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Okay, for the 1st season, it lived up to the hype, but by the second, it failed to be what this one was... ENTERTAINING. Brian Michael Bendis once again shows he deserves any money thrown his way, as he pens some pretty good stories here. Dropping this series is yet another bit of proof that MTV sucks... I mean it has for some time, now... or are you just noticing? I'm really impressed that they squeezed all 13 episodes in this thing. That's real good to hear.
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a must buy for anyone who's a spiderman fan or just likes cartoons.great graphics and storyline,i'm surprised this didn't last longer on mtv.to bad they didn't continue this series
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I actually liked this series the minute I saw it I don't have a problem with the CGI, the motion looks realistic while retaining the look of 2_D comic book art. I like the updated characters. The non-action sequences and relationship banter do make me want to reach for the FF key on the remote (much like Smallville's scenes like that vs. the action ones) but overall, I like this much better than the poorly animated series that still plays on the FAMILY channel sometimes. I just wish they had not made Harry Osborne look like a post-pubescent MacCauly Kulkin for some reason.
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Being a fan of both animation and the Goddess that is Lisa Loeb I was very interested to see this series. Unfortunately I missed every episode when it premiered on MTV. When I heard it was being released on DVD I ran right out to buy it. With a six pack in one hand and remote in the other I retired to the couch ready for the amazement of Spider-Man
The first thing to ruffle my proverbial feathers was the animation. Using a process of computer graphics to resemble traditional line art the animators were able to capture the worst of both worlds. All the lack of depth of two-dimensional painting, with the stiffness of CGI.
The actors, working with bad dialogue, just don't seem to capture the characters. Neil Patrick Harris does fine as Peter Parker but as Spider-Man he toughens his voice, ala Kevin Conroy's Batman, and can't deliver the lines convincingly. Lisa Loeb, seems the perfect choice to spout Mary Jane's "Hi ya Tiger". Instead she loses all her cutsey sweetness and makes the character sound like a bitter scorned lover. Ian Ziering's Harry Osborn is the most tolerable, but I must wonder if it's a result of his lack of screen time.
The writing lacks the depth and character analysis of Batman: The Animated Series and the action of the previous Spider-Man animated series. The villains are both updates on classic comic book characters and new ones created for the series. Unfortunately none of them have any use except as a way for the animators to say "Isn't this cool?" "No, as a matter of fact it isn't".
What a huge disappointment. I just don't understand how this much talent could be assembled together to make this much mediocrity. The best thing about this DVD is the fact that it is easily forgotten.
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Although the storyline wasn't very good, and the dialogue was mediocre at best, I thought the first season was pretty good. It could have been WAAAAAYYY better of course but overall, I liked it. And even though the rendering technique used is the flavor of the month for all the suits in charge of producing things, the look and feel of the series was pretty cool. If you consider how long it takes to produce this much animation I'm sure at the time it was being made it was a pretty new technique. I hope season two doesn't look like season one because it will be really outdated. There are scenes where the Spider-Man animation is so much better than the movie version of Spider-Man (especially when SM fights off the thugs in the alley in the movie...horrible animation). The series could have been darker and used a better musician (who hired Digweed?) but again, overall, for a cartoon, this series did try to go beyond the earlier incarnations of any Spider-Man cartoon. If you like Spider-Man cartoons, this one is a step above your typical Saturday morning fare.
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