Extreme Makeover - Home Edition

Extreme Makeover - Home Edition Review

Extreme Makeover - Home Edition Feature

• Experience the most unbelievable transformations from EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION SEASON 1 in this inspiring 2-disc set, including exclusive bonus features that take you behind the scenes! In just seven days, Ty Pennington and the remarkable design team will present a deserving family with the home of their dreams. In a race against time, on a project that would normally take a crew four months

Get out your handkerchiefs. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is all about warm fuzzies, tear-jerking, and a lot of cool houses. In this edition (it should be noted that the DVD is a best-of from Season One, not the complete season), a crew, led by former Trading Spaces carpenter Ty Pennington, finds families with extreme needs, such as a child allergic to his mold-infested house and a pair of siblings who became guardian to their six younger brothers and sisters when their parents died within days of each other. They send the family off on vacation for seven days and work around the clock to gut, design, build, and decorate their dream house. Watching them bicker (particularly between building planner Constance Ramos and exterior designer Preston Sharp) and stress out over making their deadline, you wonder: why don't they just keep the family out of the house an extra day or two? But then again, that's what creates drama.

Some of the transformations are truly impressive: a family of three sons receives a mini-baseball field at 1/7th scale in their backyard, complete with authentic Dodger Stadium grass. A tri-level home is completely transformed--including an elevator--to accommodate a teen in a wheelchair. Sometimes they even throw in bonus prizes: a grill the size of a truck for a community mother figure who liked to barbecue for the homeless in her front yard; paying off the mortgage for the eight siblings living on their own. While the ideas make for good television, some of their shtick is all too repetitive, particularly prank-calling each family on vacation to trick them into thinking their house will be lined with fluorescent orange carpet. Host Pennington is especially guilty of this, and his hunk-on-sugar routine can get tiresome. Still, if you enjoy watching nice people's dreams come true, Extreme Makeover: Home Edition will tickle your fancy. --Ellen A. Kim Experience the most unbelievable transformations from EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION SEASON 1 in this inspiring 2-disc set, including exclusive bonus features that take you behind-the-scenes! In just seven days, Ty Pennington and the remarkable design team will present a deserving family with the home of their dreams. In a race against time, on a project that would normally take a crew four months to complete, designers and contractors, hundreds of workers and community members, plus special guest stars come together to build homes and change lives.~

Home Improvement: The Complete Seventh Season

Home Improvement: The Complete Seventh Season Review

Home Improvement: The Complete Seventh Season Feature

• Emmy Award(R)-nominated actors Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson are back for more "powerful" family fun in the hilarious seventh season of the critically acclaimed sitcom HOME IMPROVEMENT. It's a year to remember as Tim's quest for more power blacks out a Thanksgiving football game and Brad floors his parents with a wedding announcement. The biggest surprise is yet to come, howeve

Emmy Award®-nominated actors Tim Allen and Patricia Richardson are back for more "powerful" family fun in the hilarious seventh season of the critically acclaimed sitcom Home Improvement. It’s a year to remember as Tim’s quest for more power blacks out a Thanksgiving football game, and Brad floors his parents with a wedding announcement. The biggest surprise is yet to come, how¬ever, as Tim considers walking away from Tool Time. Experience every fall-down-funny moment with TV’s most accident-prone host in this sensational 3-disc set, including all 25 episodes and never-before-seen bonus features. With great guest stars, including Dan Aykroyd and Grant Hill, this is a must-own collection for every Home Improvement fan.

Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition: The Workout

Extreme Makeover Weight Loss Edition: The Workout Review

Get up, get moving and start losing with three easy-to-follow workouts created by transformation specialist Chris Powell from ABC's hit show, “Extreme Makeover: Weight Loss Edition." You too can shed unwanted weight using the same exercises that helped people on the show lose hundreds of pounds.

Designed for any fitness level, begin with the Level 1 workout then progress to Level 2 and Level 3 to up the challenge and calorie burn. Chris and favorite show participants will be there every step of the way with modifications, encouragement and the inspiration needed to achieve your own total-body transformation!

