Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3808 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-05-28
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 430 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
The "Laugh Alert" level is elevated with the release of this second volume of episodes that chronologically span seasons 1 and 2. You know the "there" that people talk about when they say, "Don't go 'there'?" Seth MacFarlane's American Dad leaves "there" in the dust. Take the holiday--excuse me, Christmas--episode, "The Best Christmas Story Never," which somehow melds Charles Dickens with a Ray Bradbury-esque cautionary tale of tampering with the past. CIA Agent and true patriot act Stan Smith (voiced by MacFarlane) loses the spirit of the season in a blizzard of PC secularism in which even the fugitive "Christmas rapist" must be referred to as "the holiday rapist." In the "is nothing sacred" world of American Dad, Christmas can only be saved by Stan accompanying the Ghost of Christmas Past (Lisa Kudrow) back in time to (don't ask) kill Jane Fonda (or Donald Sutherland), take over the direction of Taxi Driver from a drug-free Martin Scorsese, and shoot Ronald Reagan. The Smith family--wife Francine, geeky son Steve, and "peace-pusher" daughter Hayley--is still not as vividly drawn as the Griffins on MacFarlane's Family Guy (even Klaus, the talking German-accented goldfish admits in one episode that his "fish shtick" is getting thin), but one can't help salute the audacity of the oft-inspired writing. In "Stannie, Get Your Gun," Stan becomes a National Gun Association spokesperson after being accidentally paralyzed by his anti-gun daughter. "The American Dad After School Special" has an A Brilliant Mind-like twist as Stan battles an eating disorder brought about by Steve's new overweight girlfriend. In "Helping Handis," Steve becomes the big man on campus after he develops steroid-enhanced breasts.

Two episodes are standouts for their animation. "Dungeons and Wagons," as did South Park with "Make Love, Not Warcraft," creates a video game universe in which Steve rules. Near the end of "Failure Is Not a Factory-Installed Option," the screen adjusts to widescreen format, and the saga of the golden turd, begun in the first season episode, "Homeland Insecurity" compellingly continues with the jewel-encrusted oddity becoming the last temptation of an honest cop (Beau Bridges). American Dad is, as should be apparent, not for all tastes (or more sensitive viewers--the episode "Tears of a Clooney" drops some unbleeped F-bombs), but fans of the series are rewarded with this three disc-set's prodigious extra features, including rowdy, chaotic commentaries for all the episodes, a wealth of hit and miss deleted scenes, and a segment devoted to the production of "Dungeons and Wagons." --Donald Liebenson

Synopsis
From the creators of THE FAMILY GUY comes another outrageous and over-the-top take on the American nuclear family. With his doting wife, Francine, at his side, Stan Smith CIA agent, anti-terror operative, and upstanding citizen runs a household that includes his ultra-liberal daughter, Hayley; his dweeb son, Steve; a sarcastic alien named Roger; and a lascivious German goldfish, Klaus.

Customer Reviews

This boxset IS the 19 episode set
Just to clarify, ignore O.Robson a couple of reviews down as he is wrong. This Region 2 American Dad boxset is Volume 2 rather than Season 2 but it does contain 19 full episodes NOT 10 as that person (and certain other people have listed elsewhere) has incorrectly stated.

The episodes begin with "Stannie Get Your Gun" and runs through to "The Best Christmas Story Never" This is the remaining 10 episodes from Season 1 and the first 9 episodes of Season 2 from American TV.

The Region 1 release in the US is exactly the same so don't be fooled into importing it by thinking it's any better than Region 2. It's cheaper and better to get it here. So overall it isn't a full Season 2 from America but at least it's the rest of Season 1 and half of Season 2 rather than the incorrectly listed half of Season 1 alone.

As for the show itself, if you liked Volume 1 you'll buy it and if you like Family Guy you should buy it. Nuff said.

American Dad, satirical genius
Just to get things straight this 'volume 2' of the american dad series contains 19 episodes. The final 10 from season 1 and the first 9 of season 2. So you are gettin a lot more for your money than u did with volume 1. Fox should be congradulated for finally seeing sense and not charging us Brits extortionate prices for incomplete seasons like they have done with FG "season" 4 and 5 and AD volume 1. Back to the show though and American Dad offers all the hilarity of Family Guy but is slightly more clever in the way it delivers its comedy. The characters have been well developed over the first volume and continue to do so in this volume. A must buy for any animated comedy fan and a must for students. Buy this now!!!!!!!!!!

Better than Volume 1, But Missing Something...
First Off, American Dad is the Brainchild of Seth Macfarlane [Creator of Family Guy] and was First Written due to the Cancelation of Family Guy after Season 3. This DVD Cointains the Remaining Episodes from Season 1 and the First 9 from Season 2.
Though all of the Episodes are Hillarious and the DVD Extras are Superb it was missing something for me and that was on Episode 'Tears of a Clooney'.
When I saw the Episode 'Tears of a Clooney on TV I Laughed and Laughed but when you see the Uncut F-Word Episode on DVD it's not as Good. You See, The Censored Swearing on *Francine's Behalf was so much funnier than Hearing her Swearing Over and Over about Clooney being this and that.

Despite this though I thoroughly enjoyed all the Episodes and look forward to the Next DVD Release.

Note 1*: Francine in American Dad is the Mother Character for those who don't know.