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List Price: $44.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 129
Released: September 11, 2007 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
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Editorial Review:
Charlie Harper is a bachelor in paradise, complete with Malibu beach house, overpaid job and a very active dating life. Then his uptight brother Alan, in the throes of a divorce, moves in - and brings his 10-year-old son Jake with him. Sorry, Charlie. It looks like paradise lost. This 4-disc set includes all 24 Season-One Episodes of the breezy comedy - the People's Choice Award winner as Favorite New Series - starring Charlie Sheen as Charlie and Jon Cryer as Alan. As the brothers reestablish a sense of family, Charlie also bonds with Jake (Angus T. Jones). Holland Taylor is the guys' domineering mother, Marin Hinkle is Alan's icy ex and Melanie Lynskey is Rose, who thinks one date with Charlie means life-long commitment. Meet the Harper men - two adults, one kid and no grown-ups.
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Description of Two and a Half Men: The Complete First Season:
Hedonistic bachelor Charlie (Charlie Sheen) is a jingles writer who, he blithely states, makes a lot of money for doing very little work, sleeps with beautiful women who don't ask about his feelings, drives a Jag and lives at the beach, and sometimes, in the middle of the day, for no reason at all, likes to make himself a big pitcher of margaritas and take a nap out on the sundeck. His brother, Alan (Jon Cryer), evicted from his house by his soon-to-be-ex-wife, is "rigid, inflexible, uptight, obsessive and anal-retentive." Charlie and Alan are "twisted Jungian archetypes," according to series co-creator Chuck Lorre in one of this set's bonus features. If by "twisted Jungian archetypes," he means Oscar and Felix from The Odd Couple, then yes, Charlie and Alan are "twisted Jungian archetypes," and this inaugural season finds rich comic tension in their period of adjustment. Charlie is a Man Behaving Badly, whose idyllic life is upended when "fuddy-duddy" Alan moves in, accompanied by his impressionable 10-year-old son, Jake (Angus T. Jones), with whom he shares custody with his iceberg-cold, sexually confused (a comic conceit thankfully abandoned by season's end) estranged wife, Judith (Marin Hinkle). Alan is a single father who is appalled by his amoral brother's lifestyle and by the influence Charlie might have on Jake ("Uncle Charlie, I understand the point spread, but I'm still confused about the vig"). And then there's Berta (effortless scene-stealer Conchata Ferrell), Charlie's formidable, tart-tongued housekeeper who is initially driven out the door by Alan's fussiness ("The peanut butter stains on Jake's shirts really require an enzyme presoak").
Two and a Half Men is a guy show that sets feminism back a good three decades. Women are portrayed as either bimbonic objects of lust (Transformers' Megan Fox guest stars as Berta's teenage granddaughter), vengeful and retaliative (Heather Locklear as Alan's divorce lawyer), crazy hot (Jenna Elfman as an unstable single mother on the run), or emasculating (Holland Taylor as Charlie and Alan's mother, or, as Charlie refers to her, "Mom, the Impaler"). The charming Melanie Lynskey's is a particularly thankless role, that of Rose, Charlie's "insightful and disturbing" stalker, who becomes Jake's babysitter. While Charlie's "bad-boy act" could quickly get old in lesser hands, Sheen, in the past not the most natural of comic actors, is in his element. Charlie's genuine affection for Jake goes a long way toward redeeming his character (and lack of it). Two and a Half Men, a People's Choice Award-winner its first season, really adds up with a crudely funny sense of humor that is all kinds of wrong, but also smart and, at times, even sweet. --Donald Liebenson
Two and a Half Men: The Complete First Season Reviews:
Chuck Lorre was warming up 
2009-12-02 - Co-creator Chuck Lorre has been involved in several good sit-coms, a television form that we can see degenerating before our very eyes as producers found out that people would just as happily watch a television show that consists of a collection of nobodies with no discernible talent being followed by a camera.
If that sounds like an editorial comment aimed at bashing reality television - you are correct, and my advise is to make your OWN lives interesting enough that you're not tempted to watch a television show that consists of the exploits of real people less interesting than YOU!
But I digress. I enjoyed Lorre's previous shows: Roseanne, Grace under Fire, Dharma and Greg, but it wasn't until I became addicted to the genius "Big Bang Theory" that I decided to go back and check out "Two and a Half Men."
I see "Men" described as a modern version of "The Odd Couple", and there are similarities as both shows featured a fastidious man who is kicked out by his wife, then moves in with a slob. "Men" stars Charlie Sheen as older Casanova Charlie Harper. Charlie is a jingle-writer and has made enough money to live in a Malibu beach-house where he avoids work and responsibility and beds as many bimbos as possible. Jon Cryer plays brother Alan, a chiropractor who has an inferiority complex about essentially everything. Alan's son Jake is played by Angus T. Jones and provides the writers an opportunity to exploit the ways that young Jake may be influenced by Charlie's degenerate lifestyle.
Melanie Lynskey steals her scenes as Rose, a neighbor who has been stalking Charlie ever since a one-night stand. Holland Taylor plays the brother's shallow, self-centered mother Evelyn and Marin Hinkle plays Judith, the cold-hearted wife who booted Alan. Conchata Ferrell is another scene-stealer as Berta, Charlie's no-nonsense housekeeper. Berta sees people for what they are, and as the show is populated with one character flaw after another, Berta has ample opportunity to unleash her sarcasm with maximum comedic effect.
I withhold my highest recommendation because the characters are shallow and one-dimensional. Charlie is perpetually irresponsible and completely lacking respect for any woman while he is more than willing to engage any dim-witted beauty in a sexual encounter. Alan is perpetually downtrodden and lacking respect from himself or others. The other characters are even more "one-note".
I find "The Big Band Theory" better than any comedy on television today. I find "Two and a Half Men" better than any of those shows where a camera follows people I don't know.
funniest show ever 
2009-11-25 - two and a half men season 1 is so funny you will roll on the floor with laughter.not a single bad episode on the set
Two and a half Men
2009-11-14 - A friend of mine turned me on to Two-and-a-Half Men about a year ago and I watch the reruns every evening. Jon Cryer and Charlie Sheen play off each other so well and Angus T. is unreal for a kid. He has such comic timing. There aren't many series which I purchase the whole series, but this one I will. Excellent!
Too funny!!!!
2009-09-28 - This show is the best - the Complete First Season had so many wonderful laughs. We are looking forward to the coming seasons - we are sure they will just as good as this season was. We enjoy having the shows available to watch anytime we choose so owning this complete season was a must to us.
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2009-09-01 - Two and a Half Men - The Complete First Season
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