New on DVD & Blu-ray, Week of October 11: 'Green Lantern,' 'The Tree of Life' and 'Horrible Bosses'

It's another banner week for home video releases, with an array of options that vary wildly in the absurd towards the sublime: There is the significant tale of 'The Tree of Life' trigger from the nonsense of 'Horrible Bosses,' as the comic realm of 'Green Lantern' is juxtaposed using the fantasy existence of 'Zookeeper' ... and there is various 'B' movies between. Continue reading. 'Green Lantern' How It Is About: Director Martin Campbell -- most widely known for hotshot focus on 'GoldenEye' and 'Casino Royale' -- takes up the roots from the Eco-friendly Lantern with mixed results. The Eco-friendly Lamps -- some 3,000 of these, each having a ring that grants or loans him a chance to create anything his mind would ever guess -- happen to be the galactic owners from the peace for eons. That peace is threatened once the worst evil pressure within the world -- Parallax, whose strength is dependant on fear -- escapes its confinement and heads for Earth on its first pause and galactic destruction. Only recently minted Eco-friendly Lantern Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds), a cocky test pilot with fear issues of their own stands when it comes to total apocalypse. Is he going to save the planet and win the lady? You betcha. It's Kinda Like: 'Hancock' meets 'Spider-Man' What We Should Say: Eco-friendly Lantern was among individuals Electricity comic super heroes that edgy fans switched to once they were frustrated using the of a routine of Superman, Batman as well as their minions. The tales were more including, the villains more difficult, the forces more otherworldly. None of the means the film, however. Reynolds is much miscast -- and far too snarky -- as Jordan/Eco-friendly Lantern, another Eco-friendly Lamps are far too Disneyesque (to gold coin a thing to be too cartoonish) and Parallax looks a lot more like a thunder cloud with dreads than the usual devourer of galaxies. There's some awesome effects -- and Blake Lively is definitely nice to possess around -- but typically, 'Green Lantern' is really a dud. &bull Extra supplies: The Blu-ray disc includes a long version from the film, several featurettes, a 'Justice League #1' digital comic, additional moments, and Warner's Ultraviolet Digital Copy, which enables cloud streaming. Rotten Tomato plants Reviews Buy DVD Save DVD for your Netflix queue Watch a clip in the DVD: 'The Tree of Life' How It Is About: This ambitious story of affection, loss and family ties from Terrence Malick, among America's most highly-regarded as filmmakers, informs the storyline of the suburbs Texas family within the nineteen fifties that encounters losing among its sons, an emergency that creates each family member's deep questioning regarding their devote the plan of things. Mom, father, and remaining brother grapple with how they can absorb terrible change while still retaining their dignity and remaining thriving people. It is a tough journey that taxes each member of the family ... and audiences too. It's Kinda Like: 'A River Runs Through It' and 'How our planet Was Made' What We Should Say: Maverick filmmaker Malick has already established audiences and experts seriously divided on that one. Some think it is a masterpiece of lyrical filmmaking others think it is a motion picture journey sorely looking for an editor. We often affiliate with the second. Malick's scope of 1 family's place in the world is really overblown and ambitious he frequently will get lost in images which have little related to the household tragedy at hands. When Malick has the capacity to keep a clear head on his stars (Jessica Chastain because the mother Kaira Pitt because the father Sean Penn because the grown brother), he produces miracle in showing the tenderness and tensions together. However when he thrusts the storyline into imagery from the earth's formation, dinosaurs, and what frequently appear such as the insides of the lava light, he manages to lose his grip on good, tight storytelling. Yet this can be a film that warrants to appear. It is a pure illustration of a director whose vision remains unique and uncompromised. Pitt is really a standout because the stern but loving father. &bull Extra supplies: A behind-the-moments featurette. Rotten Tomato plants Reviews Buy DVD Save DVD for your Netflix queue 'Horrible Bosses' How It Is About: Three working stiffs -- Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day -- possess the worst bosses on the planet, however their economic situations and weak employment market prevent then from giving up. Fed up with setting up with humiliation and (sexual) harassment by the kind of Kevin Spacey, Colin Farrell and Jennifer Aniston, the 3 talk with a hustling ex-disadvantage (Jamie Foxx) to obtain some pointers on getting rid of these ogres and develop an agenda to kill each other peoples boss. Naturally exactly what will go wrong, does, and also the trio soon end up way over their heads in deceit, misconceptions, and mistaken details. It's Kinda Like: 'Strangers on the Train' meets 'Nine to Five' What We Should Say: This mash-from 'Strangers on the Train,' 'Dirty Work,' 'Swimming With Sharks,' 'Throw Momma In the Train,' 'The Demon Wears Prada,' 'The Office,' 'Nine to Five' and 'The Hangover' begins out by promising us the fulfillment of each and every worker's craziest dream: getting despite your nasty boss. It is a dark premise, but while insinuating that revenge is going to be sweet, the film rapidly devolves right into a silly, vapid, nasty wreck havoc on bathroom humor, gratuitous sexual innuendo, and a total waste of several gifted stars. &bull Extra supplies: Erased moments, a few behind-the-moments featurettes. Rotten Tomato plants Reviews Buy DVD Save DVD for your Netflix queue Watch a clip: Other New October 11 Releases: 'Adventures in Pornoland': (2008) A Canadian couple mind to Hollywood to obtain operate in the film industry but unwillingly get involved with the porn biz. 'Arena' (2011) A guy kidnapped from his regular existence is thrust in to the savage realm of an up to date gladiatorial arena where males battle to the dying for that entertainment from the online public. Stars Samuel L. Jackson, Kellan Lutz, Nina Dobrev, Daniel Dae Kim. 'Beautiful Boy' (2010) A husband and wife near separation are equalized through the news their 18-year-old boy committed full of shooting at his college, then required their own existence. Stars Michael Sheen, Maria Bello. 'Cafe' (2010) Per week within the existence of several West Philadelphia citizens -- who congregate from our coffee house -- coping with life's challenges and looking to get things right. Stars Jennifer Love Hewitt, Jamie Kennedy, Daniel Eric Gold, Alex Vega. 'Judy Moody and also the Not Bummer Summer': (2011) It's summer season despite the fact that feisty, courageous Judy Moody finds herself stuck aware of her annoying brother Stink underneath the careful eye of Aunt Opal, she uses her imagination and inteligence to show a dull summer time right into a fun time. Stars Jordana Beatty, Louise Graham, Jaleel Whitened, Preston Bailey, Parris Mosteller. 'Lunopolis': 2009) Two documentarians accidentally uncover evidence of a concealed city around the moon lived on by people in the future controlling existence on the planet. 'Mr. Nice': (2010) The real story of Howard Marks (also known as Mr. Nice, a cult figure who inspired books and tunes), a middle-class Welsh boy and Oxford scholar who grew to become among Britain's greatest marijuana smugglers and hobnobbed with Hollywood hotshots, Arab riches and IRA honchos until his arrest and eventual 25-year prison sentence. Stars Rhys Ifans, David Thewlis, Chloe Sevigny, Crispin Glover. 'The Princess of Montpensier': (2010 -- France) The most recent directorial outing by French great Bertrand Tavernier sets love and intrigue from the backdrop from the savage Catholic/Protestant wars that ripped France apart within the 16th century. With different novella through the celebrated Madame p Lafayette. 'Terri': (2011) A college principal along with a shy-but-pretty teen girl take an overweight social misfit, Terri Thompson -- the lone caretaker and protector for his seniors Uncle James -- under their wings to assist him find acceptance in class ... and existence. Stars John C. Reilly, Creed Bratton, Jacob Wysocki, Olivia Crocicchia. 'Zookeeper': Kevin James may be the poor man's Dr. Dolittle within this comedy concerning the creatures inside a zoo who offer suggestions about existence and like to their zookeeper to be able to prevent him from departing his job. Stars Rosario Dawson, Leslie Bibb and also the voice talents of Cher, Nick Nolte, Adam Sandler, Sylvester Stallone, Judd Apatow, Jim Breuer, Jon Favreau, Faison Love and Maya Rudolph. Take a look at more October 11 DVD releases at OnVideo.