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Welcome to How to Spend $20, BOP's look at the latest DVDs to hit stores nationwide. This week: Seth Rogen and James Franco become the new Cheech and Chong, Battlestar Galactica comes to a close (sort of) and Dexter gets even more gruesome.

Pick of the Week

For people who are fly like paper and get high like planes: Pineapple Express (Unrated Special Edition)

Seth Rogen on anything is always a good time. Remember what the guy did with shrooms in Knocked Up? The actor was at it again during the summer with Pineapple Express - only this time the drug of choice was weed. And instead of getting high in a straight comedy, Rogen went for a bit of action, too, in a movie that saw his character, Dale Denton, witness a brutal crime while under the influence of some good ol' THC. Thus, he's forced to spend the remainder of the movie being chased by the evil-doers alongside his buddy and dealer, Saul Silver (James Franco).

Surprisingly, the comedy landed Franco a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor (winners to be announced on Sunday).

Disc includes: Audio commentary, extended and alternate scenes, deleted scenes, gag reel, The Making of Pineapple Express featurette, Phone Booth featurette, Line-O-Rama featurette, Direct-O-Rama featurette, Item 9 featurette, Saul's Apartment featurette, raw footage, rehearsal footage, First Table Read featurette, Comic-Con Panel featurette, The Action of Pineapple Express featurettes, Begley's Best featurette, Red and Jessica's Guide to Marriage featurettes, Injury Report featurette, Stuntmaster Ken featurette, digital copy of the film





For people who have come to terms with the fact that I always include these lucrative spoof movies in How to Spend $20 so that I can kick back and have something to make fun of: Disaster Movie (Unrated)

Currently tied with Sweetie Pie (2000) on IMDb's list of worst movies of all time – holding steady with a 1.4 ratings out of 10 – Disaster Movie certainly lives up to its name. It's, well, a disaster. In July 2008, I even wrote in Trailer Hitch that Disaster Movie's trailer was "far and away the worst movie trailer I [had] ever come across." Unfortunately, not everyone in America reads my column (a boy can dream) nor follows my advice as the title still earned just over $14.1 million at the domestic box office. Add in another $12.8 million abroad and the $20-million budgeted spoof was, once again, profitable - though not by much. Disaster Movie's tally was way below other recent spoof releases, including Superhero Movie, Meet the Spartans, Epic Movie and Date Movie.

Typically around this part of a How to Spend $20 write-up, I say something about the movie or TV show's plot. I'm gonna skip that step this time. I hope you understand.

Disc includes: Girl Fight featurette, High School Musical Sign-along, I'm Fucking Matt Damon Sing-along, Sitting Down with a Stand-Up featurette, audio commentary, G-Thang's Tour featurette, Straight from the Ladies featurette, Who's Spoofing Who featurette, This is How We Do It featurette

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