Maxies World The Complete Series

Awful. 5 stars.

A poor rival to Barbie, Maxie's World was another failed marketing attempt by Hasbro to usurp Mattel's dominance at the time. As with it's predecessor Jem & The Holograms, Maxie's World was a case of "make the doll then sell via cartoon".It's not difficult to see why the series failed; Maxie and her friends display no more personality than the plastic their doll contemporaries are made from, plots are wafer thin and most episodes have a (typical late 80s) 'moral' shoehorned in, ranging from shoplifting (The Five Finger Discount), eating disorders (Fat Chance) and smoking (Ashes To Ashley) through to gender stereotyping (The Not-So-Great Outdoors) and age discrimination (Teaching An Old Teacher New Tricks).Owning this series on DVD may bring back some late 80s nostalgia, but the remastering on this 2 disc set is non-existent; animation is extremely grainy on most episodes, sound and music go up and down seemingly at random and some episodes seem to have first and second generation film spliced next to each other; not really worth your time, unless you are desperate to relive some childhood memories.

It came with the whole episodes and two DVDs sets. I love it! I watched Maxie's World as a kid in the 1980's and I enjoy it more now!

Great show, except the soundtrack seems to be louder than the characters voices at several points.

This is another great 80's chick toon! While I only got to see the Punky Brewster toon alongside She-Ra, Rainbow Brite and Jem as an 80's kid, I never did hear or see this until the mid 90's when I got to see some of the intro. This show is definitely great! It's cute and fun too! While some of the episodes are in no particular order, they're still pretty good and fun to watch. You'll have lots of fun with the coolest, sweetest gal from Surfside and her friends 'cause good times are happenin' in Maxie's World!

I loved Maxie when I was a younger and had a VHS tape at one point that was destroyed in a flood. Husband got my the DVD for my birthday and I love it. My 10 year old wanted to see and she is now in love with Maxie too. we stayed up and binge watched almost the whole dvd. Her question to me was why did I get all the good cartoons and she gets the bad ones. lol

This was a good show (especially if you are an 80s baby like me.) I vaguely remember watching it way back when and couldn't recall most of it, but did get bouts of nostalgia during the intro. I guess I just have a few gripes with the production of these dvds (although I've grown fond of Cookie Jar ever since the release of Beverly Hills Teens.) I didn't like that not all of the episodes played the intro and that they didn't seem to be in order based on the preview that played after some of the episodes. Another thing I absolutely abhored was how some of the voices would get drowned out by the blaring music, making it difficult to hear what they were saying. I'm guessing there was some technical difficulty with the audio during the transfer from VHS to DVD. With that being said, onto what I did like: Despite how old this is, the colors were nice. I also enjoyed the novelty of some of the over the top, often fun and amusing, story lines. I guess my favorite thing would have to be how original the show was in tackling the occasional serious issues some teens face in an outrageous way; somehow the creators managed to make it work. I just wanted to make a note for those parents who worry about what their kids are watching in some cartoons. Episodes such as Ashes to Ashley address the issue of smoking and actually show teenage Ashley purchasing cigarettes despite her age and consuming them in an effort to appear more sophisticated in order to get the lead in the high school play whose director/caster is also a heavy smoker. Of course Maxie and her friends outrightly object to Ashley taking up smoking; in one hilarious scene they all practically fly out of the Surf Burger diner where the gang hangs out when she decides to light up. In another titled Fat Chance the focus is on weight issues. Due to a joke directed towards Ashley about needing to go on a diet, she takes it seriously so her insercurities gets the best of her and she starts visualizing herself as being overweight everytime she looks in a mirror. She then proceeds to starve herself and exercise profusely, despite Maxie trying to reassure her that she is perfectly fine the way that she is. I have to admit, I thought it got a little extreme when Ashley's conscience produces this little scrawny fairy that constantly nags and taunts her about her weight. I mean that little fairy was relentless and I just couldn't picture a little kid watching that unless they were a bit older. Either way all of the episodes end on a good and positive note in its message. Although, the censors would have a field day with this one nowadays. That's probably why it isn't rated. By the way, as I expected being a fan of Beverly Hills Teens, the Beach Blanket Battle final episode left something to be desired. Had both creators collaborated, it would have been far better than what it is. The designs were completely off when it came down to the original characters of that awesome show (Bianca looked horrible as a blonde and Lark even worse as a brunette. Not to mention not all of them were in attendance.) All and all I'm glad I own a copy of Maxie's World and welcome it to my growing 80s toons' collection.