This Week on DVD

by Philip Yu | October 27, 2008

This week's DVD release roundup includes a number of family-friendly titles, featuring a Disney fairy favorite, an American Girl sleuth, an exploration of the land way, way down under, as well as the twentieth anniversary of a cult TV classic.

PICK OF THE WEEK Tinker Bell
Peter Pan's spritely sidekick stars in her own original animated movie filled with adventure, magic and a sprinkling of pixie dust. Enter the amazing world of Pixie Hollow, home of the Fairies, who use their unique talents to bring nature's magic to life. But when the stubborn, sassy Tink tries to switch up her fairy-talent for 'tinkering' with something more exciting, the results are disastrous, even endangering the arrival of Spring.

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DVD IN 3-D Journey to the Center of the Earth
Brandon Fraser takes you on a thrilling, 3-D adventure deep beneath the Earth's surface, complete with funny-looking glasses for the full eye-popping experience. A breakthrough discovery sends a trio of explorers plunging down, way down, into a massive subterranean world of prehistoric beasts and wonders, and fighting to survive amidst a nonstop CGI spectacle of dinosaurs, sea monsters and man-eating plants. So real, you'll swear the actors weren't just running from a really big green screen.

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FAMILY FUN Kit Kittredge: An American Girl
Based on the immensely popular book and doll line, Abigail Breslin stars as a 9-year-old aspiring reporter living in Cincinnati during the Great Depression. When a lockbox full of money is stolen from her family home, Kit is determined to exonerate her friend Max and sniff out the real culprit behind the missing cash. With a cast that includes Stanley Tucci, Joan Cusack and Jane Krakowski, the first-ever "American Girl" theatrical movie is sure to please the 3-to-12-year-old girl in everyone.

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CULT CLASSIC Mystery Science Theater 3000 -
20th Anniversary Edition
Celebrate really bad flicks and wisecracking robot sidekicks with the 20th anniversary edition of Mystery Science Theater 3000. With four of the show's most-requested episodes -- "First Spaceship on Venus," "Laserblast," "Werewolf," and "Future War" -- you can sit in again with Joel, Tom Servo and Crow T. Robot as they skewer some of the worst movies of all time and somehow transform the unwatchable into hilariously essential viewing.

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