Last year’s blockbuster comedy sequel “Meet the Fockers’ ($29.98) reunites Ben Stiller’s Greg Focker and his future wife (Teri Polo) plus her parents (Robert De Niro and Blythe Danner), the gang gathering for a fresh weekend of mayhem with Greg’s outrageous mom and dad (Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman).
The DVD presents an extended cut of the movie that adds 15 minutes of footage and includes a handful of other deleted scenes. The disc also packs an excessively long blooper reel of the stars yukking it up, which grows tiresome after a minute or two. Director Jay Roach offers audio commentary, while featurettes focus on pampered co-star Jinx the cat and De Niro’s “manary gland’ contraption his character wears to breast-feed his grandson. All six stars sit down for a group interview, discussing how they were cast and their own uncomfortable encounters with in-laws.
Errol Flynn boxed set
The great swashbuckler returns with “Errol Flynn: The Signature Collection’ ($19.97 each; $59.92, set), a boxed set containing five of his best- known films from the 1930s and ’40s: the pirate tale “Captain Blood’ that launched Flynn to stardom; the historical pageant “The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex,’ with Bette Davis; the Western “Dodge City’; the naval adventure “The Sea Hawk’; and the George Armstrong Custer bio- pic “They Died With Their Boots On.’
Each film is accompanied by new making-of featurettes, plus vintage newsreels, cartoons and live-action shorts. The six-disc set also has a full-length documentary, “The Adventures of Errol Flynn.’ The five films are available separately, as well.
“Flying Daggers”
Director Zhang Yimou followed his glorious martial-arts epic “Hero’ with one of last year’s finest films, “House of Flying Daggers’ ($28.95), another saga loaded with dazzling action and visuals.
“Hero” co-star Ziyi Zhang stars as a rebel in ancient China caught up in a love triangle with two comrades-turned-rivals (Takeshi Kaneshiro and Andy Lau). The DVD has a documentary examining the grand style of the costumes, dance and fight choreography, and colorful sets and costumes, along with a featurette on the film’s visual effects. Director Yimou and actress Zhang also team for audio commentary.
