New movies to be released tomorrow on DVD

Fred Claus (2007) *½ The movie is less ho-ho-ho than uh-oh, or oh-no. Emitting a stale odor from the first reel, it never engaged the audience of kids and adults that I saw it with.

Hancock (2008) ** More intelligent than most summer blockbusters and features at its center a thought-out and committed performance by Will Smith. But in the end it’s merely ALMOST good.

Meet Dave (2008) *½ The kind of bland, generic, high-concept midsummer comedy that drives a critic to the thesaurus in search of new ways to say "vapid."

Space Chimps (2008) *½ Sucks a whole lot of talented people into a wormhole of lousy. The film either needed to be a lot wittier to make up for the way it looks, or a lot better-looking to compensate for the funny it isn’t.