Lilo and her little, blue alien pal are back in an all-new adventure with Disney’s Leroy & Stitch, a direct-to-DVD feature released today by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. The movie serves as the conclusion to the Lilo & Stitch TV series, which debuted on ABC Kids in the fall of 2003. Also bowing on disc today is Sony Pictures vfx-intensive, comic book-inspired action flick, Ultraviolet, which is available as an unrated extended edition.
As a reward for rounding up all 625 experiments, Lilo, Stitch, Jumba, and Pleakley have been placed around the galaxy in a spot where each of them thinks they truly belong. Soon, however, their lives are shook up when the dastardly Dr. Hamsterviel breaks out of prison and forces Dr. Jumba to create a new experiment’Leroy, the evil twin of Stitch. When Hamsterviel forms his own mischievous army of Leroy clones, it’s up to Lilo to gather Stitch and the rest of the gang from the far corners of outer space to foil his evil plan. The pic was written by Robert Gannaway and Joss Winfield, and fetures series voice cast members Daveigh Chase, Tia Carrere, Kevin McDonald and David Ogden Stiers. Extra features on the DVD include a never-before-seen episode of the Lilo & Stitch TV series and a flight simulator game titled Big Red Battleship.
Milla Jovovich is a vampire warrior out to stop a corrupt government from wiping out her kind in Ultraviolet, director Kurt Wimmer’s largely incoherent but entertaining followup to Equilibrium. Ridiculous action is the order of the day as Jovovich takes on armies of soldiers in a futuristic world created in CG with CIS Hollywood handling most of the vfx work under visual effects supervisor Victor Wong, whose previous credits include the Hong Kong-made hits House of Flying Daggers, Initial D and Internal Affairs I & II. Bonus materials offer commentary by Jovovich and a making-of featurette. The unrated, extended cut also features seven minutes of extra footage that was deleted from the theatrical version.
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