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‘Ralph’ makes leap to DVD

March 7, 2013
By ANDY GRAY Tribune Chronicle , Tribune Chronicle | TribToday.com

New this week on DVD:

"Wreck It Ralph" - The title character is an arcade game bad guy (voiced by John C. Reilly) who is tired of being a villain and decides to become a hero by jumping into another game. Instead, he unleashes a deadly enemy that threatens all of the video characters, and his only chance at being a hero comes with the help of Vanellope (Sarah Silverman), a "glitch" from a racing game. The voice cast from the Oscar-nominated film also includes Ed O'Neill, Jane Lynch, Jack McBrayer, Mindy Kaling and Dennis Haysbert.

The Academy Award-winning animated short "Paperman" is included with the movie along with deleted and alternate scenes, a gamer's guide to the film hosted by Chris Hardwick, the featurette "Bit by Bit: Creating the Worlds of Wreck-It Ralph" and fake commercials for some of the video games invented for the film. (Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, $29.99 DVD, $39.99 Blu-ray/DVD combo, $49.99 3D Blu-ray/Blu-ray/ DVD/digital copy combo)

"Red Dawn" - The jingoistic '80s action movie gets a 21st Century remake with a group of teens trying to fight off the North Koreans. Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas and Jeffrey Dean Morgan star. (MGM, $29.98 DVD, $39.99 Blu-ray)

"Playing for Keeps" - Gerard Butler stars as a former soccer star trying to reconnect with his son. He agrees to coach the boy's youth soccer team and also proves to be very popular with the soccer moms in this romantic comedy with Jessica Biel, Uma Thurman, Catherine Zeta-Jones and Dennis Quaid.

Extras include seven deleted scenes and the featurettes "The Playbook: Making Playing for Keeps" and "Creating an All-Star Team: The Casting of Playing for Keeps." (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $30.99 DVD, $35.99 Blu-ray)

"The Intouchables" - Its $10 million U.S. gross was an impressive total for a foreign language film, but this was a huge hit internationally, earning $420 million and receiving nine nominations at the 2012 Cesar Awards (France's version of the Oscars). The film is based on the true story of a wealthy French quadriplegic (Francois Cluzet) and the young man (Omar Sy) hired to care for him.

The disc includes five deleted scenes. (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $30.99 DVD, $35.99 Blu-ray)

"Lay the Favorite" - This week's winner of the how-bad-must-this-movie-be-not-to-get-a-wide-release? award goes to a film starring Bruce Willis, Vince Vaughn, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rebecca Hall, Joshua Jackson and Laura Prepon and directed by two-time Oscar nominee Stephen Frears ("The Queen," "The Grifters"). Willis plays a gambler who falls for a waitress (Hall) who displays some beginners' luck when it comes to picking winners. (Anchor Bay, $24.98 DVD, $29.99 Blu-ray)

"A Dark Truth" - A former CIA agent turned talk show host (Andy Garcia) heads to Ecuador to rescue a team of environmental activists (Forest Whitaker, Eva Longoria) who are entangled in a conspiracy involving a multinational conglomerate and the country's military regime.

The only extra is the featurette "Behind the Truth." (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, $30.99 DVD)

"Waiting for Lightning" - This documentary focuses on the life of skateboarding star Danny Way, whose stunts include jumping over the Great Wall of China.

Blu-ray extras include six deleted scenes and multiple featurettes and interviews. (First Run Features, $24.95 DVD, $29.95 Blu-ray)

 
 

 

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