New on DVD & Blu-ray, Week of 12 ,. 6: 'The Help,' 'The Hangover Part II,' 'Cowboys & Aliens'

It's another banner week for home video. There's five major theatrical releases and something foreign film visiting DVD -- a mixed bag which includes something for everybody: melodrama 'The Help,' comedy 'The Hangover Part II,' sci-fi Western 'Cowboys & Aliens,' spy thriller 'The Debt,' family film 'Mr. Popper's Penguins' and also the scrumptious French thriller 'Point Blank.' Continue reading. 'The Help' How It Is About: This compelling story of several Southern women throughout the first sixties includes melodrama, politics and lots of giant acting. The drama involves youthful whitened author Skeeter (Emma Stone) who returns the place to find Mississippi, simply to become active in the reason for the neighborhood black women -- service personnel, live-inches and all sorts of around baby sitters -- who've offered their whitened mistresses for decades. Wishing to reveal the disasters of segregation -- making a reputation for herself -- Skeeter decides to create their tales soon the "help" privately meet her to inform their tales to her -- gaining knowledge from their "tellings" how easier to operate on their own and mess up their domestic chains. It's Kinda Like: 'Corinna, Corinna' meets 'Driving Miss Daisy' What We Should Say: 'The Help' provides a stellar cast of stars (additionally to Stone, you will find standout Academy Award-level performances by Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain) who rub facing a good, credible and heartwarming script. The end result: an authentic tug in the centre strings. It is a first-rate women's film that provides us a look into an inequitable realm of second-class people and also the fortunate whitened ladies who controlled their black help's lives. Like 2009's 'The Blind Side,' it is really an beneficial film "that they just do not make any longer." &bull Extra supplies: Erased moments and two featurettes. Rotten Tomato plants Reviews Buy DVD Save DVD for your Netflix queue Watch a trailer: 'The Hangover Part II' How It Is About: The "courageous foursome" of 'The Hangover' visit exotic Thailand for Stu's wedding (Erectile dysfunction Helms) and, naturally, all hell breaks loose when what starts being an innocent round of beer round the fire becomes another lost weekend. That one involves drug dealing, a wild monkey, Buddhist monks, motorcycle hit males, tats and wild women. Director Todd Phillips transposes the initial figures and story structure, adds more filth and raunch, and pops up using the greatest-grossing R-ranked comedy ever. It's Kinda Like: 'The Hangover' meets 'The Large Boss' What We Should Say: 'The Hangover Part II' would be to 'The Hangover' as 'Bruno' ended up being to 'Borat': a pale imitation from the original. This can be a nasty film that wallows in bathroom humor and "dirty" jokes. If you want the thought of a monkey licking a simulated penis, then your humor of the beastly outing is perfect for you. Please get this to the final one. &bull Extra supplies: Several behind-the-moments featurettes along with a gag reel. Rotten Tomato plants Reviews Buy DVD Save DVD for your Netflix queue Watch a trailer: 'Cowboys & Aliens' How It Is About: Within this melding of sci-fi and Western genres, Difficulties plays a wanted guy who awakens in the center of the desert without any memory of his past along with a mysterious metal shackle around his wrist. Works out the encompassing capital of scotland - Absolution is under attack by aliens from space, who're abducting people for dubious reasons -- experimentation, natch -- and also the gunslinger, the townspeople, a tribe of Indigenous Peoples, a mysterious lady (Olivia Wilde) and also the local land baron (Harrison Ford) and the minions synergy to stymie the monsters. It's Kinda Like: 'War from the Worlds' meets 'The Searchers' What We Should Say: Director Jon Favreau and executive producer Steven Spielberg analyzed a lot of Westerns and sci-fi films while focusing on this large-budget 'B' film, however it was all for naught -- the genre-bending oateater has no excitement of their forbearers. It is also humorless, slow-moving, foreseeable and, sometimes, simply stupid. There's just one twist within the movie, as well as that certain is really a dud. Exactly what a shame -- it's a good idea that certainly labored far better like a graphic novel. &bull Extra supplies: Commentary by Favreau along with a couple behind-the-moments featurettes. Rotten Tomato plants Reviews Buy DVD Save DVD for your Netflix queue Watch a trailer: Other New December 6 Releases: 'Bobby Fischer From the World': (2011) A searing portrait of the brilliant, yet troubled guy -- chess prodigy Bobby Fischer -- using news clips and archival footage, in addition to rare interviews with Fischer themself. 'The Debt': (2011) Story of three Mossad agents who endeavored to capture and produce to trial a well known Nazi war criminal -- the Surgeon of Birkenau -- inside a secret Israeli mission in 1966 that led to the man's dying. The film jumps backwards and forwards between your past and also the present, in which a guy declaring to become the physician has appeared. Stars Helen Mirren, Mike Worthington, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain. 'Dragon Tattoo Trilogy Extended Edition': (2009) A four-disc set with all of three 'Dragon Tattoo' films, encompassing nine hrs with figures and plot developments only observed in European versions. 'Mangus!': (2011) Trailer trash comedy involves a higher school senior who is going to do almost anything to fulfill his family's tradition of playing Jesus from our annual manufacture of "Jesus Spectacular." 'Mr. Popper's Penguins': (2011) Jim Carrey's career takes another icey submit this story in regards to a driven businessman divorced from his wife and youngsters who's unaware if this involves the key things in existence until he gets six, "adorable" and mischievous penguins from his arctic explorer father. 'Point Blank': (2011) A happily married male nurse your Paris hospital who saves the existence of the wounded criminal must assist the gangster escape or face the dying of his kidnapped wife (and unborn baby) within this exciting French thriller that can take audiences with an exhilarating non-stop ride through Paris' roads, subways, hospitals, warehouses, and police stations. 'Triple Tap': (2010) Hong Kong actioner in regards to a cop who causes it to be his pursuit to bring lower a media hero who single-handedly stopped an armored van robbery if this becomes apparent he was really the mastermind behind the crime. Take a look at more December 6 DVD releases at OnVideo.