A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 2 NOW AVAILABLE

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A new family moves into the house on Elm Street, and before long, the kids are again having nightmares about deceased child murderer Freddy Krueger. This time, Freddy attempts to possess a teenage boy to cause havoc in the real world, and can only be overcome if the boy's sweetheart can master her fear. Written by David Thiel {d-thiel@uiuc.edu}

Jesse Walsh and his family have moved into Nancy Thompson's old house on Elm Street. No sooner are they moved in than Jesse begins to have horrific nightmares - ones that feature a burned man in a dirty red & green sweater, with knives on the fingers of his right hand. His neighbor & new sweetheart, Lisa, discovers the truth behind Fred Krueger and his horrible murder spree. Freddy vows to take over Jesse's body to continue his vile crimes against the Elm Street residents. Soon, people close to Jesse start dying violently. Will Lisa's love for Jesse be enough to help him overpower the demonic presence inside him? Written by Derek O'Cain

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Contents: 8 DVDs (Region 1)/Movie Ratings (1-5) "A Nightmare On Elm Street" (1984) [5] "A Nightmare On Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge" [2.5] "A Nightmare On Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors" [4] "A Nightmare On Elm Street 4: The Dream Master" [3] "A Nightmare On Elm Street 5: The Dream Child" [3.5] "A Nightmare On Elm Street 6: The Final Nightmare" [2.5] "Wes Craven's New Nightmare" [4] "The Nightmare Encyclopedia" [5] Sound: Dolby Digital (English 5.1 & 2.0 Mono) Aspect Ratios: 1.85:1 (anamorphic widescreen) Special Features:Interactive menus, production notes, 7 theatrical trailers, TV spots, deleted scenes, Audio commentary (Parts 1 & 7), full-length making-of documentary, stills/photos, music videos, DVD-ROM access, 2 3-D glasses (for Part 6 3-D sequence), 36-page color booklet. Plot: Okay, since there are too many movies to go into great detail here, it shall suffice to say that all of them deal with an evil dead dude named Freddy Krueger who haunts unlucky teenagers in their dreams and kills them. Although he is beaten at the end of each movie, Freddy bounces back in the next sequel, ready to dispense horrible deaths and wicked jokes. Naturally, the original and last movie are the best (directed by Wes Craven himself). part 3 was also a lot of fun, directed by Chuck Russell ("The Mask") and co-written by Frank Darabont ("Shawshank Redemption"). The Nightmare Encyclopedia: A special section of this review is dedicated to this mammoth DVD. It features an interactive menu/game called "The Labyrinth"--where the viewers get to spend at least 4 hours (!) through a maze that unlocks many, many, many interesting features (most of which were aforementioned in the "Special Features" section above). Okay, I know what you're thinking: Youssef must have no life and sits in front of his TV going through mazes! No, pal, that's not it; it's a very entertaining--but yet frustrating undertaking going through the Labyrinth. Also, I don't like to lose to a damned 3-D puzzle! Anyway, the documentary, called "Welcome To Primetime," is an excellent look at the "Freddy" phenomenon. All seven films' directors (really 6 directors) are on hand with anecdotes and trivia facts; also, we meet the writers SFX wizards and other key people involved in the series; up to and including many of its stars. Check out the Freddy videos by Dokken and the Fat boys! On the strength of this disc alone, the whole series is a knockout! All in all, New Line really outdid itself in preparing the "Nightmare" series for DVD. Hats off to you folks! It should set the standard by which DVDs are marketed, packaged and sold. If you are to view the entire in one sitting, allow yourself at least 12-15 hours for the viewing. It's good, clean nightmarish fun. Claw on Freddy...claw on!

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NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET NOW AVAILABLE

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On Elm Street, Nancy Thompson and a group of her friends including Tina Gray, Rod Lane and Glen Lantz are being tormented by a clawed killer in their dreams named Freddy Krueger. Nancy must think quickly, as Freddy tries to pick off his victims one by one. When he has you in your sleep, who is there to save you? Written by simon_hrdng

Nancy is having nightmares about a frightening, badly-scarred figure who wears a glove with razor-sharp "finger knives". She soon discovers that her friends are having similar dreams. When the kids begin to die, Nancy realizes that she must stay awake to survive. Uncovering the secret identity of the dream killer and his connection with the children of Elm Street, the girl plots to draw him out into the real world. Written by David Thiel {d-thiel@uiuc.edu}

