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Teen Titans – The Complete Fourth Season (Warner/DC)

 

Picture: C+     Sound: C+     Extras: C     Episodes: C+

 

 

One of the weakest animated series ripped from the pages of the comic books in recent years has been the constantly floundering series Teen Titans.  Now available on a 2 Disc 13 Episode Set is Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season.  The series that premiered in July of 2003 never truly captured the same audience that past classics like Superman - The Animated Series or Batman - The Animated Series had; most likely because the series was designed a bit to childishly and lacked depth and appeal.  This lack of depth and odd blend of childish anime with a classic comic series could lend to why the series is now defunct after a rocky five seasons.

 

Five Seasons is admirable, but if the plot was better and possibly a bit darker who knows what kind of classic this series could have evolved into; maybe they needed Bruce Timm?  It is funny that I should mention Bruce Timm, because apparently at this moment he is producing a straight to DVD animated feature entitled Teen Titans: Judas Contract that takes Teen Titans in an all new and interesting direction; maybe dreams do come true…only in Gotham though.

 

As mentioned above the series again is presented on a 2-Disc set that is simple and to the point.  The picture again is disappointingly presented in a boring 1.33 X 1 Full Frame and though the animation is crisp and clear as ever it should have (as all DC series should) have been a Widescreen production.  The sound is also adequately clear in its Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo format, but still nothing impressive but good enough for the series.  The extras are once again absent form this set only offering fans a small inside look at the series in a featurette entitled Teen Titans: Know Your Foes that did not excite this reviewer AGAIN, being the same recycled type of featurette as observed on the Season Three release.

 

The series is lacking on many fronts according to a wide range of comic fans.  The series is silly, too reliant on Japanese Anime stylings, and just does not have the heart of the DC comic universe.  This reviewer is glad that there were only five seasons of this series.

 

 

-   Michael P Dougherty II


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