17 AGAIN on DVD and Blu-ray
New Line/2009/115min/PG-13/SRP: $35.99
Director: Burr Steers
Cast: Zac Efron, Matthew Perry, Leslie Mann
Vfx: R!OT

Video codec: VC-1
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.39:1

English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
English SDH, Spanish
BD/DVD Combo
Three-disc set
Digital copy
BD-Live

Bonus Features:
*ZAC GOES BACK (HD): A making-of featurette, it concerns itself mainly with showering Efron with praise. A few interesting notes creep up from the cast and crew as does some behind-the-scenes footage, but it's mostly an EPK piece.

*GOING BACK TO 17 (HD): in which various cast and crew members reminisce about their high school years. Among the topics discussed are out-of-style dance moves and the most horrifying school experiences. It's puffy, but cute.

*WAY COOL TELL-ALL TRIVIA TRACK: Here, little factoids turn up sporadically throughout the film. Some of them offer genuinely interesting pieces of production information while others deal with subjects only loosely connected to what's onscreen.

*EXTRAS: The first is "Breakin' Character Outtakes" (HD). Unlike other outtake reels, this one focuses more on the improvisations of the supporting actors than it does on flubs and goofs. That makes this more entertaining than usual, especially since some of those featured are able to make more of an impression here than in the finished film.

ZAC’S DANCE FLASHBACK (HD): It focuses on the rehearsal and shooting of a scene that didn't wind up in the final cut. Thanks to the brevity and shallowness of the featurette, pretty much nothing is revealed about how the scene came together. It acts more as a montage of behind-the-scenes footage with a few sound bites thrown in for variety.

*Much more useful is a collection of 13 DELETED SCENES that are given their own heading. Some of these simply reiterate what's already made clear in the final film, but quite a few offer nice character moments that could've been included.

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES COLLECTION on DVD and Blu-ray
Warner/1990/364min/PG/SRP: $84.99
Includes TMNT, The Secret Ooze and Turtles in Time

Video codec: VC-1
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 1.85:1; 2.39:1

English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
English: Dolby Digital 5.1
French: Dolby Digital 5.1
Subtitles
English, French, Spanish

Discs
25GB Blu-ray Disc
Four-disc set

Summary:
After the defeat of their old arch nemesis, The Shredder, the Turtles have grown apart as a family. Struggling to keep them together, their rat sensei, Master Splinter, becomes worried when strange things begin to brew in New York City. Tech-industrialist is amassing an army of ancient monsters to take over the world. Only one super-ninja fighting team can stop them.

Bonus Features:
*The first three movies only include standard definition theatrical trailers, and TMNT limps into the set with the same SD special features that appeared on its original 2007 release (director's commentary, deleted and alternate scenes, and behind-the-scenes featurettes).

*The box itself is designed to resemble a cheap, cardboard pizza box and houses all four discs (printed to look like pizzas), an envelope with eight collectible character cards, a signed Kevin Eastman sketch, a black-and-white graphic novel adaptation of the first film, and a high-quality black beanie boasting the Ninja Turtle logo.

*Be warned: The live-action entries are saddled with problematic video transfers and its supplemental package is sparse. Still, any TMNT fanatic will find their expectations have been surpassed.


STARMAN on Blu-ray
Sony/1985/115min/PG/SRP: $28.95
Director: John Carpenter
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Karen Allen
Vfx: Stan Winston Studio, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM)

Video codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Video resolution: 1080p
Aspect ratio: 2.40:1

English: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
French: Dolby TrueHD 5.1
Subtitles

English, English SDH, French
English, English SDH, French (less)

50GB Blu-ray Disc