bam and the lead singer from the Bloodhound Gang).

For such a nonsensical show there is a surprisingly amount of extras that are all done in the same flavour as the show. Even the menus capture the vibe of the show, which is a nice touch. Fans will no doubt dig this collection while all others are advised to stay far away! You may not derive any deep meaning from this show but there are worse ways to kill a Friday night.

Well im glad its coming out but I wish it would have included season 2 also. Giving us season 1 is just going to make us want the other seasons more. This is an awesome show though. Don Vito is hilarious. Bam's cool. It's neat to see someone who can get away with anything they want to do. What you'll get in this set s 8 episodes(Listed below). It's 150 minutes long. A little bit of extras. What you'll see in these episodes is Phil starving because he can't eat anything for one day, Bam and his friends stuck on an island for a day, Don Vito getting kicked out of a casino, Don Vito racing another guy on a motorized cart, a lot of cars being totally smashed, an entire skatepark/ice rink built in and outside Bam's house, AND LOT'S MORE. That's just a little of season 1. The only thing I don't get is that Wildboyz Season 1 is 25 minutes longer then this season of Viva La Bam and this set is almost 10 dollars more. Still this is a good set to own.(Below episodes listed for Season 1)

Phil's Hell Day
Bam Hosts A Concert (don't feed Phil)
The Family Reunion
We're Going to Vegas!
Three-Day Weekend
The Christmas Episode
April Gets Revenge
The Scavenger Hunt

Viva La Bam is a great show that may seem silly at first but eventually grows on you. If you want to know what the show is about imagine this, MTV wants to give you money to watch you and your friends do things that you could only imagine doing. These guys do some of the goofiest things and by the end of every episode you appreciate the fun because you can see yourself doing the same things they are if only given the chance. It sure beats the 40 hour work week where you know what you're going to be doing, and it definately beats other "reality" shows because there are no roses and no interships (well, maybe Vito is an intern!) but everyone has fun and gets silly and you laugh until your stomache hurts!

Viva La Bam is constantly and unfairly being compared to Jackass. They are similar, but in very small ways, and the one that stands out the most is the fact that Bam Margera is in this as well. They don't do the same masochistic stunts you'd find in Jackass. There's rarely ever any forced vomiting or cruelty to animals (like in Wild Boys). What Bam does is torment his surprisingly tolerant parents. This, the first volume, contains the first eight episodes of the show (an entire season) plus a disc of special features:

Episode 1: Phil's Hell Day/Bam's Skate Park: they couldn't have picked a better episode to start the season.

Episode 2: Don't Feed Phil: Bam does everything in his power to deny Phil food for a day.

Episode 3: Family Reunion: Bam's attention turns to his extended family, and you begin to realize that Bam isn't as crazy as his family.

Episode 4: Viva Las Vegas: Rabb gets a mail order bride, and April and Phil celebrate their anniversary. Vito snaps.

Episode 5: Paint Phil Blue & Other Stories: Bam paints Phil, steals April's car, and dig a tunnel into Vito's house.

Episode 6: Very Merry Margera Christmas: Bam celebrates Christmas with friends in the only way he knows how.

Episode 7: April's Revenge: Bam's gets what's coming to him yet April, the person responsible, doesn't realize what she's got herself into.

Episode 8: Scavenger Hunt: Bam and friends tore all of West Chester in order to score points in a crazy scavenger hunt.

The bonus in this collection, though, comes in the special features disc. This includes a heap of deleted scenes which are funnier than anything you can find in the series, if a little more gross at times. It has other things as well, but the deleted scenes are where to be when you pop this into your DVD player.

Though still headed by a bunch of jerks, Viva La Bam isn't nearly as controversial as Jackass or even the CKY Trilogy, though it's equally as funny as both. These DVDs contain some simple laughs that are, at the very least, guaranteed, something that's needed in our world today. Pick this up if you liked Jackass or Wildboys, or are a fan of skateboarding.

I have been following these dudes since CKY Landspeed. and ive grown up watching the CKY series, and the Jackass series. In this Jackass spinoff, i must say they did a fantastic job. Don Vito is pure hilairty. I purchased season 1, and was really happy with what i bought. purchasing this set, i was expecting the same thing. but was let down.

