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Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law Vol. 2 DVD

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Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law Volume Two DVD

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law Volume Two DVD

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The Bottom Line

Season one of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law may not have won me over, but the second season has captured my heart. In season two, crazy plots are introduced and resolved, the adventures get wilder, and the characters get crazier. Four-and-a-half stars for Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is well deserved. Just to underline this, Harvey Birdman is more awesome than you deserve. But this life isn't fair. So you do get to watch it. My advice? Take advantage.
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Pros

  • A good larf.
  • DVD Packaging = Good
  • A cast of thousands, well used, and including Yakky Doodle.

Cons

  • Weird, weird, weird.

Description

  • 13 episodes.
  • Commentary on 9 episodes with Gary Cole, Stephen Colbert, John Michael Higgins, Peter MacNicol, Paget Brewster and others.
  • Clothes-less Animation Pass: a Harvey Birdman scene reanimated to be all naked all the time!
  • A behind-the-scenes look at the making of the series and the evolution of a scene.
  • "Hey Mr. Passerby" music video.
  • Birdman Stripper – footage of live action stripper dressed as our favorite winged attorney.
  • Fun with audio segments.

Guide Review - Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law Vol. 2 DVD

I was not a fan of season one. I loved the premise of Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, lame superhero becomes lame lawyer and defends cartoons. But season one spent way, way too much time sending up cartoons. Okay, it's funny to re-imagine Fred Flintstone as Tony Soprano, but the joke wore thin quickly. That episode in season one when Scooby-Doo and Shaggy get busted for weed? Is there anyone who hasn't made the connection between Scooby Snacks and weed? Well, maybe my six year-old niece.

In season two, God help me, Harvey takes on issues. When the threat color level is moved up to the cover of Rush's seminal album, "Moving Pictures," frankly, I couldn't have been happier. So, yes, they're making fun of us for being scared of terrorists. But Harvey can be totally random: a Greek restaurant opens in Harvey's office.

In this volume, the premise is more fully realized and the show is better for it. Is guitar control really a good metaphor for gun control? Well, no. But it allows the show to make a lot of cheap jokes. Guitar control doesn't really seem to have too much to say about gun control, except to make fun of both sides of the issue.

The DVD menus are nice, a scrawled over textbook. Some nice extras are included. I do wish the extras would've had a "play all" feature, but, not a big deal.

The characters are all great. Elroy Jetson in his finest moment. Yakky Doodle, well, I just love Yakky. X's odd quest for Harvey's crest. Judge Mentok the Mindtaker reading witnesses' minds.

I think I should probably say that I also think that Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is the last old school Adult Swim show left and it's been cancelled. Somehow, Squidbillies just doesn't fill the slot. Wherefore art thou, Brak?

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