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Two and a Half Men - The Complete First Season | 
 enlarge | Actors: Charlie Sheen, Jon Cryer, Angus T. Jones
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $44.98
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Rating:  91 reviews
Sales Rank: 431
Format: Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), Korean (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Dubbed), Spanish (Published)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 501
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.9
MPN: 59441
UPC: 012569594418
EAN: 0012569594418
ASIN: B00005JOHC
Theatrical Release Date: September 22, 2003
Release Date: September 11, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Charlie Harper is a bachelor in paradise complete with Malibu beach house overpaid job and a very active dating life. Then his uptight brother Alan in the throes of a divorce moves in - and brings his 10-year-old son Jake with him. Sorry Charlie. It looks like paradise lost. This 4-disc set includes all 24 Season-One Episodes of the breezy comedy - the People's Choice Award winner as Favorite New Series - starring Charlie Sheen as Charlie and Jon Cryer as Alan. As the brothers reestablish a sense of family Charlie also bonds with Jake (Angus T. Jones). Holland Taylor is the guys' domineering mother Marin Hinkle is Alan's icy ex and Melanie Lynskey is Rose who thinks one date with Charlie means life-long commitment. Meet the Harper men - two adults one kid and no grown-ups.Running Time: 501 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 012569594418 Manufacturer No: 59441
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Hedonistic bachelor Charlie (Charlie Sheen) is a jingles writer who, he blithely states, makes a lot of money for doing very little work, sleeps with beautiful women who don't ask about his feelings, drives a Jag and lives at the beach, and sometimes, in the middle of the day, for no reason at all, likes to make himself a big pitcher of margaritas and take a nap out on the sundeck. His brother, Alan (Jon Cryer), evicted from his house by his soon-to-be-ex-wife, is "rigid, inflexible, uptight, obsessive and anal-retentive." Charlie and Alan are "twisted Jungian archetypes," according to series co-creator Chuck Lorre in one of this set's bonus features. If by "twisted Jungian archetypes," he means Oscar and Felix from The Odd Couple, then yes, Charlie and Alan are "twisted Jungian archetypes," and this inaugural season finds rich comic tension in their period of adjustment. Charlie is a Man Behaving Badly, whose idyllic life is upended when "fuddy-duddy" Alan moves in, accompanied by his impressionable 10-year-old son, Jake (Angus T. Jones), with whom he shares custody with his iceberg-cold, sexually confused (a comic conceit thankfully abandoned by season's end) estranged wife, Judith (Marin Hinkle). Alan is a single father who is appalled by his amoral brother's lifestyle and by the influence Charlie might have on Jake ("Uncle Charlie, I understand the point spread, but I'm still confused about the vig"). And then there's Berta (effortless scene-stealer Conchata Ferrell), Charlie's formidable, tart-tongued housekeeper who is initially driven out the door by Alan's fussiness ("The peanut butter stains on Jake's shirts really require an enzyme presoak"). Two and a Half Men is a guy show that sets feminism back a good three decades. Women are portrayed as either bimbonic objects of lust (Transformers' Megan Fox guest stars as Berta's teenage granddaughter), vengeful and retaliative (Heather Locklear as Alan's divorce lawyer), crazy hot (Jenna Elfman as an unstable single mother on the run), or emasculating (Holland Taylor as Charlie and Alan's mother, or, as Charlie refers to her, "Mom, the Impaler"). The charming Melanie Lynskey's is a particularly thankless role, that of Rose, Charlie's "insightful and disturbing" stalker, who becomes Jake's babysitter. While Charlie's "bad-boy act" could quickly get old in lesser hands, Sheen, in the past not the most natural of comic actors, is in his element. Charlie's genuine affection for Jake goes a long way toward redeeming his character (and lack of it). Two and a Half Men, a People's Choice Award-winner its first season, really adds up with a crudely funny sense of humor that is all kinds of wrong, but also smart and, at times, even sweet. --Donald Liebenson
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 GREAT SERIES August 15, 2008
I watch this on TV whenever it's broadcast. This is one series that just hooks you in and you can't resist it.
I wanted to especially see the extras on this set. Since others have told you pretty much which episodes are included, I'll go into a couple of the extras found on disc 4.
One is a "tour" of the set with Angus (Jake). While less than 10 minutes long, it's still interesting as you get to see what exactly is around each corner on the set. What exactly IS at the top of the stairs? Is the house actually on the beach? What's around that corner in the kitchen were Berta usually goes or comes out of?
Another extra is about 6 minutes of outtakes with some of the bloopers made during the recording of the series. Even though it's relatively short, it's a lot of fun to watch as each star makes his or her fair share of blunders.
There's one other extra where there is a very good history of the series and how it developed. Is Charlie and Alan's "Mom" REALLY that grumpy in real life? How about Berta? How did they settle on hiring the stars to fit the parts? Was Rose originally to be a recurring role?
Needless to say, the episodes are great in this set, and the extras definitely add to the fun.
best show ever (except for FRIENDS) but they are tied August 3, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This show is sooo funny!! I will keep buying the seasons as long as they keep making them!! I have 1, 2 and 3 and waiting for 4 to be released. After watching them I just start over. They do have re-runs on everyday, but it is nice to watcth when I want with no commercials.
Funny Funny Funny and did I mention Funny July 10, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you have a funny bone at all, this will definitely tickle it. There is no way not laugh....
Charlie and Alan play off each other so well, it's like a real brother relationship!
Great Show
 Whoes the half man? June 30, 2008
2 out of 6 found this review helpful
Charles Francis "Charlie" Harper (Charlie Sheen) and Jacob David "Jake" Harper (Angus T. Jones), the kid, are the two men and Alan Jerome Harper (Jon Cryer) is the half man.
MAN, MAN, MAN, MAN, MANLY, MAN, MAN...love the irony.
Great start June 16, 2008
This item arrived quickly and in good condition. This is the first of a great series. Programs like this come along so seldom. Don't miss this!
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