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Malcolm in the Middle: Season 1

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Frankie Muniz (Actor), Bryan Cranston (Actor), Arlene Sanford (Director), Rated:

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See how it all began for boy-genius Malcolm and his disorderly, demented (and downright dysfunctional) family. Share the laughter and relive the fun with all 16 hilarious Season One episodes-available for the first time in this exclusive 3 disc collectors set.

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In the words of They Might Be Giants' rollicking Grammy-winning theme song, "life is unfair." The inventive and wholly original sitcom Malcolm in the Middle has been honored with a Peabody Award and Emmys for directing and writing, but if life was fair, it would have earned an Emmy for Best Comedy Series, not to mention statuettes for its pitch-perfect cast. With his perpetual "yes, me worry" expression, Frankie Muniz instantly earns audience empathy as Malcolm, whose chances for a normal life are thwarted not only by his genius IQ (as discovered in the pilot episode), but also by his outrageously dysfunctional family: Lois (Jane Kaczmarek), his obsessive, control-freak mother; Hal (Bryan Cranston), his loving but ineffectual father; Francis (Christopher Masterson), his eldest brother waging his own private war at military school; middle brother Reese (Justin Berfield), a delinquent savant; and Dewey (Erik Per Sullivan), the put-upon youngest. As Malcolm observes at one point, "This family may be rude, loud and gross, and have no shame whatsoever, but with them you know where you stand."

This three-disc set contains all 16 episodes from the irreverently funny first season. The series instantly toned things down a tad from the pilot episode that saw Lois body-shaving a naked hirsute Hal in the kitchen. But it brilliantly sustains its subversive tone, from episode two, in which the brothers stand united against Lois's increasingly desperate methods to uncover who burned her red dress, to the season finale, in which Malcolm dares to push her down a water slide. Not that there aren't sublimely sweet moments, as in that season finale when Dewey bonds with his elderly babysitter (Bea Arthur!) over Abba's "Fernando." Before you get out your handkerchiefs, said sitter collapses and is carted away in an ambulance. --Donald Liebenson

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Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 1.33:1
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ s_medNotRated Unrated (Not Rated)
Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.5 x 5.5 x 1 inches; 8 Ounces
Item model number ‏ : ‎ 2005295
Director ‏ : ‎ Arlene Sanford, Chris Koch, Jeff Melman, Ken Kwapis, Todd Holland
Media Format ‏ : ‎ Subtitled, Color, Subtitled, NTSC
Run time ‏ : ‎ 6 hours
Release date ‏ : ‎ October 28, 2002
Actors ‏ : ‎ Frankie Muniz, Bryan Cranston, Justin Berfield, Erik Per Sullivan, Jane Kaczmarek
Dubbed: ‏ : ‎ French, Spanish
Subtitles: ‏ : ‎ English, Spanish
Language ‏ : ‎ French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Unqualified, English (Dolby Digital 4.0), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
Studio ‏ : ‎ 20th Century Fox
ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00006G8J7
Writers ‏ : ‎ Alan J. Higgins, Andrew Orenstein, Andy Bobrow
Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1

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DFW Mike C

What's the Holdup?

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2017

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Malcolm in the Middle is one of the best and funniest sitcoms ever on TV. I only want to add my voice to that of others who wonder why the dvd of the complete seasons of this series is still not yet available in the U.S. Regions 2 and 4 have been available for years. Malcolm may still be in syndication in the U.S., but that's no reason to hold the complete series hostage for those who would like to have the whole shebang on dvd. It never ceases to amaze me that so often, for whatever reasons, release of some TV series are held up. These kinds of delays only frustrate us buyers and further, it hurts sales because, by the time a series IS released, no one cares anymore! This fiasco happened with The Wonder Years and the Happy Days series (why have only six seasons been released so far?). I don't understand it, but I sure hope more of the really decent TV series would get out on dvd more expeditiously and Malcolm in the Middle is one of them.

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Tracey C

Only Season 1 released for US dvd players, but it's great!

Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2018

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Great show, unfortunately season 1 was the only one made for US dvd players. Important for buyers to know that we are in region 1, the sellers are not stressing that enough. Apparently due to music used in the show, the licensing fees were too high to release the other seasons. Really enjoyed this.

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Kimberly M Wilson

Comic genius...

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2007

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I first caught this show in it's final season...in late night reruns. And, goodness gracious, I was floored by the quality and consistency of the show. So, when these DVDs went on sale, I had to have them. And...I was speechless. Absolutely fabulous. Easily one of the greatest comedies of all time, and on the short list of best family shows of any kind.

Particularly fantastic was the episode "Smunday." They easily blew through 3 or 4 plot twists, and at the climax of the episode I was literally gasping from horror, laughter and shock. Hilarious! Also, the sight gags on this show are funny, slightly exaggeratedly (hence the humor) and always with a touch of tenderness that highlights why family relationships are complex and unique and beautiful, even when their shameless and dysfunctional. I think the episode "Malcolm Babysits" highlights this nicely, when Malcolm in babysitting for the "ideal" family, while his family is their own neighborhood's live Jerry Springer show, while camping in a trailer while their house is getting fumigated. Sure, we know the moral is that there is no place like home, but the lesson isn't forced and is very entertaining. Far from didactic, you barely notice between the humor. And the young cast together are astonishingly good actors. Muniz, in particular, handles his duplicitous "real-life" versus talking to the camera with a fluidity that I think most adults wouldn't be able to sell.

