So what happens when both David Chappelle and the features-packed DVD format get big? The answer is the Half Baked: Fully Baked Edition DVD, a solid disc whose fine stats end up a bit on the bland side when all is said and done. To its credit, it does feature director Tamra Davis doing an audio commentary, plus ten minutes of deleted scenes and an alternate ending, but from the smoking and non-smoking menus to the downright lame attempts at pot humor in the created-for-the-DVD extras, it all just gets to be a little too much after you spend too much time with it. Yeah, there's five minutes of "the guy on the couch" footage, but for every tasty deleted scene of a zombie dog puking pot, there's "Granny's Guide to Baking," featuring a crazed Granny going through pun-filled pot recipes (lame). There's something to be said about taking the good with the bad, but with junk like the "Different Types of Smokers" flash-like animation stinking things up this bad, it's hard to have a good taste in your mouth after laboriously making your way through the disc. Of course, the disc features a 1.85:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer along with a 5.1 Dolby Digital audio track, so it still works well purely on that kind of level. Chappelle fans will no doubt eat this up -- especially given the pushed back release date of the Chappelle's Show: Season Two DVD -- giving this product a good rack life a few months before everyone buys up the next set of the funnyman's hilarious hijinks.
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What starts out as a lavish train ride through Europe quickly unfolds into one of the most stylish, suspenseful and thrilling mysteries ever told. From the novel by best-selling author Agatha Christie, InchMurder on the Orient ExpressInch tells the tale of thirteen strangers stranded on a train, where everyone's a suspect. One man must race against time to solve the puzzle before the murderer strikes again. Kenneth Branagh directs and leads an all-star cast including Pen~lope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley and Josh Gad.
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This belated, tongue-in-cheek semi-sequel to director John Landis' 1981 shocker stalks onto DVD in this fun release courtesy of Disney Home Video. Presented in 1.85:1 widescreen, this edition also features a howling closed-captioned Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track as well as an additional French Dolby Digital Surround track. Though slim on extra features, viewers will certainly enjoy this hair-raising joyride through the nighttime streets of Paris, accompanied by a high-octane soundtrack featuring some of the hottest cutting-edge tunes. Just be careful of watching on a full moon!
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Set against the antebellum South, THE BIRTH OF A NATION follows Nat Turner, a literate slave and preacher, whose financially strained owner, Samuel Turner, accepts an offer to use Nat's preaching to subdue unruly slaves. As he witnesses countless atrocities-against himself and his fellow slaves-Nat orchestrates an uprising in the hopes of leading his people to freedom.
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A creation of novelist Thomas Harris, serial killer Dr. Hannibal "The Cannibal" Lecter - a diabolical, medically-trained maniac who enjoys devouring human victims - graced several screen adaptations, three of which appear in this box set. It includes the first cinematization of Lecter, the 1986 Michael Mann film Manhunter - with William Petersen as an FBI profiler who tracks down serial killer The Tooth Fairy (Tom Noonan) using Lecter's (Brian Cox) help. The compilation also includes the 1991 box office blockbuster and Best Picture winner The Silence of the Lambs, with Jodie Foster as a young detective named Clarice Starling who gets sucked into Lecter's (Anthony Hopkins) clutches as she targets an elusive maniac known as Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine). Rounding out the set is the 2001 Lambs sequel Hannibal, where Lecter (Hopkins) - now out of prison and living in Italy as an art collector - begins to toy with Clarice's head once again, at the same time that one of the Doctor's mutilated former victims (Gary Oldman) schemes to take gory revenge against the physician.
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