Product Details

• Actors: Keith David, Richard Dysart, Dominique Jennings, James Keane, Michael McShane
• Directors: Brad Rader, Chuck Patton, Eric Radomski, Frank Paur, Jennifer Yuh
• Format: Animated, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Hbo Home Video
• VHS Release Date: August 5, 1997
• Run Time: 147 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (36 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6304520735
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #65,939 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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• This is item 1 in The Todd McFarlane's Spawn (Animated) Series.

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Adult, stylish, and more than a little mean, this full-length animated tale has one very strong thing going for it--it knows how to milk cool. The animation is superior to anything recently devoted to a superhero...or super antihero, in this case. Al Simmons was a government assassin before he was burned to death and sent to hell (plot summary's starting out nicely, isn't it?). After making a particularly bad deal with the devil--to lead Satan's dark armies in exchange for seeing his wife again--Spawn is let loose upon the world. He immediately whacks three mob hit men, making his presence known and getting himself into all sorts of trouble. Spawn is also visited by the Clown, an obese, disgusting Beatrice, guiding our third-degree-burned Dante through this hellish, topside world. There are other nasty characters, but in this first segment a very gratuitous inclusion of a child murderer goes too far for even this mature fare. Spawn isn't fun; there's very little joy in any of this. But the point isn't fun--it's brutal, adult-comic style. And there's plenty of it. --Keith Simanton

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great! Damn close to the comic too., August 20, 2005

By	"red_darkness" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Todd McFarlane's Spawn (Animated Series) (DVD)

I've read the comics and watched the cartoon and I say they're pretty much equal. Both for different reasons but the bottom line is this cartoon rocks! It's so dark, the voice acting is great, the story follows very closey to the original comic version (although there are subtle and rather minor changes), and the animation is great. If you like the comic, you'll probably like these episodes. On a side note, this cartoon in no way is represented by the pile of crap that was thrown on the movie screen how ever long ago. Let's hope the rumours of a Todd McFarlane supervised Spawn movie are true.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Spawn is awsome!!!, March 2, 2004

By	Robert evans (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Todd McFarlane's Spawn (Animated Series) (DVD)

Spawn with a shadow of a doulbt was one of the best animated series. The story on follds when al simmons,a goverment assasin is betrayed and killed by his boss jason wynn. He then makes a deal with.....wait why am I telling you this. Its spawn for
crying out loud! Its one of the best comics ever made!
I have all videos. There very good. Espissialy the second season. The first season was outstanding too.
This series is very ADULT orienteted. With lots of graphic violence to make a 10 year old cry. The series is awsome bottom line. Its a damn shame they havent thought of making a 4th season but there to busy with the comic and lot has gone on for the comic so were should they start for a 4th season?
the 3rd season left alot of people thinking what was going to happen next. I doublt HBO will want a 4th I just think that.

Over all the spawn series is great.
I also wanted to mention....if people didnt know....this is not a movie. Its episodes from the HBO series. All the spawn videos are from the HBO series. They just put all the episodes together to make it look like a movie. I dont get how this is a collecters uncut mature edition.....THE SERIES WAS FOR MATURE AUDIENCES! And now I see on the front cover its suppose to be
a uncut collecters addition. Well anyways the series on Tv was
wasnt censored either I dont get why they said uncut collecters addition when the damn series was for adults on tv. Well what ever, If you want to buy the tape on sale get it now cause the series is awsome. But for the people who watched on HBO like me who taped it than dont get the tape.
Over all its an awsome show.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better Than Better, August 10, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Todd McFarlane's Spawn (Animated Series) (DVD)

"Todd McFarlane's Spawn" really is Todd McFarlane's Spawn unlike the movie "Spawn" which probably is an insult to the character of Spawn (I feel bad for Todd). This movie (cartoon) is a perfect portrayal of the comic book series Spawn. It contains the style, the mood, maybe not the same appearances of characters (mostly Cogliastro) but still it is almost exact which is great. And since it is an HBO cartoon, it needs to be an adult cartoon with bad language, violence and animated nudity. But that's fine with me.

This is definately a must-see DVD and don't get the edited version where it is PG-13...Get this uncut version because if you don't, you'll regret it.