|
| 
| Director: Jérôme Mouscadet
Actors: Géraldine Frippiat, Virtual Jimmy, Raphaëlle Lubansu, Jodie Forrest, Matthew Géczy
Studio: Funimation Prod
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
Buy New: $11.51
You Save: $8.47 (42%)
New (26) Used (9) from $7.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 11586
Format: Animated, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: Unrated
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 600
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: 5742
UPC: 704400057427
EAN: 0704400057427
ASIN: B000FQISSU
Theatrical Release Date: April 26, 2004
Release Date: September 12, 2006
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW, Factory Sealed items direct from the Studios. 30 Day Satisfaction Guarantee. Quick International Airmail!
|
| Customer Reviews:
 Wow! September 16, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I had no idea so many of this show's fans were adults. Now I don't feel so silly for watching it! Woohoo!
The premise of Code Lyoko is fairly simple. Lyoko is a "virtual world" that exists inside a computer; while the scenes that take place in the real world are animated traditionally, the battle scenes on Lyoko are animated using CGI. The computer also houses XANA, an evil entity that wants to take over the world, which he attempts to do using control towers on Lyoko that allow him to act outside the computer, for instance, by seizing control of government weapons sattelites. The Lyoko team, a group of young teens who attend the boarding school near the abandoned factory that houses the supercomputer, are the only humans who know of its existence, and they have to find a way to defeat XANA while maintaining their dual lives as ordinary junior high school kids.
The show has its flaws, of course; I don't think there's any such thing as a "perfect" TV show, movie, or anything else. For instance, it becomes obvious fairly quickly that the animators often just reuse bits from previous episodes, which creates the occasional continuity error. It should also be noted that the English dub occasionally flatly ignores the show's French origins; for example, the characters refer to dollars rather than Euros, and even worse, at one point a character mentions the school having begun a "language exchange program"--no idea what that is--with France, despite the fact that they already live there. (In fact, one episode even reveals the school's location via satellite image. Hard to ignore that...) These are pretty few and far between, though, and therefore only of consequence to dweebs like me that notice everything.
That being said, Code Lyoko is still pretty darn entertaining, full of humor, action, and even romance. Plus, there's virtually nothing that's even remotely obscene or offensive about this show, which makes it perfect for family viewing. (Hey, kids watch Code Lyoko too! Surprise surprise!) There's also a clear message of cooperation and trust that binds the series together; the series is set at a boarding school, with students who come from literally every corner of the globe, but the culture of the school is such that the racial and societal differences between them are hardly given a second thought, and occasionally even the main cast's bitter rivals will step in to lend a hand.
The only real flaw as far as the show itself, especially in the first season, is that it relies a little too heavily on the "deus ex machina" conceit; any problems that the kids or XANA cause can easily be deleted by travelling back in time. Also, certain plot holes tend to go unexplained, such as why the abandoned factory was never torn down. (In fairness, though, the time-travel concept was largely disposed of in later seasons, maybe because the creators realized that their audience was a little more savvy than they'd anticipated.)
Unfortunately, the most glaring flaw with this DVD set is the DVD set itself. The episodes are thrown together in random order--not a problem for most of the season, but the last few episodes follow a definite arc that's incompatible with out-of-order viewing--and there are far too few extras. The only audio track, for instance, is the English dub; since this set is sold in Canada as well, I would have thought that including the original French language track would have been an obvious choice, but apparently I'd be wrong. The saving grace, in fact, is the price tag, far lower than what you'd expect to pay for a full season of just about any other show.
All in all, I wish there were a better place to start if you're new to Code Lyoko; but to be honest, it could be a lot worse. Of course, I should warn the new viewer that Funimation seems to be taking its time releasing Season 2, if indeed it ever will at all--the second volume of season 2 isn't even mentioned on the Funimation Web site anymore--so you may want to think twice about getting involved if you haven't been keeping up with the TV broadcast.
 THIS SHOW ROCKS! September 1, 2007
My title says it all. This is a show that everyone can enjoy, and I don't just mean kids. the story rocks and the animation (traditional animation and computer graphics both) is incredible. I do not see how anyone could not enjoy this.
Very good show August 4, 2007
Code lyoko is an interesting show, and although they don't quite get the voices right in season 1, in the most recent episodes the voices are lip-synced and really match the characters well. In code lyoko the 5 main characters; Jeremy, Ulrich, Odd, Yumi, and a later entering character who starts out as more of a sub-character Aleita. The 4 kids, not including Aleita for now, stumble upon the supercomputer that contains lyoko, but in this supercomputer's AI program a virus called ZANA has begun to dominate. Zana is a AI program, but his impressive insight into basic human emotions such as jelousy, and hate, make for real trouble, but his "attacks" on earth are usually more basic towards the start. Zana is able to control electronic devices and make "ghosts", which to the best of my knoweldge are eletromagnetic manefestations of his own mal-intent, these ghosts can take over people, but this doesn't start happening until later. The 4 characters first find this super computer, along with scanners enabling the 4 kids to virtualize into Lyoko, inside an abandoned factory near their bording school. Inside the computer a digital "paradise" callde LYOKO exists. Within Lyoko there are 4 main towers, and numorus towers that zana temporarily creates. These towers allow Zana to link to the real world. He gaurds these towers with monsters, and the 5 characters have to fight against these monesters. Lyoko is a rather pretty place, in the show the characters are rendered in a sort of 3D computer-animated hybrid, and are geared with weapons to fight the monsters that Zana creates (if they take to many hits they devirtualize, and end up back in the strange factory). In Lyoko there are five sectors; the mountain sector, the forest sector, the arctic sector, the desert sector, and Zana's home base sector 5, or Carthage. If the characters fall of of the land area of these sectors they will end up in the "Digital Sea" and dezirtualize permanatly and will not return to earth. Zana constantly faces them with new problems and challanges while they try to virtualize Alita who is trapped on Lyoko. Overall a good show i rated 4 out of 5 because the episodes are out of order, and this 1st season does not include the first episode.
 Good Show, Poor Release June 12, 2007
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Episodes are out of order, there are no language or subtitle options.
If you must have everything Code Lyoko, go ahead. If you are a casual fan or insist on perfection, don't bother.
Lyoko S 1 May 29, 2007
Best Show in the workd just need to come out with season 2, & 3 to buy
|
|
|
Web Hosting & Domain Registration | |
