This week’s slate of home video releases offers slim pickings for the animation fan, but there is some vfx and comic-book fun to be had in the form of Sony’s Underworld Unrated, Extended Cut, Limited Edition and Warner Home Video’s The Flash: The Complete Series.
With Sony Screen Gems’ Underworld: Evolution set to hit theaters next Friday, it’s 2003 predecessor has been re-released on DVD as a three-disc set featuring new stuff. The vampire vs. werewolf actioner, starring Kate Beckinsale, Scott Speedman and Bill Nighy, was a surprise hit at the box office, earning more than $93 million worldwide.
The new DVD offers all materials included in the previously issued unrated extended cut, including commentary by director Len Wiseman, additional footage, vfx featurettes, a music video, storyboards and outtakes. In addition, fans get a sneak peek at the sequel, a DVD-ROM link to view an exclusive scene from the new movie and an exclusive look at the all-new Underworld Evolution comic book.
One of the better live-action comic-book adaptations for television, 1990’s The Flash is back with a six-disc set featuring all 21 episodes from the first and only season. Based on the popular DC Comics superhero property, the series stars former soap star John Wesley Shipp as police scientist Barry Allen, who, through a lab mishap, develops the ability to move at nearly the speed of sound Warner Bros. Has hired Batman Begins scribe David S. Goyer to tackle a big-screen adaptation. Until then, the disc set of the TV show is available for the suggested retail price of $59.98.
For the kiddies, Dora the Explorer: Save the Day offers episodes of the hugely successful Nickelodoen animated. Series. The Paramount release lists for $16.99 and offers a music video titled Move Like the Animals Do, and the bonus episodes “Boot’s Cuddly Dinosaur” and “Roberto the Robot.”
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