The extras are very enlightening as well with the voice-over commentary (although Frankie Muñiz in real life is a long-winded gasbag). I also thought the Spanish dubbing (which I happen to speak) was well done also.

I could go on and on. It was worth every cent I spent on it. I just ache for the other seasons.

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Gary M. Greenbaum

Contains all the best episodes you remember

Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2002

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The first season for Malcolm in the Middle was decidedly the best--when the boys where young enough so that the things they did were cute rather than delinquency, and when there were interesting concepts to explore.
And explore them they did. The expanded "Pilot" is classic comedy TV. (though it is a pity they don't give us the pilot as aired, for comparison) "Red Dress" shows us that Lois is capable of being played as being more than a harridan. And "Krelboyne Picnic", one of the few episodes beyond the pilot to really use Malcolm's genius for plot purposes, is hysterical while defying political correctness at every turn.
Of the added features, the director's commentary is the most useful. It isn't always just the director, the actors are given their shot at talking to us, as well. It is at least amusing, and often instructive, to listen. For example, the thick body hair on Brian Cranston in the pilot was yak hair, and he met the boys while wearing only a sock (er, in a strategic position, not on the foot).
These DVDs are further evidence that TV show producers are seeing DVDs as the means by which their works are going down to posterity, and they are giving us their best.

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D. Fox

Possibly one of the funniest family sitcoms...

Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2006

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I just started watching Malcolm in the Middle during the 2005 season, and I wasn't even sure if I'd like it. It was one of those "nothing else is on and I've never seen this." I was very pleased I gave it a chance! This is one of the funniest family sitcoms on TV now. Some may not like to admit it, but this show does portray a family close to the 'norm'. I think that makes it even better!

This show centers around a middle-class 'All-American' family who has their share of dysfunctional moments. Both parents work to support their family of four boys. The oldest is sent to military school early in the first season, but he remains very much a part of each episode's plot. The other three boys are a handful to say the least. I guess this is just one of those shows that reminds you of so many people you know, and that adds to the humor!

Naturally, after watching from the 2005 season I wondered what started the craze, so I had to buy the Season 1 DVD set. If you're a fan of these TV seasons on DVD like I am, then this is for you! Even if you haven't seen the show on TV yet, this would be a great way to get into it!

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Mo Sea

Malcolm in the Middle

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 29, 2011

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Ordered before Christmas as a present, a bit worried as
had to come from America. Arrived in plenty of time.
DVD as advertised. Very Pleased

VALERIE SMYTH

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 17, 2016

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Kids enjoyed it

ANGELA STEPHINSON

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 28, 2014

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A present.

M. haslam

sort it out!

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 14, 2007

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This is intelligent comedy that can be appreciated by young and old and it needs to be made more widley available. Like many others before me I would like to see it released on region 2 DVD asap - even just Series 1 would be a start.

its not much to ask - the demand is there

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Nicholas Casley

"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" (Dad)

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 13, 2012

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This set of season one episodes comprises all fifteen as well as the original pilot, in which Malcolm is diagnosed as `gifted'. I too come from a family in which I was gifted with, let's say a `precocious intelligence' at an early age (look where it got me!) and in which the only female was Mum: hence, I can identify with some of Malcolm's problems. But, hey, the series is wickedly funny anyway, and this is partly down to its willingness to embrace the realism of modern family relationships.

In addition, the series was not studio-based and therefore did not have a studio audience; instead it went out into the surrounding neighbourhood and into the schoolyard to add realism. Additionally, the series eschewed canned laughter (a great blessing). Malcolm's own direct addresses to the camera are the icing on the cake for me, following in a long line of such comic set-pieces going back to the resigned stare of Oliver Hardy. I crack up every time I watch Malcolm's similar frustrated stare to camera as Stevie Kenarben tries to tell his joke.

Many of these features are highlighted in the generous extras that accompany the DVD set. These include commentaries made four years after the first season aired. The commentaries are by the creator of the series, Linwood Boomer, as well as some of the actors, the writers of the shows, and directors of the episodes. Boomer himself explains how much of the series is based on his own family childhood experiences. We also learn such things as Frankie Muniz actually being younger than Justin Berfield, and that the part of Kenarben terrified the network.

Other extras include a forty-three-minute documentary on the series, some bloopers, deleted scenes, and a portrait of Erik Per Sullivan. There's also a behind-the-scenes preview of season two, but at the time of writing (2011) none of the later seasons is available on DVD due (bizarrely) to "music copyright issues" (Wikipedia). The fact that the story of the last episode of season one is "to be continued" makes this all the more frustrating (*stares at camera*). Ah, well, after all, "life IS unfair".

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