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		List Price: $39.95		Label: Sony Pictures Salesrank: 137 Released: November 24, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Media: Blu-ray

Editorial Review:
In Ron Howard's thrilling follow-up to The Da Vinci Code, expert symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) follows ancient clues on a heart-racing hunt through Rome to find the four Cardinals kidnapped by the deadly secret society, the Illuminati. With the Cardinals' lives on the line, and the Camerlengo (Ewan McGregor) desperate for help, Langdon embarks on a nonstop, action-packed race through sealed crypts, dangerous catacombs, and the most secretive vault on Earth!

Description of Angels & Demons [Blu-ray]:
If the devil is in the details, there's a lot of wicked fun in Angels & Demons, the sequel (originally a prequel) to The Da Vinci Code. Director Ron Howard delivers edge-of-your-pew thrills all over the Vatican, the City of Rome, and the deepest, dankest catacombs. Tom Hanks is dependably watchable in his reprised role as Professor Robert Langdon, summoned urgently to Rome on a matter of utmost urgency--which happens to coincide with the death of the Pope, meaning the Vatican is teeming with cardinals and Rome is teeming with the faithful. A religious offshoot group, calling themselves the Illuminati, which protested the Catholic Church's prosecution of scientists 400 years ago, has resurfaced and is making extreme, and gruesome, terrorist demands. The film zooms around the city, as Langdon follows clues embedded in art, architecture, and the very bone structure of the Vatican. The cast is terrific, including Ewan McGregor, who is memorable as a young protégé of the late pontiff, and who seems to challenge the common wisdom of the Conclave just by being 40 years younger than his fellows when he lectures for church reform. Stellan Skarsgard is excellent as a gruff commander of the Swiss Guard, who may or may not have thrown in with the Illuminati. But the real star of the film is Rome, and its High Church gorgeousness, with lush cinematography by Salvatore Totino, who renders the real sky above the Vatican, in a cataclysmic event, with the detail and majesty of the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. --A.T. Hurley

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Angels & Demons [Blu-ray] Reviews:
Yawn!!!
2009-12-30 - This movie was a bit long but ok. Maybe I was not impressed with this movie because I read the book. Rent it first and add your own opion. I wish I had rented it first.

DVD
2009-12-30 - The price and packaging were great. As far as the movie..Well it's a personal opinion but I thought it was terrible.

Angels & Demons
2009-12-29 - Excellent packaging and quality product, however I was a bit dissappointed in the movie. I thought it would be more intense but that is to be expected with all of the extra hype movies receive these days. Otherwise good movie, Tom Hanks does it again and so on.....

Better Than Dan Brown
2009-12-29 - I found the book version of Angels & Demons to be a better read than the DiVinci Code, right up to the climax where the hero has to jump out of the doomed helicopter holding onto canopy cover instead of a parachute and ends up in the Tiber River. Just too much in an otherwising very tasty mystery story. The movie version if you've missed it dodges around that rather weird bit of story telling and gets the rest of it right. Rome is an interesting and beautiful city, the Vatican is a really fastinating place and the the charaters are believible enough given the whole idea of suspending belief, hard to fault Tom Hanks work, ever - ok, Money Pit, Bachelor Party and Joe vs the Volcano but he manages to move through this with conviction and does Prof. Langdon justice again. I also have to comment on Ron Howard. I was never much of a fan of his television personnas but he always amazes me as a director - to the point that I'll see a movie of his that doesn't interest me because I know it'll be terriffic. A&D is no different in that regard.

I've not looked at the extended edition disc, rarely do. Knowing how it's done doesn't inhance the magic for me. I assume they're clever I don't need a guided tour. The DVD is fine otherwise. Actually for me selling a basic edition for $5 cheaper wouldn't upset me at all. My one exception to that is the Extended Lord of the Rings - never get enough of the Lord of the Rings - Peter Jackson needs to release the Scouraging of the Shire add on in "The Hobit." I know too late.

Great Movie
2009-12-29 - This is a great movie. I will watch it more than one time. I highly recommend it to all. Tom Hanks is one of the best actors in movies today. He makes the whole movie very believeable and real. There are great special effects in this movie and I also enjoyed watching the Special Features on this DVD. Especially how the actors were chosen and how they did some of the Special effects.