Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 6 (New Edition) [2001]

Customer Reviews:

Amazing.......2008-03-09

I was a little dubious about buying this season after reading the reviews on amazon however im so happy i did. This season is by far one of my favourites. Johnathon, Andrew and Warren bring a nice chunk of comedy back to buffy, i feel was well needed after glory in season 5 and buffys death. The musical episode was fantastic, it had me and my friends laughing through the whole thing! Buffy and Spikes love affair was thrilling, especially for spike fans (like myself!).

This season was a mixture of funny episodes (musical), sad episodes (xander and anyas wedding) scary episodes (willow turning to the dark side)....there really is something for everyone....or everthing for someone!! definate must buy (and way better than series 7)!!

Season 6 is a must for hardcore Spike Fans!.......2007-12-02

I'm not in it for Buffy, I'm into Spike and as far as I am concerned this is the best season of Buffy, well apart from the Spike & DRu sessions in Season 2&3. I love the character development between Spike & Buffy and as far as I'm concerned even all those raunchy scenes are of themselves really interesting metaphors for how things are going for them "Out of high school" and into the "real" world...its actually one of my favorite seasons of Buffy and I can't imagine why anyone would write it off because its "different from other seasons"....if its not different after a while, there's no progress....why bother at all? Just replay SEason 1 over and over and over again....its original and Who doesn't want to see more of Spike in less clothes? :-)

Too depressing.......2007-10-01

Fundamental to the success of Buffy was always a mixture of light and dark. In this series, it's practically all dark. Of the regular characters, one dies, one leaves, and the rest all become so unsympathetic, at one stage or another, that you begin to wish the apocalypse had happened at the end of series 5. I've nothing against bleak storylines but you have to have someone to root for - in Buffy 6, that's very hard.

I don't mind the teenage 'nerd herd' as characters, their bickering is actually very funny, but they're not strong enough to assume the role of major series bad guys. Sidekicks maybe. Other problems: the magic/drugs analogy is really quite laughable, the whole story turns on a coincidence that's just too freakish, and the ending is corny beyond belief.

So what's good about it? Obviously, Once More With Feeling is a triumph: a musical episode should have been a pathetic gimmick but they made it believable in the context of the series and actually used it to develop the story. Good songs, too. Tabula Rasa, in which everyone forgets who they are, is probably the closest thing to a comedy episode. Normal Again, which raises the possibility that Buffy is actually mentally ill and has imagined everything, is quite intriguing. And Amy the rat is finally restored, leading to the beautifully-played exchange:
"So, how have you been?"
"Rat. You?"
"Dead."

Overall, though, while Buffy could never be bad as such, this season is definitely the weakest. Watching it alternately with the corresponding series of Angel, I resented having to sit through Buffy because the spin-off was so much more interesting.

Hard to watch sometimes but well worth it........2007-07-07

Season 6 has had a lot of bad press. Yes, in certain places it is miserable and hard to watch. Xander dumps Anya at the alter causing Anya to return to her old job as a vengance demon. Willow and Tara break up because Willow is using too much magic, causing Willow to turn into a 'magic junkie'. Buffy is back from the dead and definitely not happy about it and Dawn is as annoying as ever.

Real people do go through hard times and Joss always said this season was about growing up and moving on. Anthony Stewart Head is gone for most of this series and I do miss him but there's still plenty to keep me interested. Injecting some much needed lightness into this season is the Trio. Jonanthon, Warren and Andrew are excellent as the ubervillians and really appeal to the big geek in me. This season has the much anticipated musical episode 'Once More with Feeling'

This is possibly my favourite ever episode because we learn so much about the characters. The final 5 episodes also rank in my favourite episodes ever as Dark Willow takes over as theultimate Big BAD. It was excellent for me, a long time Xander fan, to see him save the wold for a change.

One thing that got a lot of criticism this series was Buffy and Spike becoming an item, I think this worked. Even though Spike is still soulless and technically evil he is much nicer to her than soulful Angel ever was - see season three The Prom. That is until the attempted rape. I hate this. I don;t feel it is in keeping with Spike's character and the fact that next season Buffy forgives him and (maybe) sleeps with him again is WRONG WRONG WRONG.

