Xena Warrior Princess - Season Four
by Andrew Merrifield, Bruce Campbell, Chris Graves, Doug Lefler, Garth Maxwell
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Actor: Claire Stansfield, Lucy Lawless, Marton Csokas, Renée O'Connor, Sheeri RappaportDirector: Andrew Merrifield, Bruce Campbell, Chris Graves, Doug Lefler, Garth Maxwell
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1056 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-06-15
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Movie Reviews of Xena Warrior Princess - Season Four
Movie Review: Big Changes in Season Four
Summary: 5 Stars
At the end of Season Three, Gabrielle had jumped into an abyss to kill her evil child, Hope. Season Four opens with Xena undertaking a spiritual journey to recover her friend. I don't want to spoil anything major, so I'll just mention that the pair travels to India in search of Gabrielle's Way (path through life) and in the process Xena discovers her own Way. They bump into Pompey, Caesar, and Brutus repeatedly, and are instrumental in setting up the famous Ides of March incident at the Roman Forum. This sets up a big dramatic ending for the season, and there's a modern episode (about past life regression) in the final episode.
Season Four has important consequences for the Amazons, shows how Xena played a pivotal role in Roman history, dabbles in FOUR different spiritual paths (shamanism, crusaders, the Way of Love, and the Way of the Warrior), travels to a new part of the Hercules/Xena world, and kills off some major characters. Plus Joxer turns out to be less lame than expected. There's a LOT going on this season.
The DVD collection of Season Four of "Xena: Warrior Princess" contains even more extras than the oodles included with Season Three. The collection includes nine DVDs and one CD-ROM; that's one more disc than for Season Three. There are the usual "interviews" (episode commentaries) featuring many of the usual suspects (Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Robert Tapert, Steven L. Sears, Eric Gruendemann, Ted Raimi, Bruce Campbell). The two sets used for the commentaries are the same as for Season Three. There's the expected blooper collection, with heavy use of *BLEEP* to cover the naughty words. There's a fairly long Ted & Bruce bit, where Bruce's first book ("If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor") is pitched repeatedly. There's a modestly scholarly take on Siberian shamanism as relating to the "northeastern Amazons" of X:WP, a commentary by the martial arts teacher about how he trained the actors (particularly Lucy, Kevin Sorbo, and Hudson Leick) to fight, and a visit to the firm that made the "suits" and mechanical rigs for the monsters in the series. The "extra" DVD is filled with alternate, longer cuts of scenes that didn't make it into the finished episodes. The CD-ROM is just as lame as in all the previous seasons, but who cares? The truly lavish quantity of extras on the DVDs make that inconsequential. One downside: the packaging uses an inconvenient overlapping disc arrangement, so you have to remove the preceding odd-numbered disc to get at each even-numbered disc.
Guest appearances for Season Four include:
o Marton Csokas as Borias, warlord and Xena's former lover
o Victoria Pratt as Cyane, Amazon Queen
o Sheeri Rappaport as Otere, Amazon warrior
o Claire Stansfield as Alti, shamaness
o Karl Urban as Julius Caesar, Roman Triumvir
o Jeremy Callaghan as Pompey, Roman Triumvir
o Shiri Appleby as Tara, wannabe sidekick
o Bruce Campbell as Autolycus, King of Thieves
o Timothy Omundson as Eli, prophet and healer
o Kathryn Morris as Najara, crusading zealot
o Alexandra Tydings as Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
o Meighan Desmond as Discord, Goddess of Retribution
o Danielle Cormack as Ephiny, Amazon Queen
o Jennifer Sky as Amarice, Amazon warrior
o Hudson Leick as Callisto, Xena's arch-nemesis
o David Franklin as Brutus, Roman centurion
o Robert Trebor as Marco (no, not Salmoneus)
o Kevin Smith as Ares, God of War
Bottom line: FIVE STARS. Buy this collection; you'll be glad you did.
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