 | | 1. TMNT (HD) | | | Director: Kevin Munroe | | Format: High Definition DVD Release Date: 8/7/2007 |  | TMNT - DVD Review By: Jarad I. Wilk - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 8/9/2007 7:30 AM | | Director Kevin Munroe has all the ingredients needed to make a successful TMNT adventure - a power-hungry tycoon, ugly bad guys and even uglier monsters, turtles fathered by a Chinese rat in a New York sewer and ninja fights. For me, however, there was something missing from this movie that I, as a kid, always got with the original cartoon series and comic books: Fun. I always remembered having fun and laughing while watching TMNT as a kid. This, however, felt more like I was visiting relatives that I have met before but hadn't seen in 10 years. It was slightly uncomfortable and I wasn't sure if I really wanted to reacquaint myself with them because they were different than I remembered and they smelled kind of funky. Then, of course, they start to fight and everything I was thinking went up in flames, 'cause, heck, it is fun to watch them fight. read the full review | |
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 | | 2. Up (4-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack) new! | | | Director: Peter Docter | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 | | Up - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Dusty Somers - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 11/10/2009 4:23 PM | | With the kind of winning streak that Pixar’s got going for it, it’s almost impossible to temper expectations before experiencing their latest film. As of yet, it’s also unnecessary; the studio’s combination of technical wizardry and masterful storytelling has produced a remarkable string of films that have achieved commercial success and critical acclaim with equal universality. Far be it from Pixar’s tenth feature, Up, to break the mold, and indeed, it’s one of the studio’s most touching and accomplished works to date. Not many could’ve spun gold from a story with a cranky octogenarian as its protagonist, but Pixar never panders with its storytelling, and that ends up creating a piece of art that effectively touches all ages on different emotional levels. read the full review | |
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 | | 6. Ice Age 3-Dawn of the Dinosaur new! | | | Director: Carlos Saldanha | | Format: DVD Release Date: 10/27/2009 | | Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 10/16/2009 5:10 PM | |
The third installment of Fox’s startlingly successful Ice Age series suggests that this coldly calculated animated franchise may have finally run out of steam. Perhaps even the studio has realized this, since the new film moves away from the earlier ones’ drab frozen tundra setting and replaces their geniality with too much spectacle and slapstick. Feeling left out of the birth plans of his mammoth friends Manny (Ray Romano) and Ellie (Queen Latifah), Sloth Sid (John Leguizamo) stumbles upon a collection of giant eggs in an underground cave and decides to raise them as his own. Imagine Sid’s surprise when the eggs hatch to reveal a trio of baby T-Rexes -- and he discovers that their angry mother wants them back. read the full review | |
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 | | 16. Madagascar-Escape 2 Africa (Widescreen) | | | Director: Eric Darnell Tom McGrath | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/25/2009 | | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/23/2009 7:46 PM | |
To a film critic, the mainstream is like a ravenous shark with a defective hypothalamus. As long as Hollywood seeds the entertainment waters with chum, the masses will feed and feed until their dead, lifeless eyes roll back in their head. Examples of this baffling binge and purge are released every year -- inexplicable, unexplainable crowd-pleasers like Wild Hogs, Norbit, and Night at the Museum. Now comes Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, the even louder, more obnoxious sequel to Dreamworks' loud, obnoxious CG original. This is a film about more: More already dated pop culture references, more digitally-rendered eye candy, more abject pandering to a seemingly easy-to-satisfy demographic. read the full review | |
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 | | 21. Monsters Vs Aliens | | | Director: Conrad Vernon Rob Letterman | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/29/2009 | | Monsters vs. Aliens - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 9/18/2009 5:43 PM | |
It's a title that promises much more than it could ever truly deliver. It plays on B-movie fans' wildest dreams but offers them something much less successful. It comes from Dreamworks, which means it will either be completely faithful to its unusual source material (a la Kung Fu Panda's homage to the films of Asian martial arts experts the Shaw brothers) or rely on the tired, post-Shrek formula of animation artistry meshed with tired pop culture quips. So what, exactly, does the latest CG spectacle Monsters vs. Aliens truly have to offer? Sadly, it's a little bit of moviemaking magic surrounded by loads and loads of scripted stupidity. read the full review | |
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 | | 27. Star Wars-Clone Wars (Single Disc) new! | | | Director: Dave Filoni | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 | | Star Wars: The Clone Wars - DVD Review By: Rich Knight - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 11/17/2008 11:52 PM | | While watching Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I pitied today's youth. It's not that this film is entirely terrible. But if this is what today's youth is growing up with-one lightsaber battle too many-then how could they ever possibly find interest in the far superior original trilogy of Episodes 4, 5, and 6 read the full review | |
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 | | 29. A Scanner Darkly (Blu-ray) new! | | | Starring: Robert Downey Keanu Reeves Director: Richard Linklater | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 | | A Scanner Darkly - DVD By: Anne Gilbert - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/8/2006 5:54 PM | |
Linklater returns to the same technique once again (and for the last time, from what he has said, due to rampant production difficulties) for a much more literal acid trip. Based on the Philip K. Dick novel of the same name, A Scanner Darkly is a feature-length PSA on the evils of drugs and the potentially-as-damaging efforts to ferret them out of society. read the full review | |
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 | | 35. A Scanner Darkly new! | | | Starring: Robert Downey Keanu Reeves Director: Richard Linklater | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 | | A Scanner Darkly By: Rafe Telsch - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 12/23/2006 7:45 PM | | Drama is exactly what A Scanner Darkly is. Despite a vaguely futuristic setting (seven years in the future really isn't that far, is it') and advertising that sometimes makes the film appear to be an animated Matrix tale, the film bears little resemblance to traditional science fiction (although you have to love the irony that Substance "D" is a red pill, continuing the science fiction idea that you should always question the consequences of swallowing any red pill). read the full review | |
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