The packagin is great, so no problems with that. it looks great. there are 3 DVD's. Season 2, 3 and Bonus Disc. Once you insert a DVD youll be shown a few previews, and then comes a generic title screen with the options Play All, and Episodes. Bam dosnt introduce us on these DVDs this time. Episode 6, season 2 is censored for some reason. theres not as much bonus stuff you would expect from 2 seasons. and now, the biggest dissapointment of all....NO COMMENTARY! WHY!?!?!?! commentary and bonus stuff was the only reaosn to buy this in my opinion. its as tho your in the same romm as them, watching the show. theyre comments are hilarious, and they answer so many questions while giving out a ton of interesting facts.

Dispite the abscence of commentary, and more bonus footage, this is a decent release. it seems as though this DVD set was rushed. But if all you want is the episodes, and a few bonus clips, then its perfect for you.

oh and by the way, Compton Ass Terry's music was left out again due to legal issues.

The last set didn't have commentary.... I pray this set does, PLEASE HAVE COMMENTARY! Because, well, I loved it on the first set.

I digress.

Great series, and the show seems to keep getting more fun and interesting. These DVD's play really well for me, because I can loop them and watch them for weeks at a time in my room. I know this series is supposed to be all about the comedy, but somehow it makes me feel cozy.

Say what you want to say about Bam or the show...he moved from Jackass where he killed himself doing stupid stunts for nothing, to his own show where he's evidently now a millionaire living in a big home he bought for his parents and living the good life with his friends as a total goof off. We should all be so lucky! I also can't believe it's been 5 seasons. How is it that the show started in 2004 and yet they've done 5 seasons?

At any rate season four starts as the whole cast go to Europe. Phil and april think they are going off to enjoy a romantic getaway on their own not knowing that Bam, Vito, and the rest of the gang are going along too. The road/air trip would be a recurring theme throughout seasons 4 & 5 as the troupe would journey to Louisiana, Mexico, Pennsylvania (For Groundhog's day), Brazil and Finland.

Among my favorite episodes are "Ape's Birthday Surprise" where Bam surprises April with meeting and getting on Stage with Billy Idol, "Lost Lambo" where Ryan challenges Bam to a race but his prized lamborgini comes up missing, and the one where Bam knocks out Vito's bedroom window and replaces it with an automatic garage door.

Silly, infantile, and darn funny.

Soooo many great episodes in the 4th season; 5th season is alright but I felt they sort of 'jumped the shark' so to speak as they did all that international crap, although some of it was funny with Don Vito

Can't wait to watch the famous scene of when Don Vito confronted a taxi cab driver in Paris, France trying to give the guy like $30 American....which was waaaaay more than needed but the French cab driver kept trying to tell him that he didn't accept American cash

so Vito went ballistic and so did the cab driver lol

Viva La Bam is a show that is basically Bam and his friends goofing off. It may not sound cool, but its the most awesome show ever. I recently purchased the first season and laughed till my stomach hurt. Plus, this is season 2 AND 3. Double the laughs, double the Bam. Although they block out most of the cursing, they still dont block out all of it, so i would not recommend it for kids with extremely protective parents. But if you dont have protective parents (Or you're over 13) You'll love this show. Bam and his buds are funny, mischievious, and people that you grow to love. If you like comedy, you'll absolutely LOVE (And I mean it) Viva La Bam.

What can you say? Bam and his crew go all out this season. At the end of last season they had been kicked out of the township, which resulted in the creation of Castle Bam in season 2. They remade Don Vito and Phil into Rockstars, had a prank war with Johnny Knoxville, and built a tree top casio on arbour day. All in all the stunts got bigger and more crazy.

This box set comes with three discs, one for each of the seasons, plus one of extras. The extras are pretty good, including "random ass moments" and missing scenes.

I was disapointed that some basic extras were missing. There was no subtitle selections, and also the brillant cast commentary that had me laughing so hard in the season one release was missing.

All in all though it is a great compilation for any fan, or newbie to VLB, and is well worth the cost.