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Pick of the week:

For BOP’s This Weekend, Watch This scribe Curt David: Rio

Curt has made frequent to sojourns to Brazil since I have known him and he mentioned in his column back when Rio was released that the title alone was enough to make him want to watch it. Good news, Curt! It’s out on home video this week.

Rio is one of the few $100 million movies prior to the summer in 2011. Then again, with a budget of $90 million, it had to be. The great news for Fox is that in addition to a strong domestic tally of $143 million, it did great overseas, leading to a global take of $479 million. Hello, sequel!

With regards to the storyline, Rio is about a macaw named Blu (you’ll never guess what color he is) and his journey from his home in Minnesota to the exotic destination of Rio de Janeiro. I’d describe it as the inverse weather story to Mr. Popper’s Penguins but I suspect you have already forgotten about that much less popular film by now. The good news for Blu is that he is medically ordered to hook up in order to survive. We should all get a doctor’s note for that before the next time we go clubbing. Anyway, when Blu meets Jewel, a female macaw who somehow believes the “if you don’t sex me up, I’ll die”, he begins a grand adventure that may or may not involve a dancing sequence at Carnaval. Oh, who am I kidding? It totally does. It is not, however, called the Penetrada. Sorry, Simpsons fans.

Describing Rio almost misses the point in that it’s a brightly colored animated movie that doubles as kiddy-crack. If you are a parent and somehow avoided having to see this in theaters, the bill just came due. If you are not a parent and you are not Curt David, Rio is a judgment call…but you should still try the doctor’s sex note tactic immediately.

New releases for the week of August 2, 2011:

DVD:

