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| Monk - Season Four | 
 enlarge | Directors: Jerry Levine, Stephen Cragg, Michael Nankin, Adam Arkin, Kevin Inch
Studio: Universal Studios
Category: DVD
List Price: $59.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 1649
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 693
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.5 x 1.2
MPN: 61029284
UPC: 025192928420
EAN: 0025192928420
ASIN: B000F0UUTG
Theatrical Release Date: July 12, 2002
Release Date: June 27, 2006
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Product Description
He's ingenious he's phobic he's obsessive compulsive. Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner "Tony Shalhoub is a riot" (TV Guide) in Monk the show that critics are praising as "fresh exciting and utterly original." (Chicago Tribune). Monk's hilarious offbeat antics have made him unfit for duty but he's back as a police consultant to help out on their most baffling cases. Tony Shalhoub returns in his award-winning role in the smash-hit series Monk. The complete fourth season of "the best detective show to come along in decades" (The New York Times). Is now available on DVD!Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 025192928420 Manufacturer No: 61029284
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Adrian Monk is still "the man" as this brilliant fourth season demonstrates. Not that his confidence in his crime-solving abilities isn't tested from time to time. In the fun season-opener, Monk finds himself upstaged by low-rent private eye Marty Eels (guest star Jason Alexander in a spinoff-worthy role). The very flappable Monk is further undone by Eels' seemingly uncanny ability to find clues in the baffling case of a jewelry store robbery ("He's cheating," Monk protests in vain). This is something of a "threshold" season for Monk, to quote his psychiatrist, who is moved to openly weep when Monk uncharacteristically allows a glass to go uncoastered at one point. But his obsessive-compulsive disorders still get the best of him, as in one of the season's more clever episodes, "Mr. Monk Goes to the Office," in which Monk, going undercover, is blissfully in his element as an "office drone," doing the same tasks day in and day out. Just as he is accepted as one of the office gang, he alienates them by not participating in a bowling tournament (it must be the shoes). Tony Shalhoub, a two-time Emmy-winner for his nuanced performances as Monk, was nominated for his third Emmy for this season. One of his finest hours is "Mr. Monk and Mrs. Monk," in which it appears that his beloved late wife, Trudy, is not only still alive, but a suspect in a murder. This season also develops Monk's relationship with his new personal assistant, Natalie (Trayler Howard). In "Mr. Monk Gets Drunk," it's all about trust when Natalie initially doesn't believe Monk's implausible tale of a disappeared wine-country-inn guest Monk claims to have met the night before. Genius is pain, John Lennon once said, and this applies to Monk. His neurotic tendencies alienate him from the mainstream. In "Office," he so wants to be accepted that he writes conversational cue cards, and the solving of the crime doesn't compensate for him being a cubicle laughingstock. But as the series progresses, Monk is getting better, so much so, that Captain Stottlemeyer (Ted Levine) informs him that he is being put under contract retainer for "16 homicides a year." With a sly nod to the series' renewal, Stottlemeyer tells him they best take things "one year at a time." --Donald Liebenson
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 So Fun August 4, 2008
This is one of the few TV shows that my whole family enjoys. Tony Shalhoub is so fun!
Monk Season Four July 27, 2008
The Monk Season Four DVD was sent to my Son who is living in Japan. I have to compliment Amazon for their expertise when it come to shipping Items internationally. It arrived before the date that was given to me as an arrival date. My son and his new friends in Japan enjoyed the DVD. The DVD was in perfect condition and the DVD was Monk Season Four in entirety. A good buy as always from Amazon.
More changes for the characters July 1, 2008
Things keep changing for the characters, which is a good thing for any tv series; it helps the show to evolve. The captain's marriage crumbles, Julie tries modeling, Randy speaks up for himself, and Monk has several breakthroughs with the help of Dr. Kroger, although the main character's tragic core remains, and is central to the show.
I still have to say that I miss Bitty Schram tremendously; Howard just doesn't quite fill the void, although she does her best.
I also wish we could see Monk's troubled brother more frequently.
This Guy Is Nuts! June 21, 2008
I'm not really a TV person. As my manager Blane over at the trophy shop would tell you, drunk or sober, "Ramiro's family in Mexico couldn't afford a television set when he was growing up, so he got to miss out on a lotta culture." He's a bully. Now I just ignore him. Yes, we did have a TV; I just didn't watch it! My grandmother did all the watching, enough watching for the whole family. Blane knows all the TV shows you could imagine, just like my Tita did -- may she rest in peace. Times have changed since my Tita watched TV, but just like her, Blane's down with TV -- reality TV and even actuality TV. But his favorite are all the crime scene investigation thingies, just as my Tita's favorites were her telenovelas and Columbo. Monk really tickled Blane's fancy, because it's freaking funny - intelligent but ridiculously humorous at the same time. The first time he recommended Monk a few years ago, I thought he was just teasing me. He had been drinking again and kept slurring loudly, "Have you seen the new Columbo?" I vaguely remember seeing the "just one more thing" detective in Mexico, with my Tita sitting next to the wood stove in the kitchen. With a flashback of memories, slapping me around harder than Blane has ever slapped me around in the production-and-assembly room of the trophy shop, I got a little misty because I do miss my grandma yelling instructions and clues at Columbo on Sunday evenings, and I told Blane he didn't know what he was talking about, that there could only be one Columbo. Blane nearly tripped over his shoelaces, steadied himself on the trophy assembly table, wiped his spittle with the back of his hand and stuttered, "This guy's better than Columbo!" I didn't pay him much attention then -- Blane was NOT going to get me hooked on TV. I loved my Tita, but I also know that her TV watching produced more of the sorrow that she was trying to get rid of by watching it. Funny thing is that he was right. Blane was right - I don't mind admitting it now, years later, now that Blane's ex-wife and I, and sometimes Blane's kids, sit in the living room of Blane's ex-house, drink Blane's ex-beer and watch Season Four of Monk on Blane's ex-television set.
 Monk - Season Four April 18, 2008
Mr. Monk doesn't fail to obsessively, compulsively, entertain.
All seasons are a must in order to "...do it the Monk way..."
(Mr. Monk becomes a butler in season five)
In season four, regardless of "flinching" once, our detective later is flinchless as he once again gets his man.
My only complaint for season four - is that lovely Natalie is coiffed and dressed ridiculously for part of it (where did those frills come from? And the chopped hair?) The wardrobe improves and in season five, she is stunning.
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