Movie Reviews for Samurai Jack - Season 3

Samurai Jack - Season 3

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Movie Reviews of Samurai Jack - Season 3

Movie Review: I love Jack
Summary: 5 Stars

Samurai Jack is gansta! Nobody can mess with him! Can't wait till the other seasons come out.

Movie Review: Samurai Jack - Season 3
Summary: 4 Stars

If you're looking at this, then you probably already have the first two seasons and you know (more or less) what to expect by now. That said, this is probably my favorite season of the entire 4.

The writing improves a bit this season, along with what would be called the "cinematography" if this were...you know....not animated. And that's saying a lot because the first two seasons were already pretty awesome. There are many memorable episodes that were a joy to watch. Most notably "Jack vs. The rave" and the season finale where you see the birth of Aku. I had a lot of fun watching these discs, and I'm a fully grown adult. This was one of the better shows on television at the time, animated or otherwise. Good fun for the kids, but still enjoyable by adults. Particularly adults who are fans of Akira Kurasawa, or Toshiro Mifune and other samurai flicks.

A word of note: I WOULD recommend this to parents, albeit with some discretion. It can be a tad violent, so do keep that in mind if you're buying this to entertain the lil ones. I know that here in America, we tend to flip out more over sex than violence for whatever reason. You can relax there if that sort of thing bothers you. You won't hear any profanity or see so much as a nipple. But if you're actually well adjusted and have more of a problem with your child seeing violent images than half of Janet Jacksons boobs, you may wish to view this along side your child. Might help put things in context for them, know what i'm sayin? For what it's worth, there are FAR worse things out there, and most of Jack's opponents are robots of some sort. So Jack never fights a "living" being, if you will. If they can handle "Star Wars" then they should be fine watching Samurai Jack. (Which, incidentally is FULL of Star Wars references.)

Fun Fact:

This same writing/animation team would later go on to make the animated "Clone Wars" series. Not the computer animated one, the regular animated one. The actually GOOD one. Yeah, it seems that Ol' George Lucas was rather heavily influenced by the films of Kurasawa. It stands to reason that he would chose this team to produce The Clone Wars: animated series. From a black and white Samurai flick influencing Star Wars....which was the inspiration for much of Samurai Jack...which in turn inspired Lucas to create The Clone Wars. Seems the world keeps moving in circles. Funny old life, innit?

At the end of the day, I chose to give this DVD 4 stars. It isn't flawless, by any stretch of the imagination, but it's great fun and can usually be found here for a pretty good price.

If you own seasons one and two, do yourself a favor and pick up three and four, especially if you've found a good deal. You can thank me later.

Movie Review: Look Out, Mack ! Jack's Back !
Summary: 4 Stars

So now....

Season Three of acclaimed Cartoon Network series Samurai Jack is finally out on DVD. Like the first two seasons, there's two discs with 13 episodes of the really great show and a few DVD extras to boot ! One of those features happen to be "The Martial Arts of Samurai Jack," featuring behind-the-scenes footage uncovering the martial arts moves used in the show; reminicent to moves used in the series "Avatar: The Last Airbender." Another feature is "The Lost Art Work Gallery", self-explanatory.

Finally, the moment you've been waiting for, here's the Season Three top five episodes ! Which are:

5. "The Birth of Evil" (parts 1 & 2) - This two-part special tells the origin of AKU and how he was first defeated way before the birth of Jack. To see and hear more, select the optional audio commentary on the two-parter by Genndy Tartakofsky himself in the special features section.

4. "Chicken Jack" - A wizard grouchily turns the samurai into a chicken ! But even as a chicken, Jack is still quite the fighter !

3. "Jack and the Clenches" (a.k.a. "The Good, the Bad, and the Beautiful") - Jack is in for a wild, wild-western train ride when he's up against a bounty hunter couple also aboard the train. (Look for Quick-Draw McGraw in this episode !)

2. "Jack and the Temple" - Jack comes across a mysterious hidden temple of monks in training with moves just like Jack. The Ancient Master of the temple even informs Jack of a time portal to send him home.

1. "Jack and the Rave Slaves" - This happens to be my most favorite episode in the whole series ! In this episode, Jack finds a huge group of teenagers pillaging the town he's staying at, and one of them was the innkeeper's daughter. He goes undercover to find out what's going on. It turns out the kids were being brainwashed by killer techno-dance music and Jack defeats AKU's dastardly deejay. (P.S. I sometimes even supply my OWN dance music for this episode ! I love that kind of music, you know.)

Honorable Mention: "Jack and the Labyrinth" - Jack goes through a winding labyrinth in order to find a treasure. Little did he know, a theif is after this treasure, too.

Well, that about covers it. I sure hope season four is just as good when that comes out.

Movie Review: Jack Attack
Summary: 4 Stars

I loved this dvd, i'm just so sad i ended up watching the whole season in 1 day. I have been a huge Samurai Jack fan since the series started airing. The only thing missing from this season is the Scottsman. To my amazement, this season had a lot of episodes i had never seen before. If you are a Samurai Jack fan you will love this dvd.