Fancy feet
‘Step Up 2 the Streets’ release loaded with commentary, features
Are you ready to rumba? “Step Up 2 the Streets” ($29.99 DVD, $34.99 Blu-ray; Disney), the follow-up to the 2006 teen mini-hit “Step Up,” again mingles the raw world of street hoofing with the refined circles of formally trained dancers.
This one lands a rough but talented street dancer (Briana Evigan) at the Maryland School of the Arts, where she tries to blend in with snooty classmates and teams up with a hotshot student (Robert Hoffman) to compete in an underground dance competition. The DVD and Blu-ray releases come with deleted scenes, two behind- the-scenes segments and five music videos, including tunes by Flo Rida and Missy Elliott.
• Jason Statham makes an unauthorized withdrawal in “The Bank Job” (Lionsgate), a solid heist flick from director Roger Donaldson. Statham stars as a car dealer who meets up with a beautiful woman (Saffron Burrows) from his old haunts and gets in way over his head after she lets him in on a robbery of cash and jewels from a London bank.
Two-disc DVD ($34.98) and Blu-ray ($39.99) editions come with extended footage, a making-of featurette and a segment on the 1971 Lloyd’s Bank job that inspired the film. Both releases also include a digital copy of the movie for portable video players. The movie also comes in a bare-bones single-disc DVD ($29.95).
• “Shutter” ($29.98 DVD, $39.98 Blu-ray; 20th Century Fox) is a horror tale centering on a photographer (Joshua Jackson) and his new wife (Rachael Taylor) who are exposed to a vengeful spirit from beyond on a trip to Japan, where the photos that result contain ghostly images of a woman on a haunting mission.
The movie is available on DVD in the theatrical version or an unrated cut, both containing a couple of background featurettes. The unrated DVD and Blu-ray releases also have deleted scenes and an alternate ending, five more behind-the-scenes featurettes and commentary with Taylor and some of the filmmakers.
• Christina Ricci is the fairest pig-faced girl in the land of “Penelope” ($25.99 , Summit), a contemporary twist on fairy-tale romance. The comic tale stars Ricci as a young woman afflicted by a family curse — the snout of a pig — with James McAvoy as a suitor who may hold the key to lifting the curse.
The scant DVD extras include a making-of featurette and a sneak peak at this fall’s teen vampire tale “Twilight.”
TV on DVD
• “Dallas: The Complete Ninth Season” ($39.9 8 , Warner Bros.). J. R. Ewing would love to be in business with today’s oil prices. Larry Hagman and the rest of the conniving Ewing clan are back in the prime-time soap about a Texas oil family. Year Nine’s 31 episodes come in a four-disc package ($39.98, Warner Bros.).
• “Eureka: Season 2” ($39.98, Universal). The real brain trust of America lives in an idyllic, secret Northwest town set up after World War II for the best scientific minds to hatch all our great technological advances — and complicate their lives with the same interpersonal issues that trouble the rest of us. A three-disc set has the second season’s 13 episodes.
• “Birds of Prey: The Complete Series” ($39.98, Warner Bros.). This short-lived 2002 spinoff of the Batman universe follows the adventures of Batman and Catwoman’s daughter (Ashley Scott) and two allies (Dina Meyer and Rachel Skarsten) as they fight crime in New Gotham City. All 13 episodes come in a four-disc set.
• “Swamp Thing: The Series — Volume Two” ($39.99, Shout). Dick Durock returns as the man transformed into a plant-humanoid hybrid battling evil. The first 25 episodes from Season Three are in this four-disc set.
Coming Tuesday
“Brutal Massacre: A Comedy” (Anchor Bay), “The Last Winter” ( Genius/ Weins t e i n ) , “Picture This” (MGM), “Robot Chicken: Star Wars” (Warner Home Video/Adult Swim) and “21” (Sony)•.
