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Volume 6 comprises of the end of Season 5 as well as almost all of the writer’s strike shortened Season 6. I don’t know why they couldn’t add the last four episodes of Season 6 onto here, but I’m not the one who makes those decisions! Anyway, these are all the unrated episodes.


The Main Characters
The Griffin family is the main stars of this show. Peter is the father and could be considered by many to be borderline retarded. There are no barriers between his brain and his mouth and often what he is thinking is what comes out of his mouth. Lois is his wife and is a little more normal than Peter. She is his anchor. That is not saying much since she has an explosive temper and could go off at any time. Peter and Lois have three children; Chris, Meg and Stewie. Meg is the oldest and is shunned by the family and the world in general. Chris is overweight and perhaps even more absent minded than his father. Stewie is the most intelligent of them all, even though he’s only a baby. He has quite the dirty mouth and he’s always scheming. He usually has the most choice lines in the series, too. Brian rounds out the Griffin family. He is the most learned, most well-versed, most well-spoken, and is a dog. They are quite the dynamic, and dysfunctional family. Seth MacFarlane does the voices of Stewie, Peter and Brian (among others), Mila Kunis voices Meg, Seth Green handles Chris and Alex Borstein is Lois.


The Setting
Quahog, Rhode Island.


The Plots
---Disc One---
1) No Meals On Wheels (21:23)
Original Airdate: 03/25/07
Peter is sick Mort borrowing his stuff, making a reference to the Mexican Super-Friends so he makes a Scare-Jew (a Scarecrow with Hitler on it) and thus ruins his suit. Peter goes to the thrift store and buys footy-pajama’s, which he never stops wearing. Then he discovers the magic of static-shock and torments the family with it. So Lois gets rid of her carpet (with the help of Quagmire, who misunderstood Lois) and they find an expensive coin, worth $50,000, and they decide to open up a restaurant! Unfortunately, the restaurant starts losing money hand over fist. Joe tells Peter he can help him by having his friends come over. Peter thinks having cops there would be great, until he realizes that Joe’s friends were all wheel-chair bound. The family likes this, except Peter, who wanted a cool hang-out and not a place for cripples. So Peter bans them, the cripples form Cripple-Tron (a Transformer’s like thing) that destroys the place and leaves Peter in a wheelchair. He comes to realize what it’s like to be crippled. I didn’t like this episode when I first saw it, but the jokes were hitting on all levels, and the a-story leading into the b-story was a nice touch. A funny episode. B+.

2) Boys Do Cry (22:44)
Original Airdate: 04/29/07
Lois auditions to be the organist at church and tells the family they need to start going to church. So they go, Stewie steals the host and drinks the wine, then throws up. Everyone now thinks Stewie is possessed, causing the whole town to riot and demand Stewie be exorcised. So the family flees to Texas. As they drive there’s a funny National Lampoon’s Vacation bit, and Stewie needs to dress like a girl in order to escape the police. So they are in Texas, Lois likes the values they have, and Brian hates it at first. Lois finds out that the search for Stewie is off but doesn’t tell the family. Unfortunately, things go bad for them when the Texans find out Peter is legally retarded and Stewie is really a boy. They escape back home and Peter tells us not to get values from shows they watch and complain about it later. Not really a funny episode, but it wasn’t a waste of time either. B-.

3) No Chris Left Behind (22:10)
Original Airdate: 05/06/07
Lois drags the family to the ballet, and thus Chris couldn’t study for his history test. So Chris studies the next day and the family learns his textbook is from the late 1800’s. Lois complains and the school says that to raise its grades and get funding they will expel the dumbest student, Chris Griffin. So, to break up the fact that Chris can’t get into a school, the chicken comes back to fight Peter. They fight, go out to dinner, then fight over who is going to pay. The whole thing lasts about 5 minutes. So Lois asks her dad for a favor and Chris gets into an exclusive boarding school where he’s immediately shunned by his classmates. So Mr. Pewterschmidt helps him out, but Chris just wants to go back to his old school when he realizes his parents are working two jobs to make ends meet and pay for his school. Eh, not too funny and not too entertaining. C+.

