Product Description Home Movies is a cartoon about children who are more like adults made for adults who like cartoons. The series spotlights third-grader Brendon Small, a young filmmaker who writes, acts, directs and "co-executive produces" his "groundbreaking early work" along with his friends Melissa and Jason. The show also features Coach McGuirk, a youth soccer coach who hates soccer and isnt all that crazy about youths. The fourth and final season of this half-hour cult hit comedy contains some of its most memorable episodes - "Camp," guest-starring They Might Be Giants as crappy music camp counselors, Brendon, Jason and Melissas rock-opera opus/debacle "The Wizards Baker" and Brendon's visit to the dark side in the classic "Those Bitches Tried To Cheat Me." The only thing wrong with Home Movies is that there aren't any more to watch. Contains all 13 episodes of Season Four the last 13 episodes ever! Also Includes: Bonus Music CD - 52 Tracks - The Best Songs From All Four Seasons Plus: Fan Commentaries by The Shins, Modest Mouse and the staff of The Onion .com Home Movies: Season Four represents, sadly, the final episodes of a wonderful animated series, and those 13 shows are indeed a comic triumph. Somewhat reminiscent of Seinfeld, Home Movies gradually mastered the art of interwoven, multiple storylines that build toward brilliant entanglements. That would be enough to recommend the show, but Home Movies, besides being frequently hilarious, also has a soul. The continuing misadventures of 8-year-old, neurotic Brendon Small (voiced by, yes, series co-creator Brendon Small) are a treat to watch, but they also reveal the pain of a good kid's outsized ambitions chafing against natural innocence and the frustrations of childhood. Many of the episodes concern Brendon's relentless desire to direct films and, at least in one case, theatre. His off-and-on ambivalence about collaborating in these endeavors with best friends Jason (H. Jon Benjamin) and Melissa (Melissa Bardin Galsky) creates some marvelous tensions, such as a very funny story in which Brendon reluctantly acquiesces to his pals' enthusiasm to produce an obviously doomed movie called "Wizird's Baker" (the misspelling is Jason's fault). While Melissa and Jason pound the pavement to raise funds for the production, Brendon dodges the project by immersing himself in a half-baked, outdoors-y outfit called the Skunk Scouts. His sudden embrace of boyhood pleasures--carving wood, earning merit badges--is painfully sweet in light of his guilt over sabotaging his friends' dream. In another superb episode, Brendon mounts a disastrous, 1950s-themed musical called "Bye, Bye Greasy" at school, pressing the increasingly degenerate Coach McGuirk (Benjamin again) into playing a teen rebel and nudging a disillusioned Jason and Melissa toward bland, supporting roles. On the other hand, the trio of friends sometimes cooperate beautifully: organizing, for instance, a special revenge against sadistic camp counselors in the season premiere. (Meanwhile, McGuirk is in hiding from a touchy-feely men's group called "Crywalkers.") There are some fabulous special features in this set, including a bonus music CD with 52 songs from all four seasons, 22 commentaries from the cast, crew, and special guests (including the Shins and Modest Mouse), and an "Audio Outtakes Jukebox." --Tom Keogh
R**S
"I Smell Burning Eye. Is That A Problem?"
In this season of "Home Movies" the cartoons get more intricate, while the characters become more richly nuanced. I love this DVD set, but it saddens me that this is the final season of the series, surely one of the most original and entertaining animated shows in history.The plots this season span everything from a rock opera disaster ("The Wizard's Baker") to Coach McGuirk having laser eye surgery, losing his sight (temporarily), and becoming a psychic. One of the best shows of the whole series is "Camp" and features Brendon, Melissa, and Jason at the wretched "Camp Campingston Falls" while McGuirk (a.k.a. "Cloudchaser") is pursued by a group of "Crywalkers." The musical production and conclusion of that episode are among the best moments ever aired on television.The three DVD set is an absolute delight with no real clunkers in the bunch (although I never really warmed to "Cho and Amy Lee," as I did to the other episodes). It also includes a bonus audio CD of the best musical tracks from the series over the years: I liked it so much I put it on my iPod. There are many extras in the form largely of commentaries, etc., which are compelling as well, especially to die-hard fans.I love "Home Movies" and couldn't recommend this, the final, season more highly.
L**S
HOME MOVIES DVD!...............DVD!
All I can say is im sad to see its over. If you haven't given Home Movies a chance you need to. You have to buy them in order start with the first season and trust me you will be back to buy them all. If the creators ever read this I want them to know MAKE MORE HOME MOVIES!!! We need more episodes. Adult swim has aired these guys for a long time unfortunately they have stopped so they can add cartoons that dont deserve the air space. Example 12o.z. mouse? I guess talent is not needed and creativity to do cartoons. Well If you want something good to watch go buy all the Home Movie seaons they are fun to watch, worth the cashola!-Levi[...]
T**L
Highly recommended!!!!!!
Sadly, this is the final season of a series that should have gotten more exposure. I never saw Home Movies when it was in first-run television, but discovered it in reruns in the Adult Swim block of programming on Cartoon Network. While the characters mostly act and speak much older than their supposed 8 years, they still retain some of the innocence and naivety of children - at least enough to make them believable.No matter how bad a mood I am in, all I have to do is pop in a Home Movies DVD and soon I'm laughing out loud. Brendon's decidedly non-childlike, quirky, honest but overwhelmingly naive outlook on life creates a lot of deeply funny moments.
J**E
Best season of the series
Of my favorite 6 or 7 Home Movies episodes, 4 of them are in this collection. I think that "Camp", "Bye Bye Greasy", "The Heart Smashers", and "Temporary Blindness" are worth the price of the DVD set.The episodes in Season Four are more complex and feature more characters in each one than in the previous volumes. These guys were really hitting their stride. I just wish there was a Season Five on the way.Home Movies is the show that drew my attention to the Adult Swim lineup back in the day. It is a very intelligent show and is watchable over and over again.
J**C
Exactly as listed
Exactly as listed
S**.
Home Movies, at its best.
I want to assure the people out there, who like me are in love with this show, that it DOES come with the bonus cd of the series music tracks. This, the last season of the show has been a delight to watch, as the Coach seems more outrageous than ever, and Brendan Small grows into his climax of sarcastic genius. A wonderful show that was sadly ended too short, Home Movies season 4 is a total crowd pleasure from start to finish!
D**Y
HOME MOVIES
Love this show and love this set. HOME MOVIES was and is one of the greatest sitcoms, live-action or animated.
B**W
Hysterical and awesome
Such a great show! And the fourth season is very nearly the best, second only to the third season. If that makes any sense. I mean, what I'm saying is the third season is the best season, but the fourth season, this one that I'm reviewing, is the second-best. And it's a close second-best. So it's like the best, almost, it's second. But it's not the second season, it's the fourth. The second season is good too, but not as good as this one. Not even close, actually, but that's not my point.Look, if you like Home Movies, you should just buy it, ok? Just write out the check, fill in the number, then write out the number in words--I've never understood why they make you do that. I mean what sense does that make. It's like, "Ok, I know I just wrote the numbers, but now I have to prove I can spell them too!" I don't need that hassle. I can spell. I don't have anything to prove. Banks! It's no wonder people all use credit cards now.Ok, seriously, this is a good set of dvds. I'd give it 5 stars, but the extras are a little dull. Painfully so at times. But you know, that's just the extras. The show is awesome.
M**N
but its fantastic! Thank you
Came a little late, but its fantastic! Thank you.
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