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DVD
Paramount
Publisher: Paramount
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Actors: Jason Priestley, Shannen Doherty, Luke Perry, Jennie Garth, Tori Spelling
The ensemble drama about young adults growing up in Beverly Hills is a blend of romantic drama and subject matter that crosses all cultural boundaries. The storyline has followed the Walsh family as they moved from a middle-class Midwestern neighborhood to wealthy and glamorous Beverly Hills, maturing from high school to college students, facing new challenges as they continue to grow and discover more about themselves and their personal ambitions. As their worlds evolve, old friendships will be tested as new relationships develop, but no matter how complicated their worlds become, they will always share in their strengths and experiences.
Welcome to the first post-high school season of Beverly Hills 90210. While maintaining essentially the same formula in season four that's driven the previous seasons, things definitely grow up and heat up now that the gang has started college. They're all attending school together (of course), the fictional California University. Andrea decides against Yale and Brenda makes her way back to Beverly Hills quickly after a disastrous attempt at returning "home" to Minnesota. While Brenda's return and Andrea's decision to stay in Beverly Hills seems not only inevitable, but essential, it's interesting to note that season four is the final year featuring all original cast members. It's also the year the tone of the show most abruptly changes, making way for the much more grown up and sexier seasons to come. For these twentysomethings playing teenagers, the shift from high school to college allows them to relax a bit into their characters and really show off their acting chops (all except Shannon Doherty, whose seething anger is simmering just barely below the surface of her performances; her tension with the cast and producers at this time was widely documented). As in the years before, issues rule the storylines here and while we've got some repeat offenders (infidelity, date rape, racism, drug use), there's also plenty of fresh material that these actors clearly have fun with (anti-Semitism, pregnancy, campus scandals, and newly discovered siblings). Minor complaints: the lack of original music continues to be an annoyance; it seems this year that the generic studio tracks have gotten even worse. Also missing are the funny guys from VH-1's Best Week Ever doing the "Everything You Need to Know About Beverly Hills 90210: Season Four". The segment still exists, but with much less entertaining hosts. Otherwise, Season Four continues to deliver the goods any 90210 fan could want--drama, drama, drama--and it's only just getting started. ---Kira Canny
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| Great birthday! |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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This was a great item and worked out perfectly. I order the 4th season of 90210 for my best friends 40th birthday. I was a huge hit. I would suggest this to anyone.
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| Prompt and Efficient |
| Customer Rating: 5 out of 5 |
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Amazon.com delivered my DVD immediately. I purchase everything directly through Amazon.com unless I can't help it.
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| Thought mine was broken :( |
| Customer Rating: 2 out of 5 |
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I thought my DVD was broken until I read everyone else's reviews. I waited years for 90210 to come out on DVD. I only got through disc 1 and already, I'm disappointed. I thought the music changes in the 1st 3 seasons were bad enough, but now there are ENTIRE scenes missing! The worst part is that they show them in the end credits! Paramount Studios needs to give us what we want and deserve. Either play it all, in it's original music and scenes, or not at all. Aaron Spelling would be disappointed.
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| An incomplete time capsule |
| Customer Rating: 3 out of 5 |
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I was 12 when "Beverly Hills, 90210" premiered. The show and it's actors quickly became my whole life. The show was a barometer of current events, fashion, the political climate (hence Brandon Walsh's visit to Washington, DC to meet Bill Clinton)..if it was happening at the time, it was on "90210". Especially the music. WHERE THE HELL IS THE MUSIC??? A huge part of the landscape in the late 1980's-early 1990's was the music-pop, hip-hop, New Jack Swing, and the beginning of the grunge era- and how it's influence spilled over into fashion, language, etc. Yet CBS apparently thought that to the fans of the show, any DVD, even one with horrible public domain music, was better than no DVD at all. All those scenes at the Peach Pit, with Jeremy Jordan, Color Me Badd, Shanice, Brian McKnight playing on the jukebox? You'll have to suffer through cheesy imitation-doo-wop instead. Brenda's breakup with Dylan? Remember how she listened to REM's "Losing My Religion" over and over because it was playing in his car? You'll have to remember it, because it's not here. The difference is even move glaringly obvious in this season as David gets a piano and entertains the gang with some popular tunes. Instead of the footage aired, some grainy cutting-room floor footage was used, with music straight out of a player piano or nickelodeon. My gripe with the DVDs is with this series in general, not with this specific boxed set. Overall, the picture, sound quality, and special features are good, and there are even a few commentaries that are particularly entertaining. But as one who likes to look back and reminisce on my younger years, and how "90210" fit into that, something's not just missing...it's been rewritten.
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| stop buying the dvds |
| Customer Rating: 1 out of 5 |
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maybe if everyone stops buying the dvds they'll stop putting them out with cut scenes and no music. the show is boring to watch without the music. also most episodes are just odd with all the cut scenes. half the time I wonder if I missed something. why are they cutting the scenes? are they just bored? or to lazy to take the music out so they just hit delete? either way I am not buying anymore. I'll rent them. they aren't worth it to own. or better yet watch it on tv for free, not cut, with the music!
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