Up
What can you do with a cranky old guy in perpetual mourning for the placid life he no longer leads? If you're Pixar director Peter Docter (Monsters, Inc.), you send him and the audience on a journey in two new directions: penetratingly inward, and exaltingly upward. In a stratospheric year for animated features, this was at the top, and Up is just as buoyant in its home edition. Extras include alternate endings, a making-of doc and two nifty new CGI shorts. If you have a kid, or plan to get old, this is the must-have Christmas present. It's available cheap on both DVD and Blu-ray. For Christmas, most new Blu-rays, formerly more expensive, will cost about the same as the old DVDs; Hollywood is desperate to sell viewers on the new format, so prices for the machine and the discs are low low low. — Richard Corliss
Price:
$19.99 on Amazon