Game Over - The Complete Collection

Game Over - The Complete Collection
by John Rice

Game Over - The Complete Collection
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Actor: Artie Lange, Elizabeth Daily, Lucy Liu, Patrick Warburton, Rachel Dratch
Director: John Rice
Writer: David Goetsch
Writer: David Sacks
Writer: Gregory Greenberg
Writer: Jason Venokur
Writer: Jeanette Collins
Writer: Marcy Carsey
Writer: Mimi Friedman
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 30 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-06-28
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay

Movie Reviews of Game Over - The Complete Collection

Movie Review: Complete, but not a whole lot here...
Summary: 3 Stars

I like this show. I watched it when it first aired, and caught it whenever I could, which UPN made difficult as they kept moving it. I like all the characters, though Billy (the Son) and Turbo (the 'Pet') could be somewhat grating.

Patrick Warburton, Lucy Liu, Rachel Dratch, Artie Lange and Marie Matiko do great jobs, but all the voices are fairly strong. Jennifer Coolidge's character, well, that depends on if you like her style or not.

Essentially a sitcom, Game Over used many stereotypes of that genre, and used a couple too many throwaway jokes, but it's place in gamer culture offered it something unique, and it's a shame it didn't get the chance to do more. I wish it lasted longer so the world could've been fleshed out.

My favorite episode is the second, with Billy going out with a Japanese Anime(?) girl, and Alice taking the C.A.T.S., a test to see what she can do in their world. This leads to what's probably my favorite line in the series:

"I'm sorry kiddo. You'll meet other girls."

"Will they shoot rainbows out of their butts?"

"...You'll meet other girls."

Now as for the DVD, it says it's complete, but it's pretty bare. It has all aired episodes as well as the unaired sixth, but it's missing the unaired pilot, where Marisa Tomei voiced Raquel.

For special features, only "Watch Closely" is worth checking out, to see where the crew slipped in their names and various other tidbits. The character bios don't tell you anything you won't know if you watch the series, and the "Trivia Game" is a series of easy questions about things in the show, and winning lets you see a trailer, one I remember seeing on tv before. The Progression Reel is a kind of neat, but is only a minute or two long and really nothing special.

Game Over was a nice little show and ended before it could do much, and while this dvd is lacking, it's likely all us fans are going to get. At least we can now add it to our collections.

Summary of Game Over - The Complete Collection

Ever wonder what happens to your favorite video game characters after the game ends? The far-from-ordinary suburban Smashenburn family lives in an alternate video-game universe comprised of off-beat characters. Within this world of action heroes, monsters, and cartoon characters inspired by popular video games, the Smashenburns find unconventional ways to survive everyday issues.
The CGI animated series Game Over is built around an inventive premise--how do video game characters live when they're not in the middle of the action? Viewers that missed its original broadcasts during its 2004 network run can now enjoy the entire series in this double-disc set. Game Over invites you into the hectic lives of the Smashenburn family: accident-prone racecar driver dad Rip (Patrick Warburton, Puddy from Seinfeld); wife and secret agent Raquel (Lucy Liu, who replaced Marisa Tomei), feisty daughter Alice (Saturday Night Live's Rachel Dratch), and youngest son Billy (E.G. Daily from Rugrats), who suffers under his unrequited crush for an exchange student (who, being from Japan, is an anime character, natch). The five episodes find the family adopting a monstrous, cigar-smoking pet (voiced by comic Artie Lange, who first appears in "Meet the Smashenburns"), experiencing popularity at school ("Basic Win-Stincts"), and attempting to bond ("Into the Woods"), each with disastrous results. It's amusing stuff, especially if you're a fan of other brash, pop culture-driven programs like Family Guy, and video game fans will get a kick from seeing characters from several popular games pop up in cameos throughout the series.

The Complete Collection offers a surprisingly solid sampling of extras for a largely unknown series; chief among these is the sixth episode, "Monkey Dearest," which went unaired in America. A trivia game, character bios, and short featurettes on production round out the supplemental features. --Paul Gaita

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