Ben 10-Complete Season 3 (2006)

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General		Extras
Category	Animation	Main Menu Audio & Animation Deleted Scenes Gallery Featurette Trailer
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Year Of Production	2006
Running Time	286:59 (Case: 299)
RSDL / Flipper	Dual Layered Dual Disc Set	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Ads Then Menu
Region Coding	4	Directed By	Man of Action
Studio Distributor	Cartoon Network Madman Entertainment	Starring	None Given
Case	Amaray-Transparent-Dual
RPI	$24.95	Music	Andy Sturmer Kris Zimmerman Dusty Abell

Title of Show : Ben10

Title of Disc : The Complete Ben10 Season 3

Year of Production : 2007

Country of origin : USA

What's included? : All 13 episodes of the Third Season.

Episode Length : About 22 minutes each.

Details of episodes :

This 2 DVD set contains close enough to 300 minutes of Ben10. The first disc contains 7 episodes, the second 6. The following episodes are included:

1. Midnight Madness
2. Ben 10,000
3. A Change of Face
4. Merry Christmas
5. Benwolf
6. Game Over
7. Monster Weather
8. Super Alien Hero Buddy Adventure
9. Under Wraps
10. The Unnaturals
11. The Return
12. Be Afraid of the Dark
13. The Visitor

Style of Production : Animation

Premise of show : Ben10 is a Cartoon Network production which is designed for primary school aged children. The basic story is that a young boy called Ben Tennyson found an alien watch called the Omnitrix which allows him to transform into 10 different aliens. He uses this power to fight aliens and other threats while travelling around with his Grandfather Max (an ex-alien hunter himself) and his cousin Gwen in a campervan. In each episode Ben fights a new enemy using one or more of the aliens at his command. Unfortunately, he does not seem to have full control over the watch at sometimes he gets something different to what he was expecting. Also, he can only transform into an alien for a limited amount of time before he goes back to being a boy. Both of these problems tend to land him in hot water, but he can always save the day in the end. The ten aliens are each very different with different strengths and weaknesses. During this season he finds some new aliens including the charming Upchuck.

Age Group : 5-12

Related to any other children's shows? : Seems to be very similar in concept to an older show called Dial H for Hero.

Adult's view : A decent show for young boys with a lot of excitement, some suspense, some mild scares and interesting and exciting characters.

Child's view : All the rage at my 5 year old son's school. He came home soon after starting this year talking endlessly about Ben10 without ever having actually seen it. He loves the different aliens and wants to know all about each one. In this season he is especially fond of the episode when Ben & Gwen get sucked into a video game, Game Over.

Other Releases of this show available? : Four seasons have been released (or are about to be released) along with a feature length movie Ben10 : Secret of the Omnitrix.

Overall : Good value collection with nearly 300 minutes of episodes plus extras.

Video

The video quality is good.

The feature is presented in a 1.33:1 aspect ratio non 16x9 enhanced which is probably the original aspect ratio.

The picture was quite clear and sharp throughout without being crisp and with no evidence of low level noise.

The colour was quite good but not overly vibrant.

Artefacts included some minor aliasing and jagged edges along with some interlacing artefacts during fast movement.

There are subtitles in English. They are yellow and easy to read.

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Audio

The audio quality is very good.

This DVD contains an English Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo soundtrack encoded at 224 Kb/s.

Dialogue was clear and easy to understand and there was no problem with audio sync.

The surround speakers were used for atmosphere and music and the subwoofer added bass to music and effects.

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Menu

The menus include an intro and music along with some minor motion.

Disc 1

Trailers

Other Cartoon Network shows.

Deleted Scenes (0:53,0:35,0:18)

Three extra scenes from Merry Christmas & Game Over are included but don't add much.

Disc 2

Character Gallery (1:04)

Pre-visualisation drawings of the various characters in the season.

Promos (1:36)

American kids talking about the show followed by an ad.

The Region 1 version is the same except for PAL/NTSC differences and some extra language and subtitle options.

The video quality is good.

The audio quality is very good.

A small set of pretty useless extras are included.

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