Iron Man: Armored Adventures-Volume 3 (2008)

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General		Extras
Category	Animation	None
Rating
Year Of Production	2008
Running Time	87:44
RSDL / Flipper	No/No	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Menu
Region Coding	4	Directed By	Philippe Guyenne Stephane Juffé
Studio Distributor	Marvel Madman Entertainment	Starring	None Given
Case	Amaray-Transparent
RPI	$19.95	Music	Guy Michelmore Magalie Bion Fanny Le Floch-Vergnon

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	None	English Dolby Digital 2.0 (224Kb/s) 7.1
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	1.85:1
16x9 Enhancement
Video Format	576i (PAL)
Original Aspect Ratio	1.85:1	Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures	Yes
Subtitles	None	Smoking	No
		Annoying Product Placement	No
		Action In or After Credits	No

    Title of Show : Iron Man : Armored Adventures

    Title of Disc : Volume 3

    Year of Production : 2008

    Country of origin : European Production (France/Isle of Man) in association with Marvel USA

    What's included? :  Episodes 10-13 of the show (assuming you count the double pilot episode as 1). These episodes were first shown in the US in 2009.

    Episode Length : About 22 minutes each. (87:44 in total)

    Details of episodes : 

The following episodes are included:

1. Masquerade
2. Seeing Red
3. Hide and Seek
4. Man and Iron Man

    Style of Production : Animation

    Premise of show : Iron Man : Armored Adventures is a new version of the Iron Man comic books this time with Tony Stark (Iron Man) as a teenager rather than the older character shown in the recent hit movie. It includes the other main characters such as Pepper Potts and Jim 'Rhodey' Rhodes as Stark's friends and his nemesis, the new CEO of his father's company, Obadiah Stone.

    Age Group : 5-12

    Related to any other children's shows? : Previous versions of Iron Man.

    Adult's view : Not a bad show, however, is let down somewhat by the quality of animation involved which is quite simple and lacks in the way of detail and texture. Human movements tend to be somewhat stilted. The style is very similar to the most recent Spiderman animated series. The story lines are also a little confusing at times.

    Child's view : Thomas (6) says: 'It's awesome especially the big robot episode. I like the way the robot grows whenever you hit him with a weapon.' Rory (5) says: 'The big robot part is like so awesome, yeah!'

    Other Releases of this show available? : There are two previous volumes and 1 more on the way.

    Overall : Not the best version of Iron Man ever produced but the kids really enjoy it.

Video

    The video quality is very good.

    The feature is presented in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio 16x9 enhanced which is probably the original aspect ratio.

    The picture was clear and sharp throughout, with no evidence of low level noise.

    The colour was very good with deep blacks and bright reds.

    There were no noticeable artefacts.

    There are no subtitles.

    There is no layer change.

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Audio

    The audio quality is good.

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

    Dialogue was a little quiet but clear and easy to understand and there was no problem with audio sync.

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

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Menu

    The menu was still but had music. It allowed for episode selection only.

Trailers

    Other Madman released children's shows.

     The Region 1 versions of this series seem to contain more episodes than our local ones, however, these episodes have not yet been released. At the moment, at least, this local release is the best available.This series is also available on Blu-ray in the US.

    The video quality is very good.

    The audio quality is good.

    Only trailers in the extras department.

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