 | | 1. Ice Age 3-Dawn of the Dinosaur | | | 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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 | | 5. Coraline | | | Starring: Dakota Fanning Teri Hatcher Director: Henry Selick | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/3/2010 | | Coraline - DVD Review By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/10/2009 4:48 PM | |
Remember The Nightmare Before Christmas? The holiday classic is invariably credited to its producer and story writer Tim Burton, but the film was actually directed by New Jersey native Henry Selick, an animator on Pete's Dragon and The Fox and the Hound who met Burton when they both worked at Disney in the '80s. Selick finally returns to the world of stop-motion animation once again, which he used solely in both Nightmare and the 1996 Roald Dahl adaptation James and the Giant Peach, with Coraline, another adaptation of a cryptic children's fable, this one written by literary goth overlord Neil Gaiman. read the full review | |
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 | | 10. Tale of Despereaux | | | Director: Rob Stevenhagen | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/11/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | The Tale of Despereaux - DVD Review By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 3/27/2009 5:36 PM | |
The Tale of Despereaux began life as a children's book, and the animated film version does its best to reproduce the sounds of a storybook: The characters, especially the brave little titular mouse, are earnest rather than wisecracking, and Sigourney Weaver speaks in soothing, empathetic tones as the narrator, just like mom. The movie might have looked a bit more like a lush picture book, though, if it had been hand-drawn rather than computer-generated. read the full review | |
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 | | 11. Powerpuff Girls-10th Anniversary | | | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/20/2009 | User Rating: 5 | | The Powerpuff Girls: The Complete Series - 10th Anniversary Collection - DVD Review By: The Masked Movie Snobs - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 11/15/2009 3:30 PM | | In celebration of its 10th anniversary, The Powerpuff Girls - The Complete Series has been released on DVD. The 1998 television debut on Cartoon Network was the highest-rated premiere in the channel’s history and it was consistently highly rated during its six-season run. Boomerang began re-running episodes in 2008. Professor Utonium (Tom Kane) mixed together sugar, spice and everything nice in an effort to create the perfect little girl. In the process, he accidentally added in an extra substance known as Chemical X. This mystery ingredient granted his three new creations super powers such as the ability to fly, super speed, and super strength. read the full review | |
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 | | 12. 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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 | | 14. 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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