Movie Reviews for Swamp Thing - The Series

Swamp Thing - The Series

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Movie Reviews of Swamp Thing - The Series

Movie Review: FINALLY!!!
Summary: 5 Stars

Well ive been wanting this one to come out for a long time. In high school this was one of my fave series on tv. It was a saturday night ritual along with several other shows that me and mine watched durring its run in the ninties..
Tis awsome that Alec and his buddies finally made it to dvd. The quality is good.. the transfer seems really nice and there are come color corrections to it that i never noticed on my lousy tv and on broadcast tv. Well I hope you all like it as much as I do.. Only two small gripes.. 1) lack of specail featuers(though the Dick Durrock interview was nice) and 2) how bloody long do we have to wait for the second half!!?
laters!
Angel

Movie Review: What a great series!
Summary: 5 Stars

I had totally forgotten about this great tv series. Its more like the comics than the films but has the same guy playing swamp thing. The make up effects are just as good as the movie and since they are so many episodes you really get to explore the character in a way the movie never did. Highly recommended for any super hero / comic fans. Too bad this was on in the early 90's, it probably would have been a big hit now.

Movie Review: Great adaptation from Movie Screen to TV Screen
Summary: 4 Stars

From Comic (Swamp Thing Vol. 1: Saga of the Swamp Thing) to movies ((Swamp Thing) and now TV screen the Swamp Thing had a run like no other DC character other than Superman or Bstman. His translation to TV was good and lasted three seasons. Remarkable for a NON MAJOR DC hero

The adventures of a man-turned-muck monster. Swamp Thing was once a man named Alec Holland, but after being caught on fire, doused with strange chemicals, and dumped into the Louisiana swamps by the evil Dr. Anton Arcane, Alec's body mutated. No longer is he human, or even an animal. His body is made from the muck and plants of the swamp. He's super strong and can make plants do his bidding. Good thing he's on our side

This muck monster with a heart owes a debt to Frankenstein legend. Mark Chapman (not a relation to John Lennon's killer) plays the Thing's foil, Dr Arcane, a mad doctor who is doing expierements on mutations.

The make up other than Swamp Thing costume was not always the greatest. For example, the Episode where Paul Mark Richman was man/falcon looked slightly cheesy, but it did seem to convey it..similar to some of the monsters from the 70s-80s Dr Who

Dick Durrock plays the Thing with a heart. His origins were unexplained but in bits and pieces through the shows run, but it worked and made this a hit

Now on DVD, you can relive the episodes. The episodes were tight without major sub plots and major character devices. These shows were told in half hour episodes which seem to work

Its format was a simple good vs evil and it works

It is rated four stars because they could have put some sort of commentary on a few episodes. There is extra of interviews with Lein Wein (who created the comic version) and Dick Durrock who played the monster

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

Movie Review: Great except for...
Summary: 4 Stars

This is great to see on dvd and watch again. But don't be fooled. The episodes are out of order according to my list on the dvd cover and the list on IMDB.

And Vol. 2 still has some episodes missing and out of order. Again according to the list on IMDB, the air dates for the episode are out of order and missing.

There are supposed to be 72 episodes, the 2 vol set only has 33.
The list shows HALF the 3rd season episodes are missing.

Great to watch again, but not worth the money as they screwed up the episodes and left over 1/2 out of the set.