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Lexx: Season One (4-DVD Pack)
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Average rating: 4.5 of 5
Lexx Season 1: The Original 4 Movies 5 out of 5 stars.
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This is not a TV season, but the 4 movies before it became a TV series. Season 2 is the first TV show season.
For fans of the show, this is a must get. It goes over the origin of the Lexx and all it's crew. These 4 movies were not available in the US on DVD until now. They were on VHS here, and Canada has had them on DVD and it is region 1 so you could have found a way to get them.
Lexx is my favorite sci-fi series as it does not follow the formula of sci-fi shows before it (or since for that matter). You can easily get invested in these characters and their adventures.
The Four episodes/movies:
1. I Worship His Shadow Lexx Series One "1.0: I Worship His Shadow" - Things get started and you get a good idea of the characters and how things don't go the way you as a viewer expect them to go.
2. Supernova Lexx Series One (Episode 2.0 - "Super Nova") - They find a planet inhabited by Tim Curry, oddness ensues.
3. Eating Pattern Lexx Series One - Episode Three of Four - 3.0 : Eating Pattern - Did I mention this was an odd series? Rutger Hauer is in this installment where the Lexx has to land because it, the ship, is hungry.
4. Giga Shadow Lexx Series One - 4.0 : Giga Shadow - Malcolm McDowell is in this final movie/episode of season 1 where the fate of the two galaxies is in danger.
Again, this is a must for fans. If you want a different sort of sci-fi, then this series is worth giving an honest chance. The production and pace gets better in the TV seasons, but this is a good start for newbies so that they can get the background on these characters, even if it is not the best example of the series.
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Studio: Platinum Disc Llc Release Date: 10/07/2008
Lexx - The Complete Third Series
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Lexx's third year had a predetermined 13 episode run, and in a new direction there's also a predetermined continual storyline. This is teasingly set-up by "Fire and Water"--the names of a binary planet system. The Lexx is stuck in orbit around 4,000 years after the "End of the Universe." We're introduced to the mysterious Prince (Nigel Bennet) who rules the planet Fire, 790 experiences a shift of devotion, and Xev gets a new hairdo. All threads are expanded by "May" (Anna Kathrin Bleuler) who's found on planet Water. All too suddenly, Xev's in love with Prince and Stanley with May. The crew are torn every which way. Even more so when a fleet of new Moths land Kai in "Gametown", where the show's most gratuitous nudity yet reassures fans that this third year will be as dangerous and dirty as it's always been.Ralph (Withnail & I) Brown's character Duke suddenly comes to the fore in "Boomtown." These towns teach us more and more about the lifestyles on the two planets, and since this one is essentially a nonstop orgy Stan decides Water is the planet for him! (If the nudity seemed gratuitous in "Gametown", that's nothing in comparison.) Ending on a shock appearance by Kai (no spoilers here), a balloon chase leads straight into "Gondola." Lost among the schizophrenic denizens of "K-Town," Stan and Xev are eventually found by the dead assassin whose biomechanical systems are malfunctioning. It takes a shock reappearance of season 2's Universe-destroying Mantrid to make sense of his groin-located repair mechanism. Subsequently split up, Kai suffers the red tape of petty bureaucracy in Hog Town while Stan and Xev descend 39,000 steps to the planet's "Tunnels." Stan bumps into show writer Lex Gigeroff cameoing as insane surgeon Doctor Rainbow, and escape is determined by another death and resurrection from the enigmatic Prince.
Stan has been endlessly teased by Xev. They got it together (in a manner of speaking) in "Love Grows," but here at last they experience the "ultimate in sexual satisfaction." Don't they? "The Key" metaphorically stands for a number of things in this ship-bound episode, which furthers the season's mystery considerably. And as if the sexual tension wasn't high enough already, the lifestyle offered Stan on the Water planet's "Garden" is all too tempting. The biggest lure is the return of beautiful plant gal Lyekka. Following straight on from that cliffhanger ending, "Battle" becomes a game of strategic cat and mouse aboard squadrons of hot air balloons. This season's budget helps return the look of the show to its stunning beginnings, and in this episode there are some of the best-conceived effects shots from the entire run. By now it's obvious that each community on the planet Fire is a thinly veiled satire on an aspect of modern society. A splendidly theatrical cameo from Ellen Dubin as Queen allows the viewer to question feminism, bureaucracy, and why the hell Giggerota has been reincarnated to taunt poor Stan.
