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| Cleopatra 2525 - Complete Series | 
| Directors: John Laing, Rick Jacobson, T.j. Scott
Actors: Gina Torres, Victoria Pratt, Jennifer Sky, Elizabeth Hawthorne, Patrick Kake
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.98
Buy New: $35.57
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (30 reviews)
Sales Rank: 26378
Format: Box Set, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Subtitled, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 757 minutes
Number Of Items: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.5 x 0.7
MPN: D28030D
ISBN: 1417054867
UPC: 025192803024
EAN: 9781417054862
ASIN: B0009JE6FM
Release Date: July 19, 2005
Theatrical Release Date: January 17, 2000
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Description
Get ready for temperatures to rise as the sexiest sci-fi series ever, Cleopatra 2525, explodes on to DVD for the first time! Action goddess Gina Torres stars in the sizzling series about a cryogenically frozen exotic dancer who, after accidentally being thawed in the year 2525, joins two sexy freedom fighters in their battle against evil robots called Bailies. Led by the mysterious "Voice," this tempestuous trio must out-fight, out-seduce and out-maneuver the forces that threaten to destroy the world. From executive producer Sam Raimi (director of Spider-Man and Evil Dead) comes all 28 action-packed episodes and exclusive bonus features from the series that has the New York Daily News declaring "the sexy factor is way in the red zone."
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 Buck's Babes January 1, 2009
Most likely "Cleopatra 2525" will be of little interest if you did not watch the series when it was broadcast; and I don't think that many people did. But if you are still somewhat intrigued it is a "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century" premise without space ships and with no budget for wardrobe or production design.
In this case the Buck Rogers part (Cleopatra) is played by Jennifer Sky. Which one might expect to be a good thing as Jennifer is very beautiful and quite talented; and has a nice comedic touch. But a quick glance at the promotional material will show that she is somewhat the worse for having a bad haircut and a Salvation Army Thrift Store wardrobe. If you remember how fetching Jennifer was during her time on "Xena" her dowdy Cleopatra look with be a huge disappointment. With a target audience of "teenage boys looking to burn their eyeballs looking for at girls" it is not a good idea to skimp on the exploitation value of your heroine or her costume. And they wonder why some series don't attract much of an audience. Love it or hate it, "Buck Rogers" had hotter costumes and much better looking guest stars.
The other two exploitation elements are Cleopatra's two female associates; Hel (Gina Torres basically playing her stock "Firefly" character) and Sarge (Victoria Pratt-another "Xena" connection-an extremely wooden version of Natasha Henstridge). Torres does a good job playing off the Cleopatra character, providing most of the show's comic relief.
Torres sings the theme song, a somewhat lame parody of Rick Evans' "In the Year 2525 (Exordium and Terminus)" (1969). You remember the one that opens with the words "In the year 2525, If man is still alive, If woman can survive, They may find..."I suspect that they gave the series its title so that they could butcher this catchy little song although who knows, perhaps the title is a homage to "Buck Rogers" and they thought of using the song later.
So, the premise of the show is that the Earth's surface has been taken over by aliens called Bailies (not the WKRP one) and the humans have been driven underground. Our three heroines fight against the Bailies under the direction of a disembodied (presumably) female voice (appropriately referred to as "Voice"). Unlike Buck Rogers, Cleopatra is kind of a wimpy third stooge, still dazed and confused from her cryogenic sleep or maybe just disoriented from the creepy haircut. There are a lot of nice close-ups of Sky wide-eyed and bewildered. Like "Buck Rogers" the running gag is Cleopatra using a common 21st century expression and everyone finding it either totally profound or completely baffling.
Unlike "Firefly" the action is more of that hyper edited "Xena" garbage which is neither realistic nor particularly entertaining. One good gimmick is that the girls travel around "Spiderman" fashion, a sort of web slinging through tunnels and shafts in the labyrinth of their underground world.
Strangely (or maybe not considering the budget) these are only half hour episodes and except for one two-part show there is not enough time for any subtlety and nuance.
Then again, what do I know? I'm only a child.
 Smell the Nostalgia! August 30, 2008
"In the year 2525..."
Yes, it might be the cheesiest show ever made, but it had good special effects for the time, still better than most series. If you watched them on their original run, they are worth their weight in gold for the nostalgia value.
A serious, dramatic, action, yet comedic Sci-Fi? Yeah, I'm not really sure either... June 30, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
There's something for everyone out there, or so the saying goes. Well this something really isn't for me. Based on Amazon's description I wasn't exactly expecting something hugely competent since it appears the main goal was to make the sexiest sci-fi on TV. While that may be a noble goal, there needs to be more than just beautiful women to really get me into a show. Sci-fi needs to seriously appeal to my intellect on some kind of a level, and this show does try that, I was just expecting something a little more. Anyway, I really snagged this because I saw that Gina Torres was in this show and she is also in "Firefly" and I really enjoyed "Firefly" and "Serenity" a lot. So I figured why not, this is probably half-way decent. Boy were my expectations still too high. I mean it is really cheesy, and maybe it's supposed to be because it's pretty goofy overall. I'm not sure, because it's mingled with very serious concepts and moments, so I'm up in the air for what the authors were really going for.
