Modern Family: The Complete Second Season [Blu-ray] Overview
Winner of six Emmy® Awards, including Outstanding Comedy Series, Modern Family is a refreshingly hilarious look at what it means to be a family in today’s hectic, unpredictable world. While fledgling fathers Cameron and Mitchell struggle with learning the ropes of parenthood, long-time parents Claire and Phil try to keep the spice in their marriage amid the chaos of raising three challenging children. Meanwhile, family patriarch, Jay, has more than his hands full with his sexy, spirited wife, Gloria, and her precocious son. Still, no matter the size, shape or situation, family always comes first in this laugh-out-loud, critically acclaimed hit.
Jack Campbell (Academy Award® winner Nicolas Cage) is a single wealthy Wall Street trader living the high life in New York City. All that magically changes one winter morning when he wakes up in suburban New Jersey next to Kate (Tea Leoni) the girlfriend he left 13 years ago. He's now got two kids he's traded in his Ferrari for a minivan all while trying not to lose his mind. Find out what it takes for a single-minded businessman to become The Family Man in this heartwarming holiday comedy about second thoughts and second chances.Starring: Nicolas Cage Tea Leoni Don Cheadle Jeremy Piven Josef Sommer Saul Rubinek Mary Beth Hurt Harve Presnell Tom McGowan Kate WalshDirected by: Brett Ratner
The Family Man [Blu-ray] Specifications
Jack Campbell (Nicolas Cage) is the quintessential Wall Street shark, scoring killer deals by day and shallow escort sex by night. His round-the-clock routine of empty luxuries is disturbed one lonely Christmas Eve when a gun-packing punk (Don Cheadle)--perhaps an angel of mercy--responds to an altruistic gesture from Jack by giving him "a glimpse" of the life he could have had. Could have, that is, if he had married the girlfriend (Téa Leoni) he'd abandoned 13 years earlier, raised two adorable children, worked in his father-in-law's retail tire outlet, and lived happily ever after in suburban New Jersey. Thrust into this "glimpse" of the path not taken, Jack's a single-malt man in a lite-brew world, wondering if he'll ever return to his "better" life of callous wealth and solitude--or if he even wants to.
Carp all you want about this derivative premise, with its marginal stereotypes and biased embrace of domestic bliss and dirty diapers. The simple fact is, The Family Man works like a charm. Under the assured direction of Brett Ratner (Rush Hour), this holiday crowd-pleaser offers comedy and chemistry in equal measure, making the hilarity of Jack's predicament a smooth catalyst for that rarest of movie romances: the marital love story. Leoni is Cage's perfect match as Jack's idealized but imperfect wife, and the movie's appeal largely derives from its awareness that any life has its pleasures and pains. While it only flirts with the dark desperation that makes It's a Wonderful Life a classic predecessor, The Family Man is an irresistible what-if fantasy, and even its debatable ending rides on a wave of genuine warmth and sentiment. --Jeff Shannon
Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side [Blu-ray] Overview
The story of The Empire Strikes Back is retold. Darth Vader (Stewie) is hunting the rebel Luke Skywalker (Chris) and his troops relentlessly across the galaxy. On the ice planet Hoth, Luke has a vision of his late mentor Obi-Wan Kenobi (Herbert), telling him to go to the Dagobah system to learn the ways of the Force under Jedi Master Yoda (Carl). Meanwhile Princess Leia (Lois) finds herself taking a shine to the scruffy pilot Han Solo (Peter) and, against all odds, the two soon fall in love. But an encounter with Han’s old friend Lando Calrissian (Mort) lands them in the clutches of the Empire. Envisioning this, Luke chooses to forgo his Jedi training to save his friends. It all comes to a head in a climactic confrontation with Darth Vader himself…
The Family Guy: Something, Something, Something, DarksideBlu-ray is presented in full screen 4x3 aspect ratio featuring English 5.1 Dolby Surround, Line 21, English for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, English, Spanish, and French stereo and subtitles.
Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side [Blu-ray] Specifications
Chris Griffin is right: when it comes to obsessive geekery and mining absurdity from the minutiae of the Star Wars universe, the comic force is stronger with Robot Chicken. But Family Guy strikes back with the second episode in its goof on the original holy trilogy. The animation is more impressive than the jokes, which are scattered all over the galaxy--the good (an Empire recruitment film), the bad (Yoda's teachings revolve around guy-movie trivia), and the ugly (wholly gratuitous--and here unbleeped--F-bombs). Devoted viewers will catch in-jokes inside of other in-jokes (this program takes its title from the season 5 episode "Barely Legal," in which the Emperor discovers the formula for great Star Wars dialogue). There is some interesting stunt casting with nebbish Mort Goldman as Lando Calrissian and the Giant Chicken as Boba Fett. James Caan cameos, as does, sorta, Tom Selleck. And Meg is once again reduced to embodying a hideous space creature, although at least she gets a line of dialogue. The DVD and Blu-ray editions contain metachlorine-rich extra features, including lively (and at times slanderous) audio commentary by Seth MacFarlane, Seth Green, writer Kirker Butler, director Dominic Polcino, and others; optional trivia pop-ups; and a table read of the Something, Something script. There is also a sneak-preview table read of the next installment, We Have a Bad Feeling About This. If I were an Ewok, I'd be worried, or on the phone to a lawyer. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
After the success of Family Guy's retelling of Star Wars animated special Blue Harvest, was only a matter of time before he told his own version of The Empire Strikes Back. Time's Up and the version of Family Guy is here with Something Something Dark Side. Currently, this is not an episode time is still on the air and at this time is to know only on DVD and Blu-ray (but we all know Seth MacFarlane is just so great to play like a money machine, and the episode of George Lucaswas) on television or cable at some point.
The story begins as the Blue Harvest has the power to go with Peter Griffin and turns entertaining the family, continuing the story of Star Wars, but with some special Family Guy. Darth Vader (Stewie) using the full control over the kingdom to find the Rebel Alliance, and dry them once and for all. Luke (Chris) wants a Jedi, and Han (Peter) and Leia (Lois), Chewie (Brian) and C-3PO (Quagmire), trying to escape the empireFinally, to flee to Cloud City to visit with Han old friend Lando (Mort Goldman) a.
Something Something Dark Side does a good job to stay true to the Star Wars saga and the continuation of the story begun in "Blue Harvest, while Smashing various typical Family Guy-pop culture references and humor. Just as The Empire Strikes Back and a film better than Star Wars, was something DARK SIDE something better than Blue Harvest. Blue Harvest is approximately 8Minutes shorter DARK SIDE something something, but there are times when "Blue Harvest, where the plot drags a bit. 'This does not mean to do Something Something Dark Side, moving quickly from one scene to another, not will stop the jokes and the story moves at a quick pace.
My favorite scene is the episode where Yoda is training Luke. The scene takes place as an assembly and intersect with the actual music and movies of the Russian boxer DragoTraining in Rocky IV The juxtaposition is hilarious.
The DVD extras include a commentary, a way to play the episode with pop-up data (and, unlike most DVDs with this feature you can actually fast forward through the sequence and still read the pop-up ) Sneak Peak of a table read, we feel bad about this (the 'Family Guy Return of the Jedi), and a featurette with creators of the poster DARK SIDE Something Something.
Overall,This DVD is something that appeals to both Family Guy "and" Star Wars "fans. It offers some have foul language, so parents be careful.
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