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DVD Title: Cars
DVD Release Date: November 7, 2006
Starring: Owen Wilson, Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry The Cable Guy, Cheech Marin
ASIN: B00005JNS0
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DVD Review: Pixar’s nostalgic film about the open road, especially the historic Route 66, focuses on cars. It is entertaining, colorful, and it has dazzling images and clearly-defined characters. From the mountainous surroundings to hilarious auto renditions, “Cars” is a feast for the eyes and funnybone.

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DVD Title: Superman Returns
DVD Release Date: November 28, 2006
Starring: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth, Kevin Spacey, James Marsden, Eva Marie Saint
ASIN: B000J10EQU
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DVD Review: Superman has been gone for five years on a pilgrimage to the remains of what was once the planet Krypton. Superman returns to Earth to find the woman he loves, Lois Lane, has moved on with her life and to a society that has learned to survive without him. His bittersweet return home challenges him to rediscover who he is. Superman embarks on an epic journey of redemption that takes him from the depths of the ocean to the far reaches of outer space.

DVD Title: The Incredibles
DVD Release Date: March 15, 2005
Starring: Craig T. Nelson, Holly Hunter, Samuel L. Jackson, Jason Lee, Dominique Louis.
ASIN: B00005JN4W
Rating:
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DVD Review: Pixar’s computer-generated animated adventure about retired superheroes, blends action, humor and even a touch of earnest emotion to create a higher level of entertainment. Mr. Incredible, and his wife, Elastigirl, live uneventful lives in the suburbs with their children, all with superhero powers themselves. When a mysterious woman tempts Mr. Incredible out of seclusion and into a new world of superhero adventure, it reconnects him with his family, as they learn to become “The Incredibles.”

DVD Title: Eight Below
DVD Release Date: June 20, 2006
Starring: Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs, Gerard Plunkett.
ASIN: B000F4PDFI
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DVD Review: “Eight Below” is exciting and the arctic photography is stunning, it’s just a little bit too long. “Eight Below” tells the harrowing story of a dogsled team left chained outside a research station when the humans pull out in a hurry. The guide who used and loved them wants to return to rescue them but is voted down: Winter has set in and all flights are canceled until spring. The dogs encounter danger at every turn, surviving for nearly six months while the dogsled guide and his colleagues join forces to mount a daring rescue mission.

DVD Title: The New World
DVD Release Date: May 9, 2006
Starring: Colin Farrell, Christopher Plummer, Christian Bale, August Schellenberg, Q’Orianka Kilcher.
ASIN: B000ESSUL4
Rating:
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DVD Review: Terence Malik brings us a fresh look at “The New World” in a beautiful, but overly long film. You would be hard pressed to find a film with a more authentic sense of period than “The New World.” The film strips away all the lore from the well known story of Pocahontas and her tribe and the English settlers at Jamestown, and imagines how new and strange these people must have seemed to one another. If the Indians stared in disbelief at the English ships, the English were no less awed by the somber beauty of the new land and its people. They called the Indians “the naturals” of the new lands. Watching the film feels as if you have stepped back in time, to another rhythm and another way of thinking.

DVD Title: Pirates of the Caribbean – The Curse of the Black Pearl
DVD Release Date: December 2, 2003
Actors: Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Keira Knightley, Jack Davenport
Rating:
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DVD Review: You won’t need a bottle of rum to enjoy Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, especially if you’ve experienced the Disneyland theme-park ride that inspired it. There’s a galleon’s worth of fun in watching Johnny Depp’s androgynous performance as Captain Jack Sparrow, a roguish pirate who could pass for the illegitimate spawn of rockers Keith Richards and Chrissie Hynde. Depp gets all the good lines and steals the show, recruiting Orlando Bloom (a blacksmith and expert swordsman) and Keira Knightley (a lovely governor’s daughter) on an adventurous quest to recapture the notorious Black Pearl, a ghost ship commandeered by Jack’s nemesis Capt. Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush), a mutineer desperate to reverse the curse that left him and his (literally) skeleton crew in a state of eternal, undead damnation. Director Gore Verbinski (The Ring) repeats the redundant mayhem that marred his debut film Mouse Hunt, but with the writers of Shrek he’s made Pirates into a special-effects thrill-ride that plays like a Halloween party on the open seas. Aye, matey, we’ve come a long way since Jason and the Argonauts!