| Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Complete DVD Collection | 
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| Artists: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joss Whedon
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anthony Stewart Head, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: £179.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:   (23 reviews)
Sales Rank: 30
Format: Pal
Languages: English (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Media: DVD
Number Of Items: 39
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 7.7 x 5.4
EAN: 5039036036375
ASIN: B000X42YPM
Release Date: November 19, 2007
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Amazon.co.uk Review
From its charming and angst-ridden first season to the darker, apocalyptic final one, Buffy the Vampire Slayer succeeds on many levels, and in a fresher and more authentic way than the shows that came before or after it. How lucky, then, that with the release of its box set of seasons 1-7, you can have the estimable pleasure of watching a near-decade of Buffy in any order you choose. (And we have some ideas about how that should be done.) First: rest assured that there's no shame in coming to Buffy late, even if you initially turned your nose up at the winsome Sarah Michelle Gellar kicking the hell out of vampires (in Buffy-lingo, vamps), demons, and other evil-doers. Perhaps you did so because, well, it looked sort of science-fiction-like with all that monster latex. Start with season 3 and see that Buffy offers something for everyone, and the sooner you succumb to it, the quicker you'll appreciate how textured and riveting a drama it is. Why season 3? Because it offers you a winning cast of characters who have fallen from innocence: their hearts have been broken, their egos trampled in typically vicious high-school style, and as a result, they've begun to realize how fallible they are. As much as they try, there are always more monsters, or a bigger evil. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the core crew remains something of a unit--there's the smart girl, Willow (Alyson Hannigan) who dreams of saving the day by downloading the plans to City Hall's sewer tunnels and mapping a route to safety. There are the ne'r do wells--the vampire Spike (James Marsters), who both clashes with and aspires to love Buffy; the tortured and torturing Angel (David Boreanz); the pretty, popular girl with an empty heart (Charisma Carpenter); and the teenage everyman, Xander (Nicholas Brendon). Then there's Buffy herself, who in the course of seven seasons morphs from a sarcastic teenager in a minidress to a heroine whose tragic flaw is an abiding desire to be a "normal" girl. On a lesser note, with the box set you can watch the fashion transformation of Buffy from mall rat to Prada-wearing, kickboxing diva with enviable highlights. (There was the unfortunate bob of season 2, but it's a forgivable lapse.) At least the storyline merits the transformations: every time Buffy has to end a relationship she cuts her hair, shedding both the pain and her vulnerability. In addition to the well-wrought teenage emotional landscape, Buffy deftly takes on more universal themes--power, politics, death, morality--as the series matures in seasons 4-6. And apart from a few missteps that haven't aged particularly well ("I Robot" in season 1 comes to mind), most episodes feel as harrowing and as richly drawn as they did at first viewing. That's about as much as you can ask for any form of entertainment: that it offer an escape from the viewer's workaday world and entry into one in which the heroine (ideally one with leather pants) overcomes demons far more troubling than one's own. --Megan Halverson
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Does exactly what it says on the Tin December 9, 2008
Got this a few weeks ago and has proved to be great value. THe packaging is fine nothing overly complcated or ornate but it's the content that gets you. Both me and my fiance were fans of the original show. It's amazing the memories that certain episodes bring back. Haven't really explored the DVD extras yet but as neither of us are big into the extra features then we're both happy enough anyways. have seen this in a few of the high street stores and this is by far the bestvalue Buffy box set around. Love it.
WARNING on DVD extras December 8, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Of course, you must buy this as it's the best TV series ever made bar none. BUT this is a warning to people who are discovering Buffy for the first time. DON'T WATCH ANY OF THE EXTRAS UNTIL YOU HAVE GOT TO THE END OF THE SEASON. There are sometimes extras, featurettes, etc. on Discs 1-5 [particularly on disc 3, which only has 3 episodes], but these often give away important parts of the plot that happen later in the season. So best to leave all extras to the end of the season. Note also that the 'Season Summary' extras on disc 6 and some of the commentaries can also give away parts of the plot in later seasons too. So if you're a spoiler-phobe, like me, I suggest you just watch all seven seasons without watching any of the extras. Then, when you watch Joss's masterpiece the second time (as you surely will), you can watch all the extras too, as a bonus. You have been warned. Enjoy!
Joss Whedon is my Master now! December 6, 2008
Buffy the Vampire Slayer has been the one show that has been with me while i was growning up. Buffy is my Personal favourite Tv Series EVER! It has everything you need, Drama, Comedy, Action, Romance and Angst.
I have to thank the Wonderful Creator Joss Whedon for this Amazing show.
I have been collecting the show on DVD years ago when each Season Boxset was released, but now my DVD's have become scratched and the boxes have started to tear.
So i bought this complete collection (For 48.91, that is a bargin!) so i can enjoy the series even more.
PS. Series Two was Amazing.
Buy This Series, Your Missing out!
Beware the extras July 1, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The show is even better than I remembered, but beware of the extras, some of them contain spoilers, so save them for the end of each season.
Great show, do not agree with one thing Amazon said.... June 28, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I loved this show from beginning to end. I just loved it and missed it so much when it ended, I'm not so sad that not over it now but really love it! I agree with everything said in all reviews, great show has everything etc. I do not however agree that Season 2 as quoted by Amazon is a 'bob' in the series that can be 'forgiven'. This was an amazing season especially from the episode Whats my line 1 & 2, Angel going evil, jenny calender being killed in passion, becoming 1 & 2. Amazing! This was the season that made the show take off, everyone was watching it by season 3 and season 1 was the very beginning! Amazon, please watch Season 2 again, it rocks! :-) Thanks enjoy.
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