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DIsney’s latest in-house CGI film comes to home video, doing a decent job on all fronts but not nailing any.

Back in the mid 1980s, when I was a teenager, I knew very little about the toy/cartoon phenomenon that was The Transformers. I never saw the cartoon; never had the toys and I definitely did not see the 1986 animated feature. In fact, the only thing I really knew about it were two things: one was that the feature film was the one in which the late Orson Wells played a planet. The other was that the God-awful ’80s song “The Touch”….

Even a desire to see something other than action films can’t inspire me to enjoy this Blu-ray film.

DIsney’s latest in-house CGI film hits Blu-ray, doing a decent job on all fronts but not nailing any.

For many critics, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey is a boring, drawn out portrait of egotistical filmmaking gone awry. For others, it marks the dawn of a new age of creative photo-realistic special effects and operatic science fiction filmmaking. No matter which side of the fence opinions reside, there’s no arguing from either camp that 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the most beautifully shot films of all time, deserving….

There’s sufficient supplemental material and scores of HD exclusive material to keep everyone happy.

As a modern thriller, this film’s great. As a Blu-ray Disc, its presentation leaves room to improve.

Always one for quality “edutainment,” the BBC has been on a hot streak since its Planet Earth series and the recent release of Galapagos on Blu-ray Disc. With that as a backdrop, the five-disc special edition DVD of The Blue Planet, a BBC production about life in the ocean, is bound to pique viewers’ interest. In some respects this is warranted, as The Blue Planet comes “from the producers of Planet Earth” and includes more than 390 minutes….

Robocop has been a holy grail of sorts for Blu-ray adopters. Now that we have it, is it any good?

It’s not only educational, but has one of the best 1080p pictures ever seen on the Blu-ray format.