In the early 1980's, a psychopath named Freddy Krueger - known as the Springwood Slasher - murdered several children with a glove outfitted with straight razor blades attached to the fingers. When a foolish decision by a judge sets him free, Krueger is burned alive in the boiler room where he worked by an angry mob of the parents whose children he terrorized & murdered. Years after his death, the children whose parents were responsible for Krueger's death - including Nancy Thompson, daughter of the police officer who arrested Krueger - are experiencing terrifying nightmares involving a burned man wearing a glove with razor blades on the fingers. The ghost of Freddy Krueger is haunting their dreams, and when Nancy's best friend Tina dies in her sleep violently during a dream confrontation with Krueger, Nancy realizes she must find a way to stop the evil psychopath's reign of terror - or never sleep again... Written by Derek O'Cain

Freddy Kruger is the substance of nightmares. He always appears strangely dressed and has knives on the fingers of his right hand. A group of four teenagers all begin to have the same strange dreams about Freddy and then one of them is gruesomely murdered in her sleep. The survivors soon realise that if Freddy kills them in their sleep, then they will die in real life too. Thus begins an ordeal of wakefulness as they try to find some way to stop Freddy. Written by Goth {brooks@odie.ee.wits.ac.za}

Nancy and her friends are having violent nightmares which all feature one common element, a disfigured serial killer with a glove made of razors on his right hand. When one of the group is murdered in their sleep. Nancy realises that she must stay awake and try uncover the truth behind this phantasmic killer Freddy Krueger. Written by Action Dan {actiondan@talk21.com}

Nancy is having nightmares, violent nightmares about a mysterious badly burned man with a razor fingered glove on his right hand that calls himself Freddy. When she realizes that her friends are having the same nightmares and that one by one they are being brutally murdered in their sleep she turns to her father who does not believe her and thinks her to be crazy. After she finds out the horrible truth behind Freddy's rampage she decides to take action and bring this dream murderer out of dreamland and into the real world where she can send him straight to where he belongs. Written by SliMSeanY1402@aol.com

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Features: Widescreen and Fullscreen versions, Audio Commentary, Original Theatrical Trailer, Animated Menus. DVD-ROM: Screenplay, Trivia Game, Cast, Crew and Trivia Information.

The Movie: A Nightmare on Elm Street is the first installment in the long Nightmare series. In the movie, former Child Molester Fred Krueger, killed burned to death by neighborhood parents, returns in the dreams of the children of those parents. He starts killing off their children through their dreams, one by one, in fairly gruesome ways. The movie is good for those interested in a "shock thriller" movie. If you're looking for "traditional" horror look elsewhere.

Picture: The digitally remastered transfer, while having some artifacts, was done well overall, and is much clearer than a video copy I viewed. The movie is presented in either widescreen or fullscreen aspect ratios.

Sound: The sound is offered in a Remastered Dolby Digital 5.1 surround track, or the original mono soundtrack (In Dolby Digital Mono). Both soundtracks are digitally enhanced, to provide great clarity and (the the surround mode) nice effects. They did a very good job of going from a mono source to Surround Sound.

The Extras: I have to give New Line a hand, they did a good job with the extras on this DVD. The choice between mono and surround sound tracks is nice. The original theatrical trailer is presented, as are a host of DVD-Rom features (Screenplay, Trivia Game, Cast, Crew and Trivia Information.) which I could not try due to a lack of a DVD-ROM. However, my favorite extra, audio commentary, is present on this disc, and this commentary is very well done, with actors Heather Langenkamp and Jon Saxon, and Director Wes Craven. I actually found the commentary more interesting than the movie, finding how they did all the special effects so well in a time when effects couldn't be created as easily as they can now.

Conclusion: If you are a fan of this type of movie, or the series in particular, I would recommend this movie. Otherwise, if you are still interested in it, I would tell you to rent it, and watch both the movie and the commentary.

