No official sale has been announced but Amazon has quietly put some great family-friendly Instant Videos on sale to own at $4.99 each! Prices are subject to change at any time, but if you act quickly you can get some great stuff. For example (descriptions from IMDB):
Scooby-Doo (PG, 3.5/5 stars, closed captions available, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $4.99 to own in HD, $7.99 in HD)
The Mystery Inc. gang have gone their separate ways and have been apart for two years, until they each receive an invitation to Spooky Island. Not knowing that the others have also been invited, they show up and discover an amusement park that affects young visitors in very strange ways. Fred, Daphne, Velma, Shaggy and Scooby soon realize that they cannot solve this mystery without help from each other.
– Written by Doug_Funnie
KF on KND Editor’s Note: The Sequel, Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed is also currently on sale and available to purchase for just $5.99 in SD.
Miss Congeniality (PG-13, 4.5/5 stars, closed captions available, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $4.99 to own in HD, $7.99 in HD)
Undercover FBI agent Gracie Hart shows no signs of having any femininity in her demeanor or appearance. Generally a bright and capable agent, she is in trouble at work when she makes an error in judgment in a case which results in a near disaster. As such, one of her by-the-books colleagues, Eric Matthews, who has never shown any inclination of thinking outside the box, is assigned to lead the high profile case of a terrorist coined The Citizen instead of her, while she is facing possible disciplinary action.
Gracie pieces together the evidence to determine that The Citizen’s next target will be the Miss United States beauty pageant. The pageant represents everything that Gracie abhors. Despite Gracie’s mannish demeanor, Eric, with no other undercover female agent remotely fitting the demographic, assigns her to go undercover as a pageant contestant to see if she can flush out The Citizen, who is perhaps one of the other contestants.
– Written by Huggo
Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (PG, 4/5 stars, closed captions available, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $4.99 to own in HD, $7.99 in HD)
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The movie is based on the young adult book, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, by Anne Brashares.
As four best friends spend their first summer apart from one another, they share a magical pair of jeans.
Despite being of various shapes and sizes, each one of them fits perfectly into the pants. To keep in touch they pass these pants to each other as well as the adventures they are going through while apart.
– Written by Stephanie
The Last Mimzy (PG, 4/5 stars, closed captions available, currently priced at $2.99 to rent in SD / $3.99 in HD, $4.99 to own in HD, $7.99 in HD)
The siblings Noah and Emma travel with their mother Jo from Seattle to the family cottage in Whidbey Island to spend a couple of days while their workaholic father David Wilder is working. They find a box of toys from the future in the water and bring it home, and Emma finds a stuffed rabbit called Mimzy, and stones and a weird object, but they hide their findings from their parents.
Mimzy talks telepathically to Emma and the siblings develop special abilities, increasing their intelligences to the level of genius. Their father becomes very proud when Noah presents a magnificent design in the fair of science and technology, and his teacher Larry White and his mystic wife Naomi Schwartz become interested in the boy when he draws a mandala.
When Noah accidentally assembles the objects and activates a powerful generator creating a blackout in the state, the FBI arrests the family trying to disclose the mystery. But Emma unravels the importance to send Mimzy back to the future.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho
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