Home Media Magazine - August 17, 2008 - (Page 20) REVIEWS I WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS Street 8/26 Fox, Comedy, B.O. $80.1 million, $29.98 DVD, $34.98 two-DVD set, $39.98 Blu-ray, ‘PG-13’ for some sexual and crude content, and language, including a drug reference. Stars Cameron Diaz, Ashton Kutcher, Queen Latifah, Lake Bell, Rob Corddry, Dennis Miller, Treat Williams, Dennis Farina, Jason Sudeikis. www.homemediamagazine.com can be the most annoying. The film is surprisingly funny, but it’s Kutcher and Diaz who will convince viewers to roll the dice on the home video version. The single-disc DVD release is so bare bones it’s like Siegfried without Roy. The two-disc “Jackpot” edition ups the ante with more than two hours of bonus materials, including commentary with the director and editor. Where are Kutcher and Diaz? They don’t contribute commentary, but fans of either will appreciate the goofy, talk show-style discussion titled “Sitting Down with Cameron and Ashton.” Corddry also gets some laughs in the faux commercial “From the Law Firm of Stephen J. Hader, Esq.” The Blu-ray version throws in deleted and extended scenes and the featurette “Bottoms Up! An Intoxicating Vegas Experience.” Both the “Jackpot” and Blu-ray versions also include a digital copy so viewers can take the flick on the fly, with an iPod, iPhone or other compatible device. – Rachel Cericola I SEOUL RAIDERS Prebook 8/19; Street 9/23 Arts Alliance America, Action, $24.95 DVD, NR. Stars Tony Leung, Qi Shu, Richie Jen. J ack (Kutcher) is a commitment-phobic loser who was fired by his own dad. Joy (Diaz) is a stockbroker who was dumped by her fiancé in front of all of their friends, while in hiding for his surprise birthday party. What better way to drown both their sorrows than an adventure in Sin City? In a drunken blur, the two get married. After deciding on an annulment, Jack hits a $3 million jackpot. Now Joy wants a piece of the marital bliss. The two end up in court, where the judge (Miller) freezes the money and orders them to six months of hard marriage. The rest is like a comedic War of the Roses, where each one tries to one-up the other in who H I HAROLD Prebook 8/19; Street 9/16 City Lights, Comedy, B.O. $0.01 million, $24.98 DVD, ‘PG-13’ for crude and sexual content, language and teen drinking. Stars Spencer Breslin, Cuba Gooding Jr., Ally Sheedy, Nikki Blonsky, Colin Quinn, Rachel Dratch, Fred Willard, Dave Attell, Chris Parnell. I NEW RELEASE: Prebook 8/22, Street 9/23 Visit moreDVDinfo.com Order at Baker&Taylor, Ingram and VPD f the premise of Harold — a 13-year-old boy (Breslin) with male pattern baldness and a cantankerous middle-age attitude to match — seems familiar, possibly like a skit on “Saturday Night Live,” it could be due to the fact that the film was written and directed by one time “SNL” director T. Sean Shannon. If the prospect of yet another flimsy skit-length premise expanded to feature length seems familiar, even frightening, an open mind might yield a pleasant surprise. Harold is filled with disarming wit and offbeat charm. Anyone who has either been a teenager or seen a couple of movies about adolescence knows that being in high school can be a social and emotional minefield in a bestcase scenario. For anyone who is anything left of “normal,” it can be hell. The film drives this point home repeatedly and explicitly, benefiting from both the presence of Sheedy, the iconic “weird girl” from The Breakfast Club, as Harold’s mother, as well as Blonsky, the chubby protagonist from Hairspray, as a sympathetic classmate. Harold’s Ferris Bueller-esque monologues and acerbic narration keep things lively, and the whole film has a distinctly Napoleon Dynamite vibe. Breslin is a delight as the desperately out of touch but totally comfortable in his own skin teenager. In addition to memorable appearances by some well-known comedians, Gooding Jr., in yet another one of his perplexing career choices, shines as the ever-wise and kindly school janitor. With most of the laughs coming from toilet humor, it is hard to know exactly who the film will appeal to: the juvenile audience that can relate to it first hand, or the slightly older crowd that relates to the their own painful memories of what it was like to be different. – David Greenberg ong Kong action-star Tony Leung reprises his role as Japanese Special Agent Lam, a cross between James Bond and Jackie Chan, in the action-comedy Seoul Raiders. This time around, Lam is tasked with stealing back a pair of plates used for making counterfeit American money before they fall into the wrong hands. The adventure leads him to Korea in pursuit of a rogue embassy employee, Owen (Jen), who is attempting to sell the plates to a violent counterfeiting ring. Knowing he can’t complete the mission alone, Lam turns to his “Charlie’s Angels”-esque trio of fighting ladies and greedy renegade thief J.J. (Shu), who has her own hidden agenda, to track down the plates and safely return them to the U.S. Embassy for the $20 million reward. With his mod squad in place, they only have a few days to chase down Owen and find where he hid the plates before the sale is made. Along the way, Lam and his sidekicks find themselves in one overthe-top fight sequence after another — from a plate-flinging incident in the alley of a nightclub to a classic scene in a bathhouse involving a wet towel as the weapon of choice. This is just a sample of the slapstick, soft-core fighting that makes this Asian actioner so lively. Seoul Raiders delivers an entertaining mix of action and comedy thanks to its stars, including the debonair Leung (Infernal Affairs, Hero) and the always-vivacious Shu (The Transporter), and the cuttingedge filmmaking of director Jingle Ma, which together create a surefire hit. As a box-office success overseas, Seoul Raiders, the sequel to Ma’s Tokyo Raiders, is sure to find a welcoming audience in the United States among fans of Jackie Chan and Jet Li films. In addition to the English-dubbed version, the DVD features 35 minutes of bonus features, including a making-of featurette, deleted scenes and behind-the-scenes footage. – Matt Miller 20 Home Media Magazine August 17–23, 2008 http://www.homemediamagazine.com
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