Paid Post -- Reno 911 DVD

Calling all fans! Calling all fans! We have an alert. Be on the lookout for the new Reno 911! DVD, Reno 911! Miami The Movie in a store near you.

To launch the DVD and give its fans the ability to test their meddle against Reno's finest, the folks over at Fox have set up a website about the DVD launch and included 4 interactive games.

The DVD is unrated (aren't all of the best ones?) and includes lots of extras. Some of the extras (extended scenes and commentary) are relatively standard fare for DVD releases, but Fox has gone above and beyond with this DVD. Since the officers of Reno 911! are always looking out to protect the public and serve the public good, they have also included some public service announcements (PSAs) to help their viewers get through this thing we call life (I'm especially intrigued by the 'Shut the F*** Up' and "Some Fun Just Can't Be Downloaded' PSAs). The movie itself is well worth the price of the DVD without the extras, but who's gonna complain about extras? The Reno cops find themselves in Miami Beach during Spring Break (imagine the possibilities) for a national police convention. All is going well (ok, so all is going as you would expect with the Reno cops in town) until a terrorist attack disrupts the convention. So, the call goes out for all of the best cops to investigate. Instead, Miami Beach gets the cops of Reno 911!

The games give you, the fan, the opportunity to test your abilities against hypothetical bad guys you may face were you to sign up for the Reno force. In Midnight Shootout, which I chose (I like 1st person shooters, personally)), you get to see a scene for 5 seconds, during which you need to remember the location of the bad guys as well as the good guys. Following those 5 seconds, you are "blindfolded" and you have 10 rounds to take out the bad guys while not hitting the civilians or other officers. As you progress through the rounds you get to use different weapons (.357 Magnum, AK-47, etc) in different settings (Western Ghost Town, City Home among others) leading up to the final confrontation, an assault on gangs in the city with a rocket launcher (ooh! Watch out with those rockets!).

So please, if you're a fan of good, wholesome comedy (ok, well, good comedy at least), please run out and pick up a copy of Reno 911! Miami The Movie. Prior to heading to the store, you can get yourself ready at the DVD website by clicking the links above.