Stingray: Complete Set [DVD]
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フォーマット | DVD-Video |
言語 | 英語 |
ディスク枚数 | 5 |
出版日 | 2002/12/31 |
商品の説明
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Drums pound, building excitement; the music bursts into life with a cry of "Stingray! Stingray!" Who can resist? Especially when a dramatic voice announces, "Anything can happen in the next half hour!" Stingray (1964) was the show Gerry Anderson made just before he really hit the big time with Thunderbirds (1965), producing 39 episodes of the 21st-century adventures of Troy Tempest--tall, dark, and handsome (his voice was based on James Garner) captain of the titular submarine. His mission: to protect the seas on behalf of WASP (World Aquanaut Security Patrol).
With complex underwater model and puppet effects, this was groundbreaking television, especially as it was the first British series to be made in color, though for years it was seen only in black and white. Special effects director Derek Meddings later graduated to the James Bond movies, while Moneypenny herself (actress Lois Maxwell) voiced Atlanta Shore. Here, just as in the Bond movies, she played second fiddle in our hero's affections, the mute Marina becoming Stingray's sex goddess. The end credits even featured a song in her honor, "Aqua Maria," which became an international hit. As for the bad guys: half-man, half-fish Titan and his Terror Fish wage dastardly war against humanity and the peaceful underwater citizens of Pacifica. Four decades on, the model and underwater sequences still impress, and surely much of the inspiration for the underwater city in Star Wars: Episode I, The Phantom Menace came from locations in Stingray. Whether as bizarre '60s nostalgia, or winning a new generation of fans, Stingray remains eccentric cult family entertainment. --Gary S. Dalkin
登録情報
- アスペクト比 : 1.33:1
- メーカーにより製造中止になりました : いいえ
- 言語 : 英語
- 製品サイズ : 19.05 x 13.97 x 7.62 cm; 544.31 g
- EAN : 0733961705027, 9780767047005
- 製造元リファレンス : AAE-70502
- メディア形式 : DVD-Video
- 発売日 : 2002/12/31
- 言語 : 英語 (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
- 販売元 : A&E Home Video
- ASIN : B000077VOY
- ディスク枚数 : 5
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トップレビュー
上位レビュー、対象国: 日本
レビューのフィルタリング中に問題が発生しました。後でもう一度試してください。
放題は「海底大戦争」「トニー谷の海底大戦争」「潜水艦スティングレイ」「海底大戦争スティングレイ」「スティングレ」と放送時期によって異なる。
もともと「海底大戦争」で、真面目な雰囲気を出したかったらしいが、途中からトニー谷のキャラクターを前面に出したギャグっぽい「トニー谷の海底大戦争」に変わった。でも、今見てみると、「トニー谷って誰?」って感じなので、たいして面白くはないかも知れない。
もっとも、このDVDは日本語版は収録されてないんだが。
CS局であるスーパーチャンネルで、夏休みとかに再放送とかしてるので、それなりにお馴染みだと思うが、ソフト的には不遇で、LD化の時に2巻16話で打ち切りになったのは残念。どうも、「キャプテンスカーレット」の販売が不振だったのが原因だったらしいが、そうなると、この作品の日本版DVDは出ないのではなかろうか? だいぶん、「キャプテンスカーレット」のDVDは売上げが悪かったらしいし。
で、スーパーチャンネルの放映だと、1話欠番があるらしい。気付いた時に放送局に問い合わせた所、フィルムの状態が放送できる状態ではなかったらしい。その意味でも、このDVDは貴重っぽい気がするので、とりあえずファンは買っておくのが良いと思う。
他の国からのトップレビュー
Stingray is a nuclear powered super-submarine capable of 600 knots while submerged. The plot of each episode either involves conflict with the evil Titan, leader of an underwater race, or daring ocean rescues. Kids will enjoy the simple plots while adults will be amused at the inconsistencies of the plot devices.
In the first episode, Stingray investigates the destruction of a drone submarine and is attacked by Titan's forces. This is "first contact" between "Terrarians" and oceanic people. In subsequent episodes, Stingray meets numerous other oceanic cultures, some friendly and others belligerent. All technologically advanced. There's no explanation of why some cultures hate humans, nor why friendly cultures hadn't made any sort of contact prior to Titan's attack. Of course, it's immaterial to the seven-year olds that the series is aimed at.
We bought the DVD's to provide entertaining TV to our kids without the sex, violence and coarseness that is endemic to modern television. There is mild violence in Stingray, but it is of the simple "good versus evil" variety, and generally abstract in nature. You might see one of Titan's submarines hit by a torpedo, but you won't see one of Titan's soldiers being killed. Gun battles are usually resolved by something heavy landing on the bad guys with enough force to stun them but no more. Good guys and bad guys are awful shots when aiming at each other, but the good guys are super accurate when they have to aim at an inanimate object.
Being 60's television, and British to boot, smoking and drinking are shown as normal activities by our heroes. The lead heroes are white males, but there are two strong female characters and the head of the unit is disabled. I think the design for his hovering "wheelchair" was lifted for a Star Trek episode a decade later.
All in all, good entertainment for today's kids and a fun stroll down memory lane for those old enough to remember "anything can happen in the next half hour" in front of a tiny black and white television. (The DVD is in color though).
Does this show still work for kids? Recently I screened the first few episodes for my cousin's 2 daughters (ages 6 and 8) and they were enthralled. They didn't care about the visible marionette wires. (They also didn't care for X2-Zero and the mechanical fish; but booing the villains in a melodrama is par for the course). Why does this show, which by all rights should appear obsolete to an audience weaned on the latest CGI from Pixar and Dreamworks, still rock? If I had to boil it down to one word that word would be: charm. Stingray is charming. There is just something about watching real flesh-and-blood puppets (so to speak) moving about a real (if miniature) set which CGI cannot match. It's the same quality which makes Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion animated critters so beloved by so many. The physicality of it is seductive--it can make us believe, if only for the duration of a show, in a kind of childhood magic: that a plaything, a construction of metal, plastic and cloth can live and speak.
Signed,
Phil Hitchcock