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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great Season! Awful Packaging, 6 Oct 2008
Another Great Season for The Simpsons. Have been looking forward to this coming out for some time. Can;t believe its taken so long.
I would have given this a higher rating if it wasnt for the packaging. Unlike the other Limited Edition Simpsons boxset (i.e. Homer Head boxset etc) this comes slightly smaller where the discs are stuffed into cardboard sleeves which can be quite hard to get out, and also have to touch the readable side of the disc with your fingers leaving grubby marks.
Also the packaging is very confusing and you are lucky to find the right disc you are looking for, first time.
As long as you aren't fussy about the packaging then this is a must buy!
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27 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Trouble in paradise...for two reasons!, 16 Aug 2008
This season, finally getting released after a year without a new box set and only the disappointing movie and increasingly unfunny episodes to sustain us, is very interesting. Along with seasons 9 and 10, 11 contains many episodes that are very funny, and a few that aren`t. All the early seasons, the classic, golden age of Simpsons seasons, have storylines and moments that are truly unforgettable, and indeed, are now embedded as part of popular culture...they were devastatingly funny too. These later seasons are funny, but for some reason they don`t really stick in the mind. I know it`s a tragic waste of memory, but I can retell most of the first 100 episodes damn near word for word. These later seasons just don`t stick in the brain. I still love them just not for the same reasons. It`s more out of feelings of nostalgia and remembrance at how happy one used to be watching them, and I now feel I shouldn`t let Homer et al. down by turning my back on them when they need me...
I`m not going to run through each episode, as some don`t deserve the effort, but there are some delights. I like "Little Big Mom", and "Missionary: Impossible". "The Mansion Family", which ends in disappointment (a theme of this season) does have one of my favourite ever Simpsons moments - when Mr Burns leaves for his health check, Monty is pondering who to leave in charge of his house.
Monty: "Who`s that fellow that always screws up and causes havoc?"
Smithers: "Homer Simpson?"
Monty: "Yes, that`s the fellow. I reckon he`s due a good performance".
If you don`t enjoy that scene, you have laugh-resistant DNA. Also, Moe starring as the lead of an episode (Pygmoelian) is great news. The idea of the season finale, a behind-the-scenes style expose is a great idea (even if it doesn`t quite work).
You will find yourself ten minutes in though sometimes, and nothing funny has happened. Lazy comic ideas led to such comedy misfires as "Kill The Alligator and Run" and even worse, "Bart To The Future". I don`t know why Maud had to die either!
So, still funny, but not classics. Better than any other animated comedy in my opinion, and worth watching - you will laugh often, but these episodes are a bit like the name of Homer`s Barbershop Quartet, "The B-Sharps" - funny at first, but less so the more you know them...
And as for the packaging!!! If every reviewer mentions it, and they do, there must be truth in it. You can`t possibly have any idea which disc you are getting as Fox have designed something that despite being just cardboard and glue is so sphinx-like in its inscrutability you will be enraged and bewildered within minutes. Your chances of watching the discs more than once - you will have scratched the important side by simply removing them - are slender. Keep those nails filed if you want to keep them in good order. True madness.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Worst Packaging Imaginable. What were they thinking?, 17 Jan 2009
This review is for the Australian Release Limited edition Krusty Head Season 11. I am unsure as to whether this is identical to the UK limited edition head, but if so, i feel the following should be noted:
I am currently living in New Zealand. My girlfriends mum got me the Australian limited edition Krusty head for Christmas. First things first. The episodes by themselves warrant a much higher rating than what i have given here ie. 1 star. I am a simpsons devotee afterall and own all other seasons to date. I am basing this review not on the episodes, but on the absolutely AWFUL packaging. Now you might think that I am being pathetic or extreme in basing my review on this indescretion alone, rather than concentrating on the episodes; afterall this is why you are buyng the box set in the first place isn't it? Please read on.
I honestly don't know just what FOX were thinking. They should hang their heads in complete shame because they really have dropped a clanger with this one. Season 11 comes by way of 4 dvds enclosed in cardboard wrapping if you like. Getting the dvds out of their folds is hard enough. You need skill and meticulous precision not just to retrieve your dvd, but being careful enough not to stratch it while you drag it out. Really you have little but no option here because no matter how careful you are, it is still nigh on impossible not to damage your discs albeit completely involuntarily. I recall having to squeeze disc 3 out of the cardboard casing only to discover, much to my horror, it was half covered in glue (glue from the cardboard joints) when i finally got it out. Attempting to play a glue savaged dvd in my dvd player wasn't something I was willing to do - for fear of further damage. Now i face having to buy some cleanup liquid for this dvd. I'll be amazed if i can salvage anything from this disc - its that bad. Disc 4 only had one glue smear - but before counting myself lucky i noticed two underlying stratches, that after loading into my dvd player, adversely affect the last two episodes of the season. Basically they skip halfway into the episodes.
Fox I want my money back. Im too embarrassed to ask my girlfriends mum if she still has the receipt. How can I? It was a Christmas present afterall. I'm just very happy that I personally didn't spend a dime on this monstrosity, or else i really would be seething.
You have been warned.
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