You loved the movie, what about the DVD?
Find out as we examine the extras on this week's best movie DVDs...
“STEP UP 2 THE STREETS”
Stars: Briana Evigan, Robert Hoffman
Director: Jon Chu (“When The Kids Are Away”)
Formats: DVD, Blu-ray
What we said: “Mindless formulaic fluff with enough booty-shaking charm to qualify as a great guilty pleasure.”
Extras: “Through Fresh Eyes: The Making of ‘Step Up 2’” featurette; deleted scenes and outtakes; “Outlaws of Hip Hop: Meet the ‘410’” featurette on the real-life dancers; music videos including one for the hit “Low” by Flo Rida featuring T-Pain; “Lead Actor Robert Hoffman Video Prank.”
Worth watching: “Outlaws of Hip Hop,” because after watching some of the crazy dance moves in this movie, you'll need to be reminded that yes, those are real people, not CGI.
Worth skipping: “Lead Actor Robert Hoffman Video Prank.” Such behavior should not be encouraged.
Worth adding: A featurette in which Evigan, Hoffman, and members of the 401 teach you some of their dance moves.
Buy, rent, or ignore: Rent.
“THE BANK JOB”
Stars: Jason Statham, Saffron Burrows
Director: Roger Donaldson (“Species”)
Formats: DVD, 2-Disc DVD, Blu-ray
What we said: “Somewhat polished but in need of three rewrites and some caffeine.”
Extras: DVD: None.
2-Disc DVD, Blu-ray: Commentary by Donaldson, Burrows and composer J. Peter Robinson; deleted and extended scenes with optional commentary; “Inside ‘The Bank Job’” and “The Baker Street Bank Raid” featurettes; trailer; digital copy.
Worth watching: “The Baker Street Bank Raid” featurette, which is about the real 1971 robbery that inspired this movie.
Worth skipping: The rather rote making-of “Inside ‘The Bank Job.’”
Worth adding: Statham to the commentary, since he’s, you know, the star of the movie.
Buy, rent, or ignore: Rent.
“SHUTTER”
Stars: Joshua Jackson, Rachael Taylor
Director: Masayuki Ochiai (“Kansen”)
Formats: DVD, Unrated DVD, Blu-ray
What we said: “Not a moment of ‘Shutter’ is scary, though a loud or eerie sound effect lets you know whenever you’re supposed to be afraid of something.”
Extras: DVD: “A Ghost in the Lens” and “A History of Spirit Photography” featurettes.
Unrated DVD: Standard DVD features plus commentary; “A Cultural Divide,” “The Director: Masayuki Ochiai,” “A Conversation with Luke Dawson,” “Create Your Own Phantom Photo” and “The Hunt for the Haunt: Tools and Tips for Ghost Hunting” featurettes; nine deleted scenes and an alternate ending.
Blu-ray: All of the above plus “Fox Movie Channel Presents 'In Character with Joshua Jackson’”; Japanese Spirit Photography Videos; three additional alternate scenes.
Worth watching: “A History of Spirit Photography” featurette and the Japanese Spirit Photography Videos, since this stuff is kind of creepy.
Worth skipping: The “Fox Movie Channel Presents 'In Character with Joshua Jackson’” because, well, Jackson's kind of creepy, too.
Worth adding: An interview with writer Mary Roach, whose excellent book “Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife” discussed how scientists have explored the phenomena of spirit photography.
Buy, rent, or ignore: Rent the Blu-ray; ignore the DVDs.
Other DVDs out this week:
— The director of “Snakes on a Plane” is still up to no good with “Asylum”
— Martin Lawrence ships Raven-Symone off to school in “College Road Trip” (also on Blu-ray)
— Aaron Eckhart, Jessica Alba and Elizabeth Banks star in the barely released “Meet Bill”
— Christina Ricci is pretty on the inside in “Penelope”
— If "Home Alone" was set in Brazil “The Year My Parents Went on Vacation”
— Jack goes nuts on the Blu-ray debut of “One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest”