The surgical interns of Seattle Grace Hospital are more interested in playing doctor than being doctors. Viewers have followed the great Meredith/Dr.

McDreamy/George/Addison love rhombus, which shifted and rotated throughout the entire season. But that's alright. That relationship drama is what helped earn the show (audio: ***, video: ***, extras: **1/2) more than 20 million viewers a week, as well as 11 Emmy nominations this year. Of course, every week unfolded medical drama as well. There were teenie preemie babies, live ammunition stuck inside a man's bleeding body, and of course, the killing off of patients.

NBC's (audio: ***, video: ***1/2, extras: ***) has surpassed its British counterpart by leaps and bounds, quickly becoming one of the best reviewed shows on television. Has America finally found a worthy successor to “Friends” and “Seinfeld”? The show just won the Emmy for Outstanding Comedy Series and was nominated for four others. Comedy heavyweight Steve Carell (“The 40 Year Old Virgin”) leads the excellent ensemble cast through the drudgery of office work at a paper company in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

Unlike “Madagascar,” clearly the animators of this flick were going for realism with the computer-generated images. The detail is amazing, down to the lion's flowing mane.

When you go from movie theaters to DVD in less than five months, extras should be limited. Nobody wants to see a “making-of” featurette for this movie - thanks for sparing viewers.

Extras include six deleted scenes with optional commentary by the film's creators; “Real Wild Child” music video by Everlife and two short bits about two of the voices in the film.

The other short is about Colin Cunningham - a visual effects guy who voices Hyrax - it's actually pretty funny because he's not a known talent. His character is this angry rodent who yells a lot in the Queen's English. It's a spoof on how the whole acting gig went to Cunningham's head and how the co-workers are affected by it. In honesty, he sounds like a Monty Python rip-off, so in giving the segment two minutes - it's probably a minute too long.

John Glenn inspired a generation to shoot for the stars. Thirty-six years later, when Glenn returned to space on the shuttle, he inspired Clint Eastwood to reconsider a script that he once passed over.

(audio: ****, video: ****, extras: *1/2) blasts off in HD-DVD this week, as Frank Corvin (Eastwood), a retired Air Force test pilot/engineer, and his gang of geriatric fly boys (Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland, James Garner) are called back into action on emergency mission: to steer an old Soviet satellite with a few nasty secrets back into orbit. Somehow, the 1970s Space Lab guidance system designed by Corvin was stolen during the Cold War and placed on the Soviet bird. Frank and his buddies are the only ones for the job.

George Lucas and his Industrial Light & Magic special effects crew electrify the space sequences with amazing CGI effects - which looks spectacular in HD.

The disc features four short documentaries about the effects, editing, production and a 12-minute ad-libbed interview between Jay Leno and the astronaut cast during a “Tonight Show” scene.

Warner Bros. releases its second batch of Blu-ray discs including Harrison Ford's latest adventure, (audio: ***1/2, video: ****, extras: *1/2). Ford has played everything from - a space-age smuggler, archaeologist, CIA agent, lawyer, doctor, even president of the United States - making him the king of the action flick.

The paint-by-number thriller has the 63-year-old actor (Jack Stanfield), as an average family man - with two kids and beautiful wife (Virginia Madsen). The action starts kicking - when his family is kidnapped for a $100 million ransom. Ford, a banking security expect, must steal from his own bank - bypassing the firewall and transferring the money to an overseas account - for mastermind Paul Bettany and his thugs.

Additional Blu-ray discs: Mal Brooks' wacky western satire (audio: ***, video: ****, extras: **1/2), which looks fabulous for a 32 year-old flick. Not a favorite with this reviewer, but it's No. 6 on American Film Institute's all-time funniest movies list. The disc features a scene-specific commentary with Brooks, two documentaries and the pilot episode for a 1975 TV series spin-off.

Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam War epic (audio: ***, video: ***, extras: 0) with the must realistic Marine boot-camp ever filmed.It's the only Blu-ray disc with issues - mostly excess film grain and a slightly soft picture.

There's something for everyone in Universal's latest HD-DVD releases: and (both: audio, ****, video, ****, extras, ****) and (audio, ****, video, ****, extras: **).

Got the blues? The story of underdog achiever “Seabiscuit” will cheer you up. Nominated for seven Oscars, including Best Picture, director/screenwriter/producer Gary Ross, who wrote the scripts for “Pleasantville,” “Dave” and “Big,” gives a brilliant presentation of one of history's bleakest hours. In a splendid commentary with Steven Soderbergh, he describes how the little race horse and his big jockey, played by Tobey Maguire (“Pleasantville,” “Spiderman”), helped return balance between an industrial driven America and its natural origins by bringing together three separate storylines.

