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While not quite up to the high standard of the work they've done with writer/director Edgar Wright -- with whom they've collaborated on the contemporary Holy Trinity of nerd comedy: Spaced, Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz -- Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's latest buddy comedy still provides plenty of hearty laughs and good general geekery. This time out, Frost and Pegg play a pair of fanboys who pick up a real-live E.T. (voiced by Seth Rogen) on a road trip through the American Southwest. Director Greg Mottola (Superbad) lends the movie a loose, freewheeling vibe that fits the road movie premise and gives the cast (which also includes Kristen Wiig, Jason Bateman and Jane Lynch) plenty of room to play around with the material. Bonus points for one of the best Aliens-related gags -- not to mention one of the best voiceover cameos -- in recent memory.
Extras: A commentary track with Mottola, bloopers, featurettes and a highlight reel of Pegg's silliest face.

Super
Not to be confused with Matthew Vaughn's recent "What if superheroes were real?" dark comedy Kick-Ass, James Gunn's Super casts Rainn Wilson as a cuckolded loser, who, after losing his wife to the sleazy owner of a strip club (Kevin Bacon), decides to don a red costume and fight crime as The Crimson Bolt. Joining him in his crusade is sex-crazed store clerk Libby a.k.a. Boltie (Ellen Page). And if you thought Hit Girl talked dirty, just wait 'til you get a load of the mouth on this girl...
Extras: At press time these hadn't been finalized, but via his FormSpring account, Gunn mentioned a commentary track with him and Wilson, deleted scenes and a making-of featurette.

Dazed and Confused
Teen movies are a dime a dozen, but every once in awhile, one comes along that has a profound influence on the genre. Richard Linklater's new-to-Blu-ray Dazed and Confused is one such film. Originally released in 1993, the 1976-set movie takes place entirely on the last day of school in a small town in Texas, dropping in on kids from all of high school's different social classes, from the jokes, to the nerds, to the stoners. Both full of nostalgia, but also remarkably clear-eyed about its characters all the while blasting a killer rock soundtrack, this is nothing short of American Graffiti for Gen-Xers.
Extras: Deleted scenes, '70s-era PSA's and a filmstrip depicting the dangers of drinking.

Also on DVD:
Fast Times at Ridgemont High, another crucial entry in the teen movie genre, also arrives on Blu-ray this week, one year shy of its 30th anniversary. Although not generally regarded as one of Disney's finest achievements, The Fox and the Hound (out in a new 30th Anniversary Edition, which includes its direct-to-DVD sequel) is a sweet, well-meaning movie with good vocal performances by Mickey Rooney and Kurt Russell as the titular fox and hound respectively. And whatever its flaws, The Fox and the Hound is infinitely better than Disney's recent motion-capture disaster, Mars Needs Moms, a movie so bad, it basically shut down an entire division at the Mouse House.