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    WWE: The Attitude Era DVD Set Review

    By Henry Higgins
    | March 12, 2013
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    “Bust out your Austin 3:16 shirt, strike a 5-second pose, heat up a delicious slice of pie and count down to Y2J all over again with The Attitude Era…

    Go back to the days of dysfunction, disorder, and defiance. When radical antiheroes ditched “saying their prayers and taking their vitamins” for opening up a can of whoop ass and laying the Smackdown; when rebels ruled the airwaves and PG stood for “puppies and grapefruits.”

    This 3-disc (2 Disc Blu-Ray) slobberknocker is packed with all the action that pushed censors to new limits, shattered cable TV ratings and crushed WWE’s competition like a Spanish announcer’s table.”

    Wwe Attitude Era Dvd

    Certificate: 15

    Running Time: 282mins (4hrs 42mins – excluding extras)

    Discs: 3

    Disc 1

    Chapters

    • The Birth of Attitude
    • Entrance Music
    • D-Generation X
    • Austin vs. McMahon
    • Long-Arching Stories
    • Innovations
    • New Demographic
    • Critics
    • Expansion
    • Comedy
    • Wealth of Talent
    • The World Was Watching
    • Watershed Period

    Extras

    • Jim Ross interviews Goldust & Marlena – Raw (Nov 3, 1997)
    • Steve Austin Throws the InterContinental Championship Off A Bridge – Raw (Dec 15, 1997)
    • Soldier of Love – Raw (May 4, 1998)
    • Mr McMahon Presents Mankind with the WWE Hardcore Championship – Raw (Nov 2, 1998)
    • Jim Ross Interviews Triple H – Sunday Night Heat (July 25, 1999)
    • An Evening At The Friendly Tap – SmackDown! (Jan 20, 2000)
    • Mae Young and the Acolyte Protection Agency – SmackDown! (Jan 27, 2000)
    • “The Jug Band” – Judgment Day 2000
    • Triple H Trains Trish Stratus – SmackDown! (July 27, 2000)
    • Edges Totally Awesome Birthday – Raw (Oct 30, 2000)
    • The Rocks Message to His Hell in a Cell Opponents – Raw (Dec 4, 2000)
    • GTV

    Disc 2

    Chapters

    • Mike Tyson Joins DX – Raw (Mar 2, 1998)
    • A New Beginning For D-Generation X – Raw (March 30, 1998)
    • Sable v. “Marvelous” Marc Mero – Raw (May 11, 1998)
    • Nation of Degeneration – Raw (July 6, 1998)
    • Brawl for All Match: Bart Gunn v. “Dr Death” Steve Williams – Raw (July 27, 1998)
    • Four Corners Match for the WWE Tag Team Championship: The Undertaker & Stone Cold Steve Austin v. Kane & Mankind v. The New Age Outlaws v. The Rock & Owen Hart – Raw (Aug 10, 1998)
    • Lions Den Match: Ken Shamrock v. Owen Hart – SummerSlam 1998
    • Finals of WWE Championship Tournament: The Rock v. Mankind – Survivor Series 1998
    • The Rock & The Undertaker v. Mankind & Stone Cold Steve Austin – Raw (Dec 7, 1998)
    • Austin Gives The Corporation A Beer Bath – Raw (March 22, 1999)
    • The Undertaker v. Stone Cold Steve Austin – Raw (June 28, 1999)
    • The Debut of Y2J – Raw (Aug 9, 1999)

    Disc 3

    Chapters

    • European & Intercontinental Championship Match: DLo Brown v Jeff Jarrett – SummerSlam 1999
    • Buried Alive Match for the WWE Tag Team Championship: The Rock & Mankind v The Undertaker & Big Show – SmackDown! (Sept 9, 1999)
    • Stone Cold & Jim Ross v Triple H & Chyna – Raw (Oct 11, 1999)
    • Boss Man’s Sympathy for Big Shows Dad – Raw (Nov 18, 1999)
    • The Wedding of Stephanie McMahon & Andrew “Test” Martin – Raw (Nov 29, 1999)
    • The Godfather & DLo Brown v Too Cool – SmackDown (Jan 27, 2000)
    • WWE Hardcore Championship Match: Hardcore Holly v Crash Holly – Raw (March 27, 2000)
    • WWE Championship Match: Chris Jericho v Eddie Guerrero – Raw (April 3, 2000)
    • Steel Cage Match for the WWE Intercontinental Championship: Rikishi v Val Venis – Fully Loaded 2000
    • Tables, Ladders & Chairs Match for the World Tag Team Championship: Edge & Christian v The Hardy Boyz v The Dudley Boyz – SummerSlam 2000
    • Hell in A Cell Match for the WWE Championship: Kurt Angle v Stone Cold Steve Austin v The Rock v Undertaker v Triple H v Rikishi – Armageddon 2000

