Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #443 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-04-13
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Number of discs: 3
• Running time: 420 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
Now firmly established as one of America’s favourite comedy series, it’s tricky not to fall for the charms of Two And A Half Men, as it confidently hits its fifth season. At heart, it’s the story of two brothers. On one hand, there’s Jon Cryer’s Alan, who it’s fair to say is the calmer and more sensible of the two. Then there’s Charlie Sheen as, naturally, Charlie, who doesn’t have that many cares in his life, and is a natural born womaniser.

Season five of Two And A Half Men includes the 100th episode of the show, but there are many other highlights too. Season five includes Alan persuading Charlie that the women they date need to be more respectable, Charlie trying to entertain a four-year old, Alan’s attempts to steal Charlie’s girlfriend and then Charlie also seeking relationship advice.

It’s a fairly conventional mix of plotlines, granted, but Two And A Half Men mines many laughs from them. It helps that Sheen and Cryer are a really good double act, and aided by a supporting cast that includes Angus T Jones and Conchata Ferrell (along with a few surprise guest appearances), the show is hard to resist. Five seasons on, its popularity and quality shows little sign of dropping, and it’s a comedy you can consistently rely on to generate chuckles. --Jon Foster

DVD Description
Join the comedy of this fifth season of Two And A Half Men which opens with Jake getting ready to start a new school as he advances to junior high. Alan and Charlie take him school shopping and find themselves in trouble. The comedy continues in this lovable comedy TV series starring Charlie Sheen.

Synopsis
Channel Five/Paramount Comedy sitcom which centres on the lives of two very different brothers; straight-laced Alan (Jon Cryer) and care-free Charlie (Charlie Sheen). This odd couple comedy pairing gives way to many humourous situations, usually involving Charlie's womanising exploits. Their relationship is exacerbated by the fact that Alan is trying to raise his young son and doesn't want his brother acting as a bad influence. Guest appearances include Sean Penn, Elvis Costello, Denise Richards (Wild Things), and Lucy Lawless (Xena Warrior Princess). This release features every episode from the show's fifth series.

Customer Reviews

Excellent
If you enjoyed the first 4 Seasons of Two & Half Men, then you will not be disappointed with this season. The cast and writers pull off another extremely funny series. I am so glad they have renewed the series for three more seasons. So if you want to laugh out loud then get this.

Two and a half stars
A simple concept of a newly divorced man moving in with his rich, womanizing brother in Malibu with visits from his dopey son. The first three series were really very funny and are well worth seeing and if you have missed them then are well worth your time.
However series four saw the franchise run out of steam and I'm sorry to say that series five is a very poor shadow of what used to be.
The humour has gone stale with there being very few laugh out loud moments. We are forced to retread the same old areas of Charlie's inability to have a long term relationship, Alan continues to be a loser and Jake, well in fairness Jake has grown up a little and his growing understanding is where this series' biggest laughs come from.
What I dislike most of all is the degeneration of all the characters in this. Alan is now just a desperate misogynist who now holds women in the same poor regard as his brother. The stalker Rose is now devoid of all humour and is just shown as a frightening lunatic stalker with no relief. In fact all the women are now portayed as being pretty awful. Alans wife remains a shrew, their mother is even more of an unfeeling monster than before, Charlies psychiatrist is now sarcastic, unhelpful & money grabbing & the one woman Charlie dates, an older woman who mothers him, descends into being a drunken wretch.
Most disturbing of all is the ever growing use of Jake as yet another womanizer with no morals or care for anyone.
What was a simple and fun idea has descended into bitterness and unrelenting misogyny. The final nail in the coffin is an episode offering a lame CSI spoof which is a sure sign that all involved have run out of ideas. This is backed up by the fact that there are only 19 episodes on 3 discs.
A real shame.

More good stuff
If you enjoy a good sitcom with some clever adult humour thrown in I can recommend this show. The seasons follow on sequentially although you can pick it up anywhere along the timeline. The characters of the show have developed nicely over the time it has been broadcast. The grand thing about this comedy is you can watch the episodes more than once and still enjoy them enormously with the clever references and subtle humour used by the writers.