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Monsters Inc. on Blu-Ray and DVD

November 20, 2009 By

Monsters IncIf you have a Blu-Ray player, and kids or nieces/nephews or grandkids or any little person in your house, you MUST get Monsters, Inc. on Blu-Ray! It is AMAZING. The movie is already incredible, then combine it with high definition, and POW!  One of my favorite Pixar movies, heck, one of my favorite movies in general, Monsters, Inc. tells the story of what happens when a 2 year old girl comes into the monster world and scares THEM! With voice acting by John Goodman and Billy Crystal, this is a movie that viewers of all ages will love.

Monsters, Inc. on Blu-Ray is a Four-Disc Combo pack. You get two Blu-Ray discs, disc 1 is the movie plus bonus features, disc 2 is all bonus features.  Then you get a standard DVD copy of the movie, plus a digital copy to download to your laptop or portable DVD player! So you’d think that would be really expensive, right? NO!! The Amazon.com price for Monsters, Inc. (4 Disc Blu-Ray) is only $21.49! They are practically giving it away!

So, besides the movie, what else do you get with the Blu-Ray edition of Monsters, Inc.? These bonus features, for starters:

  • MONSTERS, INC. Ride And Go Seek: Building Monstropolis In Japan Go Behind The Scenes Of The New Attraction In Tokyo Disneyland
  • Filmmaker’s Round Table: Filmmakers Reflect On The Creation Of The Film
  • Audio Commentary
  • Pixar Fun Factory Tour
  • Banished Concepts
  • All-New Roz’s 100-Door Challenge Game
  • FOR THE BIRDS Short — Academy Award® Winner (2001) — Best Animated Short Film (available on the original DVD release)
  • MIKE’S NEW CAR Short — Academy Award®-Nominated (2002) — Best Animated Short Film(also on the original DVD)

If all of that doesn’t convince you, how about an exclusive clip? Here’s “On the Job” (the film clip described in “Roundtable Favorite Scene”):

Now, what are you waiting for? Monsters, Inc. on Blu-Ray will make an excellent gift for someone-or a terrific surprise for your kids any time!

disclosure: I received Monsters, Inc. on Blu-Ray from Disney for this review. I received no other compensation. The links in the post are Amazon Associate links for which I earn an affiliate commission on each sale.

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Review of “The Women”

October 9, 2008 By

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In 1936, journalist Clare Booth Luce wrote a play called “The Women”, a satire about the idle, gossipy lives led by society wives and divorcees, based on a conversation she had overheard in a ladies’ powder room. The play was so popular that it had 657 performances before being adapted to the screen in the 1939 film of the same name, which starred some of the most famous actresses of the time, including Joan Crawford, Norma Shearer, Rosalind Russell, Joan Fontaine, and Paulette Goddard.

This summer, “The Women” was remade with a fresh, all-star cast, with a screenplay written by famed comedy writer Diane English (“Murphy Brown”) who also directed. The cast reads like a Who’s Who of women actors in Hollywood- Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Debra Messing, Jada Pinkett Smith, Debi Mazar, Cloris Leachman, Candice Bergen, Eva Mendes, Carrie Fisher, and Bette Midler. The film explores the ideas of friendship, of love and commitment, of success and failure, of secrets and betrayal. I don’t know if it’s still in theaters, but when it comes out on DVD I intend to see it. Any movie with that many incredible actors in it, written and directed by the woman responsible for creating one of the funniest shows on television, that’s a movie I want to see.

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