Scene It Movie Second Edition

Scene It! came highly recommended from a friend of mine. I have seen the game in the store and acknowledged that it looked like fun...but the thirty to forty dollar price tag has kept me scared away. After receiving a glowing recommendation of this game, I shelled out thirty dollars at Wal-Mart and went home with Scene It! Movie 2nd Edition. Although the price was a bit steep, the game has been fun to play...and you don't have to be a movie buff to be successful. There are elements of chance that help level the playing field. I'm not certain that this game is quite worth thirty dollars, but I don't regret spending the money.

Scene It! Movie 2nd Edition has a circular playing board that unfolds into a larger extended version. The playing area on the circular board looks a bit small...but this game takes longer to play than it looks. The extended board has several dozens spaces that you navigate using a six-sided die...so you could potentially finish the game in less than ten turns. But this game is not simple. The extended version normally takes me nearly an hour to complete. That is a decent game length...the shorter version can be played in less than half that time, which is a welcome option.

Younger players would be able to play this game but might struggle a bit with some of the questions. Some answers are given inside the video clips, which means you only have to pay attention, you don't necessarily need to know anything. But getting the answer within the movie clip questions doesn't mean the answer will be easy...for instance, there is a clip of Tom Hanks in Castaway calculating the number of square miles that the search teams will have to cover in order to find him. After completing a complicated mathematical equation, the clip ends and asks "how fast was the plane traveling when it crashed?" The answer was 475 miles per hour...but you would have had to listen close to get that one.

Scene It! Movie 2nd Edition facilitates up to four players (with a recommended age beginning at 13). The four mover pieces include a set of chatter teeth, a heart shaped box of chocolates, a racecar and a tombstone. There are two dice that can be tossed together. The six-sided die is numbered one through six and indicates the number of spaces you move if you answer correctly. The eight-sided die consists of symbols that indicate the type of challenge that must be completed in order to win. There is a DVD which contains video instructions, a timer and video clips for game play. The video choices include My Play and All Play options as well as a Final Cut challenge which must be used to win the game in the event that you don't win an All Play challenge upon reaching the end of the game board.

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