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Beast Wars - Transformers (Vol. 2) | 
| Actors: Scott Mcneil, Gary Chalk, Richard Newman, Ian James Corlett, David Kaye
Studio: Rhino Theatrical
Category: DVD
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Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 41085
Format: Animated, Color, Dolby, Dts Surround Sound, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 125 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D976077D
ISBN: 1566058449
UPC: 603497607723
EAN: 9781566058445
ASIN: B00006AL1L
Release Date: August 13, 2002
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The American update of the 1985 Japanese Transformers series is based on a computer game and a line of toys from Hasbro. Beast Wars may have looked snazzy in 1996, but computer graphics have progressed so far, so quickly, that the weightless animation and simply rendered backgrounds pale beside contemporary games, let alone series. The ongoing struggle between the good-guy Maximals led by Optimus Primal and the evil Predicons continues. Although there are lots of battles and shootouts, the high-tech weapons do very little damage. The characters screech and argue before undergoing transitions from their animal to mecha forms to cries of "Maximize!" or "Terrorize!" The target audience for the disc is clearly Gen-Yers who grew up watching the show and/or playing the game. Unrated; suitable for ages 8 and up: Violence. --Charles Solomon
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 Better than G1 Transformers September 12, 2002
Lincoln 6 Echo (Harrisburg, IL USA)
11 out of 12 found this review helpful
P>I must say as per my original review, that Beast Wars is what it says, a War. In Beast Wars you get the feeling that these robots actually do hate one another. You can see it in the fight sequences. You actually get them beating the utter stuffing out of one another. Something you didn't see with the original G1 Transformers. It's so obvious that Beast Wars was written with the original G1 Transformer audience in mind. That original audience is now in our mid-to-late 20's. So now we're grown up, but we want to see a more mature Transformers. One were Transformers actually get damaged and die due to battle. This sort of visual is now more possible due to the CGI graphics. It's pretty easy to break apart a 3D model and add damage marks on it.But what draws me to this series is that it does have some sort of continuity to it and that the show evolves from season to season. In the first season, most of the Transformers have a very organic look to their beast modes, but however in Seasons 2 & 3 they evolve into Transmetals and they show a whole new appearance and deadliness. Now in being fair and balanced with regards to the G1 Transformer series, I admit that I haven't seen one of those old episodes since, well...back in the '80s, so I've pretty much forgotten the joy of that series. But with saying that, one thing about Beast Wars it does pay homage to the original series by involving the original Autobot Ark and a surviving Decepticon, Ravage, and I believe the "spark" from Starscream. These two latest Transformer series, RID and Armada are nothing but Pokemon versions of our beloved old school shows. In fact, in Armada, the biggest plot is to "catch all the Minicons" as in "gotta catch'em all". But anyway, I give this disc 5 stars, 4 for the episodes and 1 for the extras. The extras include 3D tests for a good portion of the robots and is quite interesting to see some earlier proto-types. The episodes, although good, I thought that the first volume actually had the better line-up of episodes thus far. But if I'm not mistaken, the next two discs should have some really good episodes on them. And then of course, the following Season 2 and 3 discs are really good. Oh, just one more thing. The audio and visual quality are oustanding. 5.1 Dolby Digital and the Mainframe Entertainment CGI graphics on a Flatscreen or better TV look absolutley amazing. Beast Wars has't looked or sounded any better than this.
The Battle Rages On! September 20, 2002
Roy Nichols (Waterville, ME USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
In the second Beast Wars DVD, put out by Rhino, you see episodes 7-12. "Fallen Comrades" "Double Jeopardy" "The Probe" "Gorilla Warfare" "A Better Mousetrap" and "Victory" my personal favorites were the last three, although, they were all very good episodes. The picture quality on this DVD is extroardinary. not a speck of fuzziness or edge enhancement. and the sound quality is better than perfect. There isn't much for special features. Just character animation tests, and a couple other small things. But thats OK, the superior sound and picture quality make up for the absense of special features. The cover art is really good too. In short, this DVD is extroardinary! If you like Beast Wars at all, you owe it to yourself to buy this DVD (or VHS tapes).
Transformers: the Next Generation May 5, 2003
Michael Payton (Ohio)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
...This series's visual effects are just as dated as the original Star Trek or even ST:TNG would be, viewed years after creation. But if your only interest is in special FX the charm of shows like these are clearly going to be lost on you. ...Beast Wars is to Transformers: Generation One what Star Trek: The Next Generation is to the original Trek. Yes, we may love the original characters and series more, but the quality of the storytelling and acting (voice acting in the case of BW) is simply superior. Created as an updated version of Transformers G1 (and not based on the video game that came two years later), under the guidance of Larry (Babylon 5) DiTillio and Bob (X-Men Evolution) Forward the series evolved very quickly into one of the only good cartoons of the 90s. So highly regarded was this series that it won an Emmy Award in it's first season. The writers enfused story elements from the original Transformers comic book from Marvel and the original cartoon to create a new continuity, which continues today in the Transformers comics from Dreamwave, and later this fall will continue further in the brand new comic & toyline "Transformers Universe" which will unite both the G1 and BW generations of Transformers in a new battle against Unicron, the main villian from Transformers: the Movie. The episodes in Beast Wars volume two represent the final growing pains just before the series found it's own footing and evolved into the classic series it became by the end of it's debut season and most especially it's second season, which ended with the best TV cliffhanger since J.R. was [destroyed]. I would not recommend buying this DVD however. There is a season one box set coming this summer that will contain all 26 episodes. This series of single DVDs will not be continued and you will miss out on why Beast Wars is the most beloved Transformers cartoon among the most ... Transfans. It's worth waiting to get the entire first season [at one time].
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