Sounds like it might make dull listening, but it's not. Ross and Soderbergh's engaging dialogue provides historical and film-making detail. You'll learn stuff and have fun doing it. Additional features, such as “Bringing the Legend to Life” and “The True Story of Seabiscuit,” along with news footage and cast and crew interviews, provide more worthy background. We also get to hear from Laura Hillenbrand, who wrote the book from which Ross based his script. She also served as consultant to the film.

Harris' book was made into an earlier film, “Manhunter” (1986), by Michael Mann and was aimed to “Miami Vice” fans. “Red Dragon,” employs an excellent cast that includes Edward Norton, Ralph Fiennes, Harvey Keitel and Emily Watson, as well as additional cast members and crew from “Silence” to create a more accurate – and compelling – translation from book to screen.

Fans of Harris' series will love the detailed FBI file on Lecter and forensic breakdown of the Leed's house crime scene. Those who enjoy film music will appreciate composer Danny Elfman's soundtrack-only commentary. Director Brett Ratner (executive producer, “Prison Break”) and writer Ted Tally, who also wrote the screenplay for “The Silence of the Lambs,” maintain a fanboy enthusiasm in their detailed commentary for the film, and extended and deleted scenes.

It's too bad Criterion owns the rights for the extra goodies provided on their presentation of “Traffic.” Viewers won't find any commentaries, deleted scenes, or any of the other featurettes from that package. They will find a great, HD presentation of the award-winning film here. There is one juicy “Inside Traffic” featurette that gives background for the film and it's just as scary as the movie itself.

What a difference five years can make in a DVD's release - “Taps” at 20 years fell short of such a milestone, but (audio: ***1/2, video: ***1/2, extras: ***) at 25 hits close to a bull's-eye.

It's the story of a doomed military school for undergraduates - what could have been a final year to get things in order before Bunker Hill Academy closes turns into death and mayhem. The young cadets, not quite men yet, try to turn chaos into an Appomattox Courthouse, but negotiations never get that close; from the beginning, the viewer can sense this flick isn't about happy endings.

Director Harold Becker offers an in-depth commentary (sometimes sounding like the raspy George C. Scott himself) to a movie that lasted more than two hours in a time when much of America's audiences wanted brevity. Becker remembers much of the decision-making in casting, art direction, settings, locations and personalities. He remembers traveling to New York City to see Sean Penn in “Heartland” on stage. Becker immediately knew Penn had to be in the film.

The cast had to go through rigorous training with teenage boys at a Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania where “Taps” was filmed. The acting is superb and the quality of the film is still clear - so much so you can see fear in some of the actors' eyes as the National Guard comes in to force them out of their school; the close-ups sometimes are jarring.

It's worth repeating that it's a shame for a show like “Commander in Chief” that started out with such a bang and an all-star, multitalented cast to end after just one season. The first season was supposed to be a boxed set with extras and the season's 18 episodes, but the powers that be decided to make it a two-part release; the first 10 episodes were released earlier this summer with no extras on that two-disc set.

There are your standard deleted scenes - all fairly short - and bloopers and outtakes, which can be funny when you think that even the president can flub her lines.

Walt Disney Pictures always lucks out in securing beautiful music for some ho-hum sequels - (audio: ****, video: ***1/2, extras: **) is no different.

“Brother Bear 2” mixes a bit of “Pocahontas,” “Mulan” and “Beauty and the Beast” to tell the story of Kenai (Grey's Anatomy's Patrick Dempsey), the former man turned large bear, and his little bear brother, Koda, and their agreement to help spitfire, human Nita (Mandy Moore) break a spell made years ago between herself and Kenai when he was a little boy. The Great Spirits say Nita cannot marry another until it's broken. So off yonder Nita goes to find Kenai - after, of course, the spirits make it so she can speak bear with her former friend and his little brother. I guess she also can speak moose, too, because she has no problems communicating with the film's comedic moose pair, Rutt and Tuke, eh.

That doesn't make things easy for Ed (James Caan), who not only has to open on time and according to the demands of the new owner but also has to lure back Danny (Josh Duhamel) to his security team.

If there is one thing that doesn't make sense, it's packaging a character's introduction at the END of the first season on DVD, rather than at the beginning, which make chronological sense. Alas, that's what the studio did when putting together (audio: ***1/2, video: ***, extras: 1/2).

Dr. Mark Sloan (Dick Van Dyke) was introduced on “Jake &The Fatman” in March 1991 when his character was a prime suspect in a murder. He helped investigate and cleared himself.

Fast-forward a couple of years and Sloan, whose son Steve (Barry Van Dyke) works for the police, typically pairs with the department as a consultant.