Don't believe the bad press about this series. It is still much better than Season 4.

Becoming Human: A Stepping Stone to Season 7.......2007-06-22

I disagree with the views that this season is largely improvised and reflects the characters in a bad light. All characters go through significant changes which shows how they have grown and become more 'human'. In fact, there is a significant binary to each character about whether they are human/inhuman, or in other words-human/demon. But a few examples: Xander & Anya's relationship becomes a lot more serious until he realises he isn't ready to marry after Anya's realisation of what love actually is in 'Hell's Bells'. Her character has come to terms with her human side and when Xander leaves her at the aisle, her reaction is significantly traumatic-for the first time ever. Spike's demonic side is faltering and succumbs to his 'human' side when he falls in love with Buffy. This also ends badly, in particular the scene where he attempts to rape Buffy. Dawn has become 'human' and is now adapting to her life as a teenage girl, rather than Glory's Key. Willow succumbs to the Magicks and loses herself until Xander accesses her human side and brings her back to 'life', so to speak. And last but not least-Buffy-who is ressurrected and the question remains whether she has become part demon after Spike learns he can attack her. Aside from this, Giles leaves-a major blow to the characters and how they will function without his patriarchal presence. It seems that each character is learning how to become more human and more adult, and each episode only emphasises this. In particular, there is a sharp contrast between the childish Trio and the 'adult' Scooby Gang. I see this season as a stepping stone to season 7, being necessary to re-establish each character before the series finale. 7 is a harsh sequence of events, centred around The First, which seems to swallow each character whole and spit them back out again. Therefore, Season 6 not only encompasses each character's emotions but unveils the necessary strengths and failures they will unveil in the following season.

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A MODERN TWIST ON THE DRACULA LEGEND
Some interesting ideas but poorly executed
Dracula is back with one hell of twist.
I don't care if he IS the Lord of the Undead...bite me and bite me NOW!
I was bitten at first glance!

Dracula 2001
Starring: Gerard Butler , Christopher Plummer , Jonny Lee Miller , Justine Waddell , and Colleen Fitzpatrick
Director: Patrick Lussier
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainm
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ASIN: B00005U5FA
Release Date: 2006-02-06

Amazon.co.uk Review

Stylish, snappy and entirely without a coherent idea in its head, Dracula 2001 is "Presented by Wes Craven" but shows comparatively little sign of his controlling intelligence. This is very much "Dracula--the Rock Video" with some memorable dream sequences and a lot of product placement: the heroine may not be a virgin but she works at Virgin Records. Among its incidental pleasures are a high-tech bank raid which secures the thieves nothing but an ominous silver coffin, Christopher Plummer as an immortal Van Helsing surviving by injections of leeches that feed on the imprisoned Dracula, Johnny Lee Miller as an unusually obtuse servant of good and Star Trek: Voyager's Jeri Ryan as a television news reporter turned Bride of Evil. The early scenes make interesting use of London's Eurostar terminal as a sinister backdrop. The climax moves to New Orleans during Mardi Gras giving the film a frenetic edginess and a lot of partially clad people to look at; it also proves to tie into a moderately inventive reconsideration of Dracula's origins.--Roz Kaveney

Customer Reviews:

A MODERN TWIST ON THE DRACULA LEGEND.......2007-05-02

Wes Craven's Dracula 2001 isn't anywhere as bad as it could have been.

Breaking into a museum vault, theives Trick (Sean Patrick Thomas), Marcus (Omar Epps), Nightshade (Danny Masterson), Eddie (Lochlyn Munroe) and Dax (Tig Fong) are surprised to find a coffin instead of jewels. Finding it robbed, Van Helsing (Christopher Plummer) tells his assistant Simon Sheppard (Jonny Lee Miller) that he will track down the theives, the sets out to New Orleans to track down his stolen coffin, carrying the body of Dracula (Gerald Butler). Dracula finds his target in Van Helsing's daughter Mary Heller (Justine Waddell) and her friend Lucy Westernman (Colleen Fitzpatrick). Dracula then reveals his intentions to Mary. Simon follows a trail of corpses to Dracula and battles to stop him.

