Stars: Lucy Lawless, Renee O'Connor

Director: Anson Williams

Summary: Xena travels around the ancient world of gods and magic with her loyal sidekick Gabrielle who keeps her on the path of good. Features the episodes 'Orphan Of War', 'Remember Nothing and 'Giant Killer'.

Three episodes from series two of XENA: WARRIOR PRINCESS are contained on this DVD. In "Orphan of War," Xena (Lucy Lawless) must face her past and her son when she returns to the land of the Centaurs. "Remember Nothing" sees Xena exploring an alternate life when she is offered the chance to have anything she wants. Finally, in "The Giant Killer," Xena's loyalties get confused when she finds herself in battle against an old friend, Goliath.

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Xena--you gotta love her: after all, she could snap your neck just by straightening her knees. She sprang fully armed from Sam Raimi's head in March 1995, to flesh out an otherwise routine episode of the television series Hercules, a 5' 10" high-kicking, horse-riding, chakram-throwing ancient-Greek-warrior princess, who mustered armies the way some women shop for shoes, turning heroes against one another as gleefully as she laid waste to sweet little villages.

Except that somewhere beneath that straight dark fringe and hard-boiled leather breastplate lurk doubts, feelings, even a soul. She was so popular on Herculesher spin-off was an instant certainty--and pretty soon the subtext of her own series was unfolding. Xena is on journey from evil to good, but this can only be enabled via the companionship of bossy redhead scribe/bard Gabrielle, her constant companion. Set in a lush New Zealand doubling for the pagan Mediterranean, as misruled by Ares, Aphrodite, Poseidon and the rest of the Mount Olympus gang, Xena: Warrior Princessrecounts these exploits, as the duo confront gods, monsters, warlords, idiots and anachronisms, as well as their own flaws and desires, at the hilarious and sometimes unsettling mythological cross-roads where touchy-feelly Californian feminism meets high-camp chop-socky pantheism seasoned with the Way of Peplum Tao. --Honey Glass

In the second series (first aired US 1996-97) Xena and Gabrielle (plus goofy side-sidekick the Joxer) meet the Fates, the (surprisingly Gothic) Bacchae, Ulysses, Cupid, Goliath, Santa Claus and (perhaps) the baby Jesus, as well as full-on Xena foe Julius Caesar and her former healer-mentor M'Lila. While filming this series, Xena actress Lucy Lawless was thrown by a horse on Tonight with Jay Leno, and injured: hence a sudden slew of swapped-body stories (Callisto, Autolycus and Gabrielle each have to mimic Xena for an episode), while domestic comedy and/or parody stories contribute to the medically advisable action-lite plot lines. Meanwhile, Callisto murders Gabrielle's hubby-to-be, and the narrative tension deepens. --Honey Glass

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Biography, Photo Gallery
Year:	1996
Release Date:	April 17, 2000
Runtime:	140 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	053 746 2
Keywords:	Action, War, Killer, Princess, General, Remember, Fantasy, Warrior, Giant, Nothing, Tv, Adventure, Orphan, Xena
Genre:	Action/Adventure