Road
Rovers: The Complete Series
(1996/Warner Archive DVD Set)
Picture:
B- Sound: C Extras: D Episodes: D
PLEASE
NOTE:
This two disc set comes with all thirteen episodes of the series, is
MOD (manufacture on demand) and available at the link below, so if
you are interested in it, you may not find it in stores and can get
it there.
It's
time to hit the road - Roooad Rovers!
Road
Rovers
is a lost
Warner Brothers cartoon from the '90s that is finally making its way
onto DVD. Meet Cano-sapien the next, heroic step in the evolution of
man's best friend! After the evil General Parvo unleashes Professor
Shepherd's inventions upon the world, mutating dogs into monsters,
Professor Shepherd recruits an international team of canines and
transdogmafies them into super-heroic, humanoid crime-fighters.
From
the White House hails Hunter, the leader of the pack; from 10 Downing
Street comes high-kicking Colleen; from the German Chancellery bounds
hard-biting Blitz; from the Kremlin comes eye-blasting Exile; and
from the Swiss Confederation comes devout coward, Shag. And waiting
in the wings is Muzzle, their maniac secret weapon, confined to
gurney and mask until the chips are down and some savagery is most
definitely on the menu.
The
concept of the show is silly and the animation is pretty standard and
nothing really to write home about - typical of other Kids' WB titles
around the same time period. The dialogue is riddled with one-liners
that highlight the absurdity of the concept on several occasions.
I'm not too surprised that this show didn't really catch on.
Episodes
include such on-the-nose titles as Let's
Hit The Road,
Storm
From The Pacific,
A Hair
of The Dog That Bit You,
Where
Rovers Dare,
Let
Sleeping Dogs Lie,
The
Dog Who Knew Too Much,
Hunter's
Heroes,
Dawn
of the Groomer,
Still
A Few Bugs In The System,
Reigning
Cats and Dogs,
Gold
and Retrievers,
Take
Me To Your Leader
and A
Day In The Life.
Sound
and Picture on the standard are a slight improvement over the
original broadcast and are featured in standard definition with a
4:3/1.33 X 1 full screen aspect ratio. The sound is a lossy Dolby
Digital 2.0 Stereo track that is nothing to write home about but
sounds fine for this.
There
are no extras aside from the episodes, which span both discs. Just
non-moving menu screens that aren't too impressive with episode
selection only.
If
you are craving to see dogs as super hero crime fighters, then this
old cartoon archive may have you howling and barking at the moon!
For me, it left a little much to be desired but I am more of a cat
person.
To
order this Warner Archive DVD set, go to this link for it and many
more great web-exclusive releases at:
https://www.warnerarchive.com/
-
James Lockhart
https://www.facebook.com/jamesharlandlockhartv/