THE GOOD POINTS: This wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. What is best about the film is how they decided to break the chains binding the tradition of previous vampire films. Rather then bore us with another retelling of how he was once Prince Vlad, it decides to bring with it its own origin and ties it into the biblical account of Jesus Christ's crucifixion. This change really works and adds depth to Dracula without challenging the Dracula legend. Deciding to tie Dracula to Judas Iscariot also makes a lot more sense. It helps explain his hatred of crucifixes and holy water and it helps explain the vampire's dislike of silver. The new storyline and origin really does come as a breath of fresh air and originality (a hard thing to accomplish when dealing with the most over used vampire story of all time). The films pace is another plus always moving from one scene to another without much filler in between. The action scenes are pretty good and drive the film forward. There's also a very good ending that features loads of action and really drawn out fighting between the two sides. There is plenty of neck biting, lots of silver spikes being shot into bodies and decapitations. This isn't a blood bath but its enough to satisfy. There is also some cool scenes, such as an attack on a news reporter and you can't see Dracula through the camera but when the camera man moves the camera he can see Dracula biting into her. The brides here are about as sexy as they have ever been.

THE BAD POINTS: The biggest thing wrong with Dracula 2001 is that Dracula himself doesn't inspire any fear or threat at all. The nobleman attitude is completely missing. He completely issues none of the past trademarks or style that has made him a great figure and he isn't the least bit threatening when he is on screen. The other problem is the wire based martial arts. Some of the sequences are incredibly bad and so unconvincing its laughable. The fact that just about everyone can do it towards the end is another problem, as it is coming out of nowhere and is a detriment to the film. Not everyone will accept the changes made to the legend but I thought it was o.k.

There are some problems with the film but there is a lot of things that do work for the film. Its by no means a perfect vampire film but if your interested in the genre give it a watch.

Thank you for reading my review.

Some interesting ideas but poorly executed.......2007-02-07

This film is something of an attempt to bring the Dracula mythos onto the modern world and to some extent this is successful. In the film Dracula is imprisoned by Van Helsing and kept locked in a silver coffin for centuries until thieves steal his prison and release him into the world where he starts to hunt down Van Helsings' daughter.

Although Dracula 2001 does have some brilliant one-liners and a few good performances from the leading cast, it is the supporting cast members who let it down with a tendency to ham their way through their scenes. The film also tries to add a few twists into the origin of Dracula and I feel these are some nice touches but vampire purists may find them annoying. In the end this film was a decent enough attempt at a modern Dracula movie but just doesn't seem to pull it of terribly well.

Dracula is back with one hell of twist........2007-02-01

One of the best horror icons get's the Wes Craven treatment. While this may not be Craven's best work, it's still a fantastic movie to watch. It's hard to find something in this movie that isn't brilliant, the acting is amazing, the way the story unfolds is definitly something to be admired. If you like Dracula this is a great movie with an even better twist.

I don't care if he IS the Lord of the Undead...bite me and bite me NOW!.......2006-10-14

What a great twist to the age old story of the blood sucking vamp! It amazes me that no-one has thought up the twist before, (including me), as it's quite believable...well it would be if there WERE such things as vampires! But oh how I long for there to be a Dracula so sexy and charasmatic as this one played to perfection by my beloved Gerry!

You may think that I'm just bigging up this film because I adore/worship/lust after Gerard Butler, (check out my name!), but you would be wrong. I admit that's what made me buy it in the first, place but how great to find an actually bloody good film to boot!

******POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT!!!******

The idea of Dracula actually being Judas Ischariot, (hence the hate of all things Christian, the cross, the bible and silver which represents his payment for betraying Jesus,) is mind bogglingly brilliant. It's perfectly suited to this dark, gothic character. The speech he gives on the rooftop at the end while looking up at a neon crucifix, complete with Jesus, is so well played and heartfelt that it's hard to despise this monster. Especially in recent months, (post DaVinci Code madness), when there has apparently been uncovered some bible pages that give clues to say that Judas was asked by Jesus Himself to betray Him. But I suppose we have to make up our own minds about that just as we do with DaVinci Code.

Aside from the story, there are some other great performances, Christopher Plummer and Justine Waddell in particular stand out for me. He is completely believable as the 100 year old Van Helsing who has kept himself alive by injecting himself with regular, small amounts of Dracula's blood, (extracted with the use of leeches), simply to protect the world from said beastie until he can find a way to kill him. Waddell plays a very convincing, haunted and terrified character. She is unaware that she's Van Helsing's daughter, conceived after he began his little blood transfusions, and therefore has a kind of dormant mental link to Drac himself. (She just thinks she's going barmy, having weird dreams of a truly hunky man!)

Some of the other performances were just a little too cheesy for my liking. I like a bit of cheddar now and then just as much as the next person, but some lines have a highly overpowering odour of Gorgonzola! I am pretty convinced that this is simply down to good ol' Wes Craven. He does like his one liners doesn't he? Omar Epps character has some really dire lines that have me cringing every time..."An eye for an eye mate"...is one that really annoys me...if you've seen it, you'll know what I mean! And something else that gets my goat up too is not just in this film but in most vamp flicks, and that's WHY do they have to have them hiss??? They aren't humans inbred with li'l pussy tats...THEY ARE THE BLOOD SUCKING UNDEAD!!! (O.K. rant over!)

Only two things have me creased up with laughter in this film that I shouldn't find funny...1) The size of Johnny Lee Miller's neck in proportion to his head!... and 2)The varying shapes and sizes of the all famous canines! O.K. everyone as different shaped teeth but come on! Jennifer Esposito's look like they ran out of proper falsies and gave her some made out of card...by a 4 year old!!!

After all my griping though, I still have to give this a full 5 stars. The good/great FAR outweigh the Stilton. Fave scene has gotta be when Draccie is watching the music vid on the side of the Virgin Megastore..."Brilliant!" Oh who am I kidding? I LOVE EVERY SCENE HE'S IN!!! :o)

If you're a fan of Wes Craven, you'll love this. If you like a good story you'll probably get something out of this too, as long as you keep an open mind to accept the cheese with a bottle of a good red next to you!

I was bitten at first glance!.......2006-06-15

When I saw the preview for this movie, I was so blase that I almost shrugged in disgust. I had seen so many vampire movies and I can honestly say that one I disliked more than anything had been the Gary Oldman version. But something about the vampire in the preview kept me glued to the screen during the whole preview so for sure I would see it. I was immediately taken in by the different take on the whole Dracula story. The fact that the whole story takes place in beautiful New Orleans made it interesting. It is so hard to make me jump during a horror movie that I was myself surprised when I did twice as we get our first glance at what must be the ugliest vampire ever! Then, lo and behold! He regenerates and becomes the sexiest vampire I have ever seen on the big or small screen for that matter. Mr. Butler's performance is what makes this movie work. He has such a screen presence that you can feel how evil his character is, how he will do anything to get Mary Heller and at times, even in his most sexy self, he can be quite scary as he is fighting with Mary on top of the roof. Yet, he can also make you feel just how impressed a being who has walked the earth through so many centuries can be with the modern technology of music videos. One has to smile as he exclaims: "Brilliant!" As he enters the Virgin Megastore and all the women there starts drooling, we finally get an idea of how a vampire can be so alluring that his victims would fall prey to him so easily. Of course, there are several other good actors in there, like my fellow Canadian who was recenlty honored here at McGill University, Christopher Plummer, who has himself at some point played such a character with an intense glare in "The Silent Partner". He does comment on how impressed he was with Gerard Butler's intense performance in "Dracula 2001". Then there are Justine Waddell, very beautiful and talented and quite convincing as the frightened Mary Heller Van Helsing. Colleen Ann Fitzpatrick although more of a musician does a good turn as the lucky/unlucky? Lucy Westerman who not only gets to bed Dracula but then becomes one of his undead brides. Jeri Ryan of "Star Trek Voyager's" fame is quite convincing as the t.v. reporter who has a scary encounter with the vampire. Jennifer Esposito is a talented actress and she proves it in there playing the villainous and greedy Selina. Sean Patrick Thomas and Omar Epps convey with their acting that they are having fun in this movie. Danny Masterson is probably the one who had the most fun since he was the one who suggested that one of the leaches should attack him. Also, the suggestion that Dracula might have been Judah Iscariot might have shocked some people but then people are easily shocked by anything but it is an interesting and a fresh angle on an old take.

