

Special Features:
-"The Wonderful World of Weird Al" (51 mins) This Q&A was recorded at Comic Con Dan Diego earlier this year and was moderated by comedian Jonah Ray. It's a decent interview followed by questions from the crowd on hand. Jonah Ray is clearly a bit nervous, so he fumbles a bit to keep the conversation on track and the fans who are asking questions always seem to need to preface their questions long- winded effusive praise, but hey I get it. I mean it's Weird Al after all. I'd probably lose the power of speech myself if I ever met him. Anyway, it's an enjoyable watch and a new supplement that obviously wasn't included in the previous DVD release.
Other features (ported from the MGM DVD) include:
-A great Audio Commentary from Weird Al and Director/Co-writer Jay Levey.
-Deleted Scenes.
-A vintage "making-of" featurette.
Here's my favorite fake commercial from UHF - for "Spatula City":
Bonus: Weird Al reflects on UHF:
THE COMPLEAT AL (1985; Jay Levey/ Robert K. Weiss)
"The Amazing and Almost-True Life Story of a Rock and Roll Legend"
This is one of those releases that shows how much the folks at Shout! Factory love Weird Al as much as the rest of us. This faux-documentary had never gotten a release beyond VHS circa 1985 so it had basically dropped out of sight for a good long while. I myself hadn't even seen it until a year or two ago (somehow, amidst my Weird Al frenzy phase, I must have missed it ever coming out). One of the things that reminded me of its existence was this "VHS Gems" list by regular Rupert Pupkins Speaks contributor Kevin Clarke:
http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/2012/10/vhs-gems-guest-post-kevin-clarke.html
Soon after that, THE COMPLEAT AL got a mention on a neat little web series called "The Vulcan Vault" wherein employees at the Vulcan Video store in Austin Texas gave recommendations for some of their under-appreciated favorites:
This a truly wonderful little DVD for Al fans to finally own. It is basically a jokey take on something like THE COMPLEAT BEATLES (which was an epic two-hour doc on the career of the Fab Four and where Al appropriated his title from). THE COMPLEAT AL premiered on Showtime in 1985 and included lots of stuff about Al's real life as well as spoofy stuff, excerpt's from "Al TV" and all of his music videos up to 1985. While it isn't as sharp as UHF, you can certainly see Al and director Jay Levey working out some comedic ideas and themes that they would carry on to great success in their feature (which they apparently worked on for a really long time). It's a wonderful companion piece to the new UHF Blu-ray and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting Weird Al's old music videos. Old music videos are pretty fun for the most part, but Al's are something else altogether.
Here are a couple clips:
Both the UHF Blu-ray and THE COMPLEAT AL DVD can be purchased via Shout! Factory's website and are due out on November 11th:
https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/film-comedy/uhf-25th-anniversary-edition
https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/film-comedy/the-compleat-al
Other features (ported from the MGM DVD) include:
-A great Audio Commentary from Weird Al and Director/Co-writer Jay Levey.
-Deleted Scenes.
-A vintage "making-of" featurette.
Here's my favorite fake commercial from UHF - for "Spatula City":
Bonus: Weird Al reflects on UHF:
THE COMPLEAT AL (1985; Jay Levey/ Robert K. Weiss)
"The Amazing and Almost-True Life Story of a Rock and Roll Legend"
This is one of those releases that shows how much the folks at Shout! Factory love Weird Al as much as the rest of us. This faux-documentary had never gotten a release beyond VHS circa 1985 so it had basically dropped out of sight for a good long while. I myself hadn't even seen it until a year or two ago (somehow, amidst my Weird Al frenzy phase, I must have missed it ever coming out). One of the things that reminded me of its existence was this "VHS Gems" list by regular Rupert Pupkins Speaks contributor Kevin Clarke:
http://www.rupertpupkinspeaks.com/2012/10/vhs-gems-guest-post-kevin-clarke.html
Soon after that, THE COMPLEAT AL got a mention on a neat little web series called "The Vulcan Vault" wherein employees at the Vulcan Video store in Austin Texas gave recommendations for some of their under-appreciated favorites:
This a truly wonderful little DVD for Al fans to finally own. It is basically a jokey take on something like THE COMPLEAT BEATLES (which was an epic two-hour doc on the career of the Fab Four and where Al appropriated his title from). THE COMPLEAT AL premiered on Showtime in 1985 and included lots of stuff about Al's real life as well as spoofy stuff, excerpt's from "Al TV" and all of his music videos up to 1985. While it isn't as sharp as UHF, you can certainly see Al and director Jay Levey working out some comedic ideas and themes that they would carry on to great success in their feature (which they apparently worked on for a really long time). It's a wonderful companion piece to the new UHF Blu-ray and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed revisiting Weird Al's old music videos. Old music videos are pretty fun for the most part, but Al's are something else altogether.
Here are a couple clips:
Both the UHF Blu-ray and THE COMPLEAT AL DVD can be purchased via Shout! Factory's website and are due out on November 11th:
https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/film-comedy/uhf-25th-anniversary-edition
https://www.shoutfactory.com/film/film-comedy/the-compleat-al
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