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Starring The Voices Of: Phil Lamarr, Mako, Rob Paulson, Mark Hamill, and Tim Curry
Writers: Paul Rudish and Genndy Tartakovsky
Director: Genndy Tartakovsky
Executive Producer: Genndy Tartakovsky
Feature length: 286 minutes
Extras:
Making Of Featurette, Creator Commentary, Artwork, Animation Test, Never Before
Seen Footage
Languages: English, French and Spanish Language Dolby Digital Surround Sound
Subtitles: English Captions and Closed Captions and French and Spanish Language Subtitles
Packaging: Digipack
Sound: Dolby Digital Surround Sound
Year of DVD Release: 2004
Home Video Distributor: Warner Home Video
Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera
The shape-shifting demon Aku (Mako) has escaped his prison and avenged himself upon the Emperor of Japan, who defeated him years earlier. The Emperor’s son is saved and taken around the world where he learns to ride a horse in Arabia, stick fighting in Africa, educated in Egypt, hand to hand combat in Greece, takes a voyage with a boat full of Vikings, studies archery under Robin Hood, learns targeting in Russia, learns how to use a spear to hunt while on horseback in Mongolia, and finally receives spiritual centering and his father’s magic sword in a Buddhist monastery, possibly in Tibet. Now a fully trained and more than well-rounded Samurai warrior, he returns as an adult to Japan and enters into mortal combat with Aku.
Nearly defeating the demon, our hero is thrown into the distant future by a spell where Aliens overrun the Earth and Aku rules the planet. Befriending a race of intelligent dogs enslaved by Aku known as the Canaanites, our hero liberates these descendents of man’s best friend and takes on the nickname “Samurai Jack” as his own as he quests for a way to go back into the past and undo Aku’s evil.
“Samurai
Jack” is a fantastic combination of action, fantasy, and a touch of comedy
that will appeal to kids as well as adults. Warner Home Video presents the first
season of the hit “Cartoon Network” series on DVD-Video with an excellent
transfer and a kick ass English Dolby Digital Surround Soundtrack. The image is
sharp, free of grain and has no defects whatsoever. French and Spanish Language
Surround Soundtracks are also included as options. The running time for the
pilot is approximately 66-minutes. The other episodes have a running time of
22-minutes each. There is a ten-minute featurette with interviews with the
show’s creator Genndy Tartakovsky as well as the actors behind the voices like
Mako, who reveals that his character’s name “Aku” is literally the
Japanese word for evil. In addition we are given a glimpse at how the show is
developed with more interviews with people behind-the-scenes. There is an
eight-minute “Archives” section, which shows the viewer various concept
sketches and concludes with a storyboard to completed scene comparison and
there’s audio commentary on the DVD too.
If you are a fan of the series and have a DVD player, you have got to buy this DVD set and if you have never seen an episode, this is great opportunity to see where it all began in the best home video presentation available. “Samurai Jack: Season One” is available on DVD-Video now from Warner Home Video.
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