By nature, I'm a people watcher. Yes, it's true I enjoy watching people (and then commenting on them at great length). I love going to the food court at the mall, raping the dollar menu at Wendy's and just sitting and observing. People do some crazy shit and they can certainly be a blast to watch. Which brings me to my point (yes, I do have a point). This is part of the appeal in watching films like A Galaxy Far Far Away. It gives us a chance to dip into a world we may not be too familiar with (or may be too familiar with) and we're given the opportunity to be innocent voyeur's. There have been many documentaries on Star Wars fanatics and the phenomenon of Star Wars itself and I'm pleased to say that A Galaxy Far Far Away definitely holds its own as a film and especially as a DVD.

The quest to delve into the minds of Science Fiction fans is not a new one. People have been trying to scratch that itch for quite some time now. A Galaxy Far Far Away does an admirable job of documenting the release of Episode One and in doing so the filmmakers attempt to get to the bottom of the mass appeal of the Star Wars franchise. To call these people documented in this film weird would be an understatement, but I'm not here to judge (yet). First, let's discuss some of the many magical moments you'll view in this interesting film.

I don't want to give too much away because half of the fun is not knowing what's around the bend. But let's just say that you'll bear witness to a Star Wars Tribute Band (in full costume natch), a young man who named his son Anakin (yowza), Jam Master Jedi (you'll need to see this one to believe it) and an incredibly uplifting discussion on what "The Force" really is (I still don't know). There's plenty of random footage of fan interviews as well and you'll also see footage of Toys R Us the day the Episode One toys were released on shelves (well actually they didn't even make it on the shelf). This is truly a disturbing scene and the filmmakers did an incredible job of juxtaposing the footage in the store with that of starving people in third world countries reaching out for food. This was simply brilliant if I may say so myself. In addition to these enlightening images we're also given insights from random celebrities (including Joe Pesci and Andy Garcia) as well as one of the greats in low budget filmmaking, Roger Corman. Oh, did I mention the dancing Storm Trooper?

As I said earlier, I'm not here to judge and I'm certainly not going to make fun of these people. I myself am a huge fan of horror films (in case you haven't guessed) and I frequent the Chiller Theater convention twice a year in Northern New Jersey. But, what I don't do is dress up and make a spectacle of myself (I still don't completely understand why people do this). And I certainly wouldn't sleep out for 42 days to see a film when I can go the same weekend and just walk up to the box office for a ticket (haven't these people heard of Movie Phone?). I know, I know it's about making friends and community, etc. etc. and the experience of camping out, blah, blah but that doesn't make it any less stupid.

A Galaxy Far Far Away is presented on DVD full frame and the quality varies throughout since the film was pulled from so many different sources, this is to be expected. Overall the quality is quite good for video with a nice clear picture. The disc was also authored very well, as artifacts are non-existent.

Audio is presented in a Stereo Mix and sounds quite good. Some of the audio is a bit muffled because of the surroundings but the filmmakers were kind enough to include subtitles for those scenes. The soundtrack rocks and that's a fact.

Extras include an insightful commentary from the men behind the scenes as well as a trailer. There are also about 7 deleted scenes, a few of which are interviews with the filmmakers. The extra footage runs about 15 minutes.

I highly recommend this disc, It's a party on a silver platter. I can never see enough geek-u-mentaries. Now... I'm not saying that I'm not one of them, I just don't flaunt it.