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Friday, December 5, 2008

New DVDs you can watch this weekend:

MARQUEE NAMES

· The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (PG) The Pevensie children are back, once again battling the forces of evil. Post critic Ann Hornaday said the movie is impressive but overpowered by its "ponderous, pounding musical score and more-epic-than-thou battle sequences." Extras include bloopers and deleted scenes.

· The Longshots (PG) The Post's Mike Mayo was charmed by this movie, which features Ice Cube as a disreputable uncle enlisted to look after his niece (Keke Palmer, "Akeelah and the Bee"), who ends up on the local Pop Warner football team. Extras include deleted scenes and a conversation with Ice Cube.

· Step Brothers (R) Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly team up again as two slackers who end up living in the same house as step-brothers. Post critic Stephen Hunter said that despite its flimsy plot and a reliance on producer Judd Aptow's comedy trademarks (e.g., an overuse of profanity), the movie "works in spades." Extras include extended and alternate scenes, a music video and a gag reel (if you don't get enough laughs from the movie itself).

· The X-Files: I Want to Believe (PG-13) Former FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson) are back in what The Post's Hank Stuever called "a taut, well-acted, not very scary, not very hard to figure out serial-killer mystery." Extras include a featurette on the makeup effects, deleted scenes and a gag reel.

· Wanted (R) Angelina Jolie is a gorgeous assassin (sound familiar?) in Timur Bekmambetov's adaptation of Mark Millar and J.G. Jones's comic book. Hornaday said: "With its pounding, bloody violence, foul-mouthed language and putrid worldview, the film isn't comic book-y on par with 'Iron Man' or 'The Incredible Hulk.' Rather it's an example of revenge of the nerds at its nastiest and most vulgar." Extras include behind-the-scenes footage with the actors and featurettes on the elevated-train stunts and the special effects.

OTHERS OF NOTE

· The Day the Earth Stood Still (Unrated) This 1951 sci-fi classic is dated but still holds up, even without today's sophisticated special effects. (A remake starring Keanu Reeves opens in theaters next week.) This two-disc special edition includes a shooting script and a making-of featurette.

· Fly Me to the Moon (G) This is the first animated movie created specifically for 3-D, and the special effects are great. But according to The Post's Michael O'Sullivan, the story, about juvenile houseflies who sneak onto the 1969 spacecraft carrying Neil Armstrong to the moon, "never lifts off more than a few feet from the ground." The DVD comes in 2-D and 3-D versions and includes a pair of 3-D glasses as well as an interactive planetarium game.

· Frost/Nixon: The Original Watergate Interviews (Unrated) In case you didn't get to see the theatrical reconstruction of the historic TV encounters between David Frost and the disgraced former president at the Kennedy Center last month, here's the real thing (and a movie version opens in theaters this month). This release includes a 2007 discussion with Frost about the interviews.


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