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 | | 2. Twilight (2-Disc Special Edition) | | | Starring: Kristen Stewart Robert Pattinson Director: Catherine Hardwicke | | Format: DVD Release Date: 3/20/2009 | User Rating: 5 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 |  | Twilight - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 3/13/2009 5:38 PM | |
Damn you Anne Rice! Even since you introduced that lovelorn supermodel turned bloodsucker Lestat, the vampire has been romanticized all out of proportion. Cold yet compassionate, sexy but spurned, the supposed supernatural monster has gone from corpse to Casanova in the twinkle of a dateless spinster's eye. Now comes Twilight, the latest entry in the continued compromising of the classic Stoker archetype. Aimed directly at the ADD-addled attention span of the average Facebooker, aside from being no fun at all, it stands as one of 2008's most crass commercial statements. read the full review | |
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 | | 4. 17 Again | | | Starring: Zac Efron Matthew Perry Director: Adam Shankman | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/11/2009 | | 17 Again - DVD Review By: Blake French - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 7/31/2009 7:48 PM | |
Zac Efron takes a lot of heat for singing high-pitched tunes and prancing around on basketball courts in the High School Musical movies, but in 17 Again he finally gets to prove that he's more than Disney's poster boy. Here, he plays Mike O'Donnell, a 17-year-old high school senior with a basketball scholarship on the horizon (not exactly a stretch for the actor). When he discovers that his girlfriend, Scarlett, is pregnant, he finds himself having to choose between marrying her and pursuing college athletics. He chooses the girl.
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 | | 6. Sabrina the Teenage Witch-5th Season | | | Starring: Beth Broderick Caroline Rhea | | Format: DVD Release Date: 2/17/2009 | | Sabrina the Teenage Witch Season - The Fifth Season - DVD Review By: Mark Kalriess - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 3/24/2009 10:05 PM | | For those who have never seen the show, here is quick overview. Sabrina Spellman (played by Melissa Joan Hart) is half-mortal and half-witch. She is sent to live with her two aunts, Aunt Hilda (Caroline Rhea) and Aunt Zelda (Beth Broderick), during high school. Her aunts have a talking cat, Salem Saberhagen (Nick Bakay) who was formerly a witch and has been imprisoned as a cat. On Sabrina’s sixteenth birthday, she found out that she was a witch. The show deals with Sabrina trying to balance her regular life as a teenage girl with her life as a witch. Many of the episodes follow the same formula. Sabrina has a small problem, tries to fix it with magic, makes everything worse, and then asks her aunts for help. read the full review | |
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 | | 7. Secret Life of the American Teenager-2nd Season | | | | Format: DVD Release Date: 12/26/2009 | | The Secret Life of the American Teenager - Season Two - DVD Review By: The Other Chad - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 6/23/2009 10:20 AM | | The Secret Life of the American Teenager: Season Two is now available on DVD, and the show remains a watchable mess. While it tackles weighty issues such as teen pregnancy, promiscuity, divorce, and child abuse, there is such a hefty dose of broad comedy mixed in that sometimes the balance is uncomfortable. Just as in the first season, the acting from the very large ensemble cast is still wildly uneven. Additionally, the writing leaves something to be desired, with undeveloped themes resulting in lost potential. Even so, every now and then, a moment of poignancy arises. read the full review | |
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 | | 14. Donnie Darko | | | Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal Jena Malone Director: Richard Kelly | | Format: DVD Release Date: 8/6/2009 | | Donnie Darko - DVD Review By: Annette Cardwell - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/30/2009 4:47 PM | |
Donnie Darko is a writer-director’s debut that takes on schizophrenia, time travel, teenage angst, dysfunctional suburban family life, societal farce, and hallucinations of an evil bunny in a gorgeously filmed two-hour package deserves serious props. But Richard Kelly’s fascinating film is seriously flawed in that it never brings all these disparate elements together in the end. Not to mention that it bears the worst title of the year. read the full review | |
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 | | 22. 17 Again (Blu-ray + DVD + Digital Copy) | | | Starring: Matthew Perry Zac Efron Director: Adam Shankman | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 8/11/2009 | | 17 Again - Blu-Ray DVD Review By: Josh Lasser - Blogcritics.org Reviews Published on: 8/11/2009 10:29 AM | | Zac Efron is a teen heartthrob. If one was unaware of Efron's status and the entire High School Musical phenomenon, simply watching the recently released to Blu-ray 17 Again would be enough to bring someone up to speed. Everything about the movie, from its opening shots to its closing credits, seems deliberately and coolly calculated so as to elicit the maximum number of squeals from teenage girls and to convince those girls' mothers that there is indeed something undeniably "dreamy" about Zac (it's okay, he's 21). read the full review | |
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 | | 27. Superbad (UMD for PSP) | | | Starring: Michael Cera Jonah Hill Director: Greg Mottola | | Format: Universal Media Disc Release Date: 9/23/2008 | | Superbad (2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition) - DVD Review By: Franck Tabouring - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 12/7/2007 6:26 PM | | From what I've learned from interviews and commentaries, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were 13 years old when they first started working on the script for Superbad. I certainly don't know how it looked back then, but the story seems to have a certain truth to it, and I am sure many people out there will find it easy to somehow relate to what Evan and Seth are experiencing. read the full review | |
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 | | 43. American Pie-Naked Mile | | | Starring: Angel Lewis Candace Kroslak Director: Joe Nussbaum | | Format: DVD Release Date: 2/5/2008 | | American Pie Presents the Naked Mile By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/15/2006 2:20 AM | |
How exactly does one movie "present" another movie? I'm not sure exactly when American Pie became a cultural juggernaut, but I do know when it started to suck: Right after the second movie came out. Now in its fifth installment, the once cheeky Pie has become about as funny as a late-stage Porky's sequel, just biding time until the producers can no longer find girls willing to spend 90 minutes topless and kids willing to pay $20 to watch them. read the full review | |
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 | | 45. Superbad (Blu-Ray) | | | Starring: Jonah Hill Seth Rogen Director: Greg Mottola | | Format: Blu-Ray DVD Release Date: 8/31/2009 | | Superbad (2-Disc Unrated Extended Edition) - DVD Review By: Franck Tabouring - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 12/7/2007 6:26 PM | | From what I've learned from interviews and commentaries, Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg were 13 years old when they first started working on the script for Superbad. I certainly don't know how it looked back then, but the story seems to have a certain truth to it, and I am sure many people out there will find it easy to somehow relate to what Evan and Seth are experiencing. read the full review | |
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