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NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM 2 NOW AVAILABLE

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When the Museum of Natural History is closed for upgrades and renovations, the museum pieces are moved into federal storage at the famous Washington Museums. The centerpiece of the film will be bringing to life the Smithsonian Institution, which houses the world's largest museum complex with more than 136 million items in its collections, ranging from the plane Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) flew on her non-stop solo flight across the Atlantic and Al Capone's (Jon Bernthal) rap sheet and mug shot to Dorothy's ruby slippers, Fonzie's jacket from Happy Days, the still from M*A*S*H and Archie Bunker's lounge chair from All in the Family. With a forwarded resume, Larry (Ben Stiller) becomes another caretaker at the Smithsonian, where Kahmunrah, an evil Pharaoh will come to life with the reestablishing of a tablet as a magical force in the museum bringing the old exhibits (Such as Theodore Roosevelt and Dexter) and new exhibits (like General Custer and Al Capone) back to life, and in conflict with each other. Larry enlists the help of Amelia Earheart, who he develops a romantic interest in, and together they try to put everything back in order.

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This being the second go-around with the "Night at the Museum" franchise, it's clear to me that laughs shouldn't be the focal point of the material. With all these fantastical events occurring within a cherished educational playground, it feels like a major directorial failure to pursue dollar-store jokes when there's so much adventure to be had. "Battle of the Smithsonian" has the advantage of hindsight over its ramshackle 2006 forefather, yet it only occasionally lives up to its wondrous, chaotic premise. Instead the film appears more delighted with tiresome improvisational acrobatics than generating a welcoming tidal wave of wonder.

Now an infomercial guru pimping glow-in-the-dark flashlights, Larry (Ben Stiller) has been ignoring his late-night friends at the American Museum of Natural History. When technological advances in education force the magical statutes into storage, the museum contents are shipped to the massive bowels of the Smithsonian, much to Larry's surprise. With the Tablet of Akmenrah now in a new location, it brings the contents of the buildings to life, including the villainous Kahmunrah (Hank Azaria), who needs the Tablet to raise his feared Army of the Dead. Larry, slipping into the Smithsonian in a stolen guard suit, looks to thwart Kahmunrah's wicked plan, finding help from his Natural History buddies, and also a new round of creatures and historical figures, including a spunky Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams).

One of the pleasures of "Battle" is finding the "Museum" series tapped out of sentiment, having wrapped up the anemic Larry-the-lukewarm-father routine in the previous motion picture. It's a gift to have that screenwriting 101 clutter swept out of the way for the sequel, leaving ample space for returning director Shawn Levy to squeeze as much cartoon madness as he can out of the concept, especially within the voluminous hallways of the Smithsonian. Interestingly, this sequel doesn't want to stun the audience with showboating special effect displays and feats of historical strength, it would rather make everyone laugh. It's a specific craving from Levy and the production I'm having trouble understanding.

Sure, the "Museum" movies are primarily family entertainment with a strict guideline of slapstick and broad educational merriment. Yet, "Battle" lurches into shapeless Judd Apatow territory, with Levy allocating many scenes to drag out interminably with improvisational jousting between Stiller and the heavy-hitting assortment of comedic actors gathered here to assume history's finest, including Christopher Guest (Ivan the Terrible), Bill Hader (General Custer), Robin Williams (returning as Theodore Roosevelt), and Azaria (in multiple roles). There are also appearances by Apatow mainstays as Jonah Hill and Jay Baruchel, several cameos by cast members from "The Office," and Ricky Gervais, back as the jittery Natural History director. Levy is all too eager to hand the film over to these comic titans, but the brutally humorless improvs tend to run the pace of the film into the ground, leaving sections of the picture with nothing to do but stand around and wait impatiently for the comics to exhaust their hackneyed jokes before moving on.

When "Battle" rubber-bands back to Larry's exhaustive navigation of museum pitfalls, the motion picture reveals itself to be more dynamically mounted than the earlier film. Levy deploys the larger budget wonderfully, showcasing the Smithsonian antics with amazing technological achievements. Not just corralling wax figures this time around, "Battle" has Larry conversing with a group of Albert Einstein bobbleheads, dodging the tentacles of a massive squid, and, in the film's best sequence, diving into the "Kissing Sailor" WWII victory photo to sneak away from the bad guys, leading to a memorable B&W sequence. "Battle" is generous, inventive eye candy, miles ahead of the previous picture, and the upgraded optical punch enlivens the feature greatly through Levy's gentle acceleration of CG-enhanced heroics and slapstick.

