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Trivia: Released 29 years after the prior film, "Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey," and 31 years after the first film, "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure."

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Trivia: Reportedly The Pokemon Company was incredibly protective of the character Ash Ketchum, and wouldn't allow any references to the character at all in the movie. It was one of the only major rules they set for the production. (Along with the idea that Pokemon always had to "look adorable.").

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Revealing mistake: Watch closely when Scorpion breathes fire at the end of his fight with Johnny Cage. In the wide profile shot where we see the "stream" of fire shooting out and hitting Johnny's shield, if you look very closely, you can kind of make out some sort-of "structure" within the flame. It looks kind of like a pole. It looks like to accomplish the effect, they lit a "flame bar" or pole on fire so the flames would travel upwards, then comped it into the scene and rotated it using special effects to make the flames look like they were shooting sideways. Unfortunately, the pole/flame bar is still just barely visible in the film. (It's much easier to see on the Blu-Ray version, but can be made out on the DVD).

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Trivia: The original anime theme song is heard twice in the film. First during the filming of a promo for the Pokemon parade, and second when Pikachu sings a few lines from the song while walking sadly by himself towards the end of the film.

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Trivia: Rachel Dratch was originally going to play Jenna, and in fact even appeared in the original unaired pilot. Her Jenna would have been an entirely different character - much more sweet and even-tempered. However, Tina Fey decided to rewrite the character as much more vain and spoiled, and felt Dratch no longer suited the part. Thus Jane Krakowski ended up being cast to replace her.

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Trivia: Behind the scenes, all of the liquor in Jack's office was actually just a few different types of tea since it resembles alcohol on-camera.

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Trivia: Jon Hamm originally auditioned for the part of Jack. While that part went to Alec Baldwin, the producers loved Hamm's audition and ended up later giving him the recurring role of Dr. Drew starting in the third season.

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Trivia: One of future megastar Donald Glover's early jobs was as as a writer on "30 Rock." Glover grew up in a town called Stone Mountain, Georgia, and as a bit of an inside joke, he wrote Kenneth as also coming from Stone Mountain.

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Trivia: Much of the show is loosely inspired by creator Tina Fey's experience as a head-writer for "Saturday Night Live."

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Trivia: A number of scenes in this film are actually taken from series creator Don Mancini's original draft of the first film. Most notably, Chucky killing Andy's teacher and the climax taking place at the Good Guy doll factory. These scenes were removed from the original film for various reasons, but Mancini loved them so much, he managed to work them into the sequel.

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Trivia: Chucky's voice was a major hurdle for the film's production. The director and producers tried several different voices for the doll. Most notably, actress Jessica Walter (perhaps best known for playing Lucille on "Arrested Development") was even brought in to voice Chucky at one point, in order to give the character a more light, doll-like voice. However, a test screening of the film using Walter's voice was disastrous, as audiences felt her voice didn't work with Chucky's dark humor. Eventually, it was decided that the voice of Brad Dourif, who played Chucky as a human, should be used. And of course that decision paid off big time.

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Trivia: Reportedly, Edward Norton was approached for the role of Bruce Banner, but turned it down. He later went on to star as Bruce in the 2008 reboot "The Incredible Hulk."

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Trivia: Had the show continued, Joss Whedon contemplated giving James Marsters a cameo in an episode reprising his role of Spike from "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel." It would have been a very quick "blink-and-you'll-miss-it" part, showing Spike sitting at a bar drinking and telling Mal "Nothing ever changes..." as he passes by.

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Show generally

Question: I recently watched the series for the first time on Hulu. (I'm located in the US if that makes any difference.) And I'm confused about something: the first three seasons are in 4:3 full-frame, before switching to 16:9 widescreen for the final four seasons. I know there is an infamous "HD remaster" that botched the series with bad cropped widescreen and poor color-correction work. But I've also heard the series was shown in widescreen in the UK for seasons 4-7. Is the version of seasons 4-7 on Hulu the HD remaster or the UK version?

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Question: Is there any reason why this is the only film in the American "Ring" series to not have an R1/A Blu-Ray release? It seems so weird that the first and third films are available in HD, while this one isn't. Is it like a studio issue or something?

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Trivia: In the original script, Merrick commits suicide to stop Lothos from turning him into a vampire. The studio thought the scene was too much of a downer, and made Joss Whedon rewrite his death-scene to have him instead be stabbed by Lothos.

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Trivia: Contrary to popular belief, Seth Green is actually not the only person to appear in both the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" film and series. Actor Chi Muoi Lo also appears in both - playing a background vampire in the movie, and having a small uncredited part in the season 7 episode "Storyteller." While both roles are small (pretty much blink-and-you'll-miss-it), he technically did appear in both.

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Trivia: Supposedly David Bowie and Mick Jagger were supposed to have cameos as vampires in the film in one scene, in a sort-of reference to their music video for "Dancing in the Street." Unfortunately, time and financial constraints put an end to this idea.

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Trivia: The movie was partially the result of a country-music and pop-culture legend. Sandollar Productions, a studio that helped finance the film, was co-founded by Dolly Parton of all people. Sandollar also went on to be involved with the TV series and its spin-off "Angel." (Though Parton herself was not credited).

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Trivia: Coincidentally, another film with a similar story was made around the same time - "Chasing Liberty." That film came out first and flopped at the box office. Its failure caused the producers of this film to push back its release date, as they wanted to distance the film from "Chasing Liberty" as much as possible. Unfortunately the tactic failed, and this film did even worse at the box office.

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