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Originally published December 18, 2008 at 12:00 AM | Page modified December 18, 2008 at 3:01 PM

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DVDs released this week

A weekly listing of new DVDs.

Here are some of Tuesday's DVD releases. Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers or wire services (for full reviews, search the movie title on seattletimes.com).

2.5 stars"Mamma Mia! The Movie" (PG-13): Meryl Streep sings — and Pierce Brosnan, well, tries really hard — in this musical comedy about a single mom whose daughter secretly invites all three of the men who just might be her father to her upcoming wedding.

2.5 stars"Traitor" (PG-13): Don Cheadle stars as a devout Muslim demolitions expert who goes deep under cover to infiltrate a terrorist group in Jeffrey Nachmanoff's action thriller.

1 stars "The House Bunny" (PG-13): For those who like dumb-blonde jokes. Anna Faris plays an ex-Playboy bunny who gets kicked out of the famous mansion at the dreaded age of 27 — that's 59 in Bunny years, she's told — and becomes a housemother at a college sorority.

1 stars"The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor" (PG-13): Brendan Fraser digs in again for this third installment of the series, which takes the action to China and casts martial-arts deity Jet Li as the titular bad guy.

Criterion releases: The folks at Criterion move into the Blu-ray era with an eclectic mix of titles from past DVD vaults: Carol Reed's 1949 thriller "The Third Man," Wes Anderson's offbeat heist romp "Bottle Rocket," Wong Kar-Wai's romantic tale "Chungking Express" and Nicolas Roeg's cult sci-fi saga "The Man Who Fell to Earth."

TV on DVD

"The Cheetah Girls: One World"

"Generation Kill"

"Mr. Bean: The Ultimate Collection"

"Petticoat Junction: The Official First Season"

Compiled by Lori Taki Uno: luno@seattletimes.com

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