Product Description

Now you can own the complete first season of "Malcolm In The Middle".See how it all began for boy genius Malcolm and his disorderly demented (and downright dysfunctional) family. Share the laughter and relive the fun with all 16 hilarious Season One Episodes - available for the first time in this exclusive 3-disc collector's edition.System Requirements:Starring Frankie Muniz Running time: 360 minutes Copyright Twentieth Century Fox 2003Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 024543052951 Manufacturer No: 2005295

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3965 in DVD
• Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
• Released on: 2002-10-29
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Subtitled, Color, NTSC
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English, French, Spanish
• Dubbed in: French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 3
• Dimensions: .69 pounds
• Running time: 360 minutes

Amazon.com
In the words of They Might Be Giants' rollicking Grammy-winning theme song, "life is unfair." The inventive and wholly original sitcom Malcolm in the Middle has been honored with a Peabody Award and Emmys for directing and writing, but if life was fair, it would have earned an Emmy for Best Comedy Series, not to mention statuettes for its pitch-perfect cast. With his perpetual "yes, me worry" expression, Frankie Muniz instantly earns audience empathy as Malcolm, whose chances for a normal life are thwarted not only by his genius IQ (as discovered in the pilot episode), but also by his outrageously dysfunctional family: Lois (Jane Kaczmarek), his obsessive, control-freak mother; Hal (Bryan Cranston), his loving but ineffectual father; Francis (Christopher Masterson), his eldest brother waging his own private war at military school; middle brother Reese (Justin Berfield), a delinquent savant; and Dewey (Erik Per Sullivan), the put-upon youngest. As Malcolm observes at one point, "This family may be rude, loud and gross, and have no shame whatsoever, but with them you know where you stand."

This three-disc set contains all 16 episodes from the irreverently funny first season. The series instantly toned things down a tad from the pilot episode that saw Lois body-shaving a naked hirsute Hal in the kitchen. But it brilliantly sustains its subversive tone, from episode two, in which the brothers stand united against Lois's increasingly desperate methods to uncover who burned her red dress, to the season finale, in which Malcolm dares to push her down a water slide. Not that there aren't sublimely sweet moments, as in that season finale when Dewey bonds with his elderly babysitter (Bea Arthur!) over Abba's "Fernando." Before you get out your handkerchiefs, said sitter collapses and is carted away in an ambulance. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews

Exceptionally funny show
Malcolm in the Middle was one of the most creative shows ever put on television. It was an excellent mix of intellectual humor with total nonsense.

So funny!!
Come on guys!! Don't make us beg!! Give us season 2!!

Fantastic DVD for the not so usual TV family
I started watching Malcolm in the Middle on TV in Spring of 2007 and instantly fell in love. Once I found out that Fox took it off of its 6:30PM weekday schedule I was just so upset. Enough with the background story, this DVD is great. Malcolm in the Middle is not you average TV show. Each character is lovable in their own way. Lois(the mother) is loud, strict, but I can't get enough of her yelling. Hal (dad) is a loving husband and father of his kids, and he seems to always be trying to find a sanctuary in his mind to escape the daily problems of his kids and his life. Malcolm is not your run of the mill kid, he's 13, has an IQ of 165, moved up to a gifted class, and trying to survive his daily life with his barely functional family. Reese is dumb when it comes to school, but he knows how to intimidate kids to get what he wants, and he also has ideas that he may think are good but usually will lead to a new level of punishment from Lois. Dewey is just a little innocent kid, though that somewhat changes, that is just going with his daily life and has his own unique to deal with his brothers. Francis, the eldest of all the brothers, is pretty much a bad*** for a lack of better words. He got sent to military school by Lois and Hal for all the damage he did, mentally and emotionally. There are other characters, though not as important, still play a big role in this non functional family's life. The bonus features, I found, great because I love interviews and behind the scenes clips. If you are a Malcolm in the Middle fan and you don't own this DVD already, I'm not gonna tell you anything more than BUY IT.