by Alicia Slansky

Created on: January 04, 2009   Last Updated: March 11, 2011

I bought Mattel's Scene It? DVD Movie Trivia game for my husband for Christmas because he is a movie fanatic. How can you go wrong to give a man a DVD trivia game all about his favorite pastime? He gets to play with his new DVD player, watch movie clips, answer questions all the while knowing he'll be right most of the time! Great concept! I jumped on that band wagon and went for the pricey buy.

OBJECT:

Get your game piece to the "Final Cut" circle and then answer the winning question(s). The most basic way to play is to roll the dice, move your piece and play whatever trivia category you happen to throw on that die. It sounds simple enough, and it is, once you get the hang of it.

PLAY:

The whole game uses both the DVD and the trivia questions, depending on what the dice say. I like that because it gets you to interact with each other like a board game, but it also offers you the video clips and other trivia games that would otherwise be lost on a regular board game.

7 different trivia categories My Play, All Play, Take Three, Songs and Slogans, Pop Culture, The Buzz, and Player's Choice. My play and All play require you to use the DVD to answer questions based on visuals that are randomly shuffled by the game itself. Player's Choice leaves it to the player to choose their favorite method of trivia. The others require someone to draw a card and read the trivia question to the player.

When you turn to the DVD, (for all play or my play) it offers you a whole other realm of trivia questions. I have to admit that it is my favorite part of this! There are movie clips and sound bytes, puzzle pictures, fill in the letter segments all sort of things. They even have a segment where they show you an old photo of someone and you get to guess who they are! Those are a blast! There is honestly something for everyone on the DVD. You don't have to have an infinite knowledge of every movie ever made in order to feel good at this game. You don't have to know anything to get some right just be quick and you've got it! Example one of the games is where they tell you to pick the name or title that is described by the following pictures then you see a couple of pictures sometimes two, sometimes five and you put the words together to make a name or title or whatever they asked for. My favorite one so far was a four picture one a cat, a Heron, and lady's hip, and a match burning. The other's playing with me are slower at this part (maybe that's why it's my fave) and I jumped up with

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