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X-Men Evolution - Season 2, Volume 4: Mystique's Revenge

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I just wanted to leave a comment saying I don't understand why they keep releasing this series like this. It's a great show, I'd love to buy it all on DVD, but having to buy it 4 episodes at a time on individual DVD's is frustrating, especially since there is no description here of where we're at in the timeline. What season is this DVD from? What part of the season? I'll have to do my own research because there's no description of it around here.

I know they must be doing it like this to appeal more to the allowance money audience, but I would like to see them continue to package entire seasons as they did with season 1. Even if it's just 4 seperate boxes with some tape around it (pretty much what that season 1 collection was...) at least that would make it easier for me as a buyer.

How hard can it be to sell me something called "X-Men Evolution: Season 2 (The Whole Thing)"?


So anyway, great show, season 1 extras on the DVD were awesome, but I could really go for some season-at-a-time packaging.

this dvd has 5 great episodes including:
shadow dance
retreat
the hex factor
and day of reckoning parts one and two
buy this great dvd!

I had it! Why can't the whole season box set be released? I believe that there are millions of fans out there who were having the same thought as I do. It really sucks to have the release of the episodes bit by bit...

This is a great series on an old classic. Great for the young and old fans of the X-men. Mystique is given a new and suprisingly cunning spin matching the comic series. Fans are sure to enjoy this new fresh look and vision. Mystique, Magneto, the sentinel, and many others are brought to life with great skill and depth. I can rattle on...If your an old fan, this is a series that desires a rent at the least. Well worth having in the collection.

This is the 4th volume for season 2. This is by far the best of the DVDs for the X-Men evolution series. I loved them all, but this was the best. There were some very creative plot twists and things start to get a bit more intense. I loved what they did with Wanda, The Scarlet Witch. If you are an X-Men fan, you won't be disappointed.

I was holding of on buying any of theese indivedual DVD's with the hope of them releasing them all the together. Unfortunatlly they didn't and they probobly wont. This is the first X-men evolution DVD I bought and it has some of my favorite episodes. Including Retreat (Beast is thought to be bigfoot) and the season 2 finally. I only wish that they would come out with season three. Even if I have to buy them individually I would get them. I think that season three was where the series finally took off only to be shut down. Anyway; I think that these episodes are worth it by themselves, but only at ten buck, which is what I paid for them.
I'm waiting for season three!!!!

Don't get me wrong this is a great dvd but why do they keep releasing them in these annoying 4-5 episodes per disc. I'm glad about season three because I heard somewhere it was coming out in 0NE single package.

I totally agree with all the comments made about this series being released as one whole season set. I've loved the X-Men since I was a teenager, and I will continue to purchase these, but it is extremely frustrating to get them piece by piece.

Does anyone know what the title is for Season 2 Volume 1? I can't seem to find it. If so I would appreciate it if someone could send it to me at ceejazz1@cox.net. Thank you.

As I've said in my other reviews for this show, X-Men: Evolution is not the best kids' show out there, but it's got some good qualities. My favorite element in the series is the Kurt/Nightcrawler character; I also like the high school setting and the anime style of the drawings, as well as the different scenarios the writers come up with.

This disc contains my favorite episode from this series, where Kurt works up the courage to ask a girl to the upcoming school dance, only to angst about his "freakish" appearance that he keeps hidden with a holographic image inducer. Turns out that not only does Amanda genuinely like him, but she already knows about both his real looks and his teleportation ability, a situation which only gets more interesting when monsters overrun the school - just at a time when a traumatized Kurt has sworn to never use his powers again. Although Amanda shows up again in a couple of later episodes, it would have been really cool if her and Kurt's relationship had received more attention.

Anyway, this disc also contains a Beast-centric episode, the introduction of Wanda / Scarlet Witch, and the season finale, which I liked better than both the first and third finales. Wolverine gets kidnapped, Gambit and Colossus and a couple of others show up to fight the X-Men, Pietro betrays the Brotherhood, the identities of the mutants are revealed to the general public, we finally find out what Mystique's been up to - all great stuff. This disc is highly recommended to any fan of X-Men: Evolution.

this other reviewer took the words out my mouth, so i'll just quote him

"Any "traditional" X-men fan over 25 will be disappointed with X-men Evolution. Fans who did not grow up reading the X-men comics or cherishing the original X-men Animated Series may like it, (people under 15) but these fans are not the hard core base of X-men fans to which I refer.

So many bad ideas went into this Evolution series. First of all, I can't get past the ridiculous notion of the X-men attending the local public high school! (And with Mystique as the principal?)

The X-men's school was the Xavier School for the Gifted - Period!

In addition to that, the idea of the "good" mutants going to this same high school as the "bad" mutants is just plain stupid. They were mortal enemies, and no way could they co-exist in the same school, even with the conflicts that happen in these stories.

Furthermore, the introduction, at this early stage of the X-men story-line, of characters like Nightcrawler, (whose depiction in this series stinks,) Rogue, (who is portrayed like some punk Gothic chick) and the new mutants is just not the way it happened nor should it happen even in a revised edition like this. I can handle Storm and Wolverine as early mentors, because they are supposed to be older like they are shown to be here, but the others were just not in existence at this stage of X-men history. Ice Man and Beast were supposed to be there from the beginning just like Cyclops and Jean. The Angel, who was my favorite, was another original member of the team, but he doesn't make his appearance until later seasons.

And since when were the twins, Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch enemies as they were portrayed here? They were supposed to be as close as any brother/sister twins could ever be. Pietro was always supposed to be defending his sister to the end. He was never terrified of her. And what's with this show making Wanda so super powerful like that? She wasn't so super-mighty as portrayed here.

Lastly, I must criticize the art because it is just hard to look at. I know they are going for a stylized look like in some of the comics, but, like another critic observed, the noses are just plain bad. And the huge feet bother me as well.

If YOU like it just because it is something on the X-men being done, that's great, I suppose it is better than nothing.

But for me the original series in the 90s, (yes, that means the original "series") was far superior, (I don't understand how anyone could criticize the art in that show. In my view the art in many of those original series episodes rivaled even the best of Disney, especially "The Phoenix Saga", and the "Dark Phoenix Saga", as well as many more: beautiful art!)

Sadly, what we have now in "Evolution" is some Hollywood executive's vision of a revised X-men universe, targeting today's bubble gum brigade, (ie: the high school setting, Spyke and his skateboard.) Hollywood has always thought they know better than the creators of the genre, but usually, like in this case, it only results in a bastardization of what so many of us grew up loving."