Fall FunTop 10 Most-Anticipated Fall 2006 DVD Movie Releasesby Ivana Redwine A lot of people are eagerly awaiting the Fall 2006 DVD movie releases. Some enjoyed these films so much on the big screen, they want to see them again at home. Others missed these movies in theaters and want to catch them for the first time on DVD. While some of these films were panned by a majority of critics, viewers have their own ideas about what they want to watch. In order of release date, here are some of the most-anticipated DVD movie releases for Fall 2006. Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen return for the third in the series of action movies based on Marvel Comics that began with X-Men (2000) and X2: X-Men United (2003). The premise remains that certain humans are mutants with special powers, but many ordinary people want to rid the world of the mutants. This time around someone has come up with a "cure" for mutants, but some of them don't want to be "cured." DVD release date: October 3, 2006 Adam Sandler is the star of this high-concept comedy. Sandler plays Michael Newman, a workaholic architect who has little time for his family. Then one day he obtains a magical universal remote that enables him to manipulate his environment much like a DVD: he can mute sounds, fast-forward through unpleasant moments, revisit scenes in his past, etc. But eventually Michael learns a life lesson. DVD release date: October 10, 2006 Adapted from a comic strip, this is a computer-animated comedy. Voices heard include those of Bruce Willis, Garry Shandling, Steve Carell, Wanda Sykes, William Shatner and others. The story centers around a group of various forest-dwelling animals going over a hedge to forage for food in a new housing development. The forest dwellers find suburbia to be enticing, but puzzling and hazardous to their well-being. DVD release date: October 17, 2006 Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn portray Chicago residents who initially fall in love, but spend most of the movie having difficulty even tolerating each other. Gary (Vaughn) operates a tour bus company, while Brooke (Aniston) works in an upscale art gallery. They meet at a Cubs game and soon buy a nice condo together. But their relationship degenerates into constant bickering. However, neither of them is willing to move out of the condo. DVD release date: October 17, 2006 Jack Black stars in this comedy directed and cowritten by Jared Hess ( Napoleon Dynamite). Set in Mexico, Nacho Libre revolves around the freestyle professional wrestling known as lucha libre. Ignacio (Black) works as a cook in an orphanage, but he secretly becomes a part-time masked wrestler using the name Nacho. He and Esqueleto (Héctor Jiménez) compete in tag-team matches, where they perform abysmally. DVD release date: October 24, 2006 Tom Cruise reprises his role as agent Ethan Hunt in this actioner, the third in the series that began with Mission: Impossible (1996) and Mission: Impossible II (2000). Hunt's assignment this time around is to go after a malevolent international arms dealer named Owen Davian (Philip Seymour Hoffman), and things get personal when Hunt's fiancée is abducted by Davian. The story takes us to Berlin, the Vatican, Chesapeake Bay Bridge and Shanghai. DVD release date: October 30, 2006 Cars is an animated comedy-adventure about Lightning McQueen (voice of Owen Wilson), a racecar that does a lot of damage in Radiator Springs, a Route 66 town that's home to a number of colorful talking motor vehicles. Other actors whose voices are heard include Paul Newman, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Tony Shalhoub, Cheech Marin and George Carlin. Cars was a big box-office hit in theaters and can be enjoyed by the whole family. DVD release date: November 7, 2006 Adapted from Dan Brown's novel, The Da Vinci Code stars Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou and Ian McKellen. While in Paris, Harvard professor Dr. Robert Langdon (Hanks) is summoned to the Louvre, where a curator has been murdered. Langdon becomes an innocent man on the run as he tries to unravel the bizarre clues surrounding the crime. His search for the truth raises issues about Mary Magdalene and the Holy Grail. DVD release date: November 14, 2006 Peter Jackson directed this remake of the 1933 classic. The remake boasts greatly improved special effects and is much longer, but the story remains essentially the same. In the 1930's, Carl Denham (Jack Black) is a filmmaker who sets out to make a movie with leading lady Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts) and screenwriter Jack Driscoll (Adrien Brody). They all end up on Skull Island, which contains wondrous creatures including a 25-foot gorilla. DVD release date: November 14, 2006 Based on the book by C.S. Lewis, this is a family-friendly movie. During World War II, four British kids discover that a wardrobe in the house where they're staying is a portal to an alternate world called Narnia. That world, which is ruled by the evil White Witch, is inhabited by fantastic creatures. The kids have marvelous adventures in Narnia and try to set things right there with the help of a lion named Aslan, who sacrifices himself and is resurrected. DVD release date: December 12, 2006 | 
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