Tuesday, 9 September 2008

DVD Reviews - Sept 9







Baby Mama
Director: Michael McCullers
Rating: PG

Tina Fey and Amy Poehler team up for a Hollywood curiosity, a female buddy flick that actually found an audience.

Fey plays a business executive world Health Organization can�t hold kids but decides she desperately wants a child, and so is paired with a surrogate mother (Poehler) wHO behaves like a adolescent herself. A stellar load-bearing cast is highlighted by Sigourney Weaver, Steve Martin, Greg Kinnear and Romany Malco.

The DVD and Blu-ray release come with an alternate ending and other deleted scenes and a couple of sub-rosa featurettes with cast and crew interviews. Fey and Poehler too join writer-director Michael McCullers and producer Lorne Michaels for commentary.

The Forbidden Kingdom
Director: Rob Minkoff
Rating: PG

Martial arts superstars Jackie Chan and Jet Li join forces for the number one time with this phantasy adventure set in ancient China.

The picture casts a modern adolescent (Michael Angarano) back in time, where he is trained by Chan and Li to fulfil his destiny by stopping an evil warlord.

The flick comes in a single-disc DVD with just the movie or two-disc DVD and Blu-ray sets that include deleted scenes with commentary from director Rob Minkoff, wHO also offers commentary for the full film.

Other extras include a �Kung Fu Dream Team� featurette on the matchup of Chan and Li, along with segments on shot in China.

The Fall
Director: Tarsem Singh
Rating: R

This ambitious visual wonder took four-spot years to shoot in 18 different countries, presenting a serial of globe-trotting fantasy adventures that spring to life from the tales told by a hospitalized stuntman (Lee Pace) to cheer up a five-year-old girlfriend who�s a fellow affected role back in the early days of Hollywood.

The DVD and Blu-ray discs hold deleted footage, two making-of featurettes and two commentary tracks, unrivalled with Pace and one with film director and co-writer Tarsem.

The Blu-ray tone ending also includes a veranda of photos from the film.









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