At last all questions are answered in what might as well be a two-part finale. "The Beach" would for any other series be considered the clips show: on an idyllic yet purgatorial stretch of sand, Stan is forced to account for his life by viewing events of the past. Judged by his harshest critic--himself--he then suffers all that Prince has promised and more as the true meaning of "Heaven and Hell" is revealed. Creator Paul Donovan clearly maintained a strong hand in every aspect of this season, but in directing his own work with these last two episodes we witness a genuinely rare example of personal vision. The narrative has been consistently surprising, but the twist left for last is literally breathtaking. TV sci-fi has never been so sexy and intelligent at the same time. --Paul Tonks
Lexx - Series 2, Vol. 1
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Average rating: 4.5 of 5
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A crew of misfit outlaws wanders the galaxy in a living ship. Sound familiar? Doomed to live in the shadow of cable TV's science fiction class act Farscape, the Canadian-German coproduction Lexx takes a completely different trajectory as a tongue-in-cheek, sci-fi sex farce. Sad sack pilot Stanley Tweedle, coquettish love slave Xev, reanimated corpse Kai, and lovesick robot head 790 wander the galaxy looking for food, people, and (most importantly) a little nookie. Shot on the cheap with loads of flashy (if often unconvincing) digital effects and a rather claustrophobic series of studio-bound sets, the show launched with a quartet of TV movies before settling into a weekly series with its second season. Mantrid launches the Lexx into a funhouse galaxy of wacky worlds, where the dreaded insect king awakes and begins his bizarre reign of terror. Terminal takes them to a mercenary deep space hospital where the doctors' specialty is saving the patient's money and discarding the useless body. The hilarious Lyekka guest stars Stephen McHattie as a drawling, hick astronaut and introduces the pixielike Lyekka, a curvy little plant girl with an insatiable appetite for human flesh (bye-bye astronauts), but most importantly it replaces platinum blonde Eva Haberman with the impishly flirtatious, full-lipped redhead Xenia Seeberg, the show's instant cult pinup queen. Just so its audience wouldn't get the wrong idea, Luvliner drops the crew into a dilapidated deep space cathouse.Each DVD features a different 10-minute, behind-the-scenes featurette, short cast and creator interviews, and a chapter of Rated LEXX, a TV special created for the Sci Fi Channel to introduce the characters and recap the origins. --Sean Axmaker
Lexx - The Fourth Series, Part 1 (Vols. 1-3)
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Average rating: 4.5 of 5
All good things must come to an end... 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 15 people found this review helpful.
I will put this in the most intellectual way as possible...It be good!!! Must buy!!
Lexx the fourth series part 1 (vol 1-3) 3 out of 5 stars.
2 of 11 people found this review helpful.
Disc 2 does not work in my dvd player, yet it works in my sisters Dvd player. The discs are not compatable wit all dvd players.
Editorial Review:
The last season of this sexy SCI FI channel hit cuts a brutally funny path through planet Earth. The hapless crew of the hungry organic spaceship could not be more misguided in its final effort to find safe haven. Earth has big troubles of its own with killer vegetables on the march and wackos in charge everywhere. And Prince (Nigel Bennett), the crew's chief nemesis in Series 3, resurfaces as a scheming bureaucrat out to steal the LEXX.
S4-V1 -- Little Blue Planet, Texx LEXX, P4X, Stan Down S4-V2 -- Xevivor, The Rock, Walpurgis Night, Vlad S4-V3 -- Fluff Daddy, Magic Baby, A Midsummer's Nightmare, Bad CarrotDVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE audio: 5.1 Surround Sound, 2.0 Stereo; CGI gallery; storyboards; behind-the-scenes photos; production sketches; cast and character bios; and interactive trivia.
Lexx: Series 4, Vol. 4
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LEXX
Starring:
Brian Downey as Stanley Tweedle
Xenia Seeberg as Xev
Michael McManus as Kai
Jeffrey Hirschfield as 790
They've seen a lot of trouble in their time as intergalactic wanderers, but the LEXX crew members really hit the bad-news big time exploring their final frontier: the good old U.S.A. The crew gets a heavy dose of Americana in these four episodes, including a classic car chase, an obsessed mortician and paramilitary wackos. Very special guest star Britt Ekland oozes suburban angst in the episode "Prime Ridge." As seen on the SCI FI Channel.4.13 769 — The scheming robot head 790 gets equipped for love.
