The Brain of Morbius - What a Marvellous DVD!

[Milky Tears]

I fell asleep whilst watching the extras and woke up half an hour ago. That's how bloomin' marvellous it is.

[Antony Cox]

Finally got round to getting this on Saturday and devoured most of it over the weekend.

Breezed through the story – it’s never been one of my absolute favourites and it’s still a very enjoyable story, and I noticed a couple of things here and there which I’d not seen before.

The main documentary was good – it was nice to see so many of the cast interviewed. I was especially pleased to see how sprightly and enthusiastic Dudley Simpson looked, considering he’s 86, but I must admit I did have a little difficulty in understanding what he was saying as his accent is very strong! I’m looking forward to the promised stand-alone Dudley Simpson feature on a forthcoming DVD (which presumably the snippet on Getting A Head was from).

The CGI studio design thing was interesting but a bit short, and The Barry Newberry feature was also interesting.

The commentary was good, but perhaps not quite as good as I expected. I think maybe five contributors all the way through is a bit much, I could sense some of them interrupting or talking over each other. It’s always a bit of a coup to get Tom to partake in a commentary seeing as he apparently picks and chooses which ones he wants to do, but the irony is that he doesn’t actually contribute that much to them apart from laughing a lot and commenting on Lis Sladen’s body parts. I still enjoyed the commentary overall, though, as everyone else contributed well t the proceedings. I always enjoy Lis Sladen’s commentaries as she tends to pay a lot of attention to how the stories progress and is very complementary (in a properly sincere and non-luvvie way) about the productions standards.

I haven’t looked at the photo or sketch galleries – to be honest I don’t usually bother with these or the production subtitles, or the Radio Times listings.

Overall, a very enjoyable release.