Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Fourth Season (Slim Set)
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Sarah Michelle Gellar Brand: GELLAR,SARAH MICHEL Editor: Skip Schoolnik Writer: Dan Vebber Writer: Joss Whedon DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 990 minutes DVD Release Date: 2006-05-30 Studio: WB Television Network, The |
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Movie Reviews of Buffy the Vampire Slayer - The Complete Fourth Season (Slim Set)
Movie Review: It's not the weakest, it's just not as outstanding
Summary: 5 Stars
Yet I still give it 5 stars? That's because, and this is such a cliche, but even at its worst, is better than most series best. Coming after the emotionally charged season 2 and the action packed near-perfect season 3, season 4 was not going to be as sharp. So while episodes don't reach the heights the last 2 seasons had, they were still worth watching anyway since there's very little filler here.
Buffy graduated from high school, and cut off everybody's future chance to since she blew it up fighting a huge snake. Well now it's university time and things are just as worse. She's dealing with hard professors, an incredibly weird roommate, an old enemy(2 in fact) and a secret military group called the Initiative that doesn't like Buffy poking around since she has ties to one of its officers.
The season starts with "The Freshman" and like all the other season openers, it's merely okay. From then on we get episodes that range from entertaining to just merely serviceable. One blemish is "Beer Bad" where drinking beer leads to men literally acting like cavemen. While it contains a hilarious performance by Sarah, it just feels rather meh the entire time. That gets saved later with "Hush", probably the coolest idea for an episode. The Gentlemen, floating bald guys with wicked smiles stealing the voices of everyone in town and then cut out their hearts with no one the wiser since they can't scream. Most of the episode plays out with no dialogue and there's even some funny jokes(the hand motion sans Mr. Pointy is quite funny).
A welcome addition(although I'm getting tired of the overusage of the story) is when Faith returns and manages to switch bodies with Buffy. While I get tired of the body swap episodes, this one's quite funny and allows both actresses to do something a bit different. Eliza totally nails the Buffy character in Who Are You, especially when she's convincing people of her identity. Then we have the only season finale to not be a big huge blowout: the characters have very weird dreams featuring the first Slayer in Restless.
Is there some trouble spots? Well, the episodes aren't as consistent as season 3 was. They're usually meh episodes that are very funny are just really great ones, exception being Beer Bad which is just awful. The Initiative storyline doesn't seem as big a threat as Angelus or the Mayor was or even the Master and the Riley/Buffy relationship doesn't have the attraction it should, despite the sometimes often physical scenes(such as the sex minded Where the Wild Things Are).
One nice thing about shows like Buffy or Smallville is you can put whatever episode you felt like on without losing your place. 24 or Lost makes you feel like if you missed one episode then you're completely screwed. While season 4 may not be the best, it's just misunderstood and ultimately a fairly solid season.