10 Movie Family Adventure Pack Volume 1 (Set)
10 Movie Family Pack (Set)
10 Movie Kids Pack Volume 3 (Set)
10 Movie Mega Pack Volume 3 (Set)
10 Movie Western Pack Volume 1
10 Movie Western Pack Volume 2 (Set)
4 Film Favorites: Charlton Heston (Set)
4 Film Favorites: Classic Holiday Volume 2 (Set)
4 Film Favorites: Classic Holiday Volume 1 (Set)
4 Film Favorites: Denzel Washington (Set)
4 Film Favorites: Epic Adventures (Set)
4 Film Favorites: Nicholas Sparks (Set)
4 Film Favorites: Sci-Fi (Set)
4 Film Favorites: Steven Seagal Action (Set)
4 Film Favorites: Vampires (Set)
4 Film Favorties: Raw Feed Horror (Set)
6 Movie Pack: Adventure Robinson Crusoe (Set)
6 Movie Pack: Disaster (Set)
6 Movie Pack: Sharks Piranhas & Monsters (Set)
8 Movie Pack Midnight Horror Collection Volume 1 (Set)
8 Movie Pack Midnight Horror Collection Volume 2 (Set)
A.T.L. After Dark
Accused at 17
Animated Classics Collection (Set)
Asylum Seekers
Awesome Dinosaurs: Tales of Scales
Awesome Snakes: Tales of Tails
Back to the Secret Garden
Baka & Test: Season 1 (DVD +)
Baka & Test: Season 1 (DVD +)
Bellydance Superstars: Bombay Bellywood Live
Ben 10 Ultimate Alien: The Return of Heatblast
Best In Heat Triple Feature: Flesh For The Beast / (Set)
Best of Storybook Classics (Set)
Better Off Dead
Black Sheep/Tommy Boy (Double Feature)
Bob Harper: Beginner's Weight Loss
Bob Harper: Totally Ripped Core
The Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (Rental)
Braveheart / Gladiator (Double Feature)
Cartoon Collectors Series (Set)
Casshern: The Complete Series (DVD +)
Chuggington: It's Training Time (Magazine Subscription + )
Chuggington: It's Training Time
The Coffin
Cold Weather
The Colony: Season 2
Coming to America / Trading Places (Double Feature)
Con Artist
Conan The Barbarian
Conan The Destroyer
Copycat
Cougar Hunting (Widescreen)
Crazy for Cars Collection 2 (Set)
Curious George: A Day at the Library (Widescreen)
Daiakuji: The Complete Collection (Set)
Dance off the Inches: Belly Dance
Dancehall Gladiator
Dear Lemon Lima
Defiance / Enemy at the Gates (Double Feature)
Doctor At Large
Doctor At Sea
Doctor In Clover
Doctor In Distress
Doctor In Love
Doctor In The House
Doctor In Trouble
Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season
Eastbound & Down: The Complete Second Season
Eastbound & Down: The Complete Second Season
Ed Sullivan Presents: Rock N Roll Revolution
Elvis: The Great Performances Gift Set (Set)
Everwood: Complete Seasons 1-4 (Set)
Everwood: The Complete Fourth Season
Evidence of A Haunting
Exit 33
Exporting Raymond
Exporting Raymond
Facez of Death 2000 Collection (Set)
Facez of Death 2000 Part 1
Facez of Death 2000 Part 2
Facez of Death 2000 Part 3
Facez of Death 2000 Part 4
Facez of Death 2000 Part 5
Facez of Death 2000 Part 6
Facez of Death 2000 Part 7
A Fistful Of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Part 5
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Part 5
Garrow's Law: Series 2
The Girls Next Door: Season 4
The Girls Next Door: Season 5
The Girls Next Door: Season One
The Girls Next Door: Season Three
The Girls Next Door: Season Two
The Godfather / The Godfather Part II (Double Feature)
Going Postal
Green Lantern: Emerald Knights (Special Edition)
Happy: The Littlest Bunny / Maxwell Saves The Day (Double Feature)
Heart: Live
Heart: Live
I Almost Got Away With It
I Wanna Be: Bulldozer Driver
I Wanna Be: Train Engineer
Impact 911
Innocent
Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost
Jewel: The Essential Live Songbook
Jewel: The Essential Live Songbook
Joe Maddison's War
John Pinette: Still Hungry
Julie Darling
Kendra: The Complete First Season
Last Night
The Least of These
The Little Cars 7: Revved Up and Ready To Go
Loopdiver: Journey of a Dance
The Magnificent Seven
Maid Sama Collection 2
Manchester Fiesta 5th Anniversary: Part 1
Manchester Fiesta 5th Anniversary: Part 2
Marvel Knights: Iron Man & Spider Woman (Double Feature)
Masters of Terror
Maverick
Melancholy of Haruhi: Chan Suzumiya Part 2
Minnesota Magic: Remembering the Minnesota Twins..
Minnesota Twins 1991 World Series (Collector's Edition)
Mucho Culo
The Music Never Stopped (Widescreen)
Mystery Science Theater 3000: MST3K vs. Gamera XXI
The Name Of The Rose
Nicki Minaj: Roman's Revenge
Outside the Law
Outside the Law
The Perfect Game
The Perfect Game (Widescreen)
Pie In The Sky: Series 5
Pinocchio / Heidi (Double Feature)
The Pit & The Pendulum (Digital Copy +)
The Prisoner (Widescreen)
Pure Country 2: The Gift
Quarantine 2: Terminal
Return Of The Magnificent Seven
Revolutionary Girl Utena: Black Rose Sage Set 2 (Set)
Rio (Back-To-Back)
Rio (DVD +)
Rio (Rental)
Rio (Side-By-Side)
Rio
Rio (Rental)
Robin Hood / Three Musketeers (Double Feature)
Sands Of The Kalahari
Sands Of The Kalahari
Sci-Fi Collector's Set Volume 7
Scott Cole: Yoga Tai Chi
Sesame Street: Learning Letters with Elmo
Sheryl Crow: Live
Sheryl Crow: Live
Shooter / The Italian Job (Double Feature)
Shutter Island / Primal Feal (Double Feature)
Sleepers
Soul Surfer (DVD +)
Soul Surfer
Spot: Spot Goes To School
Spy Kids (Digital Copy +)
Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams (Digital Copy +)
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over (Digital Copy +)
Stake Land
Stake Land
Stake Land (Special Edition)
Storm Chasers: Season 3
Streetwalkin'
Strigoi: The Undead
The Super Hero Squad Show: The Infinity Gauntlet
To Walk With Lions
Tracy Morgan: Black and Blue
Tsubasa: Season 2
Tsubasa: Season 2
UFC 130
United States of Tara: The Third Season
Veggie Tales: Lunch & Lessons in a Box (Set)
Vs. The Dead (Widescreen)
Wayne's World 1 & 2: The Complete Epic (Double Feature)
Who Killed Chea Vichea?
Wild Wild West
WWII Mega Pack (Set)
YellowBrickRoad
Zen: Vendetta Cabal Ratking
Zen: Vendetta Cabal Ratking

Blu-ray:

Baka & Test: Season 1 DVD +
Baka & Test: Season 1 DVD +
Better Off Dead
Black Sheep/Tommy Boy Double Feature
Braveheart / Gladiator Double Feature
Casshern: The Complete Series DVD +
Coming to America / Trading Places Double Feature
Conan The Barbarian
Conan The Destroyer
Copycat
Defiance / Enemy at the Gates Double Feature
Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season
Eastbound & Down: The Complete Second Season
Exporting Raymond
A Fistful Of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Part 5
The Godfather / The Godfather Part II Double Feature
Heart: Live
Jewel: The Essential Live Songbook
The Magnificent Seven
Marvel Knights: Iron Man & Spider Woman Double Feature
Maverick
The Name Of The Rose
Outside the Law
The Perfect Game
Return Of The Magnificent Seven
Rio DVD +
Sands Of The Kalahari
Sheryl Crow: Live
Shooter / The Italian Job Double Feature
Shutter Island / Primal Feal Double Feature
Sleepers
Soul Surfer DVD +
Spy Kids Digital Copy +
Spy Kids 2: The Island Of Lost Dreams Digital Copy +
Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Digital Copy +
Stake Land
Tsubasa: Season 2
Wayne's World 1 & 2: The Complete Epic Double Feature
Wild Wild West
Zen: Vendetta Cabal Ratking

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