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Buffy The Vampire Slayer - The Complete DVD Collection | 
| Artists: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Joss Whedon
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Anthony Stewart Head, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan, Charisma Carpenter
Studio: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
List Price: £179.99
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Rating:  125 reviews
Format: PAL
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Region: 2
Number Of Discs: 39
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 7.6 x 5.4
EAN: 5039036036375
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Amazon.co.uk Review
From its charming and angst-ridden first season to the darker, apocalyptic final one, Buffy the Vampire Slayer succeeds on many levels, and in a fresher and more authentic way than the shows that came before or after it. How lucky, then, that with the release of its box set of seasons 1-7, you can have the estimable pleasure of watching a near-decade of Buffy in any order you choose. (And we have some ideas about how that should be done.) First: rest assured that there's no shame in coming to Buffy late, even if you initially turned your nose up at the winsome Sarah Michelle Gellar kicking the hell out of vampires (in Buffy-lingo, vamps), demons, and other evil-doers. Perhaps you did so because, well, it looked sort of science-fiction-like with all that monster latex. Start with season 3 and see that Buffy offers something for everyone, and the sooner you succumb to it, the quicker you'll appreciate how textured and riveting a drama it is. Why season 3? Because it offers you a winning cast of characters who have fallen from innocence: their hearts have been broken, their egos trampled in typically vicious high-school style, and as a result, they've begun to realize how fallible they are. As much as they try, there are always more monsters, or a bigger evil. Despite this, or perhaps because of it, the core crew remains something of a unit--there's the smart girl, Willow (Alyson Hannigan) who dreams of saving the day by downloading the plans to City Hall's sewer tunnels and mapping a route to safety. There are the ne'r do wells--the vampire Spike (James Marsters), who both clashes with and aspires to love Buffy; the tortured and torturing Angel (David Boreanz); the pretty, popular girl with an empty heart (Charisma Carpenter); and the teenage everyman, Xander (Nicholas Brendon). Then there's Buffy herself, who in the course of seven seasons morphs from a sarcastic teenager in a minidress to a heroine whose tragic flaw is an abiding desire to be a "normal" girl. On a lesser note, with the box set you can watch the fashion transformation of Buffy from mall rat to Prada-wearing, kickboxing diva with enviable highlights. (There was the unfortunate bob of season 2, but it's a forgivable lapse.) At least the storyline merits the transformations: every time Buffy has to end a relationship she cuts her hair, shedding both the pain and her vulnerability. In addition to the well-wrought teenage emotional landscape, Buffy deftly takes on more universal themes--power, politics, death, morality--as the series matures in seasons 4-6. And apart from a few missteps that haven't aged particularly well ("I Robot" in season 1 comes to mind), most episodes feel as harrowing and as richly drawn as they did at first viewing. That's about as much as you can ask for any form of entertainment: that it offer an escape from the viewer's workaday world and entry into one in which the heroine (ideally one with leather pants) overcomes demons far more troubling than one's own. --Megan Halverson
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 Almost perfect... July 22, 2010
Maddie
It's everything you expect - 7 brilliant seasons of Buffy action.
Like other reviewers though, my set is missing every single episode listing insert.... So 7 seasons of rather clunky DVD operation to get through with no episode guide...
 Brilliant July 8, 2010
D. Lawton (Midlands, UK)
I am currently watching season 5 after having to watch a disc of buffy and the a disc of angel since the beginning of season 4! I brought this boxset in January as a post christmas treat and it has been as brilliant this time as the other 10 times I have watched the series! I have been an avid fan since season 2 aired originally (giving away my age somewhat)and it still makes me laugh (especially Spike), cry - see The Body season 5!!! and watch till 3 in the morning.
My favourite episode is still the buffy and angel 'I will remember' Season 1 of angel but only because the story was so well written in the 1st 3 seasons of buffy.
If you haven't watched it - I so envy you getting the pleasure and the gripping page turning effect of Whedon's writing.
If you haven't brought it yet - why not? And if you have, why are you reading this review and not watching yet another sharp, witty, poignant and downright addictive episode!
As my title suggests - I find this boxset brilliant.
 Missing Insert May 23, 2010
Ms. A. S. Cardew (Salisbury England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolutely love Buffy, however this set arrived with the episode guide insert for season 2 missing. When I asked for this to be replaced they could only send a whole extra box set which turned out to have season 2 AND 5 guides missing. I then had to arrange to send this back and have never recieved the missing insert.
Fangtastic Fun! May 15, 2010
L. Gameson (UK)
Buffy was a big favourite of mine for years when I was a teenager, and I remember Friday nights being the highlight of my week when a new season had begun. I recently bought this box set to keep me company when I was on nights and I'm so glad I did. The series is fantastically well written and is peopled with varied, colourful characters. Don't miss this TV series.
Buffey watcher April 13, 2010
Mr. D. J. Gibson (UK)
This box set is a must for all the Buffey fans out there. To go right back to series 1 when the whole programme had a lighter feel to it with lots of humour right through to the darkness of willow losing her 'mate' and the sadness throughout the series. It bacame darker as it went on and the finale was not to be missed. Such a series deserves to be seen again and by having this box set it can be done when you want to watch it.
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