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DVD Commentary Features and Highlights

The document discusses various examples of unique audio commentaries included on DVD releases of films and television shows. Some highlights include Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 including commentaries from those involved in the films as well as voice actors providing commentary as the characters they portrayed. DVDs for films like Atlantis and Finding Nemo included video clips within the audio commentary. The commentary for the TV show How I Met Your Mother featured one actor spending most of it intoxicated in his boxers. Commentaries for films like This Is Spinal Tap and TV show I'm Alan Partridge featured the characters providing commentary from their fictional perspectives.

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DVD Commentary Features and Highlights

The document discusses various examples of unique audio commentaries included on DVD releases of films and television shows. Some highlights include Fantasia and Fantasia 2000 including commentaries from those involved in the films as well as voice actors providing commentary as the characters they portrayed. DVDs for films like Atlantis and Finding Nemo included video clips within the audio commentary. The commentary for the TV show How I Met Your Mother featured one actor spending most of it intoxicated in his boxers. Commentaries for films like This Is Spinal Tap and TV show I'm Alan Partridge featured the characters providing commentary from their fictional perspectives.

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 The DVD release of 

Fantasia features two separate commentaries: one by Roy E.


Disney, James Levine, John Canemaker, and Scott MacQueen; and a second by Walt
Disney, created using audio clips of interviews and a voice actor reading his production
meeting notes, hosted by Canemaker. When its sequel, Fantasia 2000, was released on
DVD, it also included two separate audio commentaries: One featuring Roy E. Disney,
Levine, and Canemaker, and the other featuring commentary on each of the separate
segments of the film by the directors and art directors of each segment. For the sections
starring Mickey Mouse ("The Sorcerer's Apprentice") and Donald Duck ("Pomp and
Circumstance"), voice actors Wayne Allwine and Tony Anselmo were used to make it
seem as though Mickey and Donald were providing their own commentary on their
appearances in the film.
 The DVD releases for Atlantis: The Lost Empire (Special Edition), Treasure
Planet and Finding Nemo contained specially-edited "video commentaries"; the feature-
length audio commentaries by the directors and producers were punctuated by cues to
video segments illustrating various behind-the-scenes aspects. Similarly, in several
commentaries on the first season of Lost, the commentators would actually stop the
episode's progress and play behind-the-scenes clips, continuing to talk over the footage.
 The DVD release of the third season of How I Met Your Mother includes a commentary
by Jason Segel and Chris Harris for the episode "The Chain of Screaming". Harris, a
writer on the show, did not write this particular episode, but was included in the
commentary at the request of Segel, who spent the majority of the commentary
intoxicated and in only his boxers. Segel at one point places 12 condoms on the table
between the two and spends the majority of the commentary insinuating a relationship
between him and Harris, much to Harris' chagrin.
 The 2000 DVD of This Is Spinal Tap features a commentary by the three members of the
band, in character. They relate how they felt slighted by the film, and how the director
(Marty di Bergi in the film) did a "hack job" with the documentary. The commentary is
another added element to the fiction of the band. Actors Michael McKean, Christopher
Guest and Harry Shearer had previously recorded a commentary for a Criterion
Collection DVD which had gone out of print. Similarly, the DVD of series 1 of
the BBC sitcom I'm Alan Partridge features commentary from the characters of Alan and
his assistant, Lynne. Like Spinal Tap, Alan is heard to be frustrated at how the show
makes him appear.
 The Ultimate Matrix Collection, a box set of the entire Matrix trilogy, has two audio
commentaries on each film — one by philosophers who loved it (Dr. Cornel
West and Ken Wilber), and one by critics who hated it (Todd McCarthy, John Powers
and David Thomson).
 The commentary on Trey Parker's Cannibal! The Musical (aka Alferd Packer: The
Musical) is notable in that the commentators — cast and crew — start out sober at the
beginning. As the movie progresses, the group drinks and gets more and more
inebriated. A similar commentary, featuring many of the participants from that
commentary, was recorded for Orgazmo.

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