Workout Descriptions:
Level 1 (10 min): Put your body in motion with gentle moves that work every major muscle group to ignite your metabolism, start losing pounds and inches, and begin your transformation.
Level 2 (20 min): Kick it up a notch with a calorie-burning workout that includes a cardio-infused Shredder Circuit, an ab-sculpting Core Circuit, and the “Dirty 30" that blasts fat in 30-second bursts.
Level 3 (30 min): Take your makeover to the max with calorie-crunching cardio, a Sprint Circuit of quick total-body moves to build muscle, and an Endurance Circuit that turns your body into a fat-burning furnace one rep at a time.

WWE: Shawn Michaels - Boyhood Dream

WWE: Shawn Michaels - Boyhood Dream Review

WWE: Shawn Michaels - Boyhood Dream Feature

• WWE-SHAWN MICHAELS BOYHOOD DREAM (DVD MOVIE)

For WWE superstar Shawn Michaels, that dream was to become the world heavyweight wrestling champion, a dream he fulfilled at Wrestlemania XII in 1996. This program features highlights of "the Showstopper's" rise to the top and title reign, including Shawn in the ring against Bret Hart, Diesel, Psycho Sid Vicious, Mankind, and others. 120 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.

Ice Road Truckers: On & Off The Ice

Ice Road Truckers: On & Off The Ice Review

Ice Road Truckers: On & Off The Ice Feature

• The most dangerous show on television returns to DVD with three new specials with the truckers. Hugh, Alex, Rick, TJ, Jay, and Drew have survived on of the most treacherous--and adrenaline fueled--jobs on Earth: driving big rigs on the 2-foot thick ice road over the freezing waters of Northern Canada. Now, reunited one year after their winter on the Ice Road, the men answer viewers' burning

The most dangerous show on television returns to DVD with three new
specials with the truckers.

Hugh, Alex, Rick, TJ, Jay, and Drew have survived one of the most
treacherous - and adrenaline fueled - jobs on Earth: driving big rigs on
the 2-foot thick ice road over the freezing waters of Northern Canada. Now,
reunited one year after their winter on the Ice Road, the men answer
viewers' burning questions, relive their most perilous adventures, and
share their tactics for staying awake for days on end and enduring the
tight, cold quarters of their 18-wheeled "offices."

From the breathtaking landscape of the Klondike to the cramped cab of the big rig, ICE ROAD TRUCKERS: ON AND OFF THE ICE delivers the chills and the thrills of this "calling of the wild."

Snoopy, Come Home

Snoopy, Come Home Review

Feature-length animated film featuring the Peanuts gang - Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, Snoopy and the rest, made back in the early '70's when they were still groovin' to Vince Guaraldi's jazz score.

Speedway

Speedway Review

Speedway Feature

• Stock car racer with generous impulses and a wastrel manager finds himself owing the Internal Revenue Service 5,000 in back taxes.Running Time: 94 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: G Age: 012569798830 UPC: 012569798830 Manufacturer No: 79883

Elvis looks sleek and cool in Speedway, a decided improvement over the pasty indifference he displayed in his middle-era range of pictures. The movie itself is standard Presley formula, with the King again playing a race-car driver, this time in trouble with an IRS agent (Nancy Sinatra) over his taxes. (There's even a production number about taxes. Argggh.) On the plus side, a bunch of scenes are set in the Hangout, a Pulp Fiction-esque diner with booths shaped like cars and lots of dancers doing the frug. Nancy sings a cool-weird Lee Hazlewood tune, "Your Groovy Self," which should have been picked up by the Austin Powers folks. The plot reflects Elvis's real-life penchant for giving money and cars away, although it's mostly predatory manager Bill Bixby who causes the financial problems. As ho-hum as this outing is, you'll probably want one of Elvis's racing-stripe windbreakers after you see it. --Robert Horton Stock car racer with generous impulses and a wastrel manager finds himself owing the Internal Revenue Service 5,000 in back taxes.