This week’s DVD lineup is filled with enough comedy, romance, and action to keep you on your couch, for hours. Hopefully we can help narrow your choices so you can still get outside to enjoy some of the fall weather while it lasts.

Rent It:  Dreamworks Pictures presents, Tropic Thunder, a hilarious comedy, rated R for a reason: it’s loaded with downright dirty action that is absolutely hilarious! Ben Stiller, Jack Black, Robert Downey Jr., Jay Baruchel and Nick Nolte star as a group of self-centered actors and their ego-manic director, who refuse to stop shooting an expensive war after the studios shut it down. The director leads his cast into the jungles of Southeast Asia, where these prissy little men meet real bad guys. This movie could be the funniest movie of the year, but it’s not for everyone; the movie includes strong sexual references, violence and drug content. Rent it, but it’s best not to leave this movie around for the kids to find.

Buy It:  Disney brings viewers a future classic that kids will love and adults will adore: WALL-E, is the story of a robot named Wall-E, who is built to clean up the pollution on Planet Earth; the planet is in such bad shape that it can no longer support life. While humanity lives in starliners, robots are sent to clean up the planet.  Wall-E, lonely having spent so long on a lifeless planet, stumbles upon another robot, Eve, and he quickly falls in love. Eve is built to perfection, and is part of a programming crew of robots set out to determine if humans will ever be able to come back to the planet. Disney’s WALL-E is rated G, for everyone, and takes viewers on a fantastic and fun-filled journey through the universe.

Rent It: Priceless is a French comedy, directed by Pierre Salvadori; designed to tickle a viewer’s romantic side.  Priceless is the story of Irene, played by Audrey Tautou, a gorgeous lady, who makes a living gold-digging off wealthy men.  She soon meets Jean, who makes a living bartending until he has a lustful encounter with Irene. She mistakes Jean for a wealthy man and bleeds him dry after a one night stand. But she taught him a few great tricks, and he quickly becomes a gigolo.  He ends up moving in with a well-to-do woman in her five-star hotel.  A twist of fate allows for Irene to reappear in Jene’s life making for a terrific, lightweight romantic comedy.  Priceless is rated PG-13 for sexual conduct and nudity.

Skip It: Warner Brothers brings, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, which is a sequel continuing three years after the original:  Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Both are based on Ann Brashares best selling novels. In this sequel the stars from the original movie return; Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, and Blake Lively star as four nineteen-year-old girls and lifelong friends who head off to college in separate directions. In the original Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, these young ladies bond through a pair of blue jeans, they pass around to keep in touch (which just so happen to fit all of them).  But, in the sequel, these pants are barely mentioned.   The Sister of the Traveling Pants was heartwarming and touching, but unfortunately the second time around is too reminiscent to the first film.  Skip it, unless you are a fan of Ann Brashares best-selling novels and need to see if this film does her novels justice.  The film is rated PG-13.

 —Christina Mennella