Danny Ocean (George Clooney) and company returned Tuesday on DVD for their third outing together in “Ocean’s 13.”

Series vets Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle, Andy Garcia, Casey Affleck, Bernie Mac and Elliott Gould all return with the addition of Al Pacino as the egocentric Willy Bank and Ellen Barkin as his sexy right hand.

This time Ruben, played by Gould, is swindled by hotel mogul Bank. As a result, Ruben suffers a heart attack and is put in the hospital. When the Ocean gang finds out about its partner, members quickly set a plan in motion to ruin Bank’s new hotel. Hilarity and clever shenanigans ensue.

The video looks great on this release. Colors are full and bright, and all the glitz and glamour of Vegas is presented beautifully. Flashy things like the slot machines look fantastic.

The sound is solid. If you have a surround sound system, the deep rumbling during the scene when they trigger the earthquake will shake your house. For the most part though, the movie isn’t dependent on sound, so whether there is Dolby 5.1 or not, it’s fine.

While the feature is presented nicely, the rest of the disc fails to live up to even an average DVD presentation. The extras are where this disc falls short.

The first extra is called “Vegas: An Opulent Illusion – Las Vegas’ Influential Design Sense.” It runs a little more than 22 minutes and quickly chronicles some of the history of Vegas while elaborating on the identity of the town: a place where change is constant and flashy fantasies are made real. Several experts are interviewed, discussing the design of casinos and why they are designed the way they are.

The why is, of course, to get people into the casino and to get them to gamble a lot. It really is an interesting featurette. Obviously Las Vegas is one of the most fascinating places on Earth, and getting a sort of inside look is nice. The one problem I have with this featurette is it doesn’t really connect to the movie at all. It’s a nice little peek for those who love Vegas (I’m one of them), but there is nothing about the movie-making process.

The second extra is called “Jerry Weintraub Walk and Talk.” Basically what we get here is the producer, Weintraub, walking us through the very realistic set of the fictional casino in the movie. It’s really not as exciting as it sounds, and it doesn’t even sound very exciting in the first place. Weintraub shows little effort as he is dressed in a plain white T-shirt and spends barely two minutes showing the set off and just saying how everything is real (the tables, check-in desk, and slot machines) and could actually work as a casino and hotel. Then he tells you where the stars were in the movie despite the fact that viewers can see where they were by simply watching the movie.

While the realness of the set is cool, you don’t get to see any of it in action, and you don’t get to see much more than what you already saw in the movie. It is a very poor excuse for an extra and does not add anything to the film or the DVD experience.

The final extra is a collection of four deleted scenes. All of them have been deleted for a reason and it’s obvious they aren’t needed in the movie. The scenes either try to explain something in the plot that didn’t need more explaining or they just don’t work. Sometimes it’s cool to see what the filmmakers left out, but there is nothing interesting here.

Perhaps the most missed extra on this sorely lacking affair is a commentary. There are none from any of the people involved in the movie. They could have had at least one with any of the countless stars in the movie, or the director, or even the producer or screenwriter. It’s kind of mind-boggling to think they could not get even two people who worked on the movie to sit down and watch it and talk about it.

In all honesty, this DVD is almost a worthless save for the fantastic film it carries. The Vegas featurette is intriguing, but doesn’t add to the film at all. It’s probably best to only rent this single-disc unless you really loved the movie and can’t live without it in your collection. There will probably be a nicer version with more extras in a re-release later anyway.

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