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X-Men Evolution - Xposing the Truth [VHS]

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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."

My grandson who's 4 is really into X-Men and loves these episodes and watches them over and over.

This disc contains the last four episodes of season one of X-Men Evolution. The episodes as above stated are 'Shadowed Past,' 'Grim Reminder,' and 'The Cauldron' parts 1&2. This show promotes good values and I love the lessons it embodies and teaches about Trust, betrayal, and acceptance. A would recommend for anyone out there even if they aren't fans of X-Men.

X-Men Evolution was a great series because it presented entertaining stories about three-dimensional (albeit super-powered) characters. I did not understand or appreciate the X-Men stories until I happened to encounter this series, which is basically an origins saga created by intelligent writers and gifted artists. I am now hooked. This particular DVD wraps up the first of four seasons (although, as of today, the fourth and final season is not (yet?) available in DVD).

I thought the season finale was kind of lame with Magneto. I like the old X-Men cartoons much more, but these are OK if you're a Marvel or X-Men fan.

A great lil DVD. Nicely presented, well written episodes! A "can't miss" deal!

I didn't go into this expecting much and I'm leaving not taking too much away. I had never seen the new x-men but of course I watched the old cartoon. So I was surprised to see the crapy animation, bad voice acting and well the storylines are the reason this gets a 2/5. They are all pretty good but is overall too kid like and not serious enough. It's weird cause the director was trying to have this perfect balance between dark and kiddie stuff. If the show was overall moer serious, then the really serious moments would work, but instead they just feel out of place.

Shadowed Past- this is a really weird episode. We find out who nightcrwler's mom is, but the serious parts fail because of the overall jokiness of the show. The funniest thing that I saw was that all the x-men are in high school. Luckily they didn't make wolverine like 16 years old. So rogue is having dreams and nightcrawler finds stuff out, pretty dumb.

Grim Reminder- I would rename this episode don't judge people by what you see on the surface. this one almost does a good job with blebding darkness and comdy by havign wolverine going INSANE in his bedroom and ripping everything apart, nd then a little girl is writing a letter saying "mr x sure is gonna yell at logan for trashing his room", I have to say that I actually laughed here. There is another part where wolverine asks the girl "am I reading too loud for you." If the show could have put more than 2 of these lines in sometimes, then this would be a much better show.

The Cauldron parts 1 and 2- Kind of a cool episode. We meet cyclops's brother who instantly gets drawn in by magneto. So magneto is really just having fun here but, god it was stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I thought I could review all these and I almost made it.

The special features include introductions to the episodes and a behind the scenes look at the voice talent. Did I just say talent?
The intros have the producers/directors talking to us like we are actually 22 like me. I can't see anybody my age actually enjoying this so I wish they would have talked like they are talking to little kids like in they do in their show. But decent introductions into a bad show.
X-men unmasked is good if you need a good laugh. And I lughed ver well al the way through this. They show you the people of all the voices, and there is a girl on there I think it is megan who plays i think the girl who can walk through stuff, send me a message sometime and I WILL TAKE YOU OUT, PLEASE FIND ME IF YOU GO TO OMAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


So overall a pretty bad show, but I enjoyed it!!