New on DVD: May 18

New DVD’s This Week: May 18

Based on the true story of one of the greatest moments in sports history, the United States Ice Hockey team’s coach, Herb Brooks (Kurt Russell), took a ragtag squad of college kids in 1980 and put them up against the legendary Soviet Union juggernaut at the Olympic Games. Despite the long odds, Team USA carried the pride of a nation yearning from a distraction from world events. With the world watching, the team rose to the occasion, prompting broadcaster Al Michaels’ now-famous question to the millions viewing at home: "Do you believe in miracles? Yes!"

What’s Cool:

Commentary by director Gavin O’Connor and others
Featurettes: “First Impressions: Herb Brooks with Kurt Russell and the filmmakers”; “From Hockey To Hollywood: The Actors’ Journey”; “Turning Hockey Players into Actors”; “The Making of Miracle”; The Sound of Miracle”
Interviews with real team members Mike Eruzione, Buzz Schneider and Jim Craig, along with Kurt Russell in a “Journey Back to the Miracle on Ice”
Outtakes

	From Our Review:
	Despite its been-there, done-that theme, Miracle stirs your emotions anyway, watching those American comeback kids trounce the big, bad Soviets in a hockey game to end them all. More. . .

Paycheck

Brilliant computer engineer Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) routinely has his short-term memory erased so he can’t divulge any information about the top-secret projects he works on throughout the year. Upon completion of his last job, however, Jennings is given an envelope filled not with a check for billions, but containing random items–and discovers the people he worked for now want him dead. With his memory erased, Jennings attempts to use the objects in the envelope to figure out what happened to him as well as teaming up with his old flame Rachel (Uma Thurman) to help him uncover the mystery of his past–and to save his life.

What’s Cool:

Commentary by director John Woo
Seven extended/deleted scenes
Featurettes: “Paycheck: Designing The Future”; “Tempting Fate: The Stunts of Paycheck”

	From Our Review:
	Paycheck could have been an intriguing psychological thriller, but John Woo stopped payment on that good idea and resorted to what he knows best: the schlocky actioner. More. . .

Torque

Cary Ford (Martin Henderson) has returned to his hometown to reunite with his girlfriend, Shane (Monet Mazur), and tie up unfinished business, including taking care of Henry, a ruthless drug dealer and leader of the Hellions biker gang (Matt Schulze). Henry, who wants some stolen motorcycles he believes Ford has, frames Ford for murdering the younger brother of a rival motorcycle gang leader, Trey (Ice Cube). Now a suspect, Ford has to outrun the FBI while also eluding the misinformed Trey, who is hell-bent on revenge, and the callous Henry, who’s dead-set on getting back what is not-so-rightfully his.

What’s Cool:

Two commentaries by the cast and director Joseph Kahn
Race and train sequences from animation rendering through final edit
Music video: “Lean Low” by Youngbloodz

	From Our Review:
	If motorcycle racing is your thing, don’t spend the money on the movie; get a video game, where you’ll be able to crank the gears and control the action, and any bad story and awful dialogue will be your own. More. . .

You Got Served

Two friends want to open their own hip-hop dance and recording studio–but in order to make that dream come true, they must first win a street dance competition against another group of dancers to prove that they have talent.

What’s Cool:

Commentary by director/writer Chris Stokes, plus special commentary on the dance numbers
Featurettes: “Making of You Got Served”; “Battle of the Beat”; “Dance Breakdown: Multi Angle”
Music video: “Badaboom” By B2K Featuring Fabolous

	From Our Review:
	You Got Served may be a crudely acted, elementary story, but it’s almost impossible not to be impressed by the film’s dance numbers, artistically choreographed blends of breakdancing, b-boying and head-spinning. More. . .

Still Hot

Scary Movie 3

The third installment in this riotous spoof series begins as roving reporter Cindy Campbell (Anna Faris) sets out to find a hard news story in the middle of television sweeps. She uncovers an outrageous onslaught of global threats including alien invaders, killer videotapes, freaky crop circles, prophecies, eerie-eyed children, ambitious white rappers and even Michael Jackson. Faced with conspiracies of massive proportions, and accompanied by a crew of very strange helpers, Cindy must fight to stop evil from taking over the world. Also starring Charlie Sheen, Leslie Nielsen, Eddie Griffin, Anthony Anderson, Queen Latifah and more.

What’s Cool:

Commentary by director David Zucker, producer Robert K. Weiss, and writers Craig Mazin and Pat Proft
Featurettes: “The Making of Scary Movie 3“; “The Making of Scary Movie 3…For Real”
Alternate ending and featurette “Hulk vs. Aliens: Behind the Scenes of the Alternate Ending”
Deleted scenes with optional commentary
Outtakes and bloopers

	From Our Review:
	Those who haven’t seen the movies being spoofed should skip Scary Movie 3 altogether. Those who can pick them out will laugh at some of the references, but will also have to sit through some painfully bad scenes and plotlines to get to them. More. . .

Compiled by Anne Reiman

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