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Xena Warrior Princess - 1.1/1.2 [VHS]
starring: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor, Jay Laga'aia, Darien Takle, Nick Kokotakis
directed by: Doug Lefler, Harley Cokeless
directed by: Doug Lefler, Harley Cokeless
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Audience Rating: Parental Guidance Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 0440061512362 Format: PAL, Colour Label: Universal Languages: Manufacturer: Universal Number Of Discs: 1 Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Universal Release Date: October 01, 1999 Studio: Universal |
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Xena--you gotta love her: after all, she could snap your neck just by straightening her knees. She sprang fully armed from Sam Raimi's head in March 1995, to flesh out an otherwise routine episode of the television series Hercules, a 5' 10" high-kicking, horse-riding, chakram-throwing ancient-Greek-warrior princess, who mustered armies the way some women shop for shoes, turning heroes against one another as gleefully as she laid waste to sweet little villages.
Except that somewhere beneath that straight dark fringe and hard-boiled leather breastplate lurk doubts, feelings, even a soul. She was so popular on Hercules her spin-off was an instant certainty--and pretty soon the subtext of her own series was unfolding. Xena is on journey from evil to good, but this can only be enabled via the companionship of bossy redhead scribe/bard Gabrielle, her constant companion. Set in a lush New Zealand doubling for the pagan Mediterranean, as misruled by Ares, Aphrodite, Poseidon and the rest of the Mount Olympus gang, Xena: Warrior Princess recounts these exploits, as the duo confront gods, monsters, warlords, idiots and anachronisms, as well as their own flaws and desires, at the hilarious and sometimes unsettling mythological cross-roads where touchy-feelly Californian feminism meets high-camp chop-socky pantheism seasoned with the Way of Peplum Tao. --Honey Glass
In the first series (first aired US 1995-96), Xena and Gabrielle encounter Centaurs, Amazons, Titans, Gods, Helen of Troy, Hercules, King of Thieves (and Zappa-lookalike) Autolycus, and--most important and exciting--Xena's ex-victim-turned-nemesis Callisto, an evil skinny-blonde avenging angel. --Honey Glass
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