this week's rentals and purchases

Only a D- for AP:Band Camp? I'd have to grow an extra toe on each foot for how many toes down this is. There's better film covering cesspools. There's a reason the major a-hole with no redeeming qualities was not made the leading character in the others. This movie is apparantly targetted towards nerdy male teens who have never seen nekkid boobies and manages to insult them every step of the way. And Ginger Lynn??? proving porn stars do not age well, apparantly their life clocks are fixed at 25.

Wedding Crashers - 2-3 toes up. I usually have a problem and cringe most of the way with stories based on "the big lie" that must eventually come out for the painful dramatic moment. But they manage to pull it off. No changes to the formula. This also has the latest "unrated" ad marketting BS to get sales.

Sin City - recut-remarketted-regurgitated. Basically all the individual stories are no longer intertwined but viewable as separate stories. So, if you were lost and confused as to which story in Basin City you were following in the original this might help. You can also see the individual directors' works. This means that the short opening and closing bits which sandwiched the original are a single standalone story. The re-editing and the small screen also makes it seem just slightly less violent than the original. I'd give this a few toes up if they hadn't been cut off at the knee-cap.

Star Trek: New Voyages. Okay this is a download and not for sale or rent anywhere. A group of trek fans got together and decide to make full episodes to complete the "five year mission" of the original series. Sets flawlessly recreated, decent effects, decent scripts, less than perfect acting. The crew of the Enterprise, Kirk, Spock, et al, all seem a bit too young for the roles. Two episodes have been made so far. These are made as actual full length TV episodes of the period. They begin with the NBC peacock and end with Desilu logo, use the familiar music, sound effects and even have the commercial breaks timed in. Of the two made so far, the second is definitely the better one, so if you're thinking of testing the waters, this would be the one. The first story centers around a trickster super-being, a typcial plotline. The second is a time story that centers around, Captains Kirk, Pike and Decker and the Doomsday Machine planet killer from the original series. You do need to be familiar with the original series. If you think you may end up watching them all then do watch the first one first, it will get you used to the bad acting which you will just have to learn to ignore. But on the plus side, no Shatner.