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Welcome to How to Spend $20, BOP's look at the latest DVDs to hit stores nationwide. This week: Mary Louise-Parker keeps her marijuana business running smoothly, the Scary Movie people further kill the movie spoof genre, football fans rejoice at the chance to see Super Bowl XLII one more time and Will Ferrell shows off his mad dribblin' skills.

PICK OF THE WEEK

For people who enjoy moms who can roll their own fatty: Weeds: Season Three

Everyone's favorite mother of two - who moonlights as a suburban pot dealer - is back with new episodes beginning June 16th on Showtime. To help pass the time before the start of season four, familiarize yourself with the Emmy-nominated comedy's third season, said to be the last located in the familiar Agrestic neighborhood. Due to plot complications from last season, Nancy and her family were forced to head south to the beach town of Ren Mar on the San Diego/Mexico border. R.I.P. little boxes!

Disc includes: Eight commentaries with cast and crew including creator Jenji Kohan and actors Justin Kirk, Hunter Parrish and Alexander Gould, among others; Uncle AWOL featurette with Justin Kirk; G.M.A. – Good Morning Agrestic! featurette; "Little Boxes" Randy Newman featurette; Mary-Kate Olsen biography; gag reel; trivia; Weeds soundtrack sampler; Little Boxes musical montage.

For people who miss the days when spoofs like Airplane! were being produced: Meet the Spartans

From the writing team behind such beloved spoofs as the Scary Movie franchise, Date Movie and Epic Movie comes Meet the Spartans, a spoof of 300 and other films like it earlier this year. Of the film's 43 reviews compiled on Rotten Tomatoes, just one reviewer liked it. Yes, one. And I hesitate to even count you, Miss Kam Williams from NewsBlaze, as you also gave the Prince Caspian misfire a perfect four stars! My favorite Meet the Spartans reviewer, though, has to be Slate's Josh Levin, who says: "This was the worst movie I've ever seen, so bad that I hesitate to label it a 'movie' and thus reflect shame upon the entire medium of film."

So, if you haven't picked up on it already, this is not so much a recommendation to go out and buy this thing, but rather, this is to ensure that you're familiar enough with the title so you can avoid Meet the Spartans completely. Oh, and due yourself a favor and take Disaster Movie, a spoof from the same people supposedly due out later thus summer, off your calendar, too.

Disc includes: Audio commentary, gag reel.





For people who frequently wonder about the secrets behind a well-trained clown: Twisted: Balloonamentary

From the mind of a Daily Show producer, Sara Taksler, comes a documentary based on one of the most basic of documented objects: balloons. From a flying octopus, a trojan horse and, of course, your average balloon dog, Balloonamentary takes viewers into the heart of Twist and Shout, a premiere balloon twisting convention, while following the lives of eight such balloon artists and why they take their talent so frickin' seriously. And there's even a special surprise for you Daily Show devotees: Jon Stewart narrates the documentary's animated sequences.

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