4.14 Prime Ridge — The crew members settle down in the perfect suburb.
4.15 Mort — Stan, Kai and Xev are sheltered by a mortician with a bizarre obsession.
4.16 Moss — A paranoid, post-Waco patriot turns the screws on the captured crew.DVD FEATURES
• Audio: 5.1 Surround Sound, 2.0 Stereo
•Storyboards
•Behind-the-scenes photos
•Production sketches
•CGI gallery
•Interactive trivia
•Original uncut episodes including scenes not aired on TV
•Scene index
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Lexx Series One "1.0: I Worship His Shadow"
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Series One - available at Amazon.ca 5 out of 5 stars.
29 of 30 people found this review helpful.
This is a great series. I don't have a lot to add that others haven't already mentioned. I would like to clarify some confusion and difficulty as to how to get the entire first season, the four mini-movies.
They do not all appear to be available from Amazon.com, well, volume 1, 2 and 4 are available, but volume 3, Eating Patterns, is not.
Save yourself the irritation. Just go to Amazon.ca, the canadian version, sign in using your normal name and password and look up Lexx Series One.
You can obtain all four movies with one click, including the difficult to find volume 3, just order: Lexx: Season 1: Ep.1.1-1.4
Hope this saves some people some time.
A Silly but Somewhat Entertaining Show 3 out of 5 stars.
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The Lexx universe is a somewhat depressing, Orwellian creation of mindless bureaucracy and an underlying sense of evil. His Divine Shadow, the supreme ruler, exists to rule through order. That makes for a fairly dreary and miserable existence. It is a universe of bread and circuses. There are a few alternatives, however.
There is a parallel shadow world about which little is known except that it is chaotic. There is also an active resistance within the realm of His Divine Shadow. The story begins to come together with the confluence of several events.
A minor bureaucrat faces "reprogramming" or possibly extinction for his minor personal failings. His failure to face his problems leads him to get into deeper trouble.
A frumpy woman makes the disorderly mistake of slugging her fiancé when he is disappointed with her appearance. She is sentenced to a new, very attractive body and life as a sex slave.
A leader of the resistance is caught and about to be sentence to death in an arena. He has a plan of escape that goes slightly off plan when one of his gizmos is unwittingly damaged by the bureaucrat mentioned above. He still manages to wreak some havoc and escape in the confusion. He takes with him these previous two characters.
The last member of a long dead race is revived to track down these fugitives. He is utilized by His Divine Shadow as an assassin. He is really dead but his body and mind are utilized (against his will) by means of advanced technology. He goes after the fleeing escapees but defects. He helps them to capture the Lexx, an immensely powerful ship. Together, they flee into the shadow zone.
The story doesn't hang together too well but it does manage to maintain interest. Partly, this is because of Zev, the very decorative sex slave character. Partly it is because of the hapless bureaucrat who manages to be amusing. Partly it is to see what silliness will occur next. It's certainly not great but I am willing to give it a chance and see what develops.
Lexx - Series 2, Vol. 2
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Total reviews: 5
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
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Lexx is neither the most creative nor the most clever sci-fi series to hit the air, but it has no illusions of greatness. This is a show with nothing but sex on its mind, with a shamelessly brazen parade of T&A, an unending stream of suggestive dialogue and hilarious sexual metaphors (many of them concocted by the lovesick robot head in his erotic odes to Xev), and a tongue-in-cheekiness that manages to spoof its own sex-mad silliness. At times it can even be inventive: Lafftrak, set on a dead planet where interactive TV shows still run on auto-pilot, puts the crew through its own season of hell in front of a brain-dead studio audience, and Love Grows exposes the crew to a virus that puts an unexpected twist on their sexual cravings. But it's a maddeningly inconsistent show that often stumbles over its own humor, as in the shrill hillbilly cannibal episode White Trash (guest starring a hysterical Maury Chaykin), and sometimes reaches for a seriousness it can't pull off, as in Stan's Trial, where Lexx's dorky pilot is accused of the deaths of billions by a sadistic prosecutor. True to form Stan is captured on a bordello ship with a giant condom.The DVD features a 10-minute, behind-the-scenes featurette (mostly covering the special effects), short cast and creator interviews, and the second chapter of Rated LEXX, the TV special created for the Sci Fi Channel to introduce the characters and recap the origins. --Sean Axmaker
