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The comedy is, frankly, outrageous. This one's even got Mike Tyson singing to Phil Collins' "In the Air Tonight," which is just as hilarious as you'd expect it to be. While there are moments I didn't particularly care for, the comedy in The Hangover is satisfying and worthy of home viewing if you haven't seen it already.

Disc includes: Gag reel, The Dan Band Performs Fame featurette, Ken Jeong's Non-stop Hilarious Improv featurette

For people who weren't there for the real thing: Taking Woodstock

Taking Woodstock is a dramedy about how the famed ‘60s music festival came to be, based on a same-named memoir by Elliott Tiber. The movie follows Demetri Martin's character, Elliott, who plans to hold a small music festival in upstate New York and obtains a permit from the town, Bethel, to do so. When he learns the organizers of the Woodstock Festival face opposition against the agreed location of the event, Elliott offers his permit, among other things. The ball starts rolling from there.

If anything, the trailer to Taking Woodstock promised a rocking soundtrack and a cross-dressing Liev Schreiber, so the movie quickly made its way to my to-do list. However, much like the rest of the country, I never got around to seeing the Ang Lee-directed flick. Against a budget of $30 million, the film took home just $7.5 million in the States and another $2.4 million overseas.

Disc includes: Deleted scenes; Peace, Love and Cinema featurette; audio commentary

For people who think this one looks a lot like Robert Zemeckis's Used Cars: The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard

You know it's a slow week when you go back and forth on whether to plug Jeremy Piven's The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard or G-Force, that CGI movie about trained secret agent guinea pigs with guns. Both movies looked pretty awful. Consider my Goods pick as choosing the lesser of two evils.

On the most recent season of Big Brother, the HouseGuests met Jeremy Piven and then went outside to engage in some brainless game. What did the winners of the game receive? A special screening of The Goods, which they were forced to watch in the comforts of their cushy reality TV home. A similar, broadened strategy would have helped Paramount Vantage make a little more green from the movie as The Goods earned just a little over $15 million in box office receipts. Not so good when your stars include Piven, David Koechner, Ed Helms and a solid number of celebrity cameos.

Disc includes: Not specified

Because 26 World Series championships just weren't quite enough: New York Yankees: 2009 World Series Champions

I'm not bitter.

Disc includes: Not specified

December 15, 2009

Blu-ray
Basilisk Box Set
Beyonce: I Am... Yours, An Intimate Performance
G-Force
The Hangover (Special Edition)
HD Moods: Blu Ocean
Inglourious Basterds (Special Edition)
La Boheme Film: Netrebko & Villazon
The Mel Brooks Collection Blu-ray
New York Yankees: 2009 World Series Champions
The Other Man
Samurai Champloo Complete Set
Star Trek Original Series: Seasons 1-3
Star Trek The Original Series: Season Three
Taking Woodstock

DVD
Cake Boss
Criss Angel Mindfreak: Collector's Edition (Set)
Criss Angel Mindfreak: The 5 Lives Of
G-Force (Deluxe Edition)
George Lopez: Tall, Dark & Chicano
The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard
The Hangover (Special Edition)
Ice Road Truckers: The Complete Season Three
Inglourious Basterds (Special Edition)
Miss Mend (Deluxe Edition)
New York Yankees: 2009 World Series Champions
The Other Man
Paper Chase: Season Two
Robot Chicken: Season 4
Robot Chicken: Seasons 1-4
The Sherlock Holmes Collection
Star Trek Original Series: Seasons 1-3 (Set)
Star Trek The Original Series: Season Three
Taking Woodstock
Throttle
The Tudors: The Complete Third Season
Wizards of Waverly Place: The Movie (Extended Edition)
WWE: The History Of The WWE Championship (Set)

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