Review of Danger Mouse: Volume 3

Introduction

He`s Amazing, He`s fantastic, you`ve heard this bit before......

Sorry.

Yet more episodes featuring the World`s Greatest Superhero (tm and all that) and his rather less super sidekick.

Video

Acceptable quality, this is a oldish cartoon after all. The various cartoons are shown at the original 4:3 (unless your nearest and dearest has been fiddling with the controls, in which case Dangermouse has a rather oddly shaped nose).

There are no terrible jaggies or related DVD coding artefacts and colour fidelity is, on the whole, rather good.

Occasionally the colours go a bit off but I see to recall they do that on TV as well, so it`s not the DVD that`s a fault.

The menu is the same as discs one and two, and is bright and cheery and works.

Audio

Sound is stereo and doesn`t pop and crackle too much. The voices are clear and distinct, the cheesey title song annoyingly hummable.... just like you`d expect really.

Features

Other than the 6 cartoons featured, they have included an interesting interview with Brian Cosgrove and a rather surprising pilot episode.

The pilot is worth watching just to see how many things have changed from the original ideas.... Dangermouse is actually quite annoying in the pilot, Colonel K has a meandering accent, Baron Greenback isn`t Baron Greenback and Penfold is, errm, Welsh!

Conclusion

Whether you have yet to discover Dangermouse, caught them recently late at night on the Cartoon Network, or are a genuine, die hard fan, this is worth getting. These discs aren`t too expensive, will keep the kids happy - but more importantly will keep students from their homework for ages whilst their copy of Dougal and the Blue Cat is rewound yet again.

Sure, the quality is not of DVD reference standard but afterall, it`s Dangermouse....

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