New Video and DVD Releases

The new DVD releases include The Ant Bully, Clerks II, and Superman Returns. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.

November 28, 2006 - New Video and DVD Releases:

The Ant Bully DVD

Tagline: "The battle for the lawn is on."

Length: 88 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG, for some mild rude humor and action

The voices of Julia Roberts, Nicolas Cage and Meryl Streep are among those heard in this computer-animated adventure film. The title character is a young boy named Lucas who torments a colony of ants, who turn out to talk and have a complex community structure. The wizard ant Zoc (voice of Cage) shrinks Lucas down to ant size, and the boy is abducted by the ants. Lucas meets Zoc's girlfriend (voice of Roberts) and the ant queen (voice of Streep), and the ants tutor the boy in the virtues of discipline and teamwork.

Selected DVD Special Features:

• Featurette

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Clerks II DVD

Tagline: "No experience necessary."

Length: 97 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive sexual and crude content including aberrant sexuality, strong language and some drug material

Directed, written and edited by Kevin Smith, this comedy is the sequel to Clerks (1994). This time around we see what became of Dante Hicks (Brian O'Halloran) and Randal Graves (Jeff Anderson) a decade or so after the earlier movie. Also, Jay (Jason Mewes) and Silent Bob (Kevin Smith) are still around. Dante and Randal still reside in New Jersey, but now they work in a burger joint called Mooby's, which is managed by Becky Scott (Rosario Dawson). Dante is now engaged to be married and plans to move to Florida.

Selected DVD Special Features:

• Available in Widescreen and Full Screen Editions
• Two-Disc DVD Set
• Also Available on HD-DVD

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Superman Returns DVD

Length: 154 minutes minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some intense action violence

A series of four Superman films ran on the big screen from 1978 to 1987, and Superman Returns brings back the Man of Steel with different actors portraying the key characters: Brandon Routh as Clark Kent/Superman, Kate Bosworth as Lois Lane and Kevin Spacey as the villain Lex Luthor. This time around, Superman returns to Metropolis after five years away, and Clark gets his old reporter's job back. But now Lois has a son and a fiancé, and Lex Luthor is up to a diabolical scheme that will kill millions of people.

Selected DVD Special Features:

• Two-Disc DVD Set



• Other Editions Available - Single-Disc DVD, Blu-ray Disc, HD-DVD/DVD

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