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National Treasure, a review by James

Title: National Treasure
Year: 2004
Director: Jon Turteltaub
Rating: PG
Length: 131 Min.
Media Type: DVD
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 2.35:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles:

Stars:
Nicolas Cage
Diane Kruger
Justin Bartha
Sean Bean
Jon Voight

Plot:
From Jerry Bruckheimer, producer of Pirates Of The Caribbean, comes the definitive National Treasure. Get closer to the edge of your seat with the 2-Disc Collector's Edition DVD of this thrilling adventure starring Academy Award Winner Nicolas Cage (Best Actor, Leaving Las Vegas, 1995) as Benjamin Franklin Gates. With heart-pounding chases and close calls, this high-stakes crime caper is the most exciting treasure hunt you've ever experienced - now with a treasure trove of new special features.

Extras:
Scene Access
Deleted Scenes
Featurettes
Interactive Games
Closed Captioned


I was never too interested in seeing this. My father-in-law brought it to my attention recently and so I checked it out. This is what I would call an old-fashioned Saturday afternoon movie. Not a great film, but it's good entertainment. Great to eat popcorn to. It's noticeably PG rated too. No swearing that I can recall. That sort of felt unusual. I enjoyed the Philadelphia locales. I was recently in Philadelphia for the first time and there were a few places in the film that I actually recognized. One of my favorite places I've ever been was the Reading Terminal Market. There was a chase scene through the market in the film, so I was quite excited by that. Fans of Dexter will see Sgt. Doakes and Paul Bennett in tiny roles as FBI Agents. Completely formulaic, but good fun.

6 on the cellophane scale.



(From The Viewage of James aka m.cellophane on January 4th, 2008)

Goosebumps, a review by addicted2dvd

Goosebumps (2015/United States, Australia) IMDb |Wikipedia |Trailer | Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (United States) Director: Rob Letterman Writing: Darren Lemke (Screenwriter), Scott Alexander (Story By), Larry Karaszewski (Story By), R. L. Stine [R.L. Stine] (Original Material By) Length: 103 min. Video: Widescreen 2.35:1 Audio: English: Dolby TrueHD: 7.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: DTS-HD Master Audio: 5.1, Audio Descriptive: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, French, Spanish

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Stars:
Jack Black as Stine
Dylan Minnette as Zach
Odeya Rush as Hannah
Ryan Lee  as Champ
Amy Ryan as Gale

Plot:Extras:

• Scene Access
• Bonus Trailers
• Deleted Scenes
• Featurettes
• Gallery
• Outtakes/Bloopers
• Digital Copy

Granted this one is for the fans of the books and TV series. for me it is a lot of nostalgia of watching the TV episodes with my daughter. I really enjoyed this film...and love the fact that I got to watch this one with my daughter since we enjoyed watching the series so much when she was a kid. I think they did a good job at bringing a lot of the characters from the series to film. Jack Black has always been hit and miss for me... but I really liked him playing R. L. Stine. I found this one well worth the time put in to watch it... but I don't see people enjoying this one if they don't know the books or TV series.



Horror/Halloween Challenge Films: 7/52

(From Horror/Halloween 2016 Challenge on October 4th, 2016)

Tom's Random Reviews, a review by Tom

Title: South Park: Season Eleven
Year: 2007
Rating: NR
Length: 311 Min.
Video: Full Frame 1.33:1
Audio: English: Dolby Digital Stereo, Commentary: Dolby Digital Stereo

Plot:
All fourteen uncensored episodes from South Park's eleventh season are now available in this exclusive three-disc collector's set. Join the boys as they attempt to rescue Imaginationland from nuclear annihilation, discover the secret behind the Easter Bunny, and get head lice. For them, it's all part of growing up in South Park!

EPISODES:
1. With Apologies to Jesse Jackson
2. Cartman Sucks
3. Lice Capades
4. The Snuke
5. Fantastic Easter Special
6. D-Yikes
7. Night of the Living Homeless
8. Le Petit Tourette
9. More Crap
10. Imaginationland
11. Imaginationland Episode II
12. Imaginationland Episode III
13. Guitar Queer-O
14. The List

Extras:
Closed Captioned
Commentary
Trailers

Now in its eleventh season and South Park is still going strong.
The highlights for me in this season:
- Lice Capades: The story of lice Bruckheimer style when catastrophe strikes when an anti-lice shampoo is used against them
- Imaginationland: Great three-parter. A lot of fun appearances by other known cartoon characters
- Guitar Queer-O: A parody of the game Guitar Hero.
- The List: The girls made a list of what boy in their class is the cutest and who's the ugliest. The boys of course are trying to get their hand on it. How will they react, when they read it?

Rating:

(From Tom's Random Reviews on December 28th, 2008)