Not a huge week for new releases, but there are some titles I just added to the release date calendar detailed at the end of this update you may be interested in adding to your preorder shopping cart. Oh, and it appears Paramount has decided to begin releasing the Blu-ray editions of their films before releasing the DVD editions. They are starting with Dance Flick on September 8… It'll be interesting to see if it gets more people to adopt the high-def format once bigger named releases starting hitting the shelves.

The Class
	This one made the #6 spot on my list of top ten movies of 2008 so it should be obvious I think it is the one film releasing this week you need to watch. It's not a brain bender of a story as it details one class in a French middle school and shows what happens over the course of one school year, but the performances and script make it one hell of a movie. Give it a watch, you won't regret it.

I Love You, Man
	I'm watching the Blu-ray edition of this one as I type and I can't say my opinion on it has changed since I gave it a "C+" when I reviewed the theatrical release. Sure, it's got some funny parts and damn near everything involving Jon Favreau and Jamie Pressly is hilarious, but overall it's just not a movie I would recommend you buy as much as I would say give it a watch once and you should be good.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Film Collection
	I was sort of surprised when I looked over at Amazon to see the sales numbers on this week's releases and along with this being one of the few weeks where many of the DVD editions are outselling the Blu-ray editions, this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle box set isn't doing very big numbers. I guess that's what happens when you package a bunch of mediocre-to-bad films in one box; it gives reason for consumers to avoid the lot.

17 Again
	I couldn't help but laugh at the cover art for this one, which has the peel away lower right corner you see in the image to the left where it says, "Packed with ZAC!" First off, congrats to the 21-year-old Zac Efron for becoming such a big star that such a tagline helps sell your product, but perhaps next time get them to use a little bit of a less suggestive three-word phrase. Oh, and this movie is downright terrible in my book. You couldn't pack enough Zac in this one to get me to watch it again… I don't think you could even pack enough Bar Refaeli in it to make me watch it more than once… at least not without having me toss it in merely to skip to the good parts.

Alien Trespass
	It's funny to me people think they can set out to make a movie that imitates the crappy movies of old and it will work. Back in 2004 they tried this with The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra, which was truly abysmal so there was no way I was going to give such a stupid idea a second shot. What these filmmakers don't seem to realize is that those movies weren't intentionally crappy, they were crappy of their own causing. Why try and imitate that? Instead, give Mars Attacks! a watch… Now there is an example that got it right. When is that one coming to Blu-ray by the way. That is a Blu-ray I would buy day one.

• The Ninth Gate [Blu-ray]
• Starman [Blu-ray]
• Cutthroat Island [Blu-ray]
• Gigantic
• Chaos
• Blue Thunder [Blu-ray]
• 90210: The Complete First Season
• St. Elmo's Fire [Blu-ray]
• About Last Night… [Blu-ray]
• Road Trip – Beer Pong
• See No Evil [Blu-ray]
• Replicant [Blu-ray]
• Donkey X
• Michael Jackson: Moonwalking – The True Story of Michael Jackson

• Blood: The Last Vampire (buy now)
  Releasing on October 20, 2009
• My Life in Ruins (buy now)
  Releasing on October 6, 2009
• Up (2-Disc Special Edition)
  Releasing on November 10, 2009
• Up (buy now)
  Releasing on November 10, 2009
• Away We Go (buy now)
  Releasing on September 29, 2009

• Blood: The Last Vampire (buy now)
  Releasing on October 20, 2009
• Easy Rider (buy now)
  Releasing on October 20, 2009
• My Life in Ruins (buy now)
  Releasing on October 6, 2009
• Up (4-Disc Special Edition) (buy now)
  Releasing on November 10, 2009
• Away We Go (buy now)
  Releasing on September 29, 2009
• Secondhand Lions (buy now)
  Releasing on December 1, 2009
• Dance Flick (buy now)
  Releasing on September 8, 2009

Related post categories: This Week On DVD and Blu-ray : 17 Again, Alien Trespass, I Love You Man, The Class

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