Product Description

Seen for four seasons on Cartoon Network's [adult swim] – Home Movies is now on DVD in a deluxe 3-disc set!

Home Movies Season One features the first 13 episodes of the favorite series seen on Cartoon Network’s [adult swim]. The irreverent animated comedy hit television series chronicles the life of pint-sized, aspiring filmmaker, Brendon Small. Brendon - a jaded third grader who happens to have the brain of a twenty-something - uses his video camera to cope with the trials of his eight-year-old life.

Plus these special features:
-Interviews with Brendon Small, Jon Benjamin and Loren Bouchard
- Real home-made short films by Home Movies stars Brendon Small and Jon Benjamin
-Animated menus from the Soup2Nuts creative team
-Commentaries from the cast and creators
-Closed Captioning
-Animatics (episode storyboards)
-Animation Galleries

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5232 in DVD
• Brand: HOME MOVIES - SEASON ONE (DVD MOVIE)
• Released on: 2004-11-16
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Dimensions: .65 pounds
• Running time: 390 minutes

Amazon.com
Home Movies: Season One is a television treasure that almost wasn't. After five episodes in 1999, the bright and sometimes brilliant animated satire was yanked from UPN's schedule and was rescued by Cartoon Network's late-evening "Adult Swim" programming, where it thrived for a few more seasons. Created by Loren Bouchard and Brendon Small (who provides the autobiographical voice of the show's 8-year-old hero, Brendon Small), Home Movies concerns the angst-ridden adventures of a fatherless boy who can't quite handle typical childhood challenges (school, sports) but, in his stumbling way, is advancing toward his dream of becoming a filmmaker and actor. With a manner and voice suggesting a cross between David Spade and Woody Allen, Brendon struggles--sometimes with sardonic wit, sometimes with heartbreaking candor--to protect his shaky sense of personal security while also trying to be taken seriously as an artist.

Brendon lives with his single mom, Paula (wonderfully played by Paula Poundstone until episode 6, when she was replaced by the equally effective Janine Ditullio), whose own neuroses peak during some very funny moments. Among these is a school meeting that finds her removing her sweater and spouting a string of obscenities, a writing class that ends repeatedly in make-out sessions with a nameless slinger of sexy doggerel, and a disastrous date with Brendon's soccer coach, a hefty bully and all-around loser, John McGuirk (H. Jon Benjamin). McGuirk is Brendon's foil throughout the series, a drunk with rage problems and dubious ethics who often leans on the young hero as a confidante when he isn't making the poor kid run extra laps. The show's dialogue comes fast, biting, and painfully honest, characters frequently talk at the same time, and some of the best material is in the short dramas that Brendon tapes with friends Melissa (Melissa Bardin Galsky) and Jason (also H. Jon Benjamin). Home Movies is not to be missed by anyone who enjoys urbane comedy, animated or otherwise. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews

Home Movies is the best animated comedy series ever!
I remember first watching Home Movies on Adult Swim(who was also in its early stages of development) and thinking "Hm, this show is kinda funny."(What an understatement.) Every Sunday and Thursday they would run this show, I watched it and it grew on me. Season One is one of the best seasons featuring some of the most hilarious outtakes from the the gang. "Brendan Gets Rabies", "Law and Borders", "Art of the Sucker Punch", and "Through a Fish Eye Lens" are some of my immediate favorites, but after watching any episode a number of times all of them could become my favorites.

Another great aspect of home movies are the cool musical numbers placed in some of the eps performed by the dim-witted Duane and his band Scab. For instance in "Law and Borders", Brendon is sentenced to write an essay explaining to the judge how he was sorry for causing the accident he was involved in. Instead the kids decide to make a hilarious, dramatized spoof of the accident and then the kids rock out at the end: "Don't hit children don't run them over, let them live their lives let them get older!x2 Brendon's cool, he didn't break the rules, he was just riding his bike, they tried to take his life!" That was an epic win!

If you're a true fan of this series and you're tired of waiting for reruns on AS or frustrated with waiting for videos to load on youtube or veoh, do yourself justice and treat yourself with this awesome dvd set.

A Good Choice.
I would recommend the entire run of this series. Great work.

Nick

Home Movies Season One
Great, great, great. Love Home Movies. These episodes are all fantastic, though episode one is a little strange. If you're already familiar with the show, and you like it, then you'll love this. There's plenty of hilarious commentaries. While you don't really learn anything from them, you'll definitely get a kick out of 'em. There are some interviews with Loren Bouchard, Brendon Small and Jon Benjamin. They range from really interesting to kinda boring (surprisingly, it is Benjamin who proves to be the boring one). There are also some short films, one by Small and one by Benjamin. Both are hilarious. Buy this now!