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Stargate: Continuum
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Baal travels back in time and prevents the Stargate program from ever being started. SG-1 team must somehow restore history and once again save the galaxy from oppressive domination.System Requirements:Running Time: 98 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: SCI-FI/FANTASY/FANTASY Rating: NR UPC: 024543528463 Manufacturer No: 2252846
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If Continuum, the second feature length, made-for-DVD film spun off from the long-running Stargate SG-1 television series, marks the end of this wing of the franchise--and it is hardly a certainty, given the show's Lazarus-like history--then all involved, including the viewer, should be well satisfied. Continuum commingles all the elements that have made Stargate so eminently watchable over the years, including engaging characters and storyline, plenty of action, impressive sets, and first-rate special effects. This time the whole gang is on hand, as the most recent SG-1 contigent (Ben Browder as fearless leader Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell, Amanda Tapping as the brainy Lt. Col. Samantha Carter, Christopher Judge as the implacable alien Teal'c, Michael Shanks as the ever-resourceful Dr. Daniel Jackson, and Claudia Black as the irreverent, motor-mouthed Vala) is joined by characters whose roles had been reduced or eliminated along the way; principal among the latter is Richard Dean Anderson, whose Major General Jack O'Neill makes a welcome return after sitting out The Ark of Truth, the first post-series film (both of Stargate Command's head honchos, played by Beau Bridges and the late Don S. Davis, are also back). The villain is familiar as well: Ba'al (Cliff Simon), the last of the "Goa'uld system lords," who's scheduled to be executed--or, more specifically, "extracted," whereby the bad mojo inside him will be exorcised. Things don't quite go as planned, of course. Ba'al has managed to manipulate time, creating a situation where Mitchell, Jackson, and Carter find themselves caught in a paradox, an alternate timeline in which the Stargate program never even existed, making it easy for the bad guy and his gigantic space brigade to launch an all-out attack on Earth (though long-threatened throughout the series, such an invasion never actually happened until now). Our heroes' intrepid efforts to thwart Ba'al's dastardly scheme take them from the Arctic (for real) to the cockpits of F-15 jets and even the hold of a 1930s cargo ship (built specially for the occasion). All this, and Browder portraying his own grandfather too? Yo, Stargate: Continuum rocks! --Sam Graham
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Stargate: Continuum
- DVD: 0 pages (2008-07-29)
- Publisher: MGM Entertainment
- Label: MGM Entertainment
- Starring: Ben Browder, Michael Shanks, Amanda Tapping, Christopher Judge, Claudia Black
- Encoding: Region 1
- Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
- Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1,
- Rated: NR (Not Rated)
- Studio: MGM Entertainment
- DVD Release Date: 2008-07-29
- Run Time: 98
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 181 reviews
- Sales Rank in DVD: #35
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Summary: Ausome! but... 2008-09-04
Comment: If you liked Stargate SG-1, Stargate Atlantis, or Stargate: The Ark of Truth. Then you will most likely enjoy this film. The plot was... different. I enjoyed it but it seemed to go by fast.
Stars: *****
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Summary: Stargate Continuum continues to deliver.... 2008-09-04
Comment: Interesting twist from the Stargate SG-1 Universe, plays like an extended TV episode but at least there's some closure in one chapter of the series. Being a fan of both SG-1 & Atlantis series for a Blu-ray movie it's kinda so-so. I'm not talking about the story I mean the overall clarity is still TV like, the sound is awesome, just the visual is ok.
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Summary: A great story! 2008-09-03
Comment: I admit, I am an SGC fan. I have watched the series since it began, including the original movie. I love the concept (although some of the stories are a little weak on occasion).
This movie has some great scenes, like the huge armada of ships hovering over Earth, ready to destroy us. I always love time travel and time paradox stories, and this element of the story makes it especially interesting.
So, if you like SciFi, and you like Stargate, you gotta buy this DVD!
I hope they keep producing these DVD's - they have a forever customer with me (as long as the quality continues to hold up).
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Summary: Another Great Stargate Story 2008-09-03
Comment: I am a Stargate fan and this was a great CD. I knew what I was ordering and received my CD in record time. I look forward to more and will certainly order again.
Janette
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Summary: A feature length episode, but a good one 2008-09-03
Comment: With Continuum being the last entry into the Stargate SG-1 story, they do a good job of tying up the one real remaining loose end, namely Ba'al. He is up to his usual tricks of trying to take over the galaxy and the SG-1 team is again tasked with saving the day. Like a lot of the episodes, SG-1 gets itself into a pretty deep pickle before finally coming through in the end, but it's a good story and certainly worth watching. But, like all of the Star Trek movies that came out after the show's finale, this movie is just a longer version of an episode that might have aired on the SciFi network during the show's run.
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