{"id":3195,"date":"2011-01-20T13:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cinemacrazed.wordpress.com\/?p=3195"},"modified":"2011-01-20T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T18:55:10","slug":"super-friends-the-lost-episodes-dvd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/20\/super-friends-the-lost-episodes-dvd\/","title":{"rendered":"Super Friends: The Lost Episodes (DVD)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"“Super Friends” was always a mixed bag of sheer idiocy and just all out creativity. In the course of one DVD in this new set from Warner, Superman is reduced to a farmer by Mr. Mxy wearing a straw hat and being weakened by green beans, and two episodes later, we see Superman journey in to an alternate timeline that allows him to land on Krypton and be able to warn the Kryptonians of the impending destruction of the planet Krypton, and is able to touch base with his father. How the show goes from goofy to just epic in mere episodes is just fantastic and part of the reason why “Super Friends” continues to be a property for the fan boys of the world who lovingly mock this legacy.<\/p>\n

Of course Superman discovers by changing the fate of Krypton, he couldn’t appear on Earth to help his Super Friends discovering they were all destroyed by the Legion of Doom except for Robin (really?), and must go back to Krypton to ensure its destruction sealing his fate as an orphan landing on Planet Earth. It’s pretty surprising how the writers are capable of telling such a magnificent story in seven minutes, but they accomplish it with flying colors. The lost episodes two disc DVD set contains twenty seven minute episodes of the “Super Friends” that were produced by Hanna Barbera and Warner in 1983 even after the “Super Friends” was cancelled. The episodes inevitably appeared again in syndication many years later in sporadic time slots, and are now available for this collection chronicling the adventures of the “Super Friends.”<\/p>\n

It’s a show simultaneously goofy and exciting that introduced many young comic book geeks to some of their favorite comic book characters and some of their… not so favorite characters. Like the Wonder Twins. Not surprisingly, they’re given the brunt of some of the most uninteresting and goofy adventures as one episode shows them trying to stop a runaway rollercoaster at a carnival (no seriously), and in another they’re forced to fight robotic dolls trying to take over the world (of course!). Every episodes tackles an adventure and battle for every character, so there’s something for everyone here. Aquaman manages to fight Algae monsters in the wreck of the Titanic with Black Lightning (no seriously!), and Batman and Robin have to take on the baddies from the Legion of Doom who trick them in to a swamp trap and are building a new device that could help them… all with me now: Conquer the world!<\/p>\n

In another of the creative exploits, Superman and Apache Chief (stereotype Inyuk-chuk!) must fight an animator who, thanks to lightning and fate, is turned in to his demonic comic character Bulgor. True I mock this series like every other geek out there, but “Super Friends” was an gateway in to the vast DC universe and allowed me to watch some of my favorite characters large and in charge. The special features of this two disc set includes a digital comic book of the “Super Friends” special issue where they go from the TV to the screen. Beyond that, there are the episodes restored and in widescreen for all fans anxious to re-visit the exploits of the legendary super team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Super Friends” was always a mixed bag of sheer idiocy and just all out creativity. In the course of one DVD in this new set from Warner, Superman is reduced to a farmer by Mr. Mxy wearing a straw hat and being weakened by green beans, and two episodes later, we see Superman journey in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[58,64,71,99,125,268,906,1007,1200],"class_list":["post-3195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-den","tag-action","tag-adaptation","tag-adventure","tag-animation","tag-batman","tag-dc-comics","tag-science-fiction","tag-superman","tag-wonder-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cinema-crazed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}