Two & A Half Men The Complete First Season
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: C- Episodes: C-
Charlie
Sheen has been a survivor in feature films for years and an off-screen media
star for his politics and reputation for womanizing. That aside, he is a survivor and managed to
turn his bad boy persona into a selling point for Two & A Half Men The Complete First Season, a surprise TV
Situation comedy hit of sorts and Jon Cryer as his brother who needs to move in
immediately when he has a falling out with his wife. The
Odd Couple this is not, but throw in a smart aleck kid (Angus T. Jones) and
you get a three joke comedy that is shallow, but consistently so, explaining
its somehow-success.
All 24
highly repetitious half-hours also wastes Holland Taylor, but not like the
whole show manages to waste its audience.
At best, this is a show you keep on in the background when you are too
tired to change the channel, change the battery in your remote or are talking
on the phone so you dont fell like you are missing anything.
The
anamorphically enhanced 1.78 X 1 image is obviously shot in high definition and
looks it too much and too often. Color
is flat and composition is boring to the point that they ought to shoot a show
in kinescope. The Dolby Digital 2.0
Stereo has weak Pro Logic surrounds with dialogue recorded just well enough to
hear well. Extras include gag reel/outtakes,
making of featurette and backstage tour with Jones.
- Nicholas Sheffo