Screenwriters Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant attempt to smuggle in some perverse sort of emotional arc for Larry in the third act that concerns his abandonment of the museum fun he used to cherish, but it hardly makes a dent. Thankfully, Levy doesn't push the matter too firmly, instead showing more interest in matters such as the adventures of miniature buddies Octavius (Steve Coogan) and Jedediah (Owen Wilson), which culminates in a parody of "300," though a teeny-tiny one; giving life to the Lincoln Memorial and works from artists Grant Wood and Edgar Degas; imagining a trio of cherubs as the Jonas Brothers; and permitting Amy Adams to steal the movie as the tart-tongued, high-flying feminist who convinces Larry to follow his moxie. At this point, I'm convinced Adams must have unicorns and rainbows for blood. She's just that overwhelmingly appealing of a screen presence.

While only showing minimal overall improvement over the preceding museum adventure, "Battle of the Smithsonian" at least finds a suitable resuscitation of the core concept. It's a film best with blockbuster displays of exaggerated mayhem, not doling out cutesy, stream-of-consciousness giggles. Here's to hoping that the inevitable third installment will lean more toward rousing institutional excitement instead of further enabling an exhausting game of verbal Twister.

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NICK AND NORAH'S INFINITE PLAYLIST NOW AVAILABLE

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It's been three weeks, two days, and 23 hours since Tris broke up with Nick. And now here she is at his gig, with a new guy. How could she have moved on so fast? This begins the night of Nick, Norah and Manhattan. The night of stripping nuns, hotel ice rooms, Russian food, psychotic ex-boyfriends and lovingly trashy ex-girlfriends. It's the night of Julio and Salvatore. The night of holding hands and writing songs and singing in the rain. It's a night they'll never forget. Writen By Anonymous

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So, Nick and Nora really like their martinis, right? I mean, really like them. You could say they are living the high life on highballs. That is, until this murder happens, and Nora decides that it would be fun to try to solve it. The murder victim is this really thin guy, and they call him the "the thin man," which a lot of people think is actually a nickname for Nick but that's not true. And--

Wait, wait, wait. Wrong movie. I'm supposed to be talking about Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. That's Norah, with an "h." Maybe I'm the one who should lay off the highballs.

William Powell and Myrna Loy have been dispensed with, and they are now replaced with Michael Superbad Cera and Kat The House Bunny Dennings, two cute kids who like to party themselves, so they're all right. Except they are both straight edge, which means neither of them drink, so they aren't exactly the same. Maybe that's why authors Rachel Cohn and David Levithan picked those names when they wrote the young adult novel the movie is based on, they were being ironic. Like naming a killing machine in a war movie "Gandhi."

Anyway, so yes, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist was a book and now it's a movie, adapted by first-time screenwriter Lorene Scarfaria and director Peter Sollett (Raising Victor Vargas). It's a totally cute but wholly inoffensive relationship film for teens, and the chemistry between Cera and Dennings is so good and the writing so sweet that it's pretty hard not end up with a smile on your face even as you roll your eyes. Nick is an emo kid who is pining for his lost love, a total skeez named Tris (Alexis Dziena, who played Lolita in Jarmusch's Broken Flowers). He hides in his room and leaves her long, sad voicemails and makes her mix CDs to tell her he misses her. She tosses the CDs in the trash, where they are fished out by her schoolmate, Norah, who thinks Nick has the best taste in music ever.

Cut to later when Norah and her lush of a friend Caroline (Ari Graynor) are in a NY club checking out Nick's band, a queer punk outfit where he's the token straight bass player. As fate would have it, Norah is totally attracted to sad little Nick, but she has no idea that he's Tris' mixtape king. Thus, it's a matter of fate that, in order to prove to Tris that she can get a guy, Norah walks up to Nick and plants a kiss on him. The rest of the night is spent chasing after their favorite band (they are playing a secret gig somewhere in the city and finding them involves following clues), trying to track down the drunk Caroline, and generally struggling to unhook themselves from their respective hang-ups. Nick has to get past Tris, and Norah has to get over being the daughter of a famous music impresario as well as dropping her lame semi-boyfriend Tal (a marvelously douchey Jay Baruchel). It's a good time, watching the kids run through the city, where they always find a parking space and never really run across anyone that is all that threatening in any way. (SNL-cast member Andy Samberg tries to be the crazy threatening guy in one cameo, but his main threat is that one day he will be funny. I'm still waiting for him to carry through with that.)