4) It Takes A Village Idiot, and I Married One (23:00)
Original Airdate: 05/13/07
This is the episode that spawned a book. Anyway, Peter and the family head to Quagmire’s cabin (complete with crazy Quagmire antics and a great Peter song about Brokeback Mountain) and swim in the lake. They all lose their hair thanks to the radioactive gunk being dumped there by the industrial plants nearby. Lois won’t stand for it and does something about it. She runs for office against Adam West and after a hilarious debate (9- 11) Lois ends up winning! She soon finds she falls under the same political corruption most fall under. This was just a great episode, poking fun at elections and voting in general (which is very timely at least at the time I am watching it) and the jokes just hit all the way through. One of the best things about this is that it was story-centric and not full of stupid pull-away and gags. A+.

5) Meet The Quagmires
Original Airdate: 05/20/07
This was actually the Season 5 finale. Peter and the rest of the guys are jealous of Quagmire’s adventurous lifestyle. So Peter asks Death (who conveniently shows up) to take him back to when he was 18 so Death does. Of course, Peter manages to screw things up and he causes the future to change, causing Lois to be married to Quagmire, Peter married to Molly Ringwald, and Chevy Chase as the host of the Tonight Show. Of course, Gore is president and now Brian doesn’t want to change the past. There’s a really cool Jetson’s cutaway scene that was just hilarious, and Peter’s continued ineptitude was just great. This was a real great way to end the season, with a fun Back to the Future homage and a new look at the relationship of Peter and Lois, as well as the true start of the Chicken/Peter fight and a great cameo by Roger of American Dad. A+.

---Disc Two---
6) Movin’ Out (Brian’s Song) (21:49)
Original Airdate: 09/30/07
Jillian spends a day with Peter and all of a sudden, Peter makes a comment that Brian should commit to Jillian and now she wants him to move in! Brian is pissed (as a Quagmire/Marge/Simpsons tag on the bottom leads to Quagmire killing the whole family) but commits to move in with her. Meanwhile, Meg lands a job in a store and she gets Chris a job there, too. Soon, Chris and the guy who hired them became quick friends and Meg is made to do all the hard labor. So Brian moves in with Jill, as does Stewie, who pays half the rent. Jillian finds out that Stewie is paying the rent and Brian admits he didn’t really want to move in with her which causes her to walk out. Well, that’s one relationship that’s down the drain. There’s some great cutaways here (the Simpsons one, the no-armed baseball player) and there’s actually a sweet ending to the episode, resolving the Brian and Meg storyline. This was a classic B+ episode, solid storytelling but lacking a real LOL moment to push it over the top. B+

7) Believe It Or Not, Joe’s Walking on Air (22:15)
Original Airdate: 10/07/07
Lois, Bonnie and Cleveland’s new girl come to the bar where Peter and the guys hang out, and now their only haven is now gone. So Peter makes a “Men’s Club,” in his backyard and the girls end up crashing THAT party, too. All the girls dance, except Bonnie, who sits with Joe instead. Joe feels bad about this and wants to walk again. Joe finds out that there’s a leg transplant and he goes forth with it! So Joe has new legs! Soon, Joe starts acting a little weird. He is more active than ever and brings his friends along. Soon he starts shunning his wife and friends, replacing them with newer friends and a hotter girl. Of course, the guys get jealous and formulate a plan to recripple Joe to get him back. There’s a great fight scene and all is resolved in the end, with Bonnie trying to shoot Joe in the back to recripple him. There’s some fun cutaways, including Pewterschmidt meeting the Doctor Hartman and how their voices are the same, a Spider-Man cameo, and a Hitler goof that is introduced in the first act and resolved in the third act. Another solid episode to start off Season 6. B+.

8) Stewie Kills Lois – 100th Episode! (23:18)
Original Airdate: 11/04/07
This was the show’s 100th episode, and who would’ve thought this show would ever get to 100 episodes? Brian gets Lois a cruise for her birthday, in hopes of going with her, but she takes Peter and Brian says this was as useless as Ringo’s songwriting. I liked that cut-away. Stewie doesn’t like that Lois went away and says he will kill her. Brian calls him out on that saying he’s said that before but always wimps out. So Stewie shows up on the ship and guns his mother down! She sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Of course, Peter is blamed for this and his idiocy makes this an easy case and Peter’s guilty, until Lois shows up! She tells everyone that Stewie is the real killer! This was a good set-up episode with some real funny spots. The Pat Tillman joke was a bit too much, but everything else was very good. A-.

