These Are the Best Black Friday 2015 DealsWe're keeping a running list of what we consider the best Thanksgiving-Black Friday deals out there. Here's what's looking good as of now:AmazonAs you'd expect, Amazon isn't waiting for Black Friday, or even Thanksgiving, to launch holiday deals. A constantly changing series of Countdown to Black Friday Week sales launched on November 1, and Amazon has leaked that a few of its favorite devices will be especially cheap during Thanksgiving week. Namely:$50 for the 6" Kindle (normally $80), starting Sunday, November 22$35 for the 7" Fire Tablet (normally $50), on sale starting November 26 (Thanksgiving Day)$25 for Fire Stick TV (normally $40), also starting Thanksgiving DayOn Wednesday, Amazon updated its Black Friday week plans with the announcement that waves of deals would start launching on Friday, November 20, a full week before actual Black Friday.Best BuyBest Buy stores open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, with a $35 price on the Fire Tablet that matches Amazon, as well as discounts of $100 to $125 off iPad Air 2s and "doorbusters" like $150 for a 49-inch Toshiba HDTV that's currently listed for $430.
That latter deal, unfortunately, is for in-store shoppers only. But all of the deals below are available in-store or online, so if you want to stay home and skip the madness of the crowds, that's easy enough to do.$10 for Blu-ray DVDs like "Jurassic World" and "Inside Out" (list prices of $25 and up)$1.99 to $3.99 for classic DVD movies like "Spaceballs" and "Ghostbusters"Buy one, get one 40% off iTunes gift cards$500 bundle with 40-inch Samsung HDTV, is partnering with a handful of brick-and-mortar stores and encouraging shoppers to make purchases in their physical locations on Black Friday. (up to $30 max). by December 2 to get the credits.Office DepotDoors open at Office Depot on Thanksgiving at 6 p.m., and among the doorbusters are:$120 for Toshiba Satellite 14” laptop (regularly $250)$80 for Microsoft Office home and student with any PC purchase$20 and up for printersOld NavyStarting on Thanksgiving when stores open at 4 p.m., and continuing until midnight on Black Friday, customers get 50% off everything at Old Navy.RokuThe newly released Roku SE will be priced at $25 from select retailers starting on Thanksgiving.
Until the arrival of this new device, the cheapest Roku was twice that amount.TargetAmong the deals featured in Target's Black Friday preview are the items below, and many are true doorbusters in that stores are selling them in limited quantities, and once they're sold out shoppers are out of luck. Most Target stores are opening at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving.$35 for Disney Infiniti 3.0 or Skylanders SuperChargers starter pack (regularly $65 and $75, respectively)$100 Nikon CoolPix L340 20 MP (regularly $230)$80 to $150 Target gift cards with iPad purchase$250 for 55-inch Westinghouse HDTV (regularly $600)Read next: 5 Big Retail Trends That’ll Help 2015 Holiday Shoppers Grab the Best DealsToys R UsStores open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, and the limited-availability doorbusters sold in store only include:Buy one, get one 80% off Skylanders SuperChargers figuresBuy one, get one 60% off Lego Dimensions Fun Packs$25 Easy-Bake Ultimate Oven (listed at $45)$40 for 55-piece Imaginarium train set (list price $110)A different set of sales kicks off at 7 a.m. on Black Friday itself, including:50% off Disney Princess Little Mermaid Sisters Dolls50% off Playskool Heroes Transformers$800 for Big Backyard Premium Charleston Lodge Wood Swing
Set (normally $1,600)WalmartWalmart launched holiday sales extra early with the likes of the $199 iPad mini 2 (normally $268) starting in early November, and it's promised ongoing deals throughout the season rather than focusing on any one particular day of sales. Still, Walmart stores will be launching Black Friday sales at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving night, and most the weekend's sales will be available online long before that, starting at 12:01 a.m. PT on November 26 (Thanksgiving). Walmart's best Black Friday deals include:From $8 for video games$59 Fitbit Flex Wristband ($40 off)$125 for 32-inch Roku Smart HDTV$898 for 70-inch Vizio Smart TV ($300 less than the cheapest price ever seen by dealnews for a TV this size)12 Things You Should Never Buy on Black FridayThese Retailers Are the Worst Offenders Pushing Thanksgiving Day Store HoursIf Deadpool could parody the entire superhero genre, why not create a Batman movie that parodies the massive, long-running Batman mythology? It’s a smart, timely idea to build a monument to the decades of trivia regarding one of the most iconic superheroes (and characters) of all time, and as a followup to the hilarious and self-aware Lego Movie, which is ultimately a more thoughtful attempt to woo both kids and audiences.
Within the story of Lego Batman Movie, the titular character (voiced by Will Arnett) is as much a pop culture phenomenon as he is in real life, singing songs about how incredible he is and lavishly surrounding himself with gadgets and vehicles that best represent his own ego. But Batman is lonely, too, for reasons that might confound the same viewers who do manage to get all the references being tossed and visually planted. See in this “universe,” Batman has never had a Robin, Batgirl, or otherwise. He’s a member of the Justice League (sort of?), and the movie wants to suggest that his symbiotic relationship with Joker is an interesting parody of romantic comedies (helped by frequent references to actual romcoms Batman enjoys in private). It’s all written in a sloppy, haphazard way, because the viewers who will get the most out of the mountains of jokes and references will also wonder how all of this can simultaneously coexist with a Robin/Batgirl origin story, especially as there are loads of winks to previous Batman films (with those characters) being in the same mythology as this movie.
In other words, it’s confusing, distracting, and hard to ignore, even for a movie that doesn’t ask you to take any of this seriously until it does. The film’s primary message is that Batman needs to learn how to work with others as a team, and the path for him to get there is utter chaos. Entire scenes are mismatched in pace and tone, frequently stopping the action completely every few minutes or so to repeat (sometimes verbatim) the themes and messages of the movie, just in case the kids didn’t understand how hard it is for Batman to have…friends? As a result, Batman ends up learning the same lesson multiple times, sometimes pontificating the same ideas a scene later. It seems the writers (there were many) didn’t have sufficient time or freedom to edit the script because they also wanted to maintain the jokes they came up with to suit those scenes, so Lego Batman Movie comes off as a first draft riddled in mayhem and some interesting ideas, which will make it hard for audiences to feel less than overwhelmed by the frenetic references
, action, and set pieces that turn on a dime. The saving grace, however, is the fact that most of these jokes are humorous, especially if you’re a batfan. The ratio of goofy “kids will get this” jokes with the “inside jokes” that go over their head seems purposefully imbalanced, making Lego Batman Movie more a product of its time rather than a lasting comedic film. Perhaps only the first 10 or 15 minutes represent the best Lego Batman Movie has to offer as both a parody and an accessible comedy, akin to something like Spaceballs or, yes, Lego Movie. But for the rest of the runtime, the film lobs more jokes than you can keep up with in order to satisfy everyone who won’t get the last joke. Unlike Deadpool, that critical mass of humor isn’t paced quite as well, so the laughs won’t be quite as abundant as the attempts to earn them. And that’s no good when you consider that the rest of the movie’s ideas about Batman’s loneliness and teamwork are too shallow and over-explained for audiences to care when the snarky inside trivia dries up years from now.