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Ulysses 31 - Vol. 2
It's also becoming painfully obvious that for a hero the noble Ulysses is exceptionally good at rushing into obvious traps, and that Nono (the comic relief) is a single joke that doesn't work. That said, the animation design work are outstanding for a cartoon from this period, and the voice acting is very good. The actual dialogue is intelligent but seems a little staid - or maybe that should read just a little too rigorously adherent to the original French :) I like to think that perhaps this series was the dying gasp of a brief, literate golden age, when kids were not patronised and cartoons were designed primarily to stimulate the imagination rather than to sell toys. Or maybe I'm just suffering an acute bout of nostalgia.. Again I've got to complain that the full episode titles are mutilated on this DVD - apparently we can blame Fox Kids for wanting to squeeze in more toy adverts. But otherwise this is a quality product and anyone who remembers it from the first time round should buy it (just try to get hold of the full title sequence too).
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Hypnotic - don't watch alone...
Review date: 2004-07-08 Rating: 10 out of 10
This second volume is a more than worthy complement to the first. There are still a few dud episodes, but four or five of these are real classics (the Sirens, Circe, the Minotaur). The tone now seems a shade darker and almost ludicrously dark for a series aimed at children - we begin to get the impression that the Odyssey has been adrift in the Universe of Olympus for a *very* long time, and that our heroes are being subjected to an especially cruel and prolonged form of psychological torture (let's face it, loss, separation, isolation, death and wanton cruelty aren't the most immediately obvious themes for a children's series). It's painfully noticeable, for example, that Olympus is fair overflowing with maps of the route back to Earth - one features in almost every one of these episodes - but that each one is either inaccessible or comes with a price so high that the noble Ulysses cannot in conscience pay it.
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Product Details/Specifications
Actor(s):
Séverine Morisot
Claude Giraud
Evelyne Séléna
Jean Topart
Jackie Berger
Director(s):
Recording label: Contender Entertainment Group
Manufacturer: Contender Entertainment Group
EAN: 5030305620172
Binding: DVD
Number of items: 1
Format: Animated, PAL,
Release date: 2006-06-26
Number of discs: 1
Audience rating: Universal, suitable for all
Region code: 2
Theatrical release date: 1986-09-13
Language: English (Original Language)