Demented cartoon favorites and Earth-stopping visual effects square off at retail today with the release of The Ren & Stimpy Show: The Complete First & Second Seasons –Uncut and 20th Century Fox’s disaster hit, The Day After Tomorrow.
At last, everyone’s favorite dog-and-cat duo bring their distinctive brand of zany and gross humor to DVD. The three-disc Ren & Stimpy set features more than 30 episodes from the 1991-93 seasons, including the banned episode, Man’s Best Friend. Bonus features include commentary by creator John Kricfalusi and others from the Spumco Animation team on six episodes. There’s also a featurette titled Ren & Stimpy: In the Beginning, a storyboard and Spumco image gallery and a Sven Höek pencil test. The Paramount Home Entertainment release offers nearly seven hours of cartoon fun and is priced at around $30.
The Day After Tomorrow stars Dennis Quaid as a climatologist who races against the clock to find a way to save the world from abrupt global warming and the looming threat of a new ice age. Meanwhile, his son, played by Jake Gyllenhaal, struggles to survive New York City as massive tidal waves bash the East Coast. Ian Holm, Emmy Rossum and Sela Ward also star, but the real attraction is the visual effects work by Industrial Light & Magic, Digital Domain, Hydraulx, Ring of Fire Studios, Zoic Studios and The Orphanage under visual effects supervisor Karen E. Goulekas (Godzilla, Eight Legged Freaks).
DVD extras include commentary by co-writer/director Roland Emmerich (Independence Day, Godzilla), producer Mark Gordon, co-writer Jeffrey Nachmanoff, cinematographer Ueli Steiger, editor David Brenner and production designer Barry Chusio. Fans will also find deleted scenes, an interactive sound demo and more than an hour of exclusive making-of footage on DVD-ROM. The release lists for $29.98.
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