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X-Men - The Phoenix Saga

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While these X-Men cartoons are not known for their outstanding animation, I can whole-heartedly recommend them for their storytelling alone.

The animation is acceptable - standard Saturday morning cartoons (not cgi, but animation).

If you've not seen the X-Men cartoons featured here, we are presented with this main group as the X-Men Team: Cyclops, Jean Grey, Gambit, The Beast, Wolverine, Julibee and Storm. And, of course, Professor X leads them. Rogue is around, but not in the first couple of episodes.

These combined episodes make a wonderfully told story. The characters are very faithful to their comic book counterparts, and have a depth that a lot of other cartoon characters lack. Be that praise for the comics or these episodes, matters not.

The DVD comes with few features. You're given the option of viewing all episodes or each episode individually. Please note - there are no chapters within each episode.

The sound quality was good and the voice-actors are effective.

It's the writing though, that lifts this series. It's a great story.

I recommend this DVD for the comic or cartoon fan. You won't be disappointed.

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"The Phoenix Saga" is the first DVD of the animated series...and what a great choice they've made! This DVD is a collection of the five-part series which tells the tragic story of the legendary Phoenix saving the universe from the evil Shi'ar emperor D'Ken. Unfortunately, the X-Men member Jean Grey is the Phoenix's host, which causes confusion among everyone, including her. In addition to this, Charles Xavier (Professor X) is psychically linked to D'Ken's sister, Llandra, bringing the battle to the planet earth. All this results into a war against good and evil that may cost the life of one of the X-Men. All that being said, the DVD looks great, of course. Since this was produced before Dolby Digital was commonplace, it is presented in two channel mode (stereo), but it does ok for Dolby Pro-Logic mode. The animation is a bit choppy in some places, but considering how fast they have to pump out cartoons, it's forgivable. One noticable difference is the changing of the voice-overs for some of the characters. The original cast seems to be intact, but the most obvious was that of Gladiator, the Defender of the Shi'ar throne. For those with copies of the original series on VHS, listen to the difference and you'll see what I mean. Otherwise, this is a must-have for the fans of the original animated series. Now if they'll only release, "The Dark Phoenix Saga"......

Im glad they are starting to release DVD versions of Xmen. One problem though, why havnt they just released the seasons rather then just episodes here and there. Ive been a fan of the xmen for quite a while now.. to figure out that they should have entire seasons on dvd. Anyways if u never seen the original xmen series get this dvd. Its really cool.

At least on Dvd.

This Dvd includes 5 episodes of the Phoenix Project shown in 1994.

Jean Grey converts onto Phoenix to save the galaxy from the evil emperor D'Ken who wants the M'Kraan crystal to control the galaxy and have their own world.

Lilandra the sister of D'Ken have taken the crystal with her and needs the help of the X men to defeat D'Ken evil plans.

Fun and entertaining.More episodes are on Vhs I hope they transfer soon to Dvd.

So where is the DVD for this outstanding cartoon? What is the hold up? It really seems like a missed opportunity to have sold these on DVD WHEN the X-Men movies 1-3 were out in theatres! Duh! It's very odd how when every single movie in existence is available on DVD, and not these amazing cartoons? I watched them all when I was a teenager and absolutely loved them and now that I'm thirty-three, I'm still waiting for them to own. What's with the long wait people? What a bunch of slackers (whomever owns the rights to X-Men animated). Come on, get with the program already. Everyone I know wants to buy these on DVD like freakin yesterday.

The Dark Phoenix does't suffer in the translation of the Clarmont/Byrne story back in the late 70's. A few changes to make it family friendly. However, the story still stands the test of time. The trail of the Phoenix was still as tragic as it was all those years ago. Lets hope Marvel releases the complete X-Men series on DVD. This one was the best of the bunch.

Every X-fan should at least have seen this at one point in their lives. LOL - It's practically the most important storyline that Marvel has ever done. This also is somewhat educative to the new comic readers as well.

I think it's really great how the original X-Men Animated Series is making its way onto DVD. This disc includes a bundle of high-quality episodes and is definitely worth the cash. If sales go well, hopefully more episodes will be released as well. :-)

The 1st thing you notice is that the transfer is beautiful. The colors are intense and the images are crisp. I saw this originally when broadcasted on TV and it doesn't come close.

The story is a bit long winded but it is nice to see Jean Gray doing something for a change.

The animation style is not as sleek as the stuff you see on TV today but I like the attitude of the characters better than the current Xmen generation. There was so much more drama in the older series.

Being a huge X-Men fan, I love nearly all of the cartoons, but the Phoenix Saga is by far my favourite. I can't help thinking that the reason they chose Jean Grey to be the main character of this series, is because before she was very much what I like to call a "nothing" character, with her mutant ability rarely being of use, and whenever she did use it, she would collapse into the arms of Cyclops afterwards. She didn't even have a cute little code name like the rest of the X-Men! This series greatly improved her, though it ended rather tradgically. The romantic scenes between Jean and Cyclops only helped to carry the story line, and were even assisted by one romance scene between Gambit and Rogue. The story line was excellent, though I believe that the parts between the Empress of the Shi'ar and Proffesor Xavier dragged a bit... I loved this, and would definataely recommend it.

[Some] will have some bones to pick with the animated version of "The Phoenix Saga," since it isn't the same as the comic book version. Naturally it's been sanitized and simplified (?) for younger children. But the animation is stupendous, the plotting very well done, and the voices, music and emotional impact are superb. From the simpler explanation of Jean Grey's necessary sacrifice to the beautiful rendition of Phoenix's costume and powers and the difference it makes in Jean, from the galactic battle to the ... ending, this interpretation of the X-Men's most heartwrenching storylines is definitely worth your time.