9) Lois Kills Stewie (26:11)
Original Airdate: 11/11/07
Lois tells how she survived (saved by a Mer-man, landing in North Carolina, running into Neo-Nazi’s) and this whole story allows Stewie to escape. Stewie holds the family hostage and takes Brian to the CIA so he can do what he had always planned to do. Of course, at the CIA they run into Stan Smith. Stewie unleashes his ultimate plan, become the ultimate ruler of the world. He actually does it, too, but only one person can save the world, Lois. Lois and Stewie have an epic fight but Lois can’t bring herself to kill Stewie, so Peter does. Of course, this was all a simulation on Stewie’s part, but that was to be expected. There’s a Mikado song rip-off that I don’t remember from the original aired episode, but this is still rated what I gave it when I first saw it, a B+.

10) Padre De Familia (23:56)
Original Airdate: 11/18/07
Peter is inspired on Veteran’s Day to be ultra-patriotic. He gets so patriotic he wants to keep Quahog as clean as a Jewish porno! Peter gets rid of all the immigrants in Quahog, and demands that all illegal citizens from his job be thrown out. Unfortunately, Peter finds out he was born in Mexico and isn’t a citizen. He gets fired from his job and can’t find a job (with a hilarious Mary Poppins gag). Eventually, Peter lands a job at the mansion of Mr. Pewterschmidt and leads a revolt when the P-man doesn’t let them celebrate Cinco de Mayo. Peter gets his citizenship back in a crazy way, and save for the Mary Poppins bit, this episode floundered on all possible levels. C+.

11) Peter’s Daughter (22:28)
Original Airdate: 11/25/07
A terrible storm hits Quahog and the Griffin’s house gets flooded. Peter, knowing his priorities, sends Meg to the kitchen to get Peter beer and ends up drowning! There’s a great scene of Cleveland getting sent to a stadium a la Katrina victims. Meg suffers a coma but awakens to a good looking young doctor and Peter vows to be a better father. Soon, Peter actually gets jealous of Meg spending time with the doctor and causes their relationship to end. Of course, Meg is pregnant and Peter tries to force the doctor to marry him. Meanwhile, we leave this plot to see Brian and Stewie trying to fix up a house and flip it, and the usual hijinx ensue, over. Stewie and Brian destroy the place, since they don’t know how to fix up a house, so Stewie has a plan. He blows up the house (with Michael Bay explosion effects) and possibly killed the electrician. The marriage ends up not going off, and we end with another Conway Twitty music video, the third this season. There’s some great jokes here, like the dance movie, Peter bashing Meg’s nemesis Connie’s face into a fire extinguisher and it all makes for a really good episode. A-.

---Disc Three---
12) McStroke (23:27)
Original Airdate: 01/13/08
Peter grows a mustache to seem cool, and he ends up helping some firemen saving a McBurgerTown joint, and saving a man inside. He gets a lifetime pass to eat there, and he takes advantage of it, eating his way into a stroke. What follows is a helpless Peter and what I thought was a tasteless plot element. Peter is cured by stem cells, though and Peter decides to sue! He loses but still wants to take out McBurgerTown permanently. He and Brian find a cow that will testify to the atrocities of the slaughterhouse, and they bring McBurgerTown down. Stewie bets Brian that he can manipulate high-schoolers after seeing One Tree Hill. Stewie does in fact become the most popular kid in school, until he takes Connie to Anal Point and takes out his little Stewie. Stewie is now the biggest joke in the school, and he has a new nickname, Baby Penis. Stewie gets the last laugh, and it’s hilarious. I didn’t like the Stroke stuff, but the rest of the episode around it wasn’t too bad. B.


Volume 6 Review
Let’s just start with the end of Season 5. Season 5 started off just terribly, and had me questioning whether or not the show had lost it. The end of Season 5 quickly changed my mind. The last 5 episodes were some of the best of the season, and the last two were some of the best of the entire run, so show redeemed, right? In a word, yes. Season 6 started with the best episode, ever, Blue Harvest (which isn’t included here but is reviewed by me elsewhere) and the season really rolled along. They may not have as many laugh-out-loud moments as previous episodes did in Seasons 1-3, but the story-telling was actually much more tighter and the animation has improved by leaps and bounds. The cutaways aren’t done as often but when they are, they usually pay off. It was a very well-done volume, with only two episodes falling into the C territory, and generally being an enjoyable collection. Some highlights include the Village Idiot and the Meet The Quagmire’s episode from the end of Season 5, and Stewie Kills Lois episode from Season 6. A solid showing for sure.


