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New on DVD: 'The Bank Job,' 'College Road Trip' and more


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"College Road Trip," starring Martin Lawrence and Raven Symone, is set for release Tuesday on DVD.
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By Nick Rogers
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“The Bank Job”
Rated R


No crowd-pleasing drama director might be having a more quietly successful decade than Roger Donaldson. Excepting 2003’s “The Recruit,” he’s had three acclaimed films so far in the aughts: “Thirteen Days,” “The World’s Fastest Indian” and, now, “The Bank Job,” based on a real-life robbery with no arrests or recovered money.


Sounds like a boring heist. Anything but in this blend of “The Hoax” and “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” After a 1971 London swipe turns up incriminating photos of the British monarchy, the mob, police, government and a hapless hold-up gang are entwined in a massive cover-up. Jason Statham stars.


The single-disc DVD offers widescreen or fullscreen options, while a two-disc DVD and Blu-ray release includes featurettes and extended scenes.


“College Road Trip”
Rated G


Unlike Tony Soprano, James Porter (Martin Lawrence) doesn’t kill anyone while showing his daughter a campus of higher learning.


First off, he’s a dutiful policeman. Second, he’s Martin Lawrence in — ready yourself — a G-rated Disney movie. Lawrence plays the overprotective dad to a coed-in-training (Raven Symone), whom he drives nuts on a long road trip that includes a rambunctious pig, skydiving and Donny Osmond.


Extras on the DVD and Blu-ray editions include filmmaker commentary, deleted scenes with optional commentary, an alternate opening and alternate endings, featurettes, a gag reel, a music video and more.

Also next week


Wasn’t digital photography supposed to end red eye and ghostly blobs opening windows to the afterlife? In “Shutter,” Joshua Jackson and Rachael Taylor star as a husband and wife coping with yet another grimy-haired girl ghost from Japan in yet another J-horror remake. The PG-13 cut includes featurettes, while an unrated version adds three minutes, a DTS 5.1 Surround Sound track, commentary, deleted scenes and featurettes.


See, it’s a title and an imperative command in “Step Up 2 the Streets.” In this sequel, a rebellious teen dancer competes in an underground competition called the Streets. DVD and Blu-ray extras include featurettes, deleted scenes, bloopers and five music videos.


Kerry Washington, Anne Hathaway, Angelina Jolie, Keira Knightley — James McAvoy sure has made the rounds onscreen. In “Penelope,” he’s suitor to Christina Ricci, a rich girl cursed with a pig snout. Reese Witherspoon co-stars in the storybook fable, which includes a featurette.


Fed up with his job and cheating wife, a businessman mentors a teen in “Meet Bill,” starring Aaron Eckhart and Jessica Alba. In “The Year My Parents Went On Vacation,” a 12-year-old son to militant parents is left in the care of an elderly family friend and creates a makeshift family.


Two National Lampoon titles — “Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell” and “Bag Boy” — hit shelves. “Party,” an apocalyptic comedy romp, stars Jane Seymour and includes commentary, deleted scenes and more. “Bag Boy,” the first in-house National Lampoon movie in 18 years, focuses on competitive grocery bagging and includes featurettes and interviews.


If “Asylum” doesn’t fix your psychotherapy horror jones, there’s always “Insanitarium.” The former concerns coeds who learn their dorm once was a mental hospital where a deranged physician has been resurrected. The latter follows a man (Jesse Metcalfe) who breaks into a mental hospital to save his sister and finds that an evil doctor (Peter Stormare) has turned the patients into cannibalistic killers. Extras include deleted scenes and featurettes.


Rounding out new horror titles are “Guardians,” described as “The A-Team” meets “Hellboy” with warriors battling an occultist villain; and “Steel Trap,” in which a vicious maniac stalks partiers at a skyscraper on New Year’s Eve. Extras include commentary, deleted scenes and more.

The only catalog title is a Blu-ray release of the classic “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” starring Jack Nicholson.

“Saving Grace,” Holly Hunter’s TNT drama, never reached the ratings level of “The Closer,” but the series sees its first season come to DVD. Other DVD titles include: “The Best of MANswers: Season One’s Top 25 MANswers”; the second season of “Eureka”; the fifth season of “Reno 911!”; the ninth season of “Dallas”; the complete series of “Birds of Prey”; and the Nickelodeon movie “Roxy Hunter and the Secret of the Shaman.”


All DVDs are scheduled for release Tuesday, but release dates are subject to change.

 

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