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Super Spy, Time Travelers or Teddy Bear: Who Tops This Week's Redbox Rentals? And Other New DVD Releases

Check out this week's Top 5 Waukee Redbox rentals and make your viewing list.

From a girl struggling to find her place at college to a teddy bear coming to life to a super spy -- this week's top 5 has everything for your weekend.

Check out the other top rentals and new releases near you.

1. Pitch Perfect - Beca is that girl who’d rather listen to what’s coming out of her headphones than what’s coming out of anyone’s mouth. Arriving at Barden University, she finds herself not right for any clique but is somehow muscled into one she would never have picked on her own – alongside mean girls, sweet girls and weird girls with nothing in common except how good they sound when they sing together. Trailer.

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Redbox Review: 4 Stars Rating: PG-13 Stars: Anna Kendrick, Skylar Astin, Ben Platt, Brittany Snow, Anna Camp

2. Ted - John Bennett is a grown man whose simple childhood wish brought his cherished teddy bear to life. Almost 30 years later, the fairy tale is very much over. Ted is reluctant to leave John's side to the increasing annoyance of John's only-so-patient girlfriend, Lori Collins. Trailer.

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Redbox Review: 3 Stars Rating: R Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Mila Kunis, Seth MacFarlane, Joel McHale, Giovanni Ribisi

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3. The Bourne Legacy - Aaron Cross is one of six agents in a program called Outcome. Unlike the CIA's Treadstone, Outcome agents have been developed and trained for use by the Department of Defense. Trailer.

Redbox Review: 3 Stars Rating: PG-13 Stars: Jeremy Renner, Rachel Weisz, Edward Norton, Stacy Keach, Dennis Boutsikaris

4. Ice Age: Continental Drift - Scrat's pursuit of the cursed acorn that he has been after since the dawn of time, has world-changing consequences - a continental cataclysm that triggers the greatest adventure of all for Manny, Diego and Sid. In the wake of these upheavals, the herd encounters a seafaring pirates determined to stop them from returning home. Trailer.

Redbox Review: 4.0 Stars Rating: PG Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Jennifer Lopez, Queen Latifah

5. Looper - In the future, time travel will be invented – but it will be illegal and only available on the black market. When the mob wants to get rid of someone, they will send their target 30 years into the past, where a "looper" – a hired gun, like Joe – is waiting to mop up. Trailer.

Redbox Review: 3 Stars Rating: R Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Noah Segan

Already saw the Top 5? Here are the newest flicks in the Redbox.

  • Hotel Transylvania
  • Seven Psychopaths
  • Paranormal Activity 4
  • Cold Light of Day 
  • Hansel & Gretel

Waukee is home to three Redbox kiosks, so there's more than one place to find the perfect movie:

  • Kum & Go, 350 S.E. University Ave.
  •  125 Laurel St.
  •  3311 Ute Ave.

To ensure that your movie is available, go to redbox.com and reserve online.

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