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I was thrilled to find this set here on Amazon, and buying this set is so much cheaper then buying each volume seperatly. All of the DVD's have some good interviews with the producers, designers, voice actors, and other people associated with the show. I don't usually like watching interviews/things where people talk a lot, but I love watching those interviews over and over and seeing the steps they took to make this show as good as it was. I totall reccomend it to anyone looking for something a little different.
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Season One of X-Men Evolution is undoubtedly the weakest season of the show. The voice actors have not settled in to their roles (most notably Professor X and Wolverine), the show introduces a lot more the high school aspect of X-Men, and its constant changes to X-Lore take a lot of getting used to.
But Evolution will eventually win you over. It's fun to see the high school setting, the different interpretations of the characters and the show itself is good fun. X-fans may have to grin and bear at some of the more "unwise" decisions (most painfully the season finale with Magneto), but I think overall that this is worth any X-fans hard earned cash. It's a thoughtful show, unique, and never lets itself get pretentious, preachy, or too serious.
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If anything media-related can be said about X-men Evolution, it was created because of the success of the X-men movie released in 2000. That said, X-men Evolution is sort of a retelling of the X-men story, with a totally different twist to it; A majority of the X-men are teenagers. That's right teenagers, minus Wolverine as their trainer and baby-sitter most of the time, Xavier as the head of the Xavier institute, and Storm (as their teacher) which was strange for me at first but then again who want to see a teenage-angst ridden Wolverine or Storm?
Anyway, the first episode starts off with introducing Rouge; an isolated teenage girl with problems who somehow ends up the target of Mystique and Magneto. Naturally the teenage-X-men (accompanied by Wolverine) head out to try and to help her while at the same time stop her from hurting herself or others unaware that Mystique is two-steps ahead of them. From there the fairly moderate episodes and plot progresses revealing a little more about what in fact is happening in the show. Why Magneto has with a bunch of misguided teenagers recruited for his "Brotherhood" (Toad; equipped with his own theme, Avalanche, the Blob, and Quicksilver) is beyond me.
The animations for the show is done quite good, the characters move with fluid motions with the occasional stiffness, the drawings are somewhat blocky/square, the voice-acting is okay (I was suckered into watching the show because several my favorite voice-actors were featured in the show; Scott McNeil, Kirby Morrow, David Kaye, Mark Hildreth, etc.) and they do get better if not worse as the show progresses.
Basically X-men Evolution's only down fall is that majority of the episodes are a mishmash of the good guys fighting the bad guys with blaring rock music in the background, injuring them only (there are no fatalities) and then letting them escape to fight or rather go to the same high-school with them another day. Which sort of bothered me, because they are supposed to be enemies right? The show is pretty good it can get boring at times, plus it probably won't please veterans of the X-men series, but its a good introduction for new comers and adolescence's alike.
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I am a big X-Men fan, i like almost anything Marvel has done, and it is true, this series cannot compare to the older x-men cartoon.
this one is better.
now, i will watch the older one whenever i can, it has started coming back on tv recently and i watch it almost every day, but honestly, there are many times that i find it...boring. i mean, i love the plot lines, but there is far too much talking, far too many flashbacks for no apparent reason, and far too much jubilee, and not nearly enough gambit.
but this review is supposed to be about the new series, sorry i got off topic there for a minute
x-men evolution, as the other guides have already mentioned, portrays the x-men as high schoolers (with the exception of a few), and gives some great development for characters. i especially like nightcrawler in this series, often times he is betrayed as a thing to be scared of, and very serious, but in evolution he is the fun loving character he should have been all along, a big furball, or the fuzzy blue elf as he is sometimes referred to. cyclops is very serious, and looks out for everyone alot, like always. jean grey is pretty much on the same level as cyclops, but not quite as extreme. they also have a on and off relationship, but they were always destined to be, right? spyke is new, basically a teenage boy form of marrow, big trouble maker and storm's nephew, though he has a few good plot lines through out the show. then shadowcat is also a main character, the girl that can walk through walls (or any other solid object), who is an average teenage...mutant...ninja tur-oh wait, i mean girl. wolvie is the same old guy, as is professor X, and storm is pretty much the same as always too, but luckily she has left her "catch phrases" such as "power of wind, get real windy!" back in the older show. oh yeah, and rogue, at first she is with the brotherhood, but then she joins the x-men, never really sure where she belongs. i guess never being able to touch another person will freak you out some.
there is also a large selection of bad guys. there is the "brotherhood of mutants" who at first is led by magneto, but they tend to go off on their own alot. they are made up of blob, fat and stupid, quake, he can...make earthquakes and has a thing for shadowcat, quicksilver, magneto's beloved (or not so) son, and toad, who has all the powers, and intelligence, of a toad. magneto has the same old plans for global domination for the "homo-superiors" (mutant kind), and mystique is his loyal as ever follower...when we know who she is at the time. there are also others that follow magneto, but arent part of the brotherhood (not in high school with them...) including sabertooth, wolverine's arch foe, pyro, the australian with attitude, colossus, the guy with the awesome body armour that comes out of no where, and gambit. this was a huge problem with alot of people, putting gambit as a bad guy, but i rather like it. gambit was trained by his father to be a theif, and as a bad guy he really got the opportunity to use those skills, and do some very cool moves with his powers besides throwing cards at everyone like when he was a good guy (dont worry, he still does though)
now i know i didnt tell you any of the plots of the episodes, but hopefully all you x-men fans that are afraid to try this show will see that despite some changes, it isnt the bane of x-men history like some have suggested. it is a great show.
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Personally, i like x-men evolution (evo) better than the 90's series. Evo has better plots, better lines, and the characters look great. This box set is a really good value. Not only does it have all of season one, it also includes tons of bonus features. If you're a fan of x-men, this is something you can't live without. Great gift idea.
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