Home Movies – Season Four
Picture: B-
Sound: C+ Extras: B- Episdoes: B-
Home Movies - Season Four is the
understandably final season of a show that played out all of its jokes before
they became too stale and tired. As
noted in our previous review, the writers knew how to comment on the things
people are thinking about, complaining about or observing interesting things
that the rest of the media is missing.
It is always unexpected and funny, with the characters not knowing what
to think about anything sometimes, while others being passively focused on the
self (very healthy) and having half given up on life.
Once again, the center of this are the kids in the show
who want to shoot and edit their videotaped home movies, which is not overly focused
on throughout the series, but does lead to so many other funny and wacky
situations that it gives the writers all kinds of directions to take the series
in. The episodes are as follows, all
with commentaries:
1) Camp#
2) Bye, Bye
Greasy
3) The
Heart Smashers
4) Everybody’s
Entitled To An Opinion
5) The
Wizard’s Baker#
6) Psycho-Delicate
7) Curses
8) Honkey
Magoo
9) Those
Bitches Tried To Cheat Me
10) Definite Possible Murder
11) Temporary Blindness
12) Focus Grill
The 1.33 x 1 image remains colorful and despite its simple
animation, is vivid and consistent throughout.
There are few problems with the transfer and is a pleasure to view
throughout. The Dolby Digital 2.0
Stereo still does not have any serious Pro Logic surrounds, but is very clean
and clear, which is good because so many of the jokes are so good and have such
good timing, but are also funny because of the way they are delivered by the
voice actors. Extras include a bonus CD
in the copy we received with 52 tracks from all four seasons, animatics for one
episode per each of the three discs as marked above by an #, a featurette on
the beginning of the series on DVD 1, audio outtakes jukebox on DVD 2 and The
Shins, the publication The Onion and a group of fans have their own
commentaries among the extras. Fitting
extras by Shout! Factory for a fitting conclusion to the series.
- Nicholas Sheffo