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Outstanding Willem Dafoe delights in an inventive film.
I hope this is not a semi-true story
Dreadful
What if a classic horror film was made with a real monster?
chilled to the bone

Shadow Of The Vampire [2001]
Starring: John Malkovich , Willem Dafoe , Udo Kier , Cary Elwes , and Catherine McCormack
Director: E. Elias Merhige
Manufacturer: Prism Leisure
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ASIN: B00005KJOM
Release Date: 2002-10-14

Amazon.co.uk Review

Shadow of the Vampire is a film full of good ideas that are only partially developed. Clever, engaging, and boosted by the sublime casting of Willem Dafoe as Nosferatu "actor" Max Schreck, its premise is ripe with possibilities but the movie's too slight to register much impact: characters remain achingly underdeveloped and the whole lacks a sense of pace or structure. What's left, however, is enough for anyone to get their teeth into: the delightful performances from a sterling cast and director E Elias Merhige's affectionately tongue-in-cheek homage to a landmark of German silent cinema. John Malkovich is aptly loony as the eccentric director FW Murnau, whose passion in filming the 1922 classic Nosferatu leads to the extreme casting of Schreck as the vampire, a vision of evil who, in this movie's delightfully twisted imagination, actually is a vampire, sucking the blood of cast and crew members who've dismissed Schreck as an over-zealous method actor.

As these on-set maladies and "accidents" continue, Schreck wields greater control over Murnau, who descends into a kind of obsessive art-for-art's-sake madness until diva co-star Greta Schroeder (Catherine McCormack, doing wonderful work) is served up as the actor's ultimate motivation. Merhige and his actors (including Cary Elwes, as intrepid cameraman Fritz Wagner) have great fun with this ghastly escapade, and the humour is kept delicately subtle to balance the movie's artistic aspirations. To that end, Dafoe is just right, his bald pate and gaunt features a perfect match for the mysterious Schreck, his grimace and talon-like fingers suggesting a human vulture on the prowl. Likewise, the re-creation of Nosferatu's expressionist style is both fanciful and brilliantly authentic. Too bad, then, that this movie suffers from a case of vampiric anaemia, with budgetary shortcomings apparently the cause of at least some of its shortcomings; if Shadow of the Vampire shared the depth and richness of, say, Ed Wood, it might have been a cult classic for the ages. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com

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Outstanding Willem Dafoe delights in an inventive film........2006-07-10

I really enjoyed the main premise for this film about F.W. Murnau's filming of his 1922 classic 'Nosferatu'. What would happen if the director cast a real vampire in the role of Nosferatu? This is exactly what happens in this engaging and sometimes funny film about the filming in Transylvania.

Willem Dafoe, almost unrecognizable under all the make-up, is wonderful as Max Schreck who turns out to be a real vampire who joins the cast of amateur actors as they film 'Nosferatu'. Soon, as some of the cast accuse Mr Schreck of taking his part too seriously, some blood is spilled as he starts chomping through the cast and crew alike. When they get through to the final scene when the character of Nosferatu is killed from the sunlight flooding into the bedroom, Max Schreck doesn't get up because the sunlight flooding into the bedroom actually gets him too.

