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Video/DVD
New releases
What's new on the store shelf.
By Times Staff
Published February 10, 2005
Shark Tale
DIRECTORS: Bibo Bergeron, Vicky Jenson, Rob Letterman
CAST: Voices of Will Smith, Renee Zellweger, Robert De Niro, Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Martin Scorsese, Katie Couric, Doug E. Doug, Ziggy Marley
SYNOPSIS: The story of a hip fish (voice of Smith) involved with an undersea mobster underworld.
WHAT WE SAID: Times film critic Steve Persall gave the film a B. He wrote that the movie "is zippy, colorful and packed with pop references, but it's no Finding Nemo. . . . Do we laugh at Shark Tale? Occasionally. Are we emotionally involved in the story and characters as with Finding Nemo? Never. The difference is clear: Finding Nemo was an odyssey, a quest for something deeper, richer in the lives of its main characters. Shark Tale is a plot, which is a good thing for a movie to possess but not enough to make it special."
MPAA RATING: PG; crude humor, mild violence
RUNNING TIME: 90 min.
The Notebook
DIRECTOR: Nick Cassavetes
CAST: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, James Marden, David Thornton, Sam Shepard, Joan Allen
SYNOPSIS: An aging man (Garner) reads memoirs of his love for an Alzheimer's-stricken woman (Rowlands) when they were young (McAdams and Gosling in flashbacks).
WHAT WE SAID: Times reviewer Philip Booth gave the film a C-. "The Notebook is the sappiest, most sentimental movie of the summer, the worst offender of its genre since the last time Hollywood took on a Nicholas Sparks novel - 2002's forgettable A Walk to Remember," Booth wrote in his June review.
MPAA RATING: PG-13; partial nudity, mature themes
RUNNING TIME: 121 min.
P.S.
DIRECTOR: Dylan Kidd
CAST: Laura Linney, Topher Grace, Paul Rudd, Lois Smith, Gabriel Byrne, Marcia Gay Harden
SYNOPSIS: A college admissions officer (Linney) becomes involved with a potential student (Grace) who she believes is her long-dead high school boyfriend reincarnated.
WHAT WE SAID: The Times did not review this film, which played in this area only at the Cine-World Film Festival in Sarasota in November.
MPAA RATING: R; language and sexuality
RUNNING TIME: 89 min.
TV ON DVD
The first seasons of Deadwood, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Full House, The Greatest American Hero, The Jamie Foxx Show, Miami Vice, Murder One, Murphy Brown, Night Court and The Wayans Bros.
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