The new DVD releases include Get Smart, Transsiberian and Kung Fu Panda. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
November 4, 2008 - New DVD Releases:
Tagline: "Saving the world. And loving it."
Length: 110 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for some rude humor, action violence and language
In this action comedy based on the 1960s TV sitcom that starred Don Adams, who plays main character Maxwell Smart? In the idiom popularized by Adams: Would you believe Steve Carell? When the movie begins, Max works a desk job at the US spy agency CONTROL. But he soon becomes Agent 86 and is teamed with Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway in the role Barbara Feldon originated on TV). Together they battle the enemy organization KAOS, which hatches a plot to detonate a nuclear bomb at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles. As in the TV show, there's a shoe phone. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
Transsiberian DVD
Length: 111 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for some violence, including torture and language
Woody Harrelson and Emily Mortimer star in this suspense movie that takes place mostly on a cramped, shabby train during its several-day journey from Beijing to Moscow. Aboard are Roy (Harrelson) and Jessie (Mortimer), an American married couple who have just completed a two-year church-related mission. On the train they meet a 20-ish American woman and her much older Spanish boyfriend. But there's suspicion that someone is involved in dealing drugs, and somewhere in Siberia, someone is killed. Then a Russian narcotics detective (Ben Kingsley) boards the train.
- Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
DVD Release Date - November 9, 2008:
Kung Fu Panda DVD
Length: 92 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG for sequences of martial arts action
The main character in this animated comedy that takes place in the Valley of Peace is the chubby black-and-white panda Po (voice of Jack Black), who works for his father in a noodle shop. Other residents include martial-arts master Shifu (voice of Dustin Hoffman) and his five students (voices of Jackie Chan, Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, Lucy Liu and David Cross). When the feared Tai Lung (voice of Ian McShane) threatens the valley, a Dragon Warrior is chosen to meet him in combat. The surprising choice for this honor turns out to be Po, who must rise to the challenge.
- Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
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