Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs : DVD released on 1/5/2010

Judi and Ron Barrett's cloudy with a chance of meatballs is a lovely, a whimsical book about a small island where food falls from the sky like rain. The book serves as a starting point for the animation from Sony, 3-D digital cloudy with a chance of meatballs, which is not so much a narrative of the book as an exploration of what makes food that rain from the sky on a small island in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Flint (Bill Hader), a smart young inventor, with a reputation for the creations that went wrong, has recently completed a machine that he says turn water into food. Like his past failed inventions, new foods Flint conversion machine does not work as planned, and its initial test run ends by getting thrown into the sky where clouds form and rain begin to hamburgers. The burgers down the last attempt to destroy the Swallow Falls community to strengthen its absence, the sardine-dependent economy, but the mayor (Bruce Campbell), the initial anger quickly turns to greedy anticipation when it begins to realize that food falling from the sky could serve as an innovative tourist attraction. As all the people trapped redefining itself as "chew and swallow," Flint's only father (James Caan) remains skeptical about the invention of his son. Greed leads to some very strange weather events such as spaghetti and extra-giant mouthful of food, while a great professional opportunity for intelligent internal climate Sam Sparks (Anna Faris), who is going through an air television personality directed, also threaten to destroy the city and its inhabitants. In the end, only the collaborative efforts of Flint, his father, and Sam can save the city from chewing and swallowing from certain destruction of invention out of control. Cloudy with chance of meatballs is a fun, imaginative film that is well animated and very entertaining for children and adults. Rated PG for brief mild language, but adequate for most children 5 years and older.

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• Actors: Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell
• Format: AC-3, Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: January 5, 2010
• Run Time: 90 minutes

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9 (2009) : DVD released on 12/29/2009

Nine small rag dolls, sewn of jute and operation of the watch and glasses are all that stands in the way of the world to be struck by the machines. In fact, 9 starts, it seems that the machines have had their way with the Earth: this is a post-apocalyptic landscape without life, hope, or sunlight. 9 It is clear that the Director Shane Acker is willing to make an animated film that do not fire with the colors of Disney or Pixar mind - indeed, the main characters are killed before the movie halfway. Our hero is 9 (voiced by Elijah Wood), named for the number on the back, after awakening to consciousness confusing encountered with the survivors of puppets, such as pressing 1 (Christopher Plummer), the warrior as 7 (Jennifer Connelly), and the one-eyed comic 5 (John C. Reilly). That fight with the machines in a relentless (and eventually monotonous) series of battles, and the hardware of the explosion and the endless war has a tendency to crowd out any character development could have been created in the first minutes. No doubt film design is impressive and the characters are wonderfully expressive quality at first. But at some point it seems that machines have taken over the creation of films here, with tedious results.

• Actors: Elijah Wood, Jennifer Connelly, Crispin Glover, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau
• Directors: Shane Acker
• Writers: Shane Acker, Pamela Pettler
• Producers: Dana Ginsburg, Graham Moloy, Jim Lemley, Jinko Gotoh, Marci Levine
• Format: AC-3, Animated, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: December 29, 2009
• Run Time: 80 minutes

District 9 : DVD released on 12/22/2009

A provocative sci-fi drama, District 9 has an original story that gets a little lost in the blow-'em-up chaos. Set in Johannesburg, South Africa, District 9 begins as a mock documentary about the impending eviction of the aliens in a poor pathetic (called District 9). The creatures, it turns out have been on Earth for years, having arrived sick and starving. He initially received by human beings with compassion and care, foreigners are now mired in deteriorating conditions typical of the refugee camps long term unwanted by a hostile society, countries. With care of the creatures by contract to a nonprofit corporation, the neighborhood has become a violent neighborhood. The aliens sift through huge piles of garbage, while their carers in secret weapons research technology that arrived in the spaceship of the visitors.

Against this backdrop is a more personal story about a bureaucrat named Wikus (Sharlto Copley) who is accidentally exposed to a substance that alters the DNA. As metamorphosis begins in one of the creatures, Wikus going to the careers of scientists who wish to collect their evolution, new parts and foreigners who see it as a threat. When paired with an alien secretly planning an escape from the Earth, however, which should be a fascinating relationship becomes a series of shootings and explosions. Nuance is lost to numb to violence and the most interesting potential of the film darkens. However, during a time District 9 is a powerful movie with a unique story to tell. Seamless special effects alone are worth seeing: the (often brutal) exchanges between the alien and human are impressive.

Product Details

• Actors: Sharlto Copley, David James, Jason Cope, Nathalie Boltt, Sylvaine Strike
• Directors: Neill Blomkamp
• Writers: Neill Blomkamp, Terri Tatchell
• Producers: Bill Block, Carolynne Cunningham, Elliot Ferwerda, Ken Kamins, Michael S. Murphey
• Format: AC-3, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Cantonese, English, French, Korean, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: December 22, 2009
• Run Time: 112 minutes

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