Cartoon Network: Adventure Time # Stakes! Miniseries (V11) (DVD)

This is essentially a very good full length Adventure Time movie, interrupted by opening and closing credits every 11 minutes or so. As a longtime fan, it is hard to be certain, but I'm pretty sure this is would be very enjoyable on it's own terms to someone who has never seen the show. Adequate context is given within the miniseries to understand the plot and the relationships between the characters. You just may miss a few jokes and references. In fact, this fills in some long-missing pieces of the Marceline back-story. The return of Rebecca Sugar, former storyboard artist and songwriter for the show, to write a beautiful little song "Everything Stays" is a huge bonus.Additional features I would like to have seen:1. The "play all" selection should have played the opening theme only once at the beginning, and omitted the individual end-credit sequences for a composite end credit sequence at the end (This is common practice with Nickelodeon DVDs).2. An extended cut, as the editing was noticeably tight just to fit all this story into 8 11-minute segments. I'm not sure if there is any fully produced additional footage from which to do this, but if there is, it would be great.3. Professionally shot video of Rebecca Sugar and Olivia Olson singing "Everything Stays" at Comicon (or anywhere, but the Comicon footage exists for sure).4. A Blu Ray release.In short, so good, it left me wanting more. A definite step up from the increasingly variable quality of episodes in this and the previous season. I look forward to the full season Blu Ray release which I can only hope might have some of the added features of which I dream. And to think, creator Pen Ward is off working on his own actual Adventure Time feature film. I can't wait to see that.

My niece loves this show. She watches it so much, that now her brothers and other cousins are all starting to watch it. For a cartoon, it's pretty based in real life, like it can get serious and help teach life lessons. The older kids get and understand that aspect, while the younger kids just love all the different characters and settings. Really great gift, happy I got it for them.

Make no mistake, this is not a spin off or extra story aside from the series. Stakes is episodes 6-13 from season 7 of adventure time.

Man, these episodes messed me up. Adventure Time at it's best! Marceline's woeful lamentation of her thousand years of life was very touching. There's a lot here that can reminds me of my own existential dread, which kinda sucks, but IT'S ADVENTURE TIME! Endlessly charming and clever and wonderful. Marceline is an amazing character- along with everyone around her and the new ones introduced. She deserved the spotlight! Top knotch stuff for long-time or new AT fans.

Our family loves and adores adventure time and this segment in particular was so awesome.It was very in depth with the story line, lots of interesting adventure time information, great look into both PB and Marceline's past, and having TONS of awesome adventure sequences.You'll laugh, you'll scream, you'll get those heart strings pulled every which way if you're invested in these characters and you'll want to watch it over and over!

Great miniseries! My favorite part of Adventure Time. Any true fan has to own this!

My daughter and I love the show but did not realize all these episodes are on season 7

My sister and I love this Marceline special so I bought it for her as a gift. If you like Adventure Time, especially Marceline, this is a good DVD.