Lexx - The Complete Second Series
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Average rating: 4.0 of 5
Editorial Review:
A crew of misfit outlaws wanders the galaxy in a living ship. Sound familiar? Doomed to live in the shadow of cable TV's science fiction class act Farscape, the Canadian-German coproduction Lexx takes a completely different trajectory as a tongue-in-cheek, sci-fi sex farce from a three-man team of "Human Beans" led by creator and frequent writer-director Paul Donovan. Sad-sack pilot Stanley Tweedle (Brian Downey), coquettish love slave Zev (Eva Habermann), reanimated corpse Kai (Michael McManus), and lovesick robot head 790 wander the galaxy looking for food, people, and (most importantly) a little nookie. Shot on the cheap with loads of flashy (if often unconvincing) digital effects and a rather claustrophobic series of studio-bound sets, the show launched with a quartet of TV movies before settling into a weekly series with its second season (1998).In the first of 20 episodes, "Mantrid" launches the Lexx into a funhouse galaxy of wacky worlds, where the dreaded insect king awakes and begins his bizarre reign of terror. The hilarious "Lyekka" introduces the title character, a curvy little plant girl with an insatiable appetite for human flesh, but more importantly it replaces platinum blonde Eva Haberman with the impishly flirtatious, full-lipped redhead Xenia Seeberg, the show's instant cult pinup queen. The show's eagerness to experiment is proven in "Brigadoom," a sci-fi musical that tells Kai's backstory entirely in song--with surprisingly impressive results. "Brizon" and "End of the Universe" end the second series as the Lexx is inexorably drawn into the Dark Zone after an epic fight with Mantrid's multiplying drone arms.
Each DVD features a different 10-minute, behind-the-scenes featurette, short cast and creator interviews, and a chapter of Rated LEXX, a TV special created for the Sci Fi Channel to introduce the characters and recap the origins.
Lexx - Series 2, Volume 3
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Total reviews: 6
Average rating: 4.0 of 5
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The living ship Lexx and its misfit crew are an absurd anti-Star Trek: Voyager, a motley collection of space cadets wandering the backwaters of television sci-fi, inadvertently (and often hilariously) bringing death and destruction to everyone they meet.The four episodes on Lexx: Series 2, Volume 3 show that the lusty appetites of sad sack captain Stanley Tweedle, half-lizard love slave Xev, and lovesick robot head 790 are in full swing. In 791 790 salvages the well-endowed trunk of a decapitated cyborg found on a crash-landed prison ship, only to find this is one body with a mind (not to mention a kinky, insatiable sex drive) all its own. In Wake the Dead, they find five lost-in-space teenage joyriders in suspended animation and let them loose aboard Lexx. One prank-loving idiot proceeds to order the reanimated assassin Kai to kill everyone on the ship--and to his surprise turns the philosophical zombie into a wisecracking slasher movie killer. Nook may be short for "nookie," which Xev finally gets from an all-male enclave of isolated monks they discover on the sole island of a deep space Waterworld. Needless to say, her intrusion into the monastic lifestyle stirs some unfamiliar feelings among the brothers, who find her a very strange and arousing man indeed. Finally in Norb, the dreaded insect king Mantrid, reborn in the first episode as a half-human killing machine with an army of flying arms, engages the Lexx in a fatal "game" that involves devouring the ship alive.
The DVD also features another 10-minute, behind-the-scenes featurette, short cast and creator interviews, and the third chapter of Rated LEXX, a TV special created for the Sci Fi Channel to introduce the characters and recap the origins. --Sean Axmaker
Lexx: Series 4, Vol. 2
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Total reviews: 4
Average rating: 4.5 of 5
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The second volume from the fourth season of Lexx is leaner, more accessible, and funnier than its wild-eyed predecessor's relentless satire. While volume two begins with a swift (and Swiftian) assault on the lunacy of reality television, most of its energy is reserved for a suite of connecting stories that find sexy Xev (Xenia Seeberg), dead-man-walking Kai (Michael McManus), and vainglorious Stan (Brian Downey) on a comically perilous global journey. Convinced he's the king of Newfoundland, Stan drops by to claim his throne in "The Rock," only to collide with thickheaded locals, a troublesome doppelganger, and fresh mischief from longtime nemesis and American ATF boss Prince (Nigel Bennett). The best episode, however, "Walpurgis Night," finds our antiheroes in Transylvania, where Dracula and the old gang discover their classic legend undone by jaded extraterrestrial interference. This may not be Lexx at its most inventive, but it's solid comedy. --Tom Keogh