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New on DVD: June 1

New DVD’s This Week: June 1
 Monster

In her Oscar-winning performance, Charlize Theron plays real-life serial killer Aileen Wuornos, who was executed in 2002 in Florida for killing six men. The movie details the love story between Wuornos, a drifter/prostitute, and Selby Wall (Christina Ricci), sent by her parents to live with an aunt in Florida in order to “cure her homosexuality.” To keep their relationship alive, Aileen continues hooking, which fuels an increasingly escalating deadly rage.

What’s Cool:
  • The making-of Monster featurette
  • Interview with director Patty Jenkins and composer BT
From Our Review:
Talk about getting ugly for Oscar–Charlize Theron does it both inside and out, turning in a powerful, certainly award-worthy performance that’s just as mind-blowing as her makeunder in a movie that, quite frankly, doesn’t back it up.
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 Eurotrip

In a comedy that gives new meaning to the phrase “foreign relations,” Scotty Thomas (Scott Mechlowicz) has been corresponding with a German computer pen pal, Mieke (Jessica Borhs), for years. But when Mieke makes a “cyber pass” at Scotty, he completely freaks out, thinking that his male friend is coming on to him. By the time Scotty figures out that Mieke is a girl, and a hot one at that, Mieke has cut off her e-mail account and all contact with him, so Scotty and his best friends, Cooper (Jacob Pitts) and the twins Jenny (Michelle Trachtenberg) and Jamie (Travis Wester), embark on a raucous trip across Europe in search of Scott’s could-be true love.

What’s Cool:
  • Two commentaries by director/co-writer Jeff Schaffer and co-writers David Mandel and Alec Berg
  • Gag reel
  • Alternate ending
  • Nude scene and unrated scene indexes
  • “The Music of Eurotrip, including the music video “Scotty Doesn’t Know”
From Our Review:
With its fresh cast, unapologetically lewd storyline and laugh-out-loud predicaments, Eurotrip makes for a delectably rare fun time at the movies.
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 My Baby’s Daddy

Lonnie (Eddie Griffin), Dominic (Michael Imperioli) and ‘G’ (Anthony Anderson) are three bachelor buddies from the hood who, after a lifetime of hard partying, are in for a rude awakening when their respective girlfriends all get pregnant at the same time. The fathers-to-be embark on an emotional journey while learning as much about themselves as they do about love and fatherhood.

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What’s Cool:
  • A behind-the-scenes featurette
  • Deleted and extended scenes
  • Gag reel

From Our Review:
My Baby’s Daddy is marred by an inconsistent storyline and shoddy direction, which is a sorry and surprising letdown considering it features such a strong roster of comedic talent.
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 Catch That Kid

Determined to find the money to pay for her mountain-climbing father’s surgery, 12-year-old Maddy (Kristen Stewart), a budding climber herself, recruits two of her friends, Austin (Corbin Bleu), a computer genius, and Gus (Max Thieriot), a mechanical whiz kid, to help her pull off a risky heist–breaking into a super-high-tech bank whose security is run by Maddy’s mother (Jennifer Beals).

What’s Cool:
  • Commentary by stars Kristen Stewart, Corbin Bleu and Max Thieriot
  • Eight deleted scenes
  • Academy Award-nominated animated short Gone Nutty
From Our Review:
While the Catch That Kid players may be appealing, the rest of the film misses out on its potential to be a hip, pubescent heist flick. The only thing to “catch” in this film is perhaps a cold–from sitting in the theater with the ‘tweener set.
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 The Company

Directed by the eclectic Robert Altman, the movie centers on the Chicago ballet company–the difficult daily work, the intense pressures of performance, and the richly textured behaviors of the dancers–whose professional and personal lives grow impossibly close. Starring Neve Campbell, James Franco and Malcolm McDowell.

What’s Cool:
  • Commentary by director Robert Altman and star Neve Campbell
  • The making-of The Company
  • “The Passion of Dance” featurette

From Our Review:
Its narrative may be less than compelling, but The Company is nonetheless a brilliant and vivid study of the world of ballet.
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 The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

The final installment of the trilogy finds Middle-Earth still in turmoil. As the threat of the Dark Lord Sauron in Mordor grows ever more present, Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen), Legolas (Orlando Bloom) and the rest of the Fellowship, along with the great wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen), continue to wage their war in the city of Gondor. Meanwhile, Sam (Sean Astin) and Frodo (Elijah Wood) continue their torturous journey into Mordor to cast the Ring into the fires of Mount Doom, destroying it forever. Gollum (voiced by Andy Serkis), however, still pretending to be Sam and Frodo’s ally, has other, more selfish plans for the Ring.

What’s Cool:
  • Documentaries: “A Filmmaker’s Journey: Making The Return of the King”; “National Geographic Special”; “The Quest Fulfilled: A Director’s Vision”
  • Featurettes: “Aragorn’s Destiny”; “Digital Horse Doubles”; “Eowyn: White Lady of Rohan”; “Minas Tirith: Capital of Gondor”; “Samwise the Brave”; “The Battle of Pelennor Fields” The Battle for Middle-Earth Continues video games from EA
From Our Review:
With a sweeping narrative, mind-blowing battle sequences and gut-wrenching performances, could there be a grander finale to a classic epic? Not in this millennium!
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