I bought it a couple of weeks ago on blind faith. Blockbuster had a promotion, buy a 10 week rental card for $25, get the DVD for free. We had decided not to see the film in the theatre as it would have cost as much as buying the DVD anyway. Since I have two young kids and like to rent movies, it was a no-brainer.
Mrs. ShibbOleth and I watched a bit last night, then offset it by watching part of Blow. We watched the thing in its entirety today. Not bad, the animation is not as good as I expected. My kids didn’t get all of the jokes, and of course the ending was telegraphed, but all in all a decent way to spend a couple hours with the kids on a cold day. Also the wee ones love the add ons more than the movie half the time. I still haven’t had time to see all of the extra stuff yet.
Rented it Friday, watched it all day yesterday, going to buy it today.
I have not laughed so hard since Titanic (and that had me nearly rolling on the floor). When it was finished, I watched it again with the commentary. And then all extra stuff on both discs - yeah, the technical errors like the fuzzy donkey, the exploded faces, and the skirt two feet to the left were funny. Damn fun flick. (But are black turtleneck shirts a wardrobe requirement for voice actors?)
My only problem was I could not get the ‘widescreen’ to work. I set it up ahead of time, but still got full screen. Oh well. Still a good movie.
Another nice feature on the disc I don’t think anyone else has thought of:
Closed-Captioned Audio Commentary!
(on the second disc, choose subtitle option 4 once the movie begins. Options 5 and 6 are French and Spanish translations of the commentary.)
I think this commentary has one of the funniest commentary openings in DVD history: all three participants are humming along to the music over the DreamWorks logo.
Can you really say this after the “let’s rush this to the market because Disney is coming out with another computer-animated insect movie” dud that was Antz? C’mon, it’s no big secret that Katzenberg and Eisner are going to be gunning for each other for the next millenia. Heck, it’s hardly a coincidence that the Shrek DVD came out on the same day that Monsters Inc. premiered…
I’ll probably get the DVD eventually – though I enjoyed the movie, I didn’t think it mandated a “buy it the first day it was released!” frenzy.
I think Shrek is a wonderful movie, although it isn’t a masterpiece. I appreciate it more each time I watch it, though. I haven’t watched the Commentary yet, but I have ssen most of the other special features. It’s a very nice presentation.
I bought it. Didn’t even really mean to buy it, but happened to be in Borders and there it was. Got it, brought it home, watched it, loved it. No idea why I didn’t have this one on pre-order.
Did anyone watch the Tech of Shrek thingy? I really liked that. Amazing how they make these things. Why do I write storage software when I could be working on cartoons?!?
I did the same thing as ShibbOleth… bought it via the Blockbuster promotion. I just picked it up on Sunday though and haven’t had a chance to watch it yet (with all the football, and the World Series to watch). Mrs. algernon went to see it by herself one rainy afternoon when it was in the theaters and loved it, so I guess I wasn’t really buying it on blind faith.
I’m as excited about all the extra stuff in the DVD as I am about the movie itself.
Well, we bought it. Unfortunately, we can’t watch it, because it sends my two year old into fits of terror. “No no NO!” he cries, frantically hitting the eject button. “Lala! Lala! PO!”
So…we watch it for a few minutes at a time, when he is out of the room, then sneak the Teletubbies back in when we hear him pattering down the hall. (He recognizes it from a distance, and starts yelling even before he reaches the doorway.)
Maybe by the time he’s, oh, ten or so we can actually watch it.
~karol