Friday, May 27, 2005

Easter Eggs not all they're cracked (pardon the pun) up to be

Incredibles, The - Collector's Edition

I got sent a link about some Easter Eggs from DVDTown.com and I must admit that I was pretty excited. The Incredibles is one of my favourite DVDs and to find out there was more on the disc that I hadn't seen was definitely a good thing.

However after taking the time to work through all the Easter Eggs it was a pretty disappointing experience. The Mr. Incredible dancing sequence was pretty good... But it was just too short. Although it was kind of fun to find all the little omnidroids the resulting clips weren't really inspiring.


Mr. Incredible dancing
On Disc 1: From the Main Menu go to the 'Commentaries' section and there simply wait for a little while. Eventually a silhouette of Mr. Incredible will show up which you can select using the directional keys on your remote control. Press 'Enter' then and you will see some clips of Mr. Incredible doing some delightfully ordinary dancing in his living room.

Clips Montage:
On Disc 2: Allow the main menu to go through its full cycle of animation. Have "Intro" already highlighted. Near the end of the cycle, an icon of an Omnidroid will appear in the upper right corner. Press your Up button to highlight and press enter. Do it quick as you will only have a few seconds. You'll get a two and a half minute
montage of button pushes, door slams, and explosions as homage to the many
heroes at Pixar.

Extra Deleted Scene:
On Disc 2: Allow the "Deleted Scenes" menu to go through its full cycle of animation. Have the back arrow button already highlighted. Near the end of the cycle, an icon of
an Omnidroid will appear in the upper right corner. Press your Down button quickly. You'll get an extra deleted scene of Dash playing a prank on his teacher.

A Tribute:
On Disc 2: Allow the "Behind the Scenes" menu to go through its full cycle of animation. Have the back arrow button already highlighted. Near the end of the cycle, an icon of an Omnidroid will appear in the upper right corner. Press your Down button quickly. You'll get a short tribute to Disney animators Ollie Johnston and the late Frank Thomas.

Alternate Version of Film:
On Disc 2: Allow the "Set Up" menu to go through its full cycle of animation. Have the back arrow button already highlighted. Near the end of the cycle, an icon of an Omnidroid will appear in the upper right corner. Press your Down button quickly. You'll get a sock puppet version of the film.

Behind the Scenes 1
On Disc 2: Allow the "Index" menu page 1 to go through its full cycle of non-animation. Have the back arrow button already highlighted. Near the end of the cycle, an icon of an Omnidroid will appear in the upper right corner. Press your Down button quickly. You'll get a clip of the inspiration behind the chocolate cake bit from the film.

Behind the Scenes 2

On Disc 2: Allow the "Index" menu page 2 to go through its full cycle of non-animation. Have the back arrow button already highlighted. Near the end of the cycle, an icon of an Omnidroid will appear in the upper right corner. Press your Down button quickly. You'll get a clip of some rough housing at Pixar

Bonus Clip:
On Disc 2: Allow the "Publicity" menu to go through its full cycle of animation. Have the back arrow button already highlighted. Near the end of the cycle, an icon of an Omnidroid will appear in the upper right corner. Press your Down button quickly. You'll get a short clip of Dash and his dad that was used for an SBC broadband commercial.

Henchman Outtakes:

On Disc 2: Allow the "More Making of the Incredibles" menu to go through its full cycle of animation. Have the back arrow button already highlighted. Near the end of the cycle, an icon of an Omnidroid will appear in the upper right corner. Press your Down button quickly. You'll get two short clips of the henchman's reaction to punching Dash them hitting the cliff wall.

Behind the Scenes:
On Disc 2: Allow the "Behind the Scenes" menu to go through its full cycle of animation. Have the back arrow button already highlighted. Near the end of the cycle, an icon of an Omnidroid will appear in the upper right corner. Press your Down button quickly. Watch the tribute, and then allow the DVD go back to the "Behind the Scenes" menu and repeat the process. You'll then be treated to a montage of Markisms.

Bonus Clip 1

On Disc 1: Allow the "Commentaries" menu to go through its full cycle of animation. Have the back arrow button already highlighted. Near the end of the cycle, an icon of Mr. Incredible will appear in the lower right corner. Press your Right button quickly. You'll get a short clip of Bob dancing around the living room in his blue costume.

Bonus Clip 2
On Disc 2: Allow the "Publicity" menu to go through its full cycle of animation. Have the back arrow button already highlighted. Near the end of the cycle, an icon of an Omnidroid will appear in the upper right corner. Press your Down button quickly. After watching the clip with Dash, let the animation cycle again and repeat the process. Now you'll get a clip of Mr. Incredible and Frozone fighting for the remote.


I hope you enjoy them just don't get your hopes up!

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