“The A-Team: Season Three”: Beyond kitsch. Hell, beyond belief. This go-for-broke, pop-culture oddity from the ’80s features four Vietnam vets outrunning the law for a crime they were ordered to commit. Meanwhile, in their downtime, they fight crime in their tricked-out van. Mr. T steals the show as Sgt. Bosco “Bad Attitude” Baracus. Lovely man – and with all of that gold around his neck, likely the originator of bling. George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz and Tim Dunigan round out the cast, usually with a cigar, a joke and a machine gun at the ready. What do you say about a show like this? It isn’t good, but then it never aspires to be good. It’s overtly sexist, but since the men are presented as ridiculous stereotypes, a balance is struck. Essentially, “The A-Team” is a live-action cartoon. If taken as such, it can be entertaining – for about 15 minutes. Grade: C+

“Elizabethtown”: Hokeyville. Cameron Crowe’s warm and fuzzy parable about failure and redemption, life and death, love won and love lost – love hanging in the balance. The movie is so devoid of hard edges, even a pending suicide is treated as a gimmick. Regardless of how tough life becomes for its humiliated main character, Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom), who has failed spectacularly in business, it never feels particularly trying. Instead, real life is tucked neatly away so that the director can make room for the rather sizable suspension of disbelief audiences will need in order to enjoy the film. The good news is that isn’t difficult to do. With Kirsten Dunst as Claire, whose appealing insights into life tend to get people like Drew back on the track, “Elizabethtown” is a soundtrack-driven film whose wealth of nostalgic songs give it more emotional weight than it likely would have had without them. Rated PG-13. Grade: B-

“Just Like Heaven”: Just like something that could only come out of Hollywood. Reese Witherspoon is the indefatigable Elizabeth, a spirited, single San Francisco ER doctor whose car slams into a truck. Mark Ruffalo is David, an attractive drunk with no spirit who has given up on life after the death of his wife. Together, he and Elizabeth collide and find that they have issues, a good deal of which involve living space. He has subletted her apartment. She demands it back. Trouble is, all signs point to Elizabeth being dead, which gets to the film’s other issue. Either she really is a goner and thus David is dealing with a ghost haunting his apartment – cue the exorcism, cue the far-out occult dude (Jon Heder) – or her presence is the direct result of his grief compounded by too much drink. A middling effort, with disappointment ringing through the contrived ending. Rated PG-13. Grade: C+

“Magnum P.I.: Complete Third Season”: Another series about a Vietnam vet fighting crime, albeit in a Ferrari and not in a silly souped-up van. This wryly funny show was carried by Tom Selleck’s charm and, if you’re old enough to remember the heat the series generated in the media when it ran, apparently by the sensation caused by Selleck’s moustache. In this third season, Selleck’s Thomas Magnum finds himself in more questionable situations, with a few in particular worth noting – the unfortunate appearance of Ernest Borgnine as a pro wrestler in the episode “Mr. White Death,” and Morgan Fairchild wedding her “Simon and Simon” series with “Magnum,” though not exactly with seamless results. The give-and-take between Magnum and his wealthy employer Higgins (John Hillerman) has an easy, lived-in feel that’s the core of the series. The Hawaiian locales don’t hurt it, either. Grade: B

“Knight Rider: Season Three”: Features a talking Trans-Am and a talking David Hasselhoff, though you might be hard pressed to know the difference. This third season of the popular ’80s television show saw a newly redesigned K.I.T.T. (dig the lighted gas pedal), the return of K.I.T.T.’s nemesis, K.A.R.R., and also the return of brooding mechanic Bonnie (Patricia McPherson), who was absent from the second season and who might now wish that were the case for the third season. The series hasn’t held up. Included here are some real howlers – “Knight of the Drones” and “Knight of the Knerd,” for instance, or the aptly titled “Knight of Disgrace.” As a bonus, the boxed set includes an episode from the fourth season, “Knight of the Rising Sun,” which confirms it. In this series, imagination wasn’t a consideration and good writing was never part of the equation. Grade: C-

“Oscar Classics Collection”: Seven movies, 11 Academy Awards, all repackaged and re-released by Warner Home Video. Highlights include Edna Ferber’s “Cimarron,” the 1930 Western in which Richard Dix and Irene Dunne have a go of it as pioneers in the Old West; the 1956 drama “Lust for Life,” in which Kirk Douglas nails Vincent van Gogh’s loneliness and desperation in a terrific performance; and Victor Fleming’s 1937 film, “Captains Courageous,” a stirring retelling of Rudyard Kipling’s tale in which a spoiled Freddie Bartholomew is mellowed by Spencer Tracy’s Portuguese fisherman. In 1937’s “The Good Earth,” Paul Muni and Luise Rainer star in a monumental adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, with Rainer winning the Academy Award for her portrayal as kitchen slave, O-Lan. The memorable locust scene alone makes this classic melodrama worth a look. “Johnny Belinda,” “Kitty Foyle” and “The Champ” round out the collection, which proves a boon. Grade: A

“Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit”: Literally, your garden-variety horror show. The story swirls around Lady Tottington (Helena Bonham Carter) and her Giant Vegetable Competition, which has everyone around her in a snit, particularly since bunnies are threatening the very existence of their prized produce. One rabbit in particular – the towering, dreaded Were-Rabbit – is gorging himself through everyone’s gardens, thus threatening their chances of winning the Golden Carrot. It’s up to Wallace and Gromit’s pest control business, Anti-Pesto, to suck out the smaller bunnies with their Bun-Vac 6000 while also ridding the world of the Were-Rabbit. Appealingly zany, with pop-culture riffs that borrow liberally from the classic Universal Studios horror movies of the 1930s and 40s to the King Kong franchise to the British television show, “Keeping up Appearances.” The best animated film of 2005, and your likely winner for this year’s Academy Award for Best Animated Feature. Grade: A