DVD reviews: 'Alice in Wonderland'; 'Wolfman'
Both of this week’s major home video releases offer new interpretations of time-tested stories.
December 18, 2012
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Both of this week’s major home video releases offer new interpretations of time-tested stories.
“Underclassman”: Another entry in the bad action-comedy genre is this dreary flick that plays like a cross between “Beverly Hills Cop” and “21 Jump Street,” minus the entertainment value.
 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is a massive hit – as everyone expected – and while it constitutes a bit of a letdown from The Lord of the Rings , it remains an honorable piece of entertainment. And, like its Oscar-winning predecessors, it leaves us on a cliffhanger… with a year to wait before the next part of the story…
Toni Collette shines in “In Her Shoes.†/ KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/AP “The Legend of Zorro”: Audiences snored some “Z’s” of their own for the return of Antonio Banderas’ Zorro, a box-office dud that reunited the actor with “The Mask of Zorro” co-star Catherine Zeta-Jones and director Martin Campbell.
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from stills provided by The Criterion Collection and promotional materials, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. It starts off as postcards and lulls you, with its eye-popping, rich ‘n warm views of Old-World Italy and the Mediterranean, into a wide-open tourist mode — all the better to guide you to some …
Highly Recommended THE FILM: Please Note: The images used here are from stills provided by The Criterion Collection and promotional materials, and are not taken from the Blu-ray edition under review. It starts off as postcards and lulls you, with its eye-popping, rich ‘n warm views of Old-World Italy and the Mediterranean, into a wide-open tourist mode — all the better to guide you to some …
This week’s DVD releases are highlighted by a comic-book adaptation from writer-director Frank Miller and the post-World War II drama that helped Kate Winslet land her first Oscar.
Naomi Watts as Ann Darrow sits in King Kong’s hand atop New York’s Empire State Building in a scene from director Peter Jackson’s “King Kong.†The DVD came out this week. Two versions are available and RGJ film critic Forrest Hartman suggests the two-disc set is the better buy.
This week is relatively light on major video releases, but the quality of the titles more than makes up for the slight number.