There isn't much more to it than that. All of the actors are very good, with Ari Graynor winning the MVP award for her spot-on comedic drunkenness. Michael Cera pretty much is sticking to the Paulie Bleecker bit he did for Juno, but I'm not really tired of it yet, so that's all right, too. He has the best lines in the movie, and a lot of them sound like they were either improv or Scarfaria has a really good ear for his delivery style. Nick's bandmates, played by Rafi Gavron and Aaron Yoo, are also fantastic, bringing the right kind of nerdy confidence to the screen to make them believable as Michael Cera's pals. The casting director really deserves extra kudos for those two.

All in all, Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist whizzes by and entertains as it does, but it's not entirely memorable. From the bland songs that make up the soundtrack to the pedestrian direction (Sollett should work on his comic timing, particularly with more physical scenes), it's all a little easy and carries a whiff of vanilla. Teens will probably like it for its unfettered emotionalism, but anyone with a passing knowledge of these kinds of date movies shouldn't expect any surprises. It is what it is, and thankfully, that's good enough--but only

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NIMS ISLAND NOW AVAILABLE

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Anything can happen on Nim's Island, a magical place ruled by a young girl's imagination. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover - the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim's Island. Written by Anonymous

A young girl inhabits an isolated island with her scientist father and communicates with a reclusive author of the novel she's reading. It is an existence that mirrors that of her favorite literary character, Alex Rover, the world's greatest adventurer. But Alexandra, the author of the Rover books, leads a reclusive life in the big city. When Nim's father goes missing from their island, a twist of fate brings her together with Alexandra. Now they must draw courage from their fictional hero, Alex Rover, and find strength in one another to conquer Nim's Island. Written by Anthony Pereyra {hypersonic91@yahoo.com}

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I think it's wonderful to see Jodie Foster attempt to break out of her cycle of gritted-teeth dramatic roles with a fluffy family comedy. However, the grating "Nim's Island" is pitched too aggressively, and Foster's bug-eyed, pratfall-packed performance is embarrassing to witness.

Nim (Abigail Breslin) is an adventurous pre-teen girl, living on an isolated South Pacific island with her scientist father, Jack (Gerard Butler), passing the time reading her favorite books by author Alex Rover. In San Francisco, Alex Rover (Jodie Foster) is an agoraphobic novelist currently stuck on her latest work, e-mailing Jack for information on the local volcano. When Jack finds himself stranded at sea, Nim is left alone on the island to fend for herself against storms and tourists. Fearful, she e-mails her hero Alex to come help her, sending the violently phobic writer out into the big scary world of germs and human interaction with the help of her Indiana Jonesesque literary alter-ego (also played by Butler).

Based on the book by Wendy Orr, "Nim's Island" is an unruly family film tied to the idea that restless direction and a blaring soundtrack will keep the antsy kids in the audience glued to the screen. What directors Jennifer Flackett and Mark Levin are pursuing with "Island" is a dreamlike quality, where fantasy and reality intermingle on a colorful scale. The filmmaking embraces cartoon qualities by giving Nim animal friends with human characteristics, or the island setting itself, which is a McDonald's Playland of volcanoes, zip-lines, and Talking Heads dance parties. I can understand the temptation of such material, but Flackett and Levin sell the whimsy of it all with a jackhammer, playing to the rafters any chance they get. They seem more interested in elaborate transition shots and other showoff camera tricks than finding a flexible, working tone for the picture.

The result is a headache-inducing film that grows more obnoxious as it plays, but the most piercing element of the movie is Foster. It's not that she's terrible in the frantic role of Alex, but the actress is trying with every fiber of her being to be funny, and bless the multifaceted Foster, but clowning around just isn't in her DNA. Alex is supposed to be a complete pill, but the squeaky way Foster plays the anxiety is difficult to watch. Flailing about like a puppet, Alex spends the entire picture confronting her fears (a major theme of the picture), but the situations provided by the screenplay consist primarily of Alex horsing around or plugging Progresso Soup and Purell, not really making inroads on her list of uncertainties.

"Island" is really three stories in one, following Nim, Alex, and Jack as they fight separation in their own comical ways, but it never ties together. "Nim's Island" isn't dreary, just miscalculated by filmmakers too eager to please and a lead actress much too willing to be the butt of a joke.

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