The Teen Titans return for a second season to vanquish evildoers. They have a new addition to the team, but is she really a friend or a foe?
The Teen Titans return for another round of crimefighting. The teams is made up of Robin (Scott Menville), Cyborg (Khary Payton), Raven (Tara Strong), Beast Boy (Greg Cipes), and Starfire (Hynden Walch). This time around they have a girl named Terra who joins the team and the Titans are still being pursued by the super villain Slade. This two disc set has all 13 episodes from season two of the series.
Disc 1:
Episode 4: Only Human: Cyborg challenges an online gamer to a duel and wins, but Atlas (Keith David) doesn’t like to lose and shows up in real life to take him on – with the imprisoned Titans as the prize. Episode 5: Fear Itself: The Titans rent a horror movie and soon the beastie from the video is haunting Titan Tower and even Raven is scared. Episode 6: Date with Destiny: Killer Moth (Thomas Haden Church) is threatening to destroy the city, unless Robin takes his daughter Kitten (Tara Strong) to the prom. Episode 7: Transformation: Starfire develops a large zit on her forehead. Nothing to worry about until she also sprouts tusks, scales, and gruesome fingernails.
The Teen Titans return for a second season
Disc 2:
Episode 10: Betrayal: Terra seems to be fitting in well at Titan Tower and Beast Boy is smitten. However, all is not what it appears and they’re can be only one person behind it – Slade. Episode 11: Fractured: Robin gets a fractured wrist pursuing Johnny Rancid (Henry Rollins), but he does get a visit from his biggest fan, Larry the Titan (Dee Bradley Baker) – a little imp from another dimension. Episode 12-13: Aftershock, Pt. 1 and 2: Slade’s plan finally comes to fruition and the Titans find themselves battling one of their own.
Teen Titans continue another season and also continue to use the Super D (or deformed) style of animation where characters are exaggerated at times. I enjoyed the Terra storyline, but have to admit that what eventually happens to her character was pretty much telegraphed from the beginning.
Maybe I’ve just watched too many of these types of movies or read too many comic storylines. Where this season lets down is in the special features department. It seems that Warner believes in putting a decent amount of special features on the first season and not putting much effort into season twos (see special features below).
The Super D animation continues in season two
Teen Titans is presented in fullscreen as it was originally shown on television. Special features include the 4 minute “Catching up with…Teen Titans: Inside Season 2” which is basically a series of clips from season one. There are also trailers for other Warner animation DVDs.
Teen Titans stays on par with Season One and if you enjoyed that season then you will enjoy this one. They do try and inject a new Titan and it adds some excitement to this season. Where the DVD package lets down is in the special features department since Season One had more substantial ones. However, the low price point makes it an easy purchase for fans of the show.
Teen Titans - The Complete Second Season is now available at Amazon . As of yet, there is not a release date for the UK. Visit the DVD database for more information.
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