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Welcome to How to Spend $20, BOP's look at the latest DVDs to hit stores nationwide. This week: Godfather fans jump with glee, four special ladies take the box office by storm and Christina Applegate forgets who she is.

Pick of the Week

For people who are given offers they can't refuse: The Godfather Collection (Special Edition)

A boatload of special features arrives in this new Godfather gift set. (Seriously, what follows has to be the longest laundry list of features I've had to type up since I started writing for this column). We're all rather familiar with The Godfather, so going into all that seems rather redundant at this point. What's not redundant? It's The Godfather. On Blu-ray. And it's fully restored, no less. So go out and treat yourself to perhaps America's greatest film trilogy. (Now settle down, LOTR nuts!)

Disc includes: Making of the Godfather featurette, additional scenes, filming locations, the Corleone family tree, the music of The Godfather, The Godfather historical timeline, Profiles on the Filmmakers featurette, photo galleries, storyboards, Godfather World featurette, The Masterpiece That Almost Wasn't featurette, ...When the Shooting Stopped featurette, Emulsional Rescue Revealing The Godfather featurette, The Godfather on the Red Carpet featurette, The Godfather vs. The Godfather: Part II short film, Cannoli short film, Riffing on the Riffing short film, Clemenza short film.





For people who hated The Women: Sex and the City - The Movie (Special Edition)

As you may recall, an exorbitant number of women (and their hubbies) came out of the woodwork early in the summer season to reconnect with their favorite New York City foursome: Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda. Of course Sex and the City was no Dark Knight, though it did shatter a fair amount of box office records on its $57 million-plus opening weekend, including biggest opening ever for an R-rated comedy, romantic comedy and film starring a woman.

Set four years after the events of the HBO series finale (which is just as long as the show has been off TV), Sex and the City picks up on Carrie and her Mr. Big, who finally decide to get married. And her three best friends, while dealing with personal issues of their own, could not be happier for Carrie. Well, until Miranda finds out her boy toy cheated on her, which causes the girl to confront Mr. Big about how crazy he is in deciding to marry Carrie. Ugliness ensues.

Critics were mixed on the movie, but that didn't stop the more than $400 million this one racked up worldwide (including upwards of $150 million in the States). A sequel is rumored to be in the works.

Disc includes: Audio commentary, a conversation with Sarah Jessica Parker and director Michael Patrick King, The Fabulous Fashion of Sex and the City featurette, Fergie in the Studio featurette, additional scenes.

For people who don't think Simon Pegg is all that fat: Run, Fat Boy, Run

More eyeballs warmed up to Brit Simon Pegg's earlier hits, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. Yet Run, Fat Boy, Run, which grossed an unimpressive $5.9 million stateside, is worth a look. The comedy stars Pegg as Dennis Doyle, a slightly chunky individual who makes the mistake of his life when he decides to run away from his pregnant fiancée (Thandie Newton) on their wedding day. Jump ahead five years, and Dennis still finds he hasn't gotten over Libby. So the man makes it his goal to finish his first marathon to both win back Libby's heart and make her realize that her new boo (Hank Azaria) is the wrong guy.

The face of VH1's uber popular television series, I Love The...(fill in the blank), Michael Ian Black, penned Fat Boy's screenplay. And Friends' David Schwimmer directed.

Disc includes: None.

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