This Week’s DVD Releases

Posted by Barrett in DVD & Blu-Ray, Latest News on December 1st, 2009

Leading this week’s charge of DVD and Blu-ray releases are Terminator: Salvation and Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian. Both movies hit theatres Memorial Day Weekend so it is fitting that they should hit the DVD shelves at the same time.

Terminator: Salvation, the fourth installment of the legendary Terminator franchise, picked up where the disappointing Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines left off: machines eradicating the remaining humans, John Connor leading the resistance and searching for Kyle Reese (the man who will be his father…gotta love time travel!), and the unexpected appearance of Marcus Wright, whose allegiance is in question. While it wasn’t a bomb, it was bashed by the critics and performed worse than the others in the franchise, but now we’ll see how it does in DVD sales.

Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian is basically the same story in a new place. Larry Daley (Ben Stiller) must travel to the Smithsonian to save his pals (the exhibits from the American Museum of Natural History), and even the entire world, from the evil Pharaoh Kahmunrah, who plans to steal the Tablet of Ahkmenrah to raise an army to conquer the world! Larry and his son Nick team up with General George Armstrong Custer (Bill Hader) and Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams) to defeat this evil and save the day.

In the Television world, Better Off Ted hits the shelves this week. A delightful comedy starring , Better Off Ted follows the day to day workings at Veridian Dynamic, a huge corporation that utilizes the most “brilliant” scientists and state of the art technology to push into the impossible. Whether it be creating a plate that can cook your food, growing meat in a lab, or cryogenically freezing a co-worker, Veridian Dynamic is up for the task!

And finally, in the Blu-ray column we have Snatch, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Gremlins, The Mask of Zorro and The Green Mile.