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List Price: $49.98 | | Label: Universal Studios
Salesrank: 7831
Released: April 12, 2005 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 04/12/2005 Run time: 1108 minutes Rating: Nr
Description of The A-Team - Season Two:
If ridiculous banter, goofball plots, and many, many, many explosions sounds like the recipe for a perfect TV show to you--you must already be a fan of The A-Team. Each of these Vietnam vets on the lam had his specialty: Hannibal (cigar-chomping George Peppard, a long way from Breakfast at Tiffany's) is the cocksure master planner; Faceman (Dirk Benedict of the original Battlestar Galactica) is the smooth-talking con artist; the pilot with a screw loose is Murdock (Dwight Schultz, later to appear on Star Trek: Voyager); and B.A. Baracus (the charismatic and gold-encrusted Mr. T, Rocky III) is both mechanic and muscle. During the series' five year run, each of these eccentrics cultivated their own rabid fan-base as they threw punches, fired thousand of bullets, tossed hand grenades to and fro, and flipped speeding cars--all without killing or even really hurting anyone, which only adds to the show's willful silliness. (A warning for fans of reporter/sidekick Amy Allen, played by Melinda Culea: After being given nothing to do for a dozen or so testosterone-heavy episodes of the second season, Culea either quit or was fired.)
Only during the 1980s could this peculiar blend of lefty politics and military fetishism have thrived. Though supposedly mercenaries-for-hire, the A-Team usually finds itself defending the downtrodden and helpless out of sheer cussedness. In the second season they helped abused migrant workers form a union--which, naturally, required transmogrifying farm equipment into a cabbage-shooting cannon. Other underdogs included the disenfranchised heir to an African diamond mine; an independent cab company being squeezed by big business; and a pacifist commune harassed by bigots. The last of these prompted Hannibal to muse ponderously on the unappreciated role of the soldier, who fights so others don't have to--after which Murdock and B.A. began punching each other over a bag of pecans. Self-aware and self-mocking, The A-Team pushed the TV action/adventure genre to laughable extremes. --Bret Fetzer
The A-Team--Season Two Trivia
• In this season, Amy is no longer part of the A-Team. There's no explanation as to why.
• One episode this season sees the title sequence featuring the Cylon from Battlestar Galatica (as well being in this episode) for the first time. This is an in-joke, as Dirk Benedict played Starbuck in that series.
The A-Team - Season Two Reviews:
Season 2 is good, but fair in Season 3, 4, and 5!! 
2009-10-19 - Season 2 is great!!! I like the episode of Diamonds N'Dust where Griffins are held. I like they put the gun on the cover of bread dough. This episode called Heavy Recipe for Bread. Season two is the best!!!! :)
Great series, GARBAGE dvd's...typical Universal trash! 
2009-09-28 - For the umpteenth time I got double-sided Universal piece-uh-crud DVD's and had to ask Amazon for replacements. Guess what? The replacements won't show either! They skip, freeze, have distortion running down the screen, and are truly unwatchable. How in the name of all that is holy did these suckers ever get through quality control? Does Universal HAVE quality control? Why such cheapskates anyway? Pure junk...shame on you, Universal! I watched the first season without a glitch...they were normal DVD's not this junk...
dual discs skip and lock up - unwatchable
2009-08-08 - Discs will lock up for no reason, cannot fast forward over, it just locks and will no proceed any further. Must use the scene index, which contains only 4 scenes to skip over, thus only watch 1/2 of each episode is watchable. Discs also jump into fast forward for no reason and picture fragments into squares also for no reason. Happens on every DVD player I use, and only on these dual discs. Very disappointing and of course Universal has a no refund policy. Are these available on VHS or did Universal screw those up too?
A Team Season Two Faulty Disk
2009-02-11 - I've only tried to watch one of the disks so far and it is a major disappointment. Of the four or so episodes on that disk, only one plays correctly. The other episodes freeze on the screen, the pixels and sound screw up, and the disk skips to the middle of the next episode. (Or sometimes it just starts itself over--where it again freezes on the screen and/or the pixels and sound mess up again).
I'm very disappointed with the quality and based on this experience, cannot recommend this set.
A-team season two
2009-01-19 - I would like to recommend this service, they were extremly fast, and just as advertised.
