Moby: Play - The DVD
The DVD version of Moby'smultiplatinum CDPlayis an  almost perfect audiovisual synthesis of personality and uncompromised  creativity, and, best of all, Moby never takes any of it too seriously. It's a  given that Moby fans will totally dig the music, but it's Moby's hilarious     20-minute home video ("Give an Idiot a Camcorder") that everyone will be buzzing  about, since it's as giddy as a Monty Python highlight reel and almost as  inventive, with Moby himself hosting on his 2000 European tour, appearing in  multiple guises and voices (Scottish, German, French, and classic dude-speak),  and playing a variety of wacky interviewers with himself as their subject. Who  knew the guy was this funny?The included music videos are equally clever in their expression of Moby's  benevolent, irreverent worldview, and while the studio recordings fromPlayhave spanned the globe, now we also have a cluster of impeccable  television performances (from BBC'sLater with Jools Holland) that  capture the music's remarkable transformation from one-man show to full-band  realization. All of these ingredients can be viewed separately in addition to  being combined and transformed in the DVD's "mega-mix" section, offering 90  minutes of mixes and redubs by some of the world's finest mix-masters,  accompanied by a hypnotic exhibition of visual art that lends new meaning to the  term "eye candy," capable of turning any home into a mind-blowing rave scene.  Through it all, the word "play" is explored in all its definitions, gloriously  filtered through the psyche of Moby, who embraces his inner geek to become the  life of any party.--Jeff Shannon