DVD Features
A) Extras

---Disc One---
1) Audio Commentaries
---A) No Meals On Wheels
This commentary was recorded by Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, Greg Colton, Patrick Warburton and Walter Murphy. Seth mentions that Mike Henry is here from the Cleveland Show, so I guess it’s in production now. They talk about how their parents don’t like the show. Not too much here. You didn’t even hear Patrick all that much, either.
---B) Boys Do Cry
This commentary was recorded by Seth MacFarlane, Danny Smith, Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, and Brian Iles. The song that Adam West sang was supposed to be Faith by George Michaels, but George wouldn’t give them the rights. So they make fun of his lack of money. The voice of the person Stewie talks to in Texas who is punched by Chuck Norris has unfortunately passed away. She had cancer and wanted to be on the show and so she was. They discuss that Adam Carolla sounds like Gilbert Godfried. This was good, though too much dead time, too.
---C) No Chris Left Behind
This commentary was recorded by Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman, Chris Sheridan, Patrick Meighan, Pete Michels and Seth Green. The How I Met Your Mother gag at the beginning actually had the two stars show up (one being Neil Patrick Harris) and joking how he couldn’t be gay. They talk about No Child Left Behind and how stupid it was. They call Bush an idiot and say that by the time this comes out, Obama will be settling into his new office. Well, it wasn’t exactly true, but he’s the President-Elect now. They talk about the performance artist being named Bruce, which Seth M calls gay, then Seth G mentions that was Hulk’s name. The Chicken fight won an Emmy for storyboarding. One of the characters that Seth G voiced at the school was something that was rejected at Robot Chicken. Seth Green adds a lot of fun to these commentaries.
---D) It Takes A Village Idiot, and I Married One
This commentary was recorded by Seth MacFarlane, Danny Smith, Alex Borstein, and Mila Kunis. Alex does her black voice to start this off, called a.bo, which was actually credited as such during the opening credits. This was a really funny commentary with Alex and Mila doing most of the talking.
---E) Meet The Quagmires
This commentary was recorded by Danny Smith, Kara Vallow, Mark Hentemann, Dan Povenmire and Adam Carolla. Seth isn’t on this one, and Danny says he’s filling in for Seth on it. Adam is just killing on this commentary, talking about his history with A.bo, and how she and her husband brag about walking everywhere, and it’s all hilarious. This was a really good commentary.

2) Original Aired Episodes
You get the original broadcast versions of No Meals on Wheels, Boys Do Cry, No Chris Left Behind, It Takes A Village Idiot and I Married One, and Meet The Quagmires. For the most part the episodes are the same, save for the original aired episodes have no cussing and maybe a scene or two cut out.

---Disc Two---
1) Audio Commentaries
---A) Movin’ Out (Brian’s Song)
Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman, Chris Sheridan, John Viener and Cyndi Tang recorded this commentary. Seth talks about the Quagmire/Marge gag that runs on the bottom of the episode. He was told they weren’t able to use it even though Seth notes that Simpsons made fun of Family Guy five times but Fox wanted to “end the feud.” Seth says he thinks the stuff in the Simpsons is funny, and didn’t have a problem with it, but Seth had a problem with the fact the Simpsons could do it, but Seth couldn’t. Seth says that Larry Brooks (who produces the Simpsons, or something) didn’t like it but Matt Groening didn’t have a problem with it. This is some great stuff that Seth says, but doesn’t go all out on them, but states his point well. Cyndi pokes fun at the Simpsons, too. Awesome commentary thanks to the talk about the Simpsons.
---B) Believe It Or Not, Joe’s Walking on Air
Seth MacFarlane, Andrew Goldberg, Julius Wu, Patrick Warburton and Walter Murphy recorded this commentary. Patrick says his mother hates the show and even wrote letters to the FCC about it. Other than that, this was a bland commentary track.
---C) Stewie Kills Lois – 100th Episode!
Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman, Chris Sheridan, Steve Callaghan, John Holmquist, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, and Ron Jones recorded this commentary. This commentary has a whole bunch of people on here. With all these people on here, it was actually kind of boring. They talk about the Tillman sketch being cut, and really nothing else of interest.
---D) Lois Kills Stewie
Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman, Chris Sheridan, Kim Furtman, Steve Callaghan, Greg Colton, Alex Borstein, and Ron Jones recorded this commentary. Seth talks about the Mikado sketch, which is something I am familiar with since a kid I know got thrown out of High School for writing one like that but with names of teachers and students in it. It was shortly after Columbine and people were freaked out.
---E) Padre De Familia
Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman, Kirker Butler, Pete Michels, and Phyllis Diller recorded this commentary. This was just an interview with all the guys talking to Phyllis. A sleepy commentary.
---F) Peter’s Daughter
Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman, Chris Sheridan and Mila Kunis recorded this commentary. Chris wrote this episode while his father was ill, and this episode is dedicated to his father who did pass on while the episode was being written. He was also getting divorced at the time, too.

