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From the producers of "The Simpsons"! Jon Lovitz is the animated Jay Sherman, a TV movie critic who is forced to review the most pathetic films which he always rates as "It stinks." In addition to the film parodies, the show also deals with his personal life: working for a tyrannical media mogul boss, his lovelife and his family. Three-disc release includes all 23 episodes from the entire first and second seasons!
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Last updated: November 26, 2009, 9:00 pm
The Critic - The Complete Series Customer reviews:
Average Rating: 4.5 Total Reviews: 94
(C. Sorenson, 2009-08-09) Possibly the most underrated cartoon series of the 90's. whitty writing sharp one liners and a host of hilarious characters. It's a shame this short lived show never received the wide spread critical acclaim that it deserved. With only about 30 episodes in all this series complete collection leaves you wanting more. Jon Lovitz does some terrific voice-over work on this show as well as a slew of voices and writers from The Simpsons. This one is a definite must have.
(E. Louis, 2009-08-03) As funny as this show was in its day, it seems kind of lame compared to today's animated shows. Don't get me wrong, though, it's still offers a few laughs on occasion.
(Richard M. Petersen, 2009-04-12) This is an incredible collection, has of course,the whole series. Very reasonable price for a whole lot of fun! I recommend it highly.
(ChiroDoc, 2009-04-02) I liked this when it first came out and rediscovered it on Reelz Channel. It's a simple yet very smart series that is great to watch anywhere, anytime.
(Charlie Brown, 2009-03-09) The Critic is one of the most misunderstood series on its genre and a pioneer for recent cartoon series in many ways, but what happened after the first season explains why it lasted only for a couple of more years and then disappeared into oblivion, becoming a cult-like series with a handful of followers In my opinion, the series started season one brilliantly, with not much care about the quality of the drawings or the cartoon itself -on purpose I believe- but amazingly good on the script, with great jokes, a witty dark humor and Jay Sherman as the epitome of the money making but still loser New Yorker that dumps its frustrations on dumb Hollywood movies, which granted are lame, but also is his life. This love-hate relationship with Hollywood was the centerpiece of a show that relied more on the strong characters itself that in the way they interacted with each other. Flowing more like a talk-show with very smart joke bursts than like a long term story was ironically part of its early success but was also its demise: It's very hard to give a series a long life based on this structure, so producers decided to go for a change -even a network change- and killed the series in the process Along came season two and the series was moved from ABC to Fox. Immediate changes to the drawings of the characters and the overall look of the cartoon were very noticeable, making it look more Simpson-like and flowing visually better for some, but for me it took away the ingenuity of the first season, as it tried to go mainstream by giving the series a more contemporary look. Even if this was a mistake I could have lived with, the writers started to move away from the spontaneous burst and unstructured timing of the jokes and decided to give Jay Sherman's life more meaning, introduced stronger relationships among the characters and gave some holding under the feet of Jay with the introduction of Alice, a woman that finally and regrettably for me, fell in love with Jay Sherman for real, not to use him or just because she couldn't find something better. This effort to make Sherman less of a loser and position the series for a longer term tenure got away with the creativity of the first season, the dark humor and the smart writing, to give way instead to trying to make us laugh by seeing Jay Sherman being hit by a plant pot several times in the head and then falling down the stairs, singing and dancing -regrettably with success- like a clown with an accordion and moving his fat butt in front of a camera while wearing a fancy suit and dark shades. The series went from the well thought and clever level of the first season to the very stupid and lame situations of the second season, ironically becoming like the same Hollywood movies he was criticizing. As the series transformed into a bad Hollywood cartoon, it slowly lost its entire initial luster and it was cancelled. To me, it stopped appealing to its initial audience while it failed to capture enough followers for its new structure. It just felt horribly flat. Contrary to what some think here, it was not cancelled because it was too smart, it was cancelled because it tried to become what it wasn't from the beginning and failed on the attempt. Sadly, it morphed from a worthy Monty Python type initial effort to a bad Jim Carrey movie