    Extras

    • GTV – Al Snow & Head
    • Mae Young Gives Birth – Raw (Feb 28, 2000)
    • WWE Womens Championship Match: Lita v Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley – Raw (June 12, 2000)
    • The Dudley Boyz v The Hardy Boyz – Raw (July 17, 2000)

    For the majority of wrestling fans over the age of (say) 25, The Attitude Era is the defining period of pro-wrestling at its peak. Mainstream acceptance on a level alien to today’s product, celebrities fighting over themselves to be featured (or even mentioned on WWE programming), fantastic acts on all levels of the card and the fabled Monday Night Wars at the heart of it all, it’s easy to see why us older fans look at the period of 1997-2001 with such affection.

    For those younger fans, it’s can be hard to explain exactly why The Attitude Era worked so well or why so much of it was over to the extent it was. Of course, the stature of Austin and Rock are easy to fathom, as is the level of HBK, The Hart Foundation, DX, Kane, Undertaker, Mankind, etc in the level just below those two megastars.

    But it’s the depth below that again, the talent that stoked up the lower and midcard ranks, that really encapsulate the difference. Almost everyone had a defining character or personality trait that made them stand out to a degree. From the Holly Cousins being “super-heavyweights”, Too Cool and Rikish dancing their way to the fans hearts, the thrilling three-way tag-team wars between The Dudleys, The Hardys and Edge & Christian (not to mention the rest of the tag division supporting them), to the thrilling Women’s Division spearheaded by Lita and Trish Stratus, the rise of Mr. McMahon and everything inbetween, The Attitude Era had a little something for everyone (with Gangrel’s whole gimmick still being one of my favourite acts from the period).

    With all of that in mind, it’s very disappointing that the era only warrants a sub-60min documentary piece that skims over virtually ever aspect of the time period. A lot gets missed (to be fair, there was a lot of trash in the AE as well; something the rose-tinted glasses from the Nostalgia fashion house conveniently allow you to forget) and what is her gets skipped over in quick fashion.

    Due to this, the main feature can only be classed as a disappointment considering what could have been.

    Things pick up when the second and third discs are viewed as the segments and matches are a great trip down memory lane and a lot of them have held up well in the intervening years.

    It’s here where the set becomes value for money and it’s here that those who missed it first time around can appreciate the finer moments (and some not so fine moments… I’m looking at you, Brawl for All) of the era.

    Extras

    Disc 1 has no fewer than twelve extras on here that cover a number of talents and their memorable segments in the latter part of the 90s into the year 2000. Highlights include a kayfabe-shattering interview with Goldust & Marlena, the introduction of the WWF Hardcore Championship, the still awesome “Jug Band” routine and KAZOOS!!!

    Disc 3 isn’t so generous, but we do get a nice Hardys v Dudleys bout and Steph v Lita for the Women’s Championship.

    Overview

    The documentary is really good for what little content it has, but the pinnacle of WWE (at least from a money-making, creative and ratings POV) deserves much more than a single hour to relay the impact and legacy of the hottest period in pro-wrestling history.

    Some of the talking heads are from previous releases (understandable when some of the talent works for TNA now), but they do their job and get across the importance of what WWE was doing at the time and the stellar rise of Austin and Rock from lower-card workers to THE premier wrestlers stars of their (or any other?) generation.

    The matches and segments that make up the rest of the set are where you will be getting your money’s worth, with a lot of them having never been featured on previous releases, including matches most fans will have forgotten ever existed (Y2J v Eddie for the WWF Championship, Tag-Team Buried Alive Match).

    Blu-Ray customers also get the following for their extra spendage -:

    • King of Kings Match: Ken Shamrock v. Triple H v. Owen Hart – Raw (June 29, 1998)
    • The Oddities w/ Insane Clown Posse v. The Headbangers – Raw (Sept 28, 1998)
    • The Truth About Sammy – Raw (Jan 18, 1999)
    • The Unholy Union of Stephanie McMahon & The Undertaker – Raw (April 26, 1999)
    • The Rock v. Val Venis – SmackDown! (Oct 7, 19990
    • Survivor Series Elimination Match: Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Kane & Shane McMahon v. Triple H, X-Pac & The New Age Outlaws – SmackDown! (Nov 4, 1999)
    • WWE Hardcore Championship Match: Al Snow v. Crash Holly – SmackDown! (June 29, 2000)
    • The Hardy Boyz & Lita v. Perry Saturn, Eddie Guerrero & Dean Malenko –  SmackDown! (Nov 30, 2000)
    • Chris Jericho & The Dudley Boyz v. Kurt Angle, Edge & Christian – Raw (Dec 25, 2000)

    Points: 9/10

    Buy It:

    UK: DVD / Blu-ray

    USA: DVD / Blu-ray

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