The Movie: In 1989, Weird Al Yankovic, known for the parodies of popular music he's been doing since the early 80's, released UHF, and he filled it up with, what else, parodies of popular movies! This low budget comedy didn't meet with much success in the theaters (in fact, it was only shown for two weeks), but since then, it has built a huge cult following.

As far as the story goes, George (Weird Al) becomes the station manager of a failing UHF television station, and with the help of his friends and his janitor Stanley Spadowski (played by Michael Richards), and a series of wacky game shows and kids shows, they save the television station, and even bring down the big evil network affiliate that was trying to take them down.

The characters, fantasy sequences featuring parodies of movies, the mock commercials, and the zany TV shows are hilarious. This ain't the most cerebral movie that was ever made as it's mainly just a long series gags, but hey...

Anyway, I don't really know what to say about this movie, except that if you like Weird Al, you will love this movie. If you think he's the most annoying thing on this planet, then well, you probably will hate this movie.

The DVD: This is a dual-sided disc with an anamorphic widescreen transfer on one side, and a pan and scan version on the other. The transfer is not that great, with some murky dark areas and some grain, but it isn't that bad either. The audio is more of the same, not so great, but not so bad either.

As far as the special features go, there's quite a bit, but I guess to make it all fit on one disc, some of the stuff is on one side of the disc, and some of the stuff is on the other side. You'll find deleted scenes, behind the scenes footage, a music video, production stills, promotional materials (including two trailers), and audio commentary.

I was hoping the commentary would be really funny or something, and although it had its moments, but it ended up falling kinda flat, despite the visits from Michael Richards, Victoria Jackson and Emo Philips.

The deleted scenes features a running commentary with Weird Al, who openly admits that the reason why they were deleted were because they sucked, but there were a couple of moments in there that were pretty funny, including a reference to The Graduate that got cut out, and some extra Michael Richards stuff.

There are also some easter eggs on this disc, but how fun are those when the package actually tells you that there are some on there?