The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume One - The Early Years
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Movie Reviews of The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Volume One - The Early Years
Movie Review: Great TV Historical Drama and Fine Documentaries!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am not sure what people are whining about...nostalgia for the way it was on TV? The issuing of a remastered set, in chronological order, sans Old Indy bookends is a great way to get into the whole sweep of this gigantic Indiana Jones prequel. In point of fact, the continuity of the series is much improved over the TV originals now and the overall editing, is excellent, as is the quality of the picture.
The historical documentaries, based on the famous characters Indy meets in his adventures as well as overall historical documentaries are of such high quality that the History Channel has licensed the bulk of them to run on it's programming. If you tried to buy this material separately, it would run the price of the entire series minus the dramatic episodes! Yes, the list pricing is a bit steep, but you can find discounted copies here on Amazon and also at DeepDiscount as well as used copies here on Amazon.
Movie Review: Good entertainment and educational to boot!
Summary: 4 Stars
I had never watched this series when it first aired, but this collection is really great. My 7 year old, a huge Indy fan, just loves watching the episodes over and over, and any adults in the viewing area are quickly caught up in the entertainment and educational. We'll be sure to pick up the subsequent volumes in the near future. I highly recommend it.Movie Review: A tour de force! Bravo!
Summary: 5 Stars
In a nutshell, these dvds are a treasure.
I have watched all three volumes with my third-grader son, and we both enjoyed every episode tremendously. This is the most enjoyable movie series I've ever watched. Some adventures are on the campy side, some very historical, some filled with eye-candy females, some non-stop action, all with the common denominator of either exotic foreign locales or lovely recreations of main-street America, and all undergirded by very inventive storylines.
Movie Review: First Of The Great Trilogy Set Of Young Indy
Summary: 5 Stars
I found it very entertaining seeing Indy growing up and going around the world with his parents and teacher. I did like the older Indy though with his adventures more not that I want to sound like I'm disliking the younger Indy but it was obvious that Sean Patrick Flannery was the better Indy in my view. I felt it was nice being able to see how Indy's mother was like as well as his father before her death. As stated the set has mostly the 10 year old Indy adventures for the most part you only get two episodes of the older Indy after he leaves the U.S. and starts his adventures. I also like how the sets give such a detail information on what started the first world war and the events during and after it ended. I feel to many people mostly in the schools seem to disregard teaching about this war or ignoring talking about and mostly focus on the second world war it seems. The video is excellent as with all three sets as well as the audio the extras again or incredible as well. The one thing though if anyone saw this series when it was shown on ABC is that you won't get the Old Indy narrating during the episode as those parts were cut out and while that is somewhat disappointing it doesn't really take anything away to much from this set. So I say again to all Indiana Jones fans complete your collection today and get these incredible sets while you can... Movie Review: I think what we are seeing here is the VHS versions
Summary: 2 Stars
I think what we have here is VHS versions. Not the TV episodes.
Heres a copy from wikipedia of what I found.
[edit] Home video re-edits
The revised and updated edition of the book George Lucas The Creative Impulse, by Charles Champlin, explains how The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles series would be re-edited into the new structure of twenty-two Chapter TV films, for the 1999 VHS release. New footage was shot in 1996 to be incorporated with the newly re-edited and re-titled "chapters" to better help it chronologically and provide smooth transitions. The newly shot Tangiers, 1908 was joined with Egypt, 1908 from the Curse of the Jackal to form My First Adventure, and Morocco, 1917 was joined with Northern Italy, 1918 (now re-dated as 1917) to form Tales of Innocence. Also included in the home video release were four unaired episodes made for the ABC network, Florence, May 1908, Prague, 1917, Transylvania, 1918, and Palestine, 1917.
The 93-year-old Indy bookends for the original series were removed, as well as Sean Patrick Flanery's bookend for Travels With Father. However, the Harrison Ford bookend, set in '50s, from The Mystery of The Blues was not cut.[5]
However George Lucas needs to start putting version numbers on his films so we can tell them apart.
I feel that this is a inferior version of this series. I will not buy any more of the volumes until they release the TV versions.
On top of that I hate Paramount DVD cases. I have to remove a disk to get to another. That really bites, and causes accidental scratches. Some of the Star Trek movies have theses cases.
Paramount when will you ever learn.
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I would not mind paying the high prices if this set contained the TV versions.