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| Part 1: This Week's Releases on Video/DVD |
by Ivana Redwine
There are some interesting video/DVD releases for October 8, 2002, including "Big Trouble," "Enough,"and "Jason X." Plus, "Scooby-Doo" comes out on October 11, 2002. Let's take a look at these films, along with a few additional releases of interest, and take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
October 8 - Video and DVD Releases
"Big
Trouble" (2002) 
Tagline:
"These people are in big trouble."
Length:
85 minutes
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for language, crude humor and sex-related material
Adapted from a novel by Dave Barry, this wacky, diverting comedy features a large cast that includes Tim Allen and Rene Russo. Set in Miami, the intricate story is set in motion when a teenage boy attempts a water gun hit on a female classmate at the same time professional New Jersey hit men are trying to kill her father. Then the father buys a small nuclear bomb from Russian arms dealers, but the bomb is stolen by a pair of half-witted lowlifes. Along the way, the Miami police and the FBI chase around, but the lowlifes manage to smuggle the nuclear bomb aboard a commercial airliner and hijack the plane. Meanwhile, some unlikely romantic relationships start to blossom. "Big Trouble" was directed by Barry Sonnenfeld ("Get Shorty," "Men in Black").
Selected Special DVD Features:
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"Enough"
(2002)
Tagline:
"Everyone has their limit."
Length:
114 minutes
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for intense scenes of domestic violence, some sensuality and language
Jennifer Lopez stars in this suspense drama about a battered wife who takes matters into her own hands. Slim (Lopez) is a waitress in a diner, where she meets a well-to-do businessman named Mitch (Billy Campbell). Soon Slim marries Mitch, and they move into a big house and have a daughter Gracie. But eventually Slim discovers Mitch has affairs, and he starts to brutally beat her. Slim takes Gracie and goes on the run, first to an old friend in Seattle, then to a her estranged father in San Francisco. Later Slim and Gracie relocate to Michigan, but Mitch relentlessly pursues them everywhere. Ultimately Slim decides that the legal system cannot help her, and she takes martial-arts training, setting up the nasty final confrontation with the tenacious Mitch.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Jason
X" (2002)
Tagline: "Evil gets an upgrade."
Length:
93 minutes
MPAA Rating:
R for strong horror violence, language and some sexuality
This horror movie is the tenth film in the "Friday the 13th" series, and as always the central character is Jason Voorhees, the mass murderer who wears a hockey mask. "Jason X" takes place in the year 2455, by which time all the people on Earth have migrated to a planet called Earth II. When a group of scientists from Earth II travels to long-abandoned Earth, they discover two cryogenically preserved bodies. One of the bodies is Jason (again played by Kane Hodder), while the other is a young woman named Rowan (Lexa Doig). Both bodies are brought aboard the scientists' spaceship, where they are brought back to life. Soon the revived Jason goes on a killing rampage as Rowan and the spaceship crew try to figure out how to deal with him.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
October 11 - Video and DVD Releases
"Scooby-Doo"
(2002)
Tagline:
"Throughout the ages, one hero has cowered above the rest."
Length:
87 minutes
MPAA Rating:
PG for some rude humor, language and some scary action
Based on a kids' animated TV show, this movie is live action, except for the title character, who is animated. Starring in the film are Freddie Prinze Jr., Sarah Michelle Gellar, Matthew Lillard, Linda Cardellini, and Rowan Atkinson, and the talking dog Scooby-Doo is voiced by Neil Fanning. As in the TV show, Daphne (Gellar), Velma (Cardellini), Fred (Prinze), Shaggy (Lillard), and Scooby make up a mystery-solving team known as Mystery Inc. In the movie, the Mystery Inc. gang is called on to figure out what's going on at a theme park called Spooky Island that's run by Mondavarious (Atkinson). The gang is wracked with internal dissension, but they eventually manage to pull together enough to get to the bottom of why park visitors leave acting as if they were under some sort of spell.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
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