So, the premise of the show is that the Earth has been taken over by these machines called Bailies and mankind has been driven into the underground. As you can see this is a highly original concept. No one has ever thought of this before, certainly not in the Matrix. Things are a little less orderly with the human population in "Cleopatra 2525" though. So there are these Special Forces teams of sorts, kind of like in the Matrix, where they try to fight against the Bailies. They're called voice teams and it's organized by this voice, aptly named "Voice", who pulls it all together. Only the team leader has the voice implant in her head so she can hear Voice all the time. Hel, played by Gina Torres, is the team leader and while she and Sarge were in a battle they ended up in a cryogenic facility where Cleopatra was accidentally thawed out. She's an exotic dancer, but they decide to have her be part of the team anyway. Most realistic and best idea ever! I realize the warrior woman concept is hugely popular; I love it myself, but at least have some good writing! Take Xena for example; that at least had pretty interesting stories and Lucy Lawless can actually act! Jennifer Sky, Cleopatra, did a terrible job in this show. She absolutely overacted almost every single scene. Maybe that's what they wanted her to do? But seriously, twenty-eight episodes... it just gets annoying after a while. They gave her terrible lines to follow also, like goofy sayings from the 20th century that everyone in our time knows, but no on knows in 2525, they just sound incredibly goofy. Not to mention their arch nemesis is this guy named Creegan who has his face painted like a clown and has bright red hair. Yes, horrifying person... except he's dressed in red vinyl. Maybe this is some relation to the scary clown concept like in "It" or "Killer Clowns from Outer Space", who knows, either way it seems like a bad idea.
Okay, that's basically everything I didn't like about the show mingled with what the shows general premise was. I seriously struggled through this show. Episode after episode of grueling bad acting and just as bad writing. Why is everyone dressed like they're at a Goth dance club anyway? I seriously have a hard time figuring this out. I like seeing girls in tight leather or vinyl as much as the next guy, but the whole population? Despite all this eye candy it was still tough to make it through the series. Anyway, I'm glad I did, because I did find something positive after a while. On the second half of disc two, the story-line featuring Creegan actually gets really good and intriguing. You learn a lot more about Creegan's history and Hel's. In the end Creegan ended up being my favorite character. He was actually one of the stronger actors in this series as well, actually better than Hel in my opinion. This is, of course, all despite his looks. I also liked the way the series ended, it was definitely somewhat unexpected from my end and I thought it had a strong ending. Yes, you find out who voice is. This is really what got it the extra star, unfortunately the strength the last episodes had couldn't save the whole series.
Overall, this was a tough series to get into. The fact it's pressed on dual-discs didn't help me with my rating either, though I'm not as disappointed since I won't be watching this over and over. It has some cool ideas here and there in terms of Sci-fi, but there wasn't enough to really pull me in. The acting by most of the characters was horrible and a lot of the scripts were weak. The acting did get a little better as the series went on, but by then it was too late for me. Honestly the next time these people decide to write a show, they should focus more on actually writing a good story rather than checking out their cast. The sexual jokes in the script felt forced and out of placed and there's no seamlessness to the writing at all. Lots of shows manage to incorporate good looking people with good writing, so I know it's a possible feat to accomplish. Like I said before, there will certainly be many people who find this show great, but for me, I need a little more backing up my Sci-fi, sorry to those hardcore fans out there for giving this a low rating.
 funny show February 13, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Very silly, but a lot of fun. This was a very fun show from (some) the makers of Xena. It is set in the future where Celopatra, after being cryogenically frozen after a bad b-augmentation job, wakes up and realizes it is the future and it is overrun by strange creatures. Humans live underground and her two new friends are sort of fighting for human kind. Many a reference to popular culture enter the show which makes it both fun an entertaining. A kinda cultish and fun show that was never really expected be long-lasting, it provided good silly humor.
The DVD contains seasons 1 and 2.
 cleo 2525 January 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
first of all i would have given it a 5 but i found out that the company leaves you wanting more at the last episode point is i watchied the show when i was younger same with jack of all trades fromat doesnt surprise to much but i do HATE double sided dvds and cds any the show is just how i remberd it when i first seen the series great action, comedy, scifi, kinda like the matrix in a away except instead humans being living batteries for the robots in the matrix story humans are drivin underground and forced to live underground until they can tak back the surface from teh baileys, and betraiers,.
spoliers
now for reason for 4 star rating ive watched the entire set and at the last episode they show humans and baileys fighting above ground but the series wasnt finished for some reason i was dissapointed when that was the last episode on the set who wins the final battle war the humsn aor the living machines they dont tell you or show you what happesn next i was dissapointed when the series wasnt finsihesd the right they leave wanting more with a cliffhanger which sucks if it wasnt for the end episode i would have givin it 5 star rating
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