Excellent viewing - some of the effects are plain marvellous, the flaming ball and rocket propelled boat being some of them! The way the pieces are set up is also very interesting, with some of the objects seemingly moving of their own accord, when actually maybe a piece of polystyrene has been dissolved, or a chock pulled away. The only annoyances are the slight editing of the shots (only when a long reaction takes place, so foam doesn't have to be watched building up) which slightly removes the obvious linear nature of the piece by making it harder to see what caused what. The menu is ordered in titles like "reaction" or "kinetics" for different scene selection, making you think about what type of reactions you wanted to review. This might be annoying for some, but overall the effect is hugely entertaining, and some of the reactions made me laugh out loud for their ingenious use of common materials, coupled with explosions, flames and whizz-bangs! A must for anyone who wants something slightly strange but very worthwhile in their DVD or Video collection.
Review of Der Lauf der Dinge
