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Battle Of The Planets
Volume 2
I've already raved about the first volume
of Rhino's eagerly awaited
series of Battle Of The Planets DVDs, and while the features are
basically the same on this volume - corresponding Gatchaman episodes
with subtitles and one episode of the supremely crappy re-edited
"G-Force: Guardians Of The Universe" - but the episodes
are better, as they're from a point further into the series where
the producers had found the right balance between the original
Gatchaman footage and the newly
(well, newly in the 70s) created footage of 7-Zark-7 to fill in for
censored violent scenes.
I also have to give Rhino Home Video plaudits for something I
forgot to mention last time - trading cards! Granted, they
give only the most superficial details of the character covered,
but they're nicely put together, and they're some of the only
official Battle Of The Planets goodies out there (aside from the
semi-official soundtrack
CD) for U.S. fans to find. Sadly, it seems that the trading
cards were dropped as of the third volume. Hopefully nothing else
will be dropped - i.e. the subtitled Gatchaman episodes, still the
hidden treasure of these releases.
Reviewed by Earl
Green
theLogBook.com editor/webmaster
 
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