2) Original Aired Episodes
You get the original broadcast versions of all 6 of the episodes on disc two. They are always shorter and some jokes are even different due to some material being too course for the air. I didn’t re-watch them since I’ve seen this all before.

---Disc Three---
1) McStroke Audio Commentary
This commentary was recorded by Seth MacFarlane, David A. Goodman, Wellesley Wild, Brian Iles, and Lisa Wilhoit. Lisa plays Connie on the show. Lisa talks about auditioning for One Tree Hill just today after the reference was made, and one of the writers asks if Lisa ever humiliated a man like Connie did to Stewie. They mention a Trey Parker/Matt Stone joke that was cut. The two were at Anal Point, but the joke didn’t hit and it seemed cheap because Parker is gay in real life. The cow was written for Dustin Hoffman, because Seth found out Dustin’s son was a fan of the show. You can actually hear the people get up and leave at the end of the commentary.

2) Original Aired Episodes
Well, there’s only one episode on this disc, so you can guess which aired episode is here.

3) Deleted Scenes (18:40)
There are 49 scenes here condensed into less than 20 minutes, so each scene is very short. Most of them were just silly one liners, cutaway scenes, and all the randomness you’d expect from Family Guy. A lot of these were deleted for a reason, though are some gems here, like the autistic comedian, a funny women’s tennis scene, Joe’s friends who look a lot more like Quagmire, Peter and Cleveland, a Swedish Baker can’t pronounce cupcake (coop-cock), a call-back to Peter falling on kids and killing them, Stewie and Brian tell the authorities that Cleveland burnt the house down, and then Cleveland’s reaction was just hysterical.

4) Animatic Episodes
You can watch either the animatic, or the animatic with the commentary by the animation department. I only watched these once, with the commentary, since the animatic dialogue is pretty much the same as the regular episode.
---A) No Meals on Wheels (23:34)
This commentary was recorded by Young Baek, Greg Colton, Deborah Cone, Monica Lee, and Ron Smith. Interestingly enough, the entire third act is almost completely different, as the third act was more fighting between Joe and Peter and Cripple-Tron not appearing until way at the end.
---B) No Chris Left Behind (22:10)
This commentary was recorded by Brent Crow, Kip Noschese, Steve Fonti, Pete Michels and Karin Perrotta. This one was changed quite a bit, too. There’s a parade sequence in the beginning (which is found on the deleted scenes) and the ending was resolved differently, too. The one on air was the funnier version. The commentary really just pointed out the differences.
---C) McStroke (23:09)
This commentary was recorded by Ed Acosta, Mark Covell, Brian Iles, Annie McMillan, and Jeff Stewart. They commentators have a good laugh about Helen Hunt, and that's about it.

5) Family Guy 100th Episode Special (21:41)
This aired prior to the 100th episode, on November 4th, 2007. It has the full opening and all, and is really a celebration of Family Guy actually reaching 100 episodes. First, Seth interviews people who didn’t like the show, then we hit the clips. We see some funny clips, some of the better musical numbers, the pop-culture references, . I really like how we cut the FG scenes with the people who bash the show. It shows that FG and Seth can laugh at themselves. This was hosted by Seth, who was as snarky as ever. This was a lot of fun to watch.

