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Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs: Diamond Edition

In short, Disney’s new Diamond Edition of Walt’s first boasts a beautifully clean new transfer, but for all the bells and whistles, the supplements are not the fairest in the land.

Disneynature: Earth

Disneynature’s first outing cribs its material from the BBC’s Planet Earth but provides an almost perfectly formed cut-down of events that will amaze newcomers to this footage.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: 25th Anniversary Collector’s Edition

All four Turtles movies in one box, and although the first three films unfortunately miss out on extras, the set gains points with its collectible physical extras.

Race To Witch Mountain

Disney’s modern update of its own 1975 thriller isn’t as shameless as it might have been, providing the same kind of thrills for today’s audience that the original did back in original release, but the discs are very poor in terms of supplements, making this Race a rental at best.

Green Lantern: First Flight

DC Comics’ Emerald Warrior gets his own exciting, visually impressive movie. The extras are plentiful even if they don’t address the movie too much. But comic fans especially will enjoy everything.

Watchmen: Director’s Cut

Love it or hate it, director Zack Snyder’s immensely intricate translation of Moore/Gibbons’ landmark graphic novel is an impressive achievement, and this more cohesive Director’s Cut is stunningly served in a high definition set.

The Venture Bros.: 3rd Season

More wackiness, more revelations, and more delightful weirdness is found in this third season release of a show that has grown well past its “spoof” origins.

Gulliver’s Travels

Max and Dave Fleischer’s first animated feature gets a down and dirty treatment on Blu-ray, which you’ll certainly find an old VHS edition would beat out in terms of quality. Avoid at all costs!

Bedtime Stories

Adam Sandler’s jump to family fare – for Disney no less – is an uninspired, drab and flat fantasy that lacks any magic, and this disc presentation doesn’t do a lot to add any.

Watchmen: Tales Of The Black Freighter

This film tie-in tells a dark tale of a man’s desperate bid to race an unearthly pirate ship to his home town. Some interesting bonus features also enhance the Watchmen film experience.

Bolt

Disney’s latest CGI comedy adventure delivers some big fun but ultimately fails to join the ranks of the Studio’s best, even under Pixar head John Lasseter’s supervision.

Pinocchio: Platinum Edition

Walt Disney’s true masterpiece gets the Platinum Edition treatment, though its a light affair where the supplements can’t hold a candle to the brilliant feature or its digital makeover.

Wonder Woman

The Amazon princess finally gets her own movie, and it’s pretty good. Lots of action, but also with some humor, make this a winner.

Beverly Hills Chihuahua

Disney’s south of the border comedy adventure is your typical talking dogs movie, though the off the wall promise of the teaser trailer is lacking in the final result.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

DreamWorks second go around the African continent is a schizophrenic outing that doesn’t know if it wants to be better than the first or just happy to regurgitate all the old highlights.

Tinker Bell

Peter Pan’s little friend gets an origin story and a voice, in what is a better direct-to-video movie than many might expect.

Sleeping Beauty: Platinum Edition (Blu-ray/DVD)

Disney’s latest Platinum Edition is the best for quite a while, but it drops the ball on including several supplements from previous versions, even if the few carried over do look cleaner here.

Justice League: Season One

The Justice League looks even better in high def, even in their weakest season.

Batman: Gotham Knight (Blu-ray/DVD)

The Dark Knight gets an anime makeover in this anthology of tales handled by some of Japan’s best studios. Like any anthology, the results are mixed, but overall these visions of Batman are compelling.

Justice League: New Frontier

This great DTV movie looks even better in high defintion, though the benefits are modest.

Beowulf: Director’s Cut (HD DVD)

The performance capture film gets a second look on HD DVD, which offers superb video and audio, as well as even nicer bonus features.

Chicken Little: Blu-ray Preview

A look at the Chicken Little Blu-ray disc, the first “Disney Classic” released in the new high definition disc format.