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Pucca: Kung Fu Kisses
R0 - America - Shout! Factory Review written by and copyright: James Teitelbaum (15th June 2008). |
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The Show
 This is a second volume of "Pucca" cartoons that is functionally identical to another "Pucca" volume ("Pucca: Ninjas Love Noodles") released at the same time. Thirteen more cartoons are on this disc for your viewing pleasure. If you liked "Ninjas Love Noodles", you'll like this one too. For my thoughts on the "Pucca" series, please see my "Ninjas Love Noodles" review here. This set includes 13 episodes, they are: - "Dance Pucca Dance" - "Scenes From a Maul" - "Dream On" - "A Better Boyfriend" - "The Ring Ring Touch" - "Matinee Mayhem" - "Slam Bam Birthday Bash" - "Rootin’ Tootin’ Ninjas" - "Evil Love" - "Soap Opera" - "Prince Not So Charming" - "A Leg Up" - "Little Miss Sooga"
Video
"Pucca" is presented in their original television aspect ratio of 1.33:1 (4:3). The disc has thirteen episodes of about 7 minutes 30 seconds in length. The animation on "Pucca" is simple but effective, getting the point of the gags across with economy. The images are colorful and vibrant. The transfer to DVD is fine, there are no obvious anomalies present at all, save for an occasional slight jaggie effect on round shapes.
Audio
"Pucca" is presented in either English or Spanish Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo. No subtitles are provided. The character voices come across strongly, but plentiful cartoon sound effects and a musical score that is fun and effective without calling attention to itself are also fairly high in the mix (particularly whenever Garu's rockin' theme song kicks in). Too bad this one isn't in 5.1, it might be interesting in that format.
Extras
The only extras at all on the disc is a link to a web video game and the DVD also comes packaged with a "Pucca" sticker. The disc contains bonus trailers which are only accessible when you pop the DVD into the player (the trailers cannot be accessed from the main menu). They are for: - "Oban" which runs for 1 minute 5 seconds. - "Medabots" which runs for 1 minute 2 seconds.
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