Teen Titans – The Complete Fourth Season (Warner/DC)
Picture:
C+ Sound: C+ Extras: C Episodes: C+
One of
the weakest animated series ripped from the pages of the comic books in recent
years has been the constantly floundering series Teen Titans. Now available on a 2 Disc 13 Episode Set is Teen Titans: The Complete Fourth Season. The series that premiered in July of 2003
never truly captured the same audience that past classics like Superman - The Animated Series or Batman - The Animated Series had; most
likely because the series was designed a bit to childishly and lacked depth and
appeal. This lack of depth and odd blend
of childish anime with a classic comic series could lend to why the series is
now defunct after a rocky five seasons.
Five
Seasons is admirable, but if the plot was better and possibly a bit darker who
knows what kind of classic this series could have evolved into; maybe they
needed Bruce Timm? It is funny that I
should mention Bruce Timm, because apparently at this moment he is producing a
straight to DVD animated feature entitled Teen
Titans: Judas Contract that takes Teen Titans in an all new and interesting
direction; maybe dreams do come true…only in Gotham though.
As
mentioned above the series again is presented on a 2-Disc set that is simple
and to the point. The picture again is disappointingly presented in a
boring 1.33 X 1 Full Frame and though the animation is crisp and clear as ever
it should have (as all DC series should) have been a Widescreen
production. The sound is also adequately clear in its Dolby Digital 2.0
Stereo format, but still nothing impressive but good enough for the
series. The extras are once again absent form this set only offering fans
a small inside look at the series in a featurette entitled Teen Titans: Know
Your Foes that did not excite this reviewer AGAIN, being the same recycled
type of featurette as observed on the Season
Three release.
The
series is lacking on many fronts according to a wide range of comic fans. The series is silly, too reliant on Japanese
Anime stylings, and just does not have the heart of the DC comic universe. This reviewer is glad that there were only
five seasons of this series.
- Michael P Dougherty II
