The new DVD releases include Are We Done Yet?, Disturbia, TMNT and Unaccompanied Minors. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
August 7, 2007 - New Video and DVD Releases:
Tagline: "New house. New family. What could possibly go wrong?"
Length: 92 minutesMPAA Rating: PG for some innuendos and brief language
This family comedy is the sequel to Are We There Yet? (2005), and Ice Cube, Nia Long and the kids are all back. Are We Done Yet? is based very loosely on Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse (1948). In the new movie, Nick (Ice Cube) has married Suzanne (Nia Long), and she and her two kids have moved into Nick's small apartment. When she becomes pregnant with twins, they decide to move to a big house in the country. But buying and fixing up their new home leads to a profusion of comedic complications. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
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Tagline: "Every killer lives next door to someone."
Length: 104 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 on appeal for sequences of terror and violence, and some sensuality
Although inspired by Rear Window (1954), Disturbia transposes the setting to suburbia. The roles played by James Stewart, Grace Kelly and Raymond Burr in the old movie are played by Shia LaBeouf, Sarah Roemer and David Morse in the new. In Disturbia, Kale (LaBeouf) is a high school student who punches a teacher and is placed under house arrest wearing an ankle bracelet. He begins spying on his neighbors and meets a cute teenage girl (Roemer). But one of the neighbors (Morse) behaves strangely and may be a murderer. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
- Also Available on HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc
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TMNT DVD
Length: 87 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG for animated action violence, some scary cartoon images and mild language
Back in the 1980s, four crime-fighting turtles named Leonardo, Raphael, Donatello and Michelangelo were created. This was the beginning of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise that eventually involved publishing, toys, videogames, TV programming and three feature films. TMNT is a 2007 animated movie that picks up some time after the film Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III (1993) leaves off. This time around the turtles must overcome personal differences so they can battle monster stone statues come to life.
- Widescreen
- Also Available on HD DVD and Blu-ray Disc
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Tagline: "No plane. No parents. No problem!"
Length: 90 minutesMPAA Rating: PG for mild rude humor and language
This is a family comedy about kids wreaking havoc at an airport at Christmastime. The main adult character is Oliver Porter (Lewis Black), the passenger relations manager at a busy Midwestern airport where lots of people have to change planes. Porter is set to take off for Hawaii when a snowstorm closes the airport on Christmas Eve. He soon finds himself dealing with half a dozen unruly children who are traveling alone. One of the kids is played by Tyler James Williams (from TV's Everybody Hates Chris). Selected DVD Special Features:
- Full-Screen/Widescreen
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