8.3 | / 10 |
Users | 4.0 | |
Reviewer | 3.5 | |
Overall | 3.8 |
It's one crazy adventure after another for human boy Finn and his best friend Jake, a 28-year old dog with magical powers. They're out to have the most fun possible, and they sure do find it exploring the Land of Ooo! Whether it's saving Princess Bubblegum, battling zombie candy, taunting the Ice King or rocking out with Marceline the Vampire Queen, with Finn & Jake it's always ADVENTURE TIME!
Starring: Jeremy Shada, John DiMaggio, Tom Kenny (I), Steve Little, Ron PerlmanAnimation | 100% |
Comedy | 88% |
Family | 79% |
Fantasy | 55% |
Dark humor | 24% |
Adventure | 22% |
Surreal | 22% |
Short | 20% |
Imaginary | 19% |
Action | Insignificant |
Video codec: VC-1
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.78:1
English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (192 kbps)
English SDH
50GB Blu-ray Disc
Single disc (1 BD)
UV digital copy
Slipcover in original pressing
Region free
Movie | 4.0 | |
Video | 4.0 | |
Audio | 2.5 | |
Extras | 4.0 | |
Overall | 3.5 |
Animator Pendleton Ward -- he of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack obscur-o-fame -- is a prince of animated chaos, capable of fashioning the utterly inane and random into a side-splitting jolt of pop culture hilarity. In 2010, with a mere scrunch of his brow, a flick of his pen and a dash of his divisive genius, Ward gave us Adventure Time, an acquired taste to be sure, but a tart, sugary delight to all those addicted to the sweet, savory, salty zest of its masterfully managed madness. The series, now five seasons strong, has drawn its share of praise and criticism, both as extreme as one might imagine. Some loathe Adventure Time, chastising its simplistic animation and seemingly nonsensical stories and characters. Others adore every passing season more than the last, flocking to each new episode as if it were the epitome of Event TV. Personally, I can't get enough, and the fact that not one but two seasons of the show are being released on Blu-ray is cause for nothing but celebration in my little corner of happiness.
Raise thine sword, brave hero! Raise it thus, and uphold thine oath!
Even with 26 eleven-minute episodes housed on each single-disc release, both The Complete First Season and Complete Second Season of Adventure Time features an excellent 1080p/VC-1 encoded video presentation that boasts a stunning array of colors, inky blacks, exacting clarity and eye-gouging vibrance. All that scalpel-point precision comes at a bit of a cost, of course. Ward's finest lines are prone to aliasing and/or slight pixelation, minor banding occasionally haunts darker backgrounds, and additional (but equally negligible) anomalies make brief appearances. However, absolutely none of it spoils the proceedings in the least, or really proves to be much of a distraction at all. Each season's image is so clean, so bright, so crisp and so colorful that the imperfections that do creep in hardly matter, particularly when those imperfections are, by and large, a product of the animation and digital source, not either season's encode. In fact, compared to the DCU animated original movie releases, the aforementioned issues are less prevalent and obvious. I can't imagine Adventure Time looking any better than it does in its dual-release Blu-ray debut. Fans will be thrilled.
The biggest downside to each season's Blu-ray release is its 192kbps Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo mix. Oh, to have Adventure Time in lossless 5.1 surround. Each track is serviceable, with clear, intelligible voices, clean effects and lively music, but each one also lacks much-needed LFE oomph and rear-speaker frivolity. A disappointment to be sure, but not the deal-breaker casual fans or fringe newcomers might claim.
Even with relatively limited supplemental packages and lossy Dolby Digital stereo mixes, you can't go wrong with the first two seasons of Adventure Time. With strong video presentations and all your favorite first and second season episodes, there's really nothing to consider. Unless, that is, you've never given the series a try, in which case a rental is in order. Fans will want to add both seasons to their carts post haste, though. Shortcomings be damned.
2010
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2012
2012-2014
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2020-2021
2010-2011
Australian Import
2013-2019
2014
Collector's Edition
2022
2013
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20th Anniversary Edition
2001
Collector's Edition
2012
2012
Power Up Edition
2023
2010
2011
2014
20th Anniversary Edition
2000
2019
2014
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2019
2008