6) Family Guy Live! – “Just For Laughs” (1:11:27)
This is a live reading of Family Guy. It was recorded at the Montreal Comedy Festival on July 21st, 2007, 6 days before I got married. Seth Mac and the whole gang are here doing a table read of episode. Let’s see, we have Seth MacFarlane, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, Jon Veiner, Mike Henry, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, and last but not least, Alex Borstein. They do the episode, “Airport ’07.” After that, they take questions from the audience.

7) Peter Shin Draws Lois (4:09)
Peter Shin shows us how to draw Lois Griffin. He draws a rough draft first and its amazing how he can draw like this with a Sharpie.

8) The Making of the 100th Episode (24:30)
This may have also aired prior to the 100th episode, I’m not sure. A quick check on tv.com shows that the 100th episode special was on TV, but this wasn’t. This is basically how the episode was came to be. First we hear comments from the cast and crew then we head into the writing process for the episode. Following the writing process, the cast and crew sit down for the table read. They do mention the Pat Tillman joke, and they show the scene of Seth at the table read doing this segment, and it actually got a big laugh. After the table read goes well and they know what jokes hit, it is off to the recording studio. The voice actors, Seth Green, Mike Henry, Mila Kunis, Adam West and of course Seth and Alex talk about recording. After the audio track is received we start with the storyboarding and animatic stage. After that is done, the audio is tracked and timed, which basically show the mouths assigned to the sheets showing certain words or vowels. All of this is then sent to Korea to be animated, then we head into post-production. They do talk about the ending, and the future of Family Guy.

9) Favorite Scenes (11:34)
Mike Henry starts this off, doing some of his voices, then the rest of the people involved in the show talk about their favorite scenes. We have the black dolphins, Stewie falling in love with his mother, Stewie and Brian talking about a potential car to steal and a whole bunch of others. I remember all of these, and all of them were good. It’s nice to see how some of these people look like, after only hearing their voices on commentaries. It’s kind of weird they don’t have any of the main voice actors on here. They end this with Steve Callahan refusing to participate.

10) “I’m Huge (and the babes go wild)” Music Video (2:49)
I don’t know where this is from, but the animation they have here looks like it was copied off the TV and then put onto DVD. I mean, the quality is horrible. Peter introduces a song called I’m Huge, which shows clips of Peter from episodes of Family Guy. It’s a funny song, but the animation looks very grainy.


B) Audio/Video
The video is done in Dolby Digital Surround 5.1. It’s a cartoon television show so the surrounds aren’t really needed. It’s a standard DVD TV release. The video is nice as well. It is better than on TV since it’s in a digital format so that is all you can ask from a set like this. The audio/video is much better than anything else seen on previous volumes, actually.


C) Liner Notes
The three DVD’s are in slimline cases with the episode descriptions on the back, but other than that, there are no liner notes. There’re ads for the other Family Guy related stuff out there in the world, too. This case a little different as there’s a slipcase around the usual case, with a see-through Family Guy logo that reminds me of the early Futurama sets.


D) Easter Eggs
None


Overall Review
There’s a Family Guy Commercial (0:22) that starts off the disc. I really liked this collection. While the episodes were pretty strong, they can’t really compare to the first two sets. Still, what they haven’t done in episodes quality that have more than made up for that in extras on here. There are three discs just chock-full of stuff, including an hour table read, some great animatics, deleted scenes, and just a ton of stuff. The commentaries have improved tremendously since the beginning and while the episodes aren’t as great, the content is a LOT better. This is a highly recommended collection especially considering all that you get in terms of extras and the episodes were actually pretty good, too.


Overall Rating
9.5


10.0      Perfect
9.0-9.5  Near Perfect, Highly Recommended
8.0-8.5  Really good disc, Recommended
7.0-7.5  Good DVD, Mildly recommended
6.0-6.5  Above Average DVD. Mildest of mild recommendations
5.0-5.5  Decent all around disc, but catch it on TV
4.0-4.5  Great Movie but horrible DVD
3.0-3.5  Horrible movie but great DVD
2.0-2.5  There’s at least some merit to this DVD, but not much.
1.0-1.5  Horrible DVD, don’t even bother
0.0-0.5  Worst DVD ever

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