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Video/DVD
New releases
A look at what's headed to the shelves
By Times Staff
Published February 2, 2006
In Her Shoes
DIRECTOR: Curtis Hanson
CAST: Cameron Diaz, Toni Collette, Shirley MacLaine, Mark Feuerstein, Ken Howard, Candice Azzara, Richard Burgi, Brooke Smith
SYNOPSIS: Two very different sisters (Diaz, Collette) contend with men, family issues and each other in Curtis Hanson's exceedingly smart chick flick.
WHAT WE SAID: St. Petersburg Times film critic Steve Persall gave the movie an A-. "A movie this well written and acted, so committed to respecting its characters and, by extension, the audience, is impossible to dislike," he wrote. "You may think you know what to expect from In Her Shoes from the previews and casting. You won't be entirely wrong, but you'll probably underestimate what director Curtis Hanson and screenwriter Susannah Grant (working from Jennifer Weiner's novel) accomplish with the material. Nothing is as simple or sentimental as chick flicks typically are."
MPAA RATING: PG-13; sexual situations, profanity, mature themes
RUNNING TIME: 130 min.
The Legend of Zorro
DIRECTOR: Martin Campbell
CAST: Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Rufus Sewell, Nick Chinlund, Adrian Alonso
SYNOPSIS: Banderas returns as the masked hero, coming out of retirement to protect California's impending statehood.
WHAT WE SAID: Times reviewer Rick Gershman gave the movie a C-. "If you're expecting the swashbuckling, romance and derring-do of The Mask of Zorro, look elsewhere," he wrote. "This is the original, cut with a healthy dose of Spy Kids, as 10-year-old Joaquin, son of Banderas' Alejandro and Zeta-Jones' Elena, does the Zorro Junior bit a little too often."
MPAA RATING: PG; violence, language
RUNNING TIME: 124 min.
Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
DIRECTOR: Tim Burton
CAST: Voices of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Emily Watson, Tracey Ullman, Paul Whitehouse, Joanna Lumley, Albert Finney, Richard E. Grant, Christopher Lee
SYNOPSIS: The creator of Beetlejuice employs stop-motion animation and macabre humor in a fairy tale about a shy groom (voice of Johnny Depp) and his rapidly decomposing spouse (Helena Bonham Carter).
WHAT WE SAID: Persall gave the film a B+
. "Tim Burton's Corpse Bride compensates for its bare-bones plot with bare bones - skeletons and otherwise decomposed bodies that shake, rattle and roll as only someone so twisted could command," he wrote. "Burton doesn't merely embrace death; he rolls in it like a dog in roadkill, messy but happy to spread that smell around."
MPAA RATING: PG; scary images, brief language
RUNNING TIME: 76 min.
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