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All the King's Men -- An all-star cast delivers an all-night snoozer. Sean Penn's spittle-intensive tirades aside, there's just not a whole lot to enjoy here. Extras include five featurettes, some deleted scenes and a really terrible front cover.

American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile -- It's official: "American Pie" is officially the new "National Lampoon." I mean, how creative do you have to be to make an entire movie out of ONE Van Wilder joke? Extra wackiness includes frat-style featurettes, deleted scenes and oh-so-uproarious outtakes.

Fearless and Invincible -- One's a Jet Li kick-fest period piece, the other's a Marky Wahlberg Philly-based football flick. I just like the way the titles sound together.

Lady in the Water -- I really love that he shoots in Philly, but this Shyamalan dude is getting pretty silly. (Six-part behind-the-scenes documentary, featurette, deleted scenes, audition footage, gag reel, trailer.)

Little Miss Sunshine -- One of the year's best indies is slowly turning into a dark-horse Oscar pick. (I'm betting on Best Screenplay and Best Arkin.) Extras include a filmmaker commentary, four alternate endings, music video and trailers.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend -- Underrated rom-com that's sure to find a home on DVD. Uma's dreamy, Luke Wilson is actually funny, and there's some goofy FX stuff too. Extras include a music video and some deleted scenes.

National Lampoon's Pledge This! -- Good god! An American Pie AND a National Lampoon on the same day? And this one stars Paris Hilton? Are we being punished for something??

A Scanner Darkly -- Linklater's finely freaky rendition of P.K. Dick's short story will earn love and scorn in equal measure ... but I'm pretty much split right down the middle. Perhaps the multi-participant commentary track will decipher some of the mysteries, plus there's a pair of featurettes and some trailers.

Step Up -- Wait, is this the one about gymnastics? Volleyball? Girl surfers? No, wait. It's dancing! Yeah, teenagers who step up and dance! Yeah, go dancers. Anyway, extras include a filmmaker commentary, some deleted scenes, bloopers, featurettes and MySpace tie-ins.

The Wicker Man -- Neil La Bute went temporarily crazy and decided to remake one of the all-time cult-classic creepers. Why he did it is still sort of a mystery to me, even if I was one of the very few film critics who actually enjoyed (part of) this remake. Extras include a filmmaker commentary, some trailers and an all-new ending that wasn't seen in theaters ... as if the theatrical-version epilogue wasn't silly enough.

I guess I'm partially to blame, not only because I happened to like all three of the American Pie movies, but also because I wrote pretty positive reviews on the whole trilogy. So yes, blame me that a FIFTH American Pie movie is now in the works, even if I did call the nigh unwatchable American Pie Presents: Band Camp "a seamy and distasteful haze of misogyny, gay-hating and plain old ugliness."

Well, screw what I had to say, because Band Camp went on to be a huge seller on DVD. So huge, in fact, that Universal has given a bunch of filmmakers a few stray million to make American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile. Seriously. This franchise has gotten so flimsy that not even Eugene Levy shows up anymore, and we're talking about an actor who collected a paycheck for New York Minute, Dumb & Dumberer, The Man, Cheaper By the Dozen 2, and (yes) Band Camp.

Here's the plot: Stifler's cousin doesn't want to graduate from high school a virgin. Eh? Eh? You can just smell the comedy dripping off the concept. Apparently "streaking" comes up as an important plot point.

Starring a bunch of young people I've never heard of and the generally fantastic character actor Christopher McDonald (dude, why?), American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile will be directed by Joe Nussbaum, who once made a splash by creating George Lucas in Love -- before going on to become a studio robot by directing Sleepover. The screenplay comes from a guy called Erik Lindsay, who has never written a screenplay before, although (to be fair) he was a production assistant on Con Air and had a bit part in the execrable Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice.

Needless to say, American Pie 5 will be a big hit on DVD.