Review for NBA Bloopers Volume One

Hosted by Michael Rapaport (My Name is Earl), we get to watch some of the craziest moments from the NBA. Or so you would think so by the title. I mean, if I bought a DVD with the word 'blooper' on it, I'd expect just mistakes, announcers getting their lines wrong, people falling over, missed shots and crazy mishaps. What I get is almost the leftovers of every NBA release ever produced.

During the, just under ninety minute, DVD, we get to the hazing techniques that are played on the Rookies, which are really not as funny as they like to think they are; backstage rituals and habits of players including some bizarre superstitions and dancing. They also for some reason focus for a long time on Shaquille O'Neal and his stellar career. This would be fine if I was watching a 'Best Players' or a 'Shaq' DVD, but I'm not. I'm watching a 'bloopers' DVD. I got the feeling halfway, that the creator of this disk looked in his Dictionary and the word Blooper meant 'To include random things and to go off topic every few minutes' as that seemed to be what this was. That's not to say they don't include any. There are lots of people falling over, falling into and over crowds and many shots that are either hilarious because they missed it, or insane because they didn't!

The bizarre thing is the host of extras that include actual bloopers. These include Top Ten Bloopers of 2007 and All-Star Games, a spoof documentary about a day in the life of a basketball and also of the guy who keeps the court dry. These really should have been incorporated into the main feature, but they are still a nice addition.

NBA Bloopets is an odd DVD, but despite my qualms over the lack of actual bloopers I did enjoy it. There are a lot of laugh-out-loud moments; it's just a shame that they couldn't have focused on what they were supposed to, as it would have made it infinitely better.