Fuller
House: The Complete First Season
(2016/Warner DVD Set)
Picture:
B- Sound: B- Extras: D Episodes: C+
I
was a child of the '90s and grew up watching Full
House
with my family and now, Netflix revives the series with Fuller
House.
Getting all (save the Olsen Twins) of the original cast back
together including Bob Saget, John Stamos, Candace Cameron-Bure,
Jodie Sweetin, Andrea Barber, Lori Loughin, Scott Weigner, Dave
Coulier, and others, the Tanner Family has truly been reunited.
The
show has been a hit with its target audience and while it suffers
from corny jokes and life lessons learned through dumb mistakes and
misunderstandings (now to mention a distracting laugh track), the
spirit of the original Jeff Franklin-produced series has returned
with some updated pop culture references and the formula that made
the show a hit back in the day. Even the opening title sequence has
even been modernized with a split screen comparison of what the cast
looks like then and now, which is interesting even if the updated
theme song isn't.
Thirteen
episodes span two discs including Our
Very First Show Again, Moving Day, Funner House, The Not-So-Great
Escape, Mad Max, The Legend of El Explosivo, Ramona's Not So Epic
Party, Secrets Lies and Firetrucks, War of the Roses, A Giant Leap,
Partnerships in the Night, Save the Dates,
and Love
is In The Air.
DJ
Tanner (Cameron) has essentially become her father Danny - also a
widow with three young kids in her young age. Finding herself under
the same roof as her family again we are reunited with Danny Tanner
(Saget), Uncle Joey (Coulier), Uncle Jesse (Stamos), her sister
Stephanie (Sweetin) and of course her neighbor Kimmy Gibbler
(Barber).
The
show is presented on disc in standard definition with a 1.78:1
widescreen aspect ratio and a lossy Dolby Digital 5.1 track that
looks and sounds fine for the format. I would say that the
presentation is comparable to the original Netflix broadcast which
was also presented uncut and commercial free.
No
extras.
Fans
of '90s nostalgia have flocked to the show and for what it is works
fine, however, Fuller
House
isn't more than just a retread of the original series with standard
sitcom formula.
-
James Lockhart
https://www.facebook.com/jamesharlandlockhartv/
