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Mainly just for Gorillaz fans
It's about time we got a DVD from these guys. I've always wanted to see them talk/communicate with eachother outside songs, and we got it with this. The whole DVD is pretty much just their videos and story boards/animatics for them, but the videos are just so cool, that it's worth it to have them all right here. If you don't know which ones they've done- Tomorrow Comes Today, Clint Eastwood, 19-2000, Rock the House, and you get an animatic for 5/4. The coolest story board is for Clint Eastwood, where it shows a small extended ending to the video.

Aside from those, you get a few Gorillaz Bitez...which are quick animated shorts of them doing things (playing games, jumping over Russel, Murdoc killing an eel, etc.), a long "interview" about how the band got started. It's really funny actually. All of Murdoc's ex girlfriends talk about how sick he was and how he'd beat around 2-D. Then you get 2 live concert performances and one long visual presentation of most of the songs that don't have videos. It's mainly just a bunch of colors with the band flying around. It's pretty cool once you just lay back and watch it. There are a few other smaller extras that you should like if you like the band at all. But why would you be getting this if you didn't?

This limited edition comes with a CD-ROM...I don't know what it does since my computer has dead speakers (they're being used as foot rests right now) but it's probably tons of extras for the website. It also comes with really sweet stickers, just as cool as the promotional ones that came out when their first album came out 2 years ago...and a 52 page book that has tons of art and information. Oh yeah I almost forgot! Watch all of the Bitez (in order I think) and then go to the computer office screen. Then go to the upper left corner and you'll see a bonus video from their Space Monkeys album.

Get this if you like Gorillaz, or have interest in animation/comics. You won't be disappointed. And if you are, I'll buy your copy just to have back up.

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Nothing special... we've seen it all before.
There's plainly just not enough material on this DVD. Yes, the menu is really cool but it is confusing. Since nothing is labeled, you just search around Gorillaz' house and highlight random objects and watch videos. They have the four music videos for "Clint Eastwood," "19-2000," "Tomorrow Comes Today," and "Rock da' House."

Those videos are all good, but honestly this DVD only gives you abount one hour of veiwing entertainment. The rest is filler of lame skits and the videos before they were filled in with color so they'e just pencil sketches.

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A little disappointed
Being a huge Gorillaz fan, I was a little disappointed with their DVD release.

The upside- It's great having a way to access all the Gorillaz music videos, even their planned-yet-never-made video for "5/4" which is essentially storyboards synced to the music. The animated skits are cool and the illustrated booklet has a lot of great artwork, not to mention notes on how the "band" was formed

The downside- While there's also live show clips, I quickly lost interest in it. The interview included wasn't as informative as I had hoped. The aforementioned animated skits aren't even a minute in length each. Several of the music videos have storyboarded and animatic versions, which don't serve much of a purpose. A lot of it just seems to be filler. But the main problem is the navigation. It would have been nice to access clips and videos from the usual DVD menus. Instead it all uses icons and I had to constantly look at the map included with the DVD to figure out where I wanted to go. It also would have been nice to have all the music videos and animated skits grouped together instead of spread out to the different areas.

Celebrity Take Down is still a good Gorillaz DVD to own, but I can't help but feel it was only put out to sate Gorillaz fans and nothing more.