New on DVD: Sept. 30

New DVD’s This Week: Sept. 30

Having lost his badge for botching one of the largest investigations in FBI history, Brian O’Connor (Paul Walker) has one final chance for redemption: help the Miami Feds bring in longtime target Carter Verone (Cole Hauser), a shifty businessman who uses his import/export business as a cover for a massive international money laundering operation. Using illegal street racing activities as his means to infiltrate Verone’s cartel, O’Connor enlists the help of childhood friend and ex-con Roman Pearce (Tyrese Gibson). Together, the pair attempts to get into Verone’s world with the help of undercover agent Monica Fuentes (Eva Mendes), in the hopes that their unscrupulous pasts will be wiped clean.

What’s
Cool:

Deleted scenes
Outtakes
Bonus short: “Animated Anecdotes”
Featurettes: “Inside 2 Fast 2 Furious,” “Actors’ Driving School,” “Supercharged Stunts,” “Prelude to 2 Fast 2 Furious,” “Making Music with Ludacris”
Documentaries: “Tricking Out a Hot Import Car,” “Car Spotlights”

	From Our Review:
	Like its predecessor, 2 Fast 2 Furious is plagued by a spotty storyline–but who cares? Charged with exhilarating car-racing sequences, this movie nails the car culture scene and packages it into an entertaining summer movie. More. . .

Scarface: Anniversary Edition

In this special 20th anniversary DVD set, Scarface tells the story of the rise and fall of Tony Montana (Al Pacino), a Cuban immigrant who comes to Miami looking for his own piece of the American Dream. Montana begins moving up the ranks in the dangerous world of drugs, finding power, wealth and passion and eventually building his own cocaine smuggling empire. Yet, Montana’s empire begins to crumble under his own greed and obsession, until he loses everything he has ever held dear, including his sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) and loyal friend Manny (Steven Bauer).

What’s
Cool:

Deleted scenes
Featurettes: “Scarface: Rebirth,” “Scarface: Acting,” “Scarface: Creating,” and “Scarface: The TV Version”
Def Jam Presents: “Origins of a Hip-Hop Classic,”interviews with hip-hop artists on how the film influenced their lives and music.

	Interview:
	Hollywood.com talked with Scarface star Steven Bauer, who tells us making the film was both exhilarating and frustrating. More. . .

Dreamcatcher

Four childhood friends in suburban Maine–Jonsey (Damian Lewis), Henry (Thomas Jane), Pete (Timothy Olyphant), and Beaver (Jason Lee)–are connected by a extraordinary event that happened to them in boyhood, leaving them with uncanny powers and bonding them beyond ordinary friendship. Now adults with separate lives, the friends are haunted by their powers and their strange link to one another, as they embark on their yearly reunion at a hunting cabin in the north woods. However, this year’s gathering will not bring the warmth and humor that they have come to expect. With a vicious blizzard fast approaching, the friends begin to get a sense of the eerie horrors about to confront them.

What’s
Cool:

Alternate endings
Four deleted scenes
Featurettes: “DreamWriter–A Look at Stephen King and the Writing Process,” “DreamWeavers–The Visual Effects of Dreamcatcher,” “DreamMakers–A Journey Through Production”

	From Our Review:
	Thanks to strong performances from its main characters, Dreamcatcher initially catches your attention, but just when it should be at its scariest, it falls apart. More. . .

Boat Trip

With their dating lives in the gutter, longtime friends Jerry (Cuba Gooding Jr.) and Nick (Horatio Sanz) are out on the hunt for new romance. Jerry, in particular, is at odds with himself after botching a proposal to his fiancé in grand fashion. The goofy duo’s quest for love is sidetracked, however, when their vengeful travel agent secretly books them on a gay cruise.

What’s
Cool:

Widescreen format
Dolby Digital 5.1 audio
Deleted scenes
Outtakes
Featurette

	From Our Review:
	Set a course for a new adventure, because Boat Trip is one shipwreck of a movie. More. . .

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Daddy Day Care

When Charlie Hinton (Eddie Murphy) and his friend Phil (Jeff Garlin) are fired from their jobs at a high-profile advertising firm, they find themselves no longer able to pay for expensive day care for their children, so they take on the responsibility of tending to the young ones themselves. Having no luck in their job search, Charlie and Phil open a day care operation of their own, with no concept of the perils that lay ahead.

What’s
Cool:

Featurettes: “Meet The Daddy Day Care Kids” “Quiet on the Set” “Good Morning, Eddie Murphy!” “What Did That Kid Say?” and “Early Bloomers” animated short
Blooper reel
Games

	From Our Review:
	Director Steve Carr’s Daddy Day Care is a light and unobjectionable little comedy aimed at families looking for clean entertainment–and star Eddie Murphy delivers enough inoffensive laughs to make it passable. More. . .

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