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List Price: $29.98 | | Label: Turner Home Ent
Salesrank: 5340
Released: October 7, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Movie DVD
Description of Robot Chicken: Season Three:
"Well, all the jokes can't be good, you have to expect that once in awhile," Groucho Marx apologized to the camera in Animal Crackers. Though some of the gags in Robot Chicken's third season lay an egg, creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich have nothing to apologize for, except maybe the moment in the "Half-Assed Christmas Special," in which Charlie Brown asks Snoopy, "Have you seen Linus? He was supposed to walk me to chemo." With its barrage of sight gags and pop culture mash-ups (Rankin/Bass's Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer meets Godfather II when elf Hermey, the aspiring dentist, winds up like Fredo), this ceaselessly-inventive Emmy Award-winning stop-motion animated series is the fastest 10 minutes (without commercials) on television. There is something here to befuddle (if not offend) everyone. Children of the '80s might be unfamiliar with Mister Magoo, just as Baby Boomers may not be acquainted with She-Ra. Still, you don't need to have seen Forrest Gump to be tickled by the sight gag that takes "run, forest, run," literally. For all the sophomoric humor (yes, there will be fart jokes and geysers of plasticine blood), there are transcendent bits of brilliance, such as when Ted Kennedy and porn star Jenna Jameson team up to slay celebrities (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Paris Hilton) who have intruded into politics or porn, a goof on If You Give a Mouse a Cookie which somehow descends into vampirism and Earth's destruction, and the Kanye West moment when a Smurf complains, "The king doesn't care about blue people" after a Katrina-like disaster devastates the Smurfs' domain. Robot Chicken continues to attract A-listers who get it, including Ethan Hawke, who reprises his Training Day character as the voice of a rookie monster riding with Godzilla. As befits a series that rewards geek-like obsession, this two-disc set features immersive extras--lively audio commentaries for each episode, video blogs of writer pitches, deleted scenes--that reveal just what makes this Robot tick. --Donald Liebenson
Robot Chicken: Season Three Reviews:
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GETTING 
2009-10-02 - If you like Robot Chicken, then you will buy this and nothing I write here is going to change your mind. This is NOT for young kids in case anyone is unfamiliar with the series as there are be profanity and crude situations featured.
Best season 
2009-09-26 - I really enjoyed this season of robot chicken, my favorite episode is bionic cow when sylar steals a magic trick off an old guy and ends up with explosive diarrhea. I also love the opening of the zombies dancing to thriller and fraggle rock finding a new home. I think unlike family guy robot chicken has either stayed on par or progressed.
No need to say anything.
2009-08-19 - If you have seen my reviews on the past two seasons then you really don't need to read this. If you want to see you all your favorite toys and nostalgic posessions make fun of current events pop culture and hump one another. First buy the first two seasons watch, love and laugh and pick up season 3. It only gets better with season 3. Oh yes, the famous question 'where do I go from here?' need not apply with Robot Chicken.
badly written 
2009-07-19 - This show must have hard core fans no matter what the material is. If you enjoyed the past two seasons you will probably like this one as well depending on your ability to decepher art from trash. The first couple episodes started out bad I notice they recycled everything from the first two seasons to this one, same shows and commericials to make fun of. The Ted kennedy/jenna jammeson skit was one of the dumbest. The writers had no original material so they made it up with excessive cursing, violence, and gut wrenching vulgar scenes that were not even funny. Hopefully the next season will have well written material and not just recycled trash.
Still hillarious
2009-07-10 - Robot Chicken has always been amazingly funny to me, the skits have always been witty and clever with enough nostalgia from toys of my past to make this a great series.
Season 3 is really more of the same, the same voices, the same amusing little sketches. Einstein in marriage counseling - "You know what the smartest thing to ever come out of your mouth? Mien doodle!" - Pure genius.
If you haven't been a fan of the first 2 seasons or you have only been a casual fan this season is really nothing that you haven't seen a million times.