It's somehow hard to get over animated female characters that have the bodies of 1-year-olds, hair like Heather Locklear, vocabulary like Hilary Duff and clothes like Celine Dion Jr. Adults might not get (audio: ***1/2, video: ***1/2, extras: 0) but it seems some youngsters can overlook the schizophrenic mix and take the mall-worshipping, big-haired toddlers for what they are, entertainment in a computer-generated world.

We find the miniature versions of the Bratz dolls - Yasmin, Cloe, Sasha and Jade - at the mall babysitting center - playing like the good little toddlers they are until Snappy the puppy escapes. The girls must help twins Nita and Nora get their puppy - who eventually ends up in the hands of a pre-teen, doofus bully who tries to extort $50 from the girls. Where will they come up with the money without breaking child-labor laws? A mall-held karaoke contest, of course.

Sometimes one liners like that overshadow a kiddy flick with such values as staying true to your friends and refusing to let a bully win. Nonetheless, the movie's colors are bright and glitzy with lots of fashion-conscious decisions being made - the music is the mass-produced hip-hop, rap, rock, pop today's youth is used to.

Oh, bring back the days when you could clumsily place Barbie's legs in a plastic stand with an awkward handle and twirl her, say, one or two times until she flew off and landed on her platinum blonde head. In your imagination, Barbie was a prima ballerina.

In today's world, with computer-generated imagery, Barbie leaves nothing to the imagination as she stars in her upteenth (OK, it's not that many yet, but it feels like it) animated feature, (audio: ***, video: **1/2, extras: *).

Barbie plays Princess Genevieve who, of course, has 11 dancing siblings. But when her father beckons an evil, scheming female relative to come help him take care of his clan, the girls, and a hottie Ken, must band together and knock off the crone before the King loses his kingdom (and the girls lose all those fancy dresses). Can you believe the aunt won't let them dance?

You really can be pirouetted to death in one of the extras - “Shine” music video - which features the Barbies in various states of dancing - twirling endlessly until you almost get dizzy, leaping in the air flawlessly as only CGI dolls can. The second special feature is the “Merry Memory” game - a version of the game Simon, where you remember girls in dresses who represent different dance moves. The colors are so light, though, it's hard to distinguish lavender from red.

Filmmaking giant 20th Century Fox continues to raid its B movie play list with (audio, ***, video, ***, extras, ****). “A-Haunting We Will Go” (1942), “The Dancing Masters” (1943), and “The Bullfighters” (1945), make up the three disc set.

Extras include commentary by author, (and recording secretary for The Sons of the Desert), Scott MacGillvray, a silent, “home movie” of their 1932 “Grand Hotel” tour of Laurel's native England, (where they were greeted like rock-stars), theatrical trailers, newsreel footage, a tribute to their years at Fox Studios, a brief interview with Oliver Hardy made for early television, and the only color footage of the duo, a Department of Forest Services film short.

It's only fitting that after the tremendous success of the three-volume “Beavis and Butthead: The Mike Judge Collection” box sets, that a rushed out re-release of (audio: ***, video: ***, extras: **) rears its head in DVD racks at the local electronic superstore.

This updated disc features a couple new commentaries and two short documentaries. The commentaries featuring creator/director Mike Judge and animation director Yvette Kaplan are good additions, and the featurettes are interesting at best - highlighting a retrospective “making-of“ and a segment on the music.

It takes a few to warm up to Comedy Central's (audio: ***, video: ***, extras: **), a sketch comedy show featuring a trio of sharply dressed, gentle-hearted buffoons. It's best to ignore the groan-worthy pilot altogether; it's so bad, it's almost painful to sit through. But the players, so gosh-darned likable together, hit their stride pretty quickly; and it becomes hard not to root for their unique, slightly off-kilter ways.

As you'll learn in the interesting doc “The History of Stella,” NYU chums Michael Showalter, David Wain and Michael Ian Black have an impressive comedy pedigree. Once known as players in MTV's sketch comedy “The State,” the three did summer variety shows in New York City when the show ended (the others formed what would later become “Reno 911”). The first time they performed together at a club, the owner asked what they were called. They named the group on the spot after the owner's child - and it stuck.

(audio: **1/2, video: **1/2, extras: **) is advertised, at least on the DVD case, as being a “black comedy.” This depressing tale, depicting the horrendous health care situation in modern day Romania, is so hopeless and dark it would take a vivid imagination to find anything funny. The title character, who at first may be found to be humorous because he seems to be a hypochodriac, lives in a squalid apartment with his three beloved cats. But when his neighbors conclude that he is, in fact, quite ill, they call an ambulance. And so begins Lazarescu's odyssey, being driven from hospital to hospital to face rejection after rejection.

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