Extra features on the DVD include deleted scenes, commentary from the production team, and a couple featurettes. Rock & Ringers is just a slightly extended version of the music segment already seen in the film, while The Ring Comes Full Circle is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the documentary itself, which feels a little self-important.
Maybe the film is trying to accomplish too much at once, but for whatever reason, Ringers: Lord of the Fans is neither as fascinating nor as quirky as I was hoping it would be. Fervent Tolkien and Lord of the Rings followers will probably not learn anything new, and anyone hoping for a comedic look at fandom in the vein of Trekkies will likely be disappointed. Ringers is not a complete waste of time, but certain not something you'll need to see more than once.
This review is also available at Space Junk.
ed: JH
Article comments
1 - Bill Wallo
It does sound much like a DVD extra stretched to a full-length DVD. The recently released Sound of Music DVD had a featurette about the "sing along" phenomenon where people watch the movie and sing along (rather like with Rocky Horror) - sounds like Ringers might have been worthy of about the same treatment (i.e., subordinate disc on another set).
2 - Christopher Rose
AAAAaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrgh!
I've had a great time seeing and singing along with The Rocky Horror Show more than once and always thought it great funtertainment.
To learn that there are actually people who do this to The Sound of Music has quite horrified me. I don't know if I'm ever quite going to get over the image of a room of shiny happy people all singing "The hills are alive..."
*shudders*
3 - Phillip Winn
"I am sixteen, going on seventeen..."
What a bummer of a report on Ringers. What a wasted opportunity!