DVD: Dummy

Before The Pianist, the film in which Adrien Brody won an Academy Award for his performance. He stared in Dummy as Steven, a nearly 30 year old still living with his parents. When Steven gets fired from his office job he goes through a unemployment counselor named Lorena (played by Vera Farmiga) to help him find work as a ventriloquist something that he as be always fond of. After a couple of mishaps including a restraining order he finds the courage to ask Lorena out with the help of Steven's best friend Fangora who is played by Milla Jovovich. Steven's sister Heidi played by Illeana Douglas who too is living with the parents is a wedding planner who is having trouble finding a band to play Klezmer music for the wedding. Fangora then learns to speak Hebrew just show she can get this music gig for her band.

The story of the Dummy was good I liked the story of an 30 year old still living with the parents and is a very shy person who wants to follow his dreams. Dummy does has a good story with a good bit of humor in it. I was really impressed that Adrien Brody did all of the Ventriloquist all by him self and that takes talent.

Adrien Brody does a great job as Steven, a loser that still lives with his parents and his sister and he decides to take up ventriloquism. Brody does this very well he's very believable. Another one I like was Milla Jovovich everything with her and her mother was really funny. The rest of the cast are good too from the parents who are played by Jessica Walter who is from the Televison show Arrested Development and Rob Leibman to the obessed boyfriend of the sister played by Jared Harris.

Nothing really set me off of ththis film I enjoyed every minute of this film. From the acting to the story and even to the writing everything in this was good. I Highly Recommended Dummy.

DVD Features

Dummy is presented in 1.85:1 Widescreen and is enhanced for widescreen televisions. With audio of English 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround, and 2.0 Dolby Stereo. Also with Sapnish subtitles. Extras Include:

• Picture-in-Picture Ventriloquist Commentary by Jeff Dunham.
• Dummies 101: Learning the Ventriloquist Dream.
• Trailer Gallery.
• Deleted/Altered Scenes.
• "What Type of Dummy Are You?" Game.
• Ventriloquism: A History of Dummies.
• Ventriloquist Lessons.

The DVD of Dummy is a pretty solid DVD with its extras and the films. The Ventriloquist extras are pretty cool and the lessons are interesting. Overall the DVD is a good for any DVD/movie fan and this DVD comes Highly Recommended.