30 Minutes or Less
We were bullish on Ruben Fleischer's homage to '80s buddy comedies (particularly co-star Aziz Ansari's hilarious performance, which we likened to Eddie Murphy's breakout turn in 48 Hrs.), but audiences mostly ignored it, perhaps worn out by a summer filled with R-rated funny fare. Well, here's y'all's chance to discover what you missed, as the movie enters what should be a lucrative afterlife on DVD and cable. (We know that if we ever stumble across it late one night on HBO or, down the line, TBS, we'll feel compelled to watch it all the way through.) Jesse Eisenberg flexes his comic muscles as an underachieving pizza delivery boy who's forcibly enlisted in a bank robbery by a pair of redneck idiots (Danny McBride and Nick Swardson) and forces his pal (Ansari) to help out. 30 Minutes or Less is zippy, funny and, most importantly, over in a swift 90 minutes before it wears out its welcome. And we still say that this Ansari fellow is going to be huuuge.
Extras: Outtakes, deleted scenes, a featurette and, exclusively on the Blu-ray version, a picture-in-picture commentary with Fleisher and his cast.

The Smurfs
What the Smurf? Those diminutive blue creatures make the leap to the big-screen in a live action adventure that's filled with bouncy music, plenty of pratfalls, slumming celebrity cameos (did Tim Gunn really need the money that badly?) and some fairly inappropriate-for-kids gags. (Up to and including the sight of one Smurf munching on blue M&M's under the mistaken impression that they're Smurf droppings. Eww?) You've also got Hank Azaria giving a full-on Method performance as the villainous Gargamel, Neil Patrick Harris keeping a straight face while forced to deliver some truly awful dialogue and a gaggle of famous voices (Anton Yelchin! Alan Cumming! Katy Perry!) bringing the Smurfs to life. It's all so gleefully bizarre, it's almost entertaining. Notice that we said almost.
Extras: Interactive games, deleted and extended scenes, two commentary tracks and, exclusively on the three-disc gift set, an all-new Christmas-themed mini-movie.
[Note: The DVD arrives in stores on Friday, December 2]

Friends with Benefits
So Mila Kunis really is trying to become her Black Swan co-star Natalie Portman, right? How else to explain that both actresses followed up Darren Aronofsky's critical and commercial hit by making the exact same romantic comedy? Like the Portman/Ashton Kutcher vehicle No Strings Attached from way back in January, Friends With Benefits involves a guy (Justin Timberlake) and a girl (Kunis) who decide to put that whole "best friends can't sleep with each other" thing to the test by having casual, relationship-free sex on a regular basis. And surprise, surprise -- the arrangement winds up working... for a little while, anyway. Directed by Easy A's Will Gluck, Friends With Benefits is more consistently amusing than its predecessor and Timberlake and Kunis are better-matched as a screen couple than Portman and Kutcher. But the typical rom-com mechanics that the movie makes so much fun of wind up seizing control of the proceedings in the end. It's a shame that the filmmakers behind both movies couldn't have found a way to smoosh them together, pairing Kunis with Portman and Kutcher with Timberlake. Now that would have been something new.
Extras: Commentary with Gluck, Timberlake and Kunis; deleted scenes and outtakes; two featurettes and a pop-up trivia track.

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil
Some ideas just aren't strong enough to sustain an entire feature. Take this indie horror comedy, in which a group of college kids run afoul of the titular pair of axe-toting rednecks (played by Alan Tudyk and Tyler Labine). The movie's clever conceit is that the rednecks are actually the good guys, while the horny teens are the ones responsible for their scuffle... as well as their own grisly fates. The first half-hour is pretty funny, as co-writer/director Eli Craig successfully plays the usual "cabin-in-the-woods" horror movie tropes from a different perspective. But the movie starts to drag whenever it hits its "don't judge a book by its cover" message a little too hard. (The happy ending also feels like something of a cheat.) As a half-hour short, