Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #67777 in DVD
• Released on: 2000-05-16
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Anamorphic, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English, Spanish, French
• Number of discs: 6
• Running time: 628 minutes

Amazon.com
The second grab bag of 007 adventures features three Bonds in five films, including the legendary movie that started it all. In 1962 Sean Connery defined the cinematic James Bond as a tough, charming, and thoroughly professional cold war spy with a license to kill in the lean, hard-edged Dr. No. With Ursula Andress (as the original Bond girl Honey Ryder, who makes her entrance in a bikini), Bond battles a renegade supervillain with little more than his wits, his cunning, and his Walther PPK (this was before Q armed him with the coolest toys a superspy ever had). George Lazenby, a handsome Australian model with a self-effacing confidence, made his first and only appearance as James Bond in the underrated On Her Majesty's Secret Service, a witty and action-packed adventure that makes 007 history when Bond marries the girl (the lovely and talented Diana Rigg, fresh from her duties as the butt-kicking spy on the TV series The Avengers). Roger Moore brought a light tone and a suave assurance to the series as the third Bond, and the set features three of his seven appearances. In The Man with the Golden Gun, he battles million-dollar assassin Christopher Lee, one of Bond's most magnetic adversaries. The Spy Who Loved Me, perhaps Moore's finest hour, is a return to the extravagant set pieces and cold war thrills of Connery's pictures and introduces Richard Kiel's steel-dentured Jaws to the series. Jaws returns as a comic figure in Moonraker, a misguided sci-fi entry that takes Bond to space for a physically impressive but dramatically lackluster adventure. More of a mixed bag than the initial seven-film James Bond Gift Set, this set is aimed at the Bond completist rather than the general fan. The DVD editions of the films each feature audio commentary by the director and key members of the crew, "making of" documentaries, and a host of stills, TV spots, and trailers. --Sean Axmaker

Additional features
This boxed set includes the films Dr. No, The Man with the Golden Gun, Moonraker, The Spy Who Loved Me, and On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

Customer Reviews

Just a small correction regarding TWINE.
Contrary to a previous post, The World is Not Enough will not be included in the 3rd gift set. Rather, this 2nd gift set will include an empty space for The World is Not Enough DVD, which will only be sold seperately.

An explanation: In sales numbers, studios can't count units sold in sets (in this case, The World is Not Enough) as sales. So, in order to keep the sales numbers for TWINE as high possible, it will only be available seperately, and not as part of any set.

Five Great Movies - Five Great DVDs
MGM has been doing a fantastic job with the Bond DVDs. The previous set has gotten fantastic reviews from every DVD review site and they were. Great video, great audio and the extras are always interesting. Documentaries, mutiple audio commentaries, ads, and trailers. As for the movies: Dr. No - The first, and very entertaining. Not to mention it takes place in one of my favorite places, Jamaica; On Her Majesty's Secret Service - One of the best Bond movies, Lazenby does a good job. Handles the emotional impact of the end that I think Connery couldn't; The Man With The Golden Gun - Good, definitely not great. And Goodnight is such an annoying ditz; The Spy Who Loved Me - Another great one, has a great henchman Jaws, Bond girl Anya (Agent XXX, yeah, I know...); Moonraker - Blatant TSLWM ripoff to capitilize on Star Wars but still good.

If you like Bond, don't miss out on this great bargain!

A step down from Vol. #1
I got this a while ago, but for some reason, never wrote a review on it until the third and final set came out.

For me, this is not as good as the first collection. First of all you have the films.

Obviously, you cannot beat the original, DR. NO. Apart from being the first Bond film, this is also the only Sean Connery film in this set. I feel that there is too much Moore and that it would have been better if they would have swapped a Moore film from Set #2 with a Connery film from set #3. That way, things would have been more evened out.

Then there is ON HERE MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE- This is one of the most underrated Bond films in my opinion. Superb locations, a brilliant performance by Diana Rigg, a good job By George Lazenby(I wish that he got to do more than one Bond film...He had the potential), a pre-Kojak Telly Savalas as Blofeld, and one of the best stories written. Plus there's my favorite Bond song of all, -by John Barry(naturally), put to also the best Bond title sequence- obviously by Maurice Binder

THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN is the campy Bond film, in my opinion. The only thing that really sparks it up for me, is Christopher Lee. I have long been a fan of the Hammer Horror films, and he plays a brilliant Scaramanga. The film is lightened(maybe too much?)by Herve Villechaize as Nick Nack.

THE SPY WHO LOVED ME has to be Roger Moore's best outing as 007. It definitely is a great film- from start to finish. It has one of the best Bond songs- Carly Simon's "Nobody Does it Better", Barbara Bach puts in a good performance as his lover/opposition, great gadgets- the Lotus submarine, and of course, terrific adversaries- in this case, Jaws.

Finally, there is what must be the "black sheep" of the Bond films: MOONRAKER. Trying to capitalize on the Star Wars momentum, they tried to make a space-orientated film. The gamble failed(if you ask the majority of people)

As for the regular DVD features on all the films: Three out the five films are mono, while MOONRAKER and THE SPY WHO LOVED ME are Dolby Digital 5.1, which is a bit of disappointment- as is only two of the films having English subtitles(yet again, THE SPY WHO LOVED ME, and DR. NO), compared to the first set where all the films had English subtitles. I find these a necessity because I'm a fan of the commentaries, and while the people are talking, it is good to know what the actors are saying. But unlike the first set, all the films only have one commentary, whereas six out of seven had two commentaries in each DVD.

You also get the regular stuff: A documentary on the film on each DVD about the film telling how the film was made, then there are special documentaries on each film specializing on a specific topic:

Terence Young

Q's gadgets/A tribute to Desmond Llewelyn

Stuntmen

Designing Bond

Special Effects

Plus there are also the movie trailers, TV and radio spots, photo galleries, and mini booklets that come with each DVD. So you are definitely going to be watching for a long time. And as usual, all have great menus with tremendous graphics and interesting one-liners.

All that being said, I would say that if you were NOT to get one of the Bond sets, it would be this one. Three of the five films are good- the other two.... But one thing I did appreciate about this set, was the extra space for THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH. Thanks!