She's your basic average girl and she's here to save the world. An
Alias-type heroine for the tween-age set, the Disney Channel's Kim Possible is a high school cheerleader who doubles as a super agent. Here's the sitch: In "Attack of the Killer BeBes," the first of three episodes, KP (voiced by Christy Carlson Romano, the star of another Disney series
Even Stevens), her sidekick, Ron Stoppable (Will Friedle), his naked mole rat, Rufus, and supergenius Wade take on a bunch of evil robots controlled by her arch-enemy, Drakken. "Downhill" introduces DNAmy, the wacko geneticist who creates fearsome hybrid creatures. The title of the never-before-seen episode, "Partners," has two meanings--first, Kim and Ron decide to break up their partnership, sort of, and Drakken teams up with DNAmy to form a mutant army to take over the world. No big. KP and her team have enough smarts, cheerleader moves, and high-tech gadgets to save the day, and the sly wit and Kim's school-girl awkwardness can prove appealing to grown-up kids as well. (Ages 6 to 10; cartoon action, bare midriffs, staying out late on a school night)
--David Horiuchi
From the hit TV series, it's Kim Possible, just your average teenage girl out to save the world. She foils sinister plots around the globe with her sidekick Ron Stoppable and still makes it home in time for dinner. It's big fun as Kim takes on some seriously wacko bad guys in this way cool series of adventures. Here's the "sitch": Rufus, Ron's pet naked mole rat, goes 3-D and takes control of the "Kimmunicator" to guide you through three awesome Kim Possible missions, including a never-before-seen episode. This is the only place to catch all the thrills as the evil Dr. Drakken feigns love for the villainous DNAmy in order to take advantage of her mutation skills. It's cool. It's hot. It's SO not the drama!
1 KP: The Anti-Princess
I let my 5-year-old watch Kim Possible, because KP's one of the few strong role models for girls. The animated violence is usually kept to kung-fu style fighting (usually Kim v. Shego). The dialog is often clever and insightful, and it's good to see that the characters often have real world problems (like having your Mom and Dad along for a field trip). If you are a parent, try to catch KP on ABC (Saturday A.M.) to get an idea of what to expect.
2 Disney Does Buffy Does Lara Croft Does Alias
If you're hip and flip and love a good laugh, you're already taping this popular series, but you could do worse than treat yourself to this colorful handful of engaging episodes and standard promo extras. It may be packaged for kids, but like the 1960s T.V. Batman, it's really made for adults - in fact, one of the series episodes (not on this DVD) features Adam West in a takeoff of his original Batman role, in the very funny "The Fearless Ferret."
It's hard to imagine anyone who hasn't yet encountered Kim Possible, but for those who haven't and are seeking a clue, here goes: Kim is "your average basic girl, out to save the world," the adorable green-eyed, redheaded high school cheerleader daughter of a rocket scientist and a brain surgeon, with a jealous bimbo rival (Pep-Squad wannabe-leader Bonnie), two troublesome twin younger brothers, and helpful friends (Ron Stoppable and his naked mole-rat "Rufus," and never-leaves-his-screen computer geek Wade). She has her own website, which has made her something of a superhero in spite of herself. Her adversaries are idiot mad-scientists and the like, such as the two featured in this DVD, D. N. Annie and Dr. Drakken. Drakken, especially, is a comical cad, a failed NASA robotics expert who happens to be Kim's father's arch-rival, though it takes him a long time to figure out that Kim, despite sharing the same rare last name as Dr. Possible, is related. His "three blue BeBe's," seen in this collection, are among the most memorable "henchmen" in the entire series. His usual assistant, Shego - infinitely smarter than the mad, blue-skinned doctor, himself - is almost Kim's own dark alter-ego, a fashion-conscious snob with super-athletic abilities and glow-in-the-dark green eyes and hands.
This is one of my favorite shows, which is saying a lot, since I ordinarily can't stand anything Disney produces. Kim Possible is much smarter and wittier than the usual Disney fare, to the point that even the obligatory adorable animal - Rufus, the naked mole-rat - actually manages not to be insipidly annoying, but often highly useful to the plot and rather endearing. The music is catchy and bright, the action fast, the dialogue clever and snappy. Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Lara Croft doing Alias, jazz-it-up a couple notches and make it more family-friendly, and you've pretty much got this series in a nutshell.
But enough. Stop reading, and go introduce yourself to Kim Possible and her absurdly insane adversaries. You'll be hooked, quick. And just in time for Christmas, to boot!
"Boo-yah!"
3 K.P. You Rock
Kim Possible is one of the greatest shows I have ever seen!
If you like the show,then just pop this baby into your dvd player
and get ready for SERIOUSLY COOL STUFF!
Even though K.P. is a great show,it's not my favorite (Cartoon
Network's ''The Grim Adventures Of Billy And Mandy'' is my big
time fave)but SUPER nonetheless!
''So not the drama!''
4 Wonderful, entertaining role model.
I'll write this review with the parent in mind, and leave the plots and story lines to someone else.
Kim Possible is an intelligent, science-loving high school student with an adventurous side. If I may be permitted to assert my parental instincts here, I would like to add that I think kids get way too much weird stuff in cartoons. Kim Possible, on the other hand, is a good role model for her studious habits and intelligent interests. My children love watching this cartoon (lots of laughs and bumbling bad guys), but I also enjoy it, and have no problem watching it with them. This would make a good Christmas or birthday present for the cartoon-watchers in your family.
5 Better for kids than adults, but still fun
For some reason on the menu the three main episodes are listed as separate chapters of one program, no big deal but it seems a little odd to me. I think I've seen most of the episodes that have come out, Crush is perhaps the best on the DVD, maybe one of the better ones in the series.
Of the characters I've always preferred Kim, the villains are REALLY cartoony, Ron Stoppable isn't much better. I like the action but the artwork looks crude to me, too simple, maybe they figure 10 year olds won't care.
The music video doesn't do a thing for me, the show theme is so much better.
The extra feature game where you click on a villain's picture then figure out which combination of Kim & others' pictures need to be selected to open a file on that villain can be very frustrating. After a while I noticed that at the bottom of the screen Rufus the mole rat was in a star shaped box, click on that to get the combination revealed, some kids and their parents will really appreciate that assist.
6 Call Me.Beep Me.
This Dvd Rocks BIG TIME. If you (like me) are a Kim Possible fan,
do not,I repeat,DO NOT pass this thing up!!!
7 So Not the Clutter
How nice to be able to view these episodes without all the distracting visual clutter of broadcast television: no omnipresent logo, no crawling announcements, and of course no loud commercials. There are 4 episodes here, not 3 ("Attack of the Killer Bebes"; "Downhill"; "Partners"; and series premiere "Crush") and the full-length theme song. The previously unseen episode is as good as any of the others (largely because it stars Dr. Drakken and the fabulous Shego). Even if you've been taping the clever show, you'll want this DVD.
8 Scored the DVD! BooYahh!!!
I fianlly got my KP DVD and gotta say that I was a little disappointed with the episode line up as they included 'Crush' 'Downhill' 'Attack of the Killer BeeBees' as well as the never seen before ep 'Partners' but no 'Bueno Nacho'!? Well I guess you can't have it all, I just figured 'Bueno Nacho' (my fav) on the DVD would be a sure thing.
Anyway just seeing Kim in DVD quality picture is awesome, the colors are especially seem more vivid than they do on Disney channel. The extras are nice, not particularly spectacular, however for the price this seemd a very nice buy.
I do have a few problems however with the DVD presentation, while the most important things like picture quality and sound are outstanding and really could not be better, I don't like this kind of disc that starts with previews. I thought that fastfowarding trailers ended once you moved on from VHS but here they are on DVD format :( The menus are good and follow the feel of the show and like I said in the all important criteria of video and sound qualitycould not be better, so this little annoyance can be forgiven.
Hopefully the success of this DVD will mean a season box set for all the KP fans out there!
9 Think of it as "Alias: The Animated Series"
First timers might dismiss Kim Possible as "another girly show", when in fact it is actually a smart, well written show that everyone can enjoy. You wouldn't dismiss "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" because the lead is a female, would you?
At any rate, Kim Possible follows the adventures of the title character and her best friend/sidekick Ron Stoppable as they fight bad guys and try to survive high school. The best thing about the series is that Kim doesn't have to hide what she's doing; everyone just seems to accept it like it was an after school activity. No big.
Anyway, this DVD features three episodes from the show, surprisingly in honest to goodness widescreen. DVD buyers also get a fourth "bonus" episode, the pilot episode "Crush", which sadly is featured in fullscreen. On to the episodes:
Crush: Kim has two major problems in this episode; she has to foil a mad plot of Dr. Drakken's AND work up the courage to ask a boy to the Sadie Hawkins dance!
Class Reunion: It's Kim to the rescue when Dr. Drakken begins kidnapping Dr. Possible's old college classmates. Also, Ron tries out for the pep squad.
Downhill: The class goes on a weekend trip to a ski resort, but Kim is humiliated by her chaperoning parents. Oh, and there is also a genetic scientist named DNAmy splicing humans and animals.
Partners: Dr. Drakken feigns love for DNAmy in order to obtain her gene splicing technology!
Pretty funny episodes, especially "Class Reunion". Each episode is bookended by cute computer animated segements that pit Rufus (Ron's naked mole rat) against Kim's Kimunicator. Extra features include an extended ending, bad guy files, the Naked Mole Rap playing over the end credits, and a music video for "Say The Word".
Overall, this is a pretty nice package for the price. Perhaps if this DVD does well, we'll see a season set soon. If you're a fan of action and comedy, or just a big animation fan (the series staff is made of veterans from Clerks: TAS and Gargoyles) then you could do no less than Kim Possible. SO not the drama!
