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This week's DVD reviews
Steve Morrissey, Evening Standard23 Apr 2009
This week's DVD releases include Yes Man, The Day the Earth Stood Still and The Baader Meinhof Complex.
Yes Man
(Warner, cert 12, rental/retail)
Jim Carrey is the naysayer learning positivity in a Hollywood romcom rework of Danny Wallace's chirpy book about a self-help odyssey. Yes? Now and again.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
(Fox, cert 12, rental/retail)
The aliens are friendly, it's the humans who are the problem in this thrill-free remake of the 1951 classic starring Keanu Reeves.
The Baader Meinhof Complex
(Momentum, cert 18, retail)
Badly drawn and frustratingly mediocre historical drama about the 1970s German terrorist gang.
The Tale of Despereaux
(Universal, cert U, rental/retail)
A Ratatouille-a-like mouse learns to stand up for himself in a twee CGI animation with a “cash-in” motive. Despereaux for the kids, despair for the adults.
Box Set of the Week
All You Need Is Love
(Tony Palmer Films, cert E, retail)
AKA The Story of Popular Music, Tony Palmer's opinionated, reverential 17-part 1977 TV series — Scott Joplin to Bob Dylan, Vera Lynn to Liberace and beyond.