This is an entertaining and inventive idea looking at an alternative way of how F.W. Murnau made his silent classic. There are some nice performances, especially by our very own Eddie Izzard. But the acting honours goes to the brilliant and magical turn by Willem Dafoe. I feel it should have been him that received the Oscar for his performance as the vampire. He chomps through the scenery with relish. A truly magnificent performance.

The DVD has some interesting features including how they disguised Willem Dafoe underneath the make-up and a look behind the scenes. A very nice dish to tuck into. Sorry about the pun.

I hope this is not a semi-true story.......2006-01-18

Once a gain Nosferatu rises to the top of our conciseness. This time in the form of a "making of". What if F.W. Murnau used a real vampire in the making of his movie? It is best to view the original movie first for a frame of reference.
The concept is very original and the execution is quite good. There are not any overwhelmingly gory scenes to distract for the primes and there are enough spooky scenes to keep your attention.
There are two major negatives on the DVD. One of the great advantages of the DVDs are that they went back to presenting movies with out a bunch of advertisements for coming attractions or mouth wash. Well you can not escape them on this DVD. Your only recourse is "fast forward". The thing that makes DVDs great are the extra goodies, such as voice over commentary the gives you insight to want you may have missed or not known about the movie. This commentary gives you more insight than you want. It makes the E. Elias Merhinge seem pompous and overbearing. The movie is force to have symbols and scenes to give it an in-depth quality. Despite this the movie turned out to be vary watchable
This movie will make a good addition to your Nosferatu collection.

Dreadful.......2005-02-08

... a truly dreadful film. The 1 * is for Willem Defoe's ammusing performance.

Watch the original "Nosferatu" (1922) instead.

What if a classic horror film was made with a real monster?.......2004-11-09

Early on in "Shadow of the Vampire," when director F. W. Murnau (John Malkovich) tells the cast and crew of his 1922 horror classic "Nosferatu" that he has hired unknown actor Max Schreck to play Count Orlock, he explains that Schreck has been studying with Stanislavski in Russia and is one of those actors who gets subsumed by his role. This is an intriguing enough conceit, but Steven Katz's script takes this film's conceit a bit further by having "Schreck" turn out to be a real vampire. This explains not only the need to shoot all of his scenes at night but also why he keeps attacking crew members, biting their necks and drinking their blood. The producer (Udo Kier), the writer (Aden Gillett), the new cameraman (Cary Elwes) and the film's star (Eddie Izzard) are getting increasingly nervous about people dying while making this film, but Murnau is totally consumed with getting his vision immortalized on celluloid. Since he would be willing to make a deal with the Devil to do so, coming to an arrangement with a vampire with regards to the life's blood of his leading lady (Catherine McCormack) is a relatively trivial matter.

"Shadow of the Vampire" has an obvious affection for the way in which silent movies were made, and key sequences of the film emulate the style of the time (shot in black & white, iris in & iris out, etc.). Both Schreck and Murnau are interested in immortality, albeit of different sorts, and it is not surprising that by the end of the film there is the question of which character is the real monster is quite debatable. Dafoe's performance as the title character was certainly worthy of an Oscar nomination, one of those grand disappearances beneath the make-up reminiscent of John Hurt in "The Elephant Man." Malkovich is at the stage in his career where it is difficult to notice how good he is because of how good he is (he improvised a lot of the dialogue during the final scene). Producer Nicholas Cage certainly deserves credit for getting E. Elias Merhige to direct another film. It had been almost a decade since Merhige wrote and directed "Begotten," and he was threatening to become the J. D. Salinger of contemporary American cinema. "Shadow of the Vampire" is destined to become a beloved little horror film, if not a cult classic.

Given the subject matter, the DVD extras are pretty sparse this time around. Merhige does the audio commentary alone and there are brief interviews with him, Dafoe and Cage. However, the featurette is standard Hollywood fare when what I was really expecting was a documentary-style look at the original "Nosferatu" with film historians or horror writers holding forth on its greatness. While having seen the original "Nosferatu" is not necessary to understanding "Shadow of the Vampire," it certainly would enhance your enjoyment of this film, and since "Shadow" is only 93 minutes long, you can easily do a double feature on a Friday night when the moon is full. Finally, please remember this is a film that requires the willing suspension of disbelief and do not get sidetracked by how a vampire who casts no reflection in a mirror can be captured on film. Just enjoy the ride.

chilled to the bone.......2004-04-26

what a great film,i ordered this item with an open mind, with at the timejust having seen twenty or so minutes of the film, the opening ischilling, that music being so haunting and chilling, i fell in love withthis film ,its weird premise, its fantastic casting, another superbperformance from willem, anyways id give it a go if i were you, dontexpect a horror film full of 'velcum to my castle, my name isdraccuuullaaa' and all that maloney, this is much deeper and more twistedthan represented.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling (2001)

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yeah baby yeah
Great episode, But why not buy the whole season?
really loved it buy it now!!!!!!!
Joss Whedon's musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"
If you like Karaoke, musicals, and the bizarre ......

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling (2001)
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar , Nicholas Brendon , Emma Caulfield , Michelle Trachtenberg , and James Marsters
Director: Joss Whedon
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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ASIN: B00008N6ZH
Release Date: 2003-04-14

Amazon.co.uk Review

"Once More With Feeling", a much needed shaft of lightness in Buffy the Vampire Slayer's dark sixth series, demonstrates that a "special" episode can be genuinely special. It preserves the show's continuity for its regular watchers and also delights people who have never experienced it before. This is creator Joss Whedon's tribute to all the masters of the stage musical whom he admires--most obviously Stephen Sondheim--and a chance for his talented cast to display their usual tight ensemble and sing and dance while doing it.

The premise is typical Buffy both in its whimsy and its emotional truth--a demon forces the inhabitants of Sunnydale to express their emotions truthfully and uncovers a variety of embarrassing secrets. The actual musical ability of the Buffy cast is variable--Amber Benson as Tara and Anthony Stewart Head as Giles are perhaps the only ones with enough musical talent to carry purely lyrical tunes, but Sarah Michelle Gellar as Buffy is a game little trooper who delivers her various patter songs with her usual efficiency and charm. Emma Caulfield as the ex-demon Anya is the big surprise, her short paranoid riff on the subject of that ultimate evil, bunny rabbits is quite extraordinary; Broadway hoofer Hinton Battle is fabulous as Sweet: "I can bring whole cities to ruin and find time to get some soft shoe in." --Roz Kaveney

Customer Reviews:

yeah baby yeah .......2007-02-15

if your a fan of musicals like grease and high school the musical lol ???
you will love this, all the songs are really catchy, ive seen this a few times and i sing along every time its really enjoyable to watch. But if you are a buffy fan you might as well buy the series instead of this dvd on its own?

good watch, good watch

Great episode, But why not buy the whole season?.......2006-08-08

Check out buying the whole season. Especially now that there's a new edition of Buffy season6, and it's price is lower than before (All 22 episodes for approximately twice the price of this DVD that contains only one episode).
The episode is excellent - but it's helps to see the episodes before it to understand what they're singing about, and it's fascinating to see how the various revelations tie in to what happens in the rest of the season

really loved it buy it now!!!!!!!.......2006-06-02

this dvd is really good i love it all the songs and everything ii didnr know the cast sang so well buy it now it worth it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Joss Whedon's musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer".......2005-12-27

For several seasons we heard the rumors that Joss Whedon was working on a musical episode of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer," but he was being a perfectionist because it had to be just right. Well, "Once More, With Feeling" (First aired November 6, 2001) is about as right as you can get, with every song grounded in the characters. Add to that the fact that the music is pretty good and how can any fan of "BtVS" be impressed? How many times did you replay the episode on your VCR before you stopped humming some of those songs? I was humming "Every single night..." for at least a week, but only when I was not insisting people should "Let Me Rest in Peace." I had three different CD versions of the musical plus the "for your consideration" Emmy videotape of the episode before it came out as part of the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season Six" DVD collection. But if for some reason all you want is just the episode, then this DVD is available.

On patrol one night in a Sunnydale graveyard, Buffy Summers (Sarah Michelle Gellar) suddenly starts singing about how she is "Going Through the Motions" as she dusts vampires. The next morning she finds out that she is not the only one who has been suddenly bursting into song ("I've Got A Theory/Bunnies/If We're Together"). Even the common people are affected ("The Mustard") and the only people happy with the situation are the two lovebirds, Tara and Willow ("Under Your Spell"). But the power of the music forces Xander and Anya to be honest to each other about their fears regarding their upcoming nuptials ("I'll Never Tell") and it does not help Marti Noxon ("The Parking Ticket"). Spike is also brutally honest with Buffy in his song ("Rest in Peace"), while something Dawn leads Tara to discover that she has been under Willow's spell in more than one way.

Dawn is left out of the song ("Dawn's Lament") but not the dance part of the festivities ("Dawn's Ballet") and meets Sweet (guest star Hinton Battle), the demon behind the music ("What You Feel"), who reveals his plans: marry Dawn and let the Slayer dance herself to death. Meanwhile, Giles comes to the conclusion that he is just "Standing" in the way of Buffy growing up and both he and Tara decide the time has come to leave ("Under Your Spell/Standing - Reprise"). So Buffy is sent off to fight Sweet alone, but of course everybody shows up to lend a hand ("Walk Through the Fire"). There they learn the horrible truth, that they did not save Buffy from a hell dimension but instead ripped her from the eternal bliss of heaven ("Something to Sing About"). It is Spike who saves her from the demon and the ending is rather anticlimactic when they discover it was not Dawn who summoned the demon but Xander, worried about his future with Anya. The deal is off ("What You Feel - Reprise") and the gang is left to ask the musical question, "Where Do We Go From Here?"

We all knew Anthony Stewart Head could sing from his acoustic versions of "Green Eyes" and "Freebird" (plus "The Exposition Song"), but Amber Benson certainly does a very nice job with both her big number and the reprise, and you have to give Sarah Michelle Gellar points for giving it her best when you know this is not something she is comfortable doing before the entire world. But then we are back to giving Joss credit for writing songs that played to the vocal strengths (or lack thereof) for his cast (e.g., Willow's "most filler" line in "Walk Through the Fire"). That is why Nicholas Brendon is able to do his retro pastiche that is never going to be breakaway pop hit with Emma Caulfield (I love the sound of the crickets chirping before Anya launches into "Bunnies"). Of course, I am preaching to the people listening to the choir here because fans of the show know they really pulled it off in this episode, which was finished #44 on the "TV Guide" and "TV Land" list of the 100 Most Unexpected TV Moments."

The cover art for this DVD was also used on the videotape sent out by 20th Century Fox/UPN/Mutant Enemy to plug "Once More, With Feeling" for the Emmys (as well as on the CD, the script book, and the poster art for the episode). Of course, the only nomination the episode received was for Outstanding Music Direction (for Jesse Tobias and Christopher Beck). Oh, and "Under Your Spell" was the song they were pushing for Outstanding Music and Lyrics that was passed over. We all thought that once Joss Whedon was nominated for his script of "Hush" the Emmy people had recognized what great work he had been doing in relative obscurity over there on the WB. We figured "The Body" would obviously get a nomination, but that did not happen. Then we though "Once More, With Feeling" was a no-brainer, but, ironically, it turns out we were right and the people who do Emmy nominations do, in point of fact, have no brains.

If you like Karaoke, musicals, and the bizarre .............2005-08-06

this is one for you. Even if you don't know Buffy (and how could you not!) this is a story that has it all, saving the world, heartache, secrets and confessions, hard choices and the team winnning out in the end (well sort of). And if you watch with subtitles (there was always a bit about the bunnies I could never get) you can sing along too. What more could you ask?

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