Modern Family - The Complete Fifth Season

America's "favorite sitcom family" is back for your home video collection with the all new Season 5 release of "Modern Family: The Complete Fifth Season" now available on DVD.

Season Five of "Modern Family" sees much of the Dunphy/Pritchett hijinks, still maintaining itself as one of the world's favorite families in recent TV history. The gang makes not one, but two, vacation journeys together; the beautiful country of Australia (complete with kangaroos, koalas, and didgeridoos) as well as a trip to Vegas (sans the children), ending in a considerably funny series of English-type Bedroom Farce events.

Season Five also sees the long-awaited wedding of main characters Cameron and Mitchell. The whole season follows our heroes stumbling through the planning and execution of their wedding, climaxing in a two-part marriage season finale.

Even though "Modern Family" took their Emmy Award for Best Comedy Show on TV again this year, one has to wonder when the Dunphy/Pritchett gang's "can't touch this" reputation will begin to slip. Let's face it, the kids of this show are growing up so fast. On occasion, what seemed cute to precocious occasionally now comes across as formula and schlocky. If it wasn't for darling adopted gayby "Lily," played by the adorable Aubrey Anderson-Emmons, the show's family nucleus might seem nullified and energy-less.

The blame for this lackluster DVD set falls directly on the shoulders of Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment. As of the writing of this, they have yet to release Season 5 on Blu-ray, as all previous seasons, slapping the face of "Modern Family"'s devoted fans.

The DVD picture quality (as one would assume) is a substandard picture quality and their extras for the release are much slimmer than past seasons. Extras include: "A Day With Jesse" hosted by MF's Jesse Tyler Ferguson. Cute, but seemingly abridged and filmed on one of the his final days of shooting Season 5, JTF takes us to the "set" of "Modern Family" for the day, on location at a dry cleaner in Marina Del Rey. (Hold the starch, please.)

This is a followup piece to last year's "A Day With Eric," featuring partner Eric Stonestreet. Also in the extras is a charming 8-minute featurette on the gang in Australia, which by the end you realize is one long PR reel for the episode's sponsor, Qantas Airlines. The highlight of the extras, once again, is this season's blooper "Gag Reel." Okay, it's funny. Very funny... but this fan has come to expect funny from this gang. They're expected to deliver nothing less.

Die hard fans will want to add this to their library, but all in all, by not offering MFS5 on Blu-ray, Fox Home Entertainment makes one message clear: They're taking their family audiences for granted.

"Modern Family - The Complete Fifth Season"
DVD
$39.98