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 then one foreign film going to DVD -- a mixed bag including something for everyone: melodrama 'The Help,' comedy 'The Hangover Part II,' sci-fi Western 'Cowboys & Aliens,' spy thriller 'The Debt,' family film 'Mr. Popper's Penguins' as well as the tasty French thriller 'Point Blank.' Continue reading through. 'The Help' How It's About: This compelling story of countless Southern women through the first sixties includes melodrama, politics and a lot of giant acting. The drama involves youthful white-colored author Skeeter (Emma Stone) who returns where you can Mississippi, only to become mixed up in reason behind the area black women -- service personnel, live-inches and many types of around baby caregivers -- who've offered their white-colored mistresses for many years. Wanting to show the problems of segregation -- creating a status for herself -- Skeeter decides to produce their tales soon the "help" independently meet her to see their tales to her -- attaining understanding using their "tellings" how simpler to use by themselves and screw up their domestic chains. It's Kinda Like: 'Corinna, Corinna' meets 'Driving Miss Daisy' That Which You Say: 'The Help' supplies a stellar cast of stars (furthermore to Stone, you will discover standout Academy Award-level performances by Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Octavia Spencer and Jessica Chastain) who rub facing a great, credible and heartwarming script. The finish result: a geniune tug within the center strings. It's a first-rate women's film that delivers us a consider an inequitable arena of second-class people as well as the fortunate white-colored girls that controlled their black help's lives. Like 2009's 'The Blind Side,' it becomes an advantageous film "they simply do not make any more.Inch &bull Accessories: Removed moments and 2 featurettes. Rotten Tomato vegetables Reviews Buy DVD Save DVD for the Netflix queue Watch a trailer: 'The Hangover Part II' How It's About: The "courageous foursome" of 'The Hangover' visit exotic Thailand for Stu's wedding (Erection dysfunction Helms) and, naturally, all hell breaks loose when what begins becoming an innocent round of beer around the fire becomes another lost weekend. That certain involves drug dealing, an outrageous monkey, Buddhist monks, motorcycle hit males, tats and wild women. Director Todd Phillips transposes the first figures and story structure, adds more filth and raunch, and appears while using finest-grossing R-rated comedy ever. It's Kinda Like: 'The Hangover' meets 'The Large Boss' That Which You Say: 'The Hangover Part II' is always to 'The Hangover' as 'Bruno' wound up being to 'Borat': a pale imitation in the original. This is often a nasty film that wallows in bathroom humor and "dirty" jokes. If you would like the idea of a monkey licking a simulated penis, your humor from the beastly outing is ideal for you. Please get this the ultimate one. &bull Accessories: Several behind-the-moments featurettes together with a gag reel. Rotten Tomato vegetables Reviews Buy DVD Save DVD for the Netflix queue Watch a trailer: 'Cowboys & Aliens' How It's About: In this particular melding of sci-fi and Western genres, Difficulties plays a wanted guy who energizes in the heart of the desert with no memory of his past together with a mysterious metal shackle round his wrist. Calculates the encircling capital of scotland - Absolution is under attack by aliens from space, that are abducting people for dubious reasons -- experimentation, natch -- as well as the gunslinger, the townspeople, a tribe of Indians, a mysterious lady (Olivia Wilde) as well as the local land baron (Harrison Ford) and also the minions synergy to stymie the monsters. It's Kinda Like: 'War in the Worlds' meets 'The Searchers' That Which You Say: Director Jon Favreau and executive producer Steven Spielberg examined lots of Westerns and sci-fi films while keeping focused about this large-budget 'B' film, nevertheless it was all for naught -- the genre-bending oateater doesn't have excitement of the forbearers. It's also humorless, slow-moving, expected and, sometimes, simply stupid. There's only one twist inside the movie, in addition certain can be a dud. Just what a shame -- it's wise that certainly labored much better just like a graphic novel. &bull Accessories: Commentary by Favreau together with a few behind-the-moments featurettes. Rotten Tomato vegetables Reviews Buy DVD Save DVD for the Netflix queue Watch a trailer: Other New December 6 Releases: 'Bobby Fischer In the World': (2011) A searing portrait from the brilliant, yet troubled guy -- chess prodigy Bobby Fischer -- using news clips and archival footage, additionally to rare interviews with Fischer themselves. 'The Debt': (2011) Story of three Mossad agents who endeavored to capture and convey to trial a common Nazi war criminal -- the Surgeon of Birkenau -- in the secret Israeli mission in 1966 that brought towards the man's dying. The film jumps forward and backward involving the past as well as the present, where a guy proclaiming being the doctor has made an appearance. Stars Helen Mirren, Mike Worthington, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson, Jessica Chastain. 'Dragon Tattoo Trilogy Extended Edition': (2009) A four-disc set wonderful three 'Dragon Tattoo' films, encompassing nine several hours with figures and plot developments only seen in European versions. 'Mangus!': (2011) Trailer trash comedy involves a greater school senior who can do everything to fulfill his family's tradition of playing Jesus from your annual output of "Jesus Spectacular." 'Mr. Popper's Penguins': (2011) Jim Carrey's career takes another icey submit this story of a driven businessman divorced from his wife and kids who's not aware if the requires the key things around until he will get six, "adorable" and mischievous penguins from his arctic explorer father. 'Point Blank': (2011) A happily married male nurse your Paris hospital who saves the presence of the wounded criminal must profit the gangster escape or face the dying of his kidnapped wife (and developing fetus) in this particular exciting French thriller that can audiences by having an exhilarating non-stop ride through Paris' streets, subways, hospitals, warehouses, and police stations. 'Triple Tap': (2010) Hong Kong actioner of a cop who helps it be his mission for bring lower a media hero who single-handedly stopped an armored van robbery if the becomes apparent he really was the mastermind behind the crime. Have a look at more December 6 DVD releases at OnVideo.