Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: The Xena Trilogy - The Warrior Princess, The Gauntlet, and Unchained Heart (Hercules & Xena)
by Bruce Seth Green, Jack Perez
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Actor: Elizabeth Hawthorne, Kevin Sorbo, Lucy Lawless, Michael Hurst, Robert TreborDirector: Bruce Seth Green, Jack Perez
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 141 minutes
DVD Release Date: 1998-02-24
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Movie Reviews of Hercules: The Legendary Journeys: The Xena Trilogy - The Warrior Princess, The Gauntlet, and Unchained Heart (Hercules & Xena)
Movie Review: Not a good buy and not all that important as background to XENA
Summary: 2 Stars
Absolutely no one would be interested in this disc except a XENA fan who wants to see the HERCULES episodes that introduced Xena. First, you can find the entire first season of HERCULES used for only slightly more than this 3-episode disc costs new. Second, there really isn't a whole lot here for a XENA fan to get excited about. Although she is clearly featured more prominently than other guest characters and though they clearly were setting her up for her own show by the time of the final episode, these simply aren't that good. One of the reasons people enjoy Xena is that she was the first truly heroic female character on television since Emma Peel (Wonder Woman was always worried about making her male boss look good and was hampered in her heroic daring-do by the kind of wire work that makes contemporary stunts look so impressive). But here she is a villain of sorts and though she is a villain who is on the verge of reform she is clearly inferior to Hercules both morally and physically. In short, it isn't why anyone watches Xena.
Look, if you want to watch Xena, stick to XENA. All you need to know here is that Hercules helped her change her ways and set out on a path of good. XENA will show far more about "bad Xena" than HERCULES would.
If you are undeterred and feel you simply must see the Xena episodes, then drop a few more dollars and buy all of Season One of HERCULES. I personally think HERCULES deserves more credit than it gets for its heroic presentation of women. It never presented women as a gender in perpetual need of care for by men. This particular man might help this particular woman, but neither HERCULES nor XENA articulated the view that only men got to be heroes. This can be seen by watching the Xena episodes in the context of the season as a whole.
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