Product Description
The original tales of Marvel comic books come to life in Volume 5 of the X-MEN collection. Relive the action of the popular animated series in this collectible compilation of X-MEN adventures. The X-MEN must turn to their arch-nemesis, Magneto, in an effort to save the life of Professor Xavier! Watch the action unfold in the final episode Graduation Day, and don’t miss a moment of X-MEN excitement in this 2-disc set, complete with 14 riveting episodes. Complete your… More >>
#1 by J. Lacayo on March 24, 2010 - 2:31 am
The animation isn’t as good as the previous four seasons because it looks too cartoony (like the new wolverine and x-men show, yuck!) but the stories are still killer!!!
If you don’t want to read the comic but want to visually see what x-men is all about, burn your copies of ALL the x-men movies and buy these!! these cartoons have more adult subject matter and are more true to the comic than anything else on dvd! i’m proud to be a huge fan of this show, it’s 80% like the comic, while the movies are like 30%. simply the best and i think this is for young adult mostly because the adult issues explored her are not for kids!! i was considering giving this to my nephew, who is 7 years old but after watching the show again, i was like “better wait until he’s 12.”
Rating: 4 / 5
#2 by A. CULLUM on March 24, 2010 - 4:17 am
Okay; I’m a little confused. I just started Vol. 3 with the Savage Land, Strange Heart episodes and am wondering what happened to these episodes:
No Mutant Is an Island
A Deal with the Devil
Longshot
Were they never originally aired? Does anyone know what the plans are for these? Especially with “No Mutant Is an Island” explaining how Jean Grey comes back.
Am I missing something
Rating: 4 / 5
#3 by L. Ackerman on March 24, 2010 - 6:07 am
YAY!!!! For a second there I thought they were going to leave us hanging forever.
Now if we can only get season 4 of X-Men Evolution on DVD…that would be great!!!!
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by N. Durham on March 24, 2010 - 8:10 am
Marvel’s 90s X-Men animated series comes to an end with this fifth DVD set from Disney, which contains the final episodes of the beloved series, which remains to this day the best Marvel animated series ever produced. In these episodes, the X-Men face-off against a powerful alien force (“The Phalanx Covenant”), Omega Red returns with vengeance on his mind (“A Deal with the Devil”), Nightcrawler’s past and family ties are revealed (“Bloodlines”), and Wolverine reminisces back to fighting alongside Captain America in World War II (“Old Soldiers”). The best of the bunch here though are undoubtedly the two-parter “Phalanx Covenant”; in which Beast and Forge form an unlikely alliance with Magneto and Mr. Sinister, “Descent”; in which the origins of Mr. Sinister are explored, and the final episode “Graduation Day”; which finds the X-Men uniting with Magneto in an effort to save the life of Professor Xavier. Though the animation quality and voice work took a downward turn in some of these last episodes of the series, its overall message remained untouched. Just as it was when these episodes first aired, seeing them again on DVD is bittersweet, if only due to the fact that this is the end.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Joseph P. Hodgson on March 24, 2010 - 8:56 am
Disney has actually decided to finish releasing the entirety of one of its properties, rejoice X-Men fans, its been a long wait!
Unfortunately in many ways the series went out with a whimper. The creators never anticipated a fifth season and the contract with the animation studio even expired resulting in the last few episodes being animated by a new studio and a drastic change in visual style. Some voice talent left as well, most notably Chris Potters who played Gambit and was replaced by Tony Daniels, making for a somewhat jarring presentation and conclusion. A lot of the episodes are “filler” and stand-alone stories. That doesn’t mean they are bad, but the series always had a feeling of moving forward that is absent here.
Nevertheless, if you’ve come this far you must see it through! There are some good episodes here, even some classics, and the series did get a proper final episode which provides closure to the series. Among the standout episodes are the two part Phalanx episodes which provide at least an entertaining team-up between Beast, Magneto, and Sinister. I quite enjoy the episode “Deliverance” which gives us the back story of one of the villains of the series. “Old Soldiers” is another flash back episode, this one featuring Wolverine and depicting his team-up with the legendary Captain America to take on the Red Skull. “Bloodlines” brings back Nightcrawler and unveils his origins and relationship with Rogue and Creed. We also get a couple holdover episodes, “A Deal With the Devil” and “No Mutant is an Island,” two episodes part of prior seasons that are presented here according to air date. “Fifth Horseman” raises the question of whether Apocalypse is truly defeated and brings the often forgotten X-Factor member Caliban to the party.
There are a few episodes I personally don’t care for. The two part “Storm Front” episode just doesn’t do it for me, and the fact that is two parts is unfortunate. The Cannonball episode is not well done and the new visual style just doesn’t work here. “Jubilee’s Fairytale Theater” is definitely the black sheep of all the episodes.
Despite a couple shortcomings this is still a must own. The final episode is fun to watch, even if Xavier’s illness is left mostly unexplained, its one of the few episodes where all of the X-Men get some facetime (and Jean is depicted in her comic book yellow and blue costume for the only time in the series, for those of you interested in that sort of thing). Its unfortunate more time could not have been allotted for the conclusion, as it really would have benefitted as a multi-part arc give how quickly the Magneto conflict is resolved, but at least we get a final episode. As a final piece of fan service, the original voice actor for Magneto, David Hemblen, was brought back for the last episode. If you loved the series I imagine you need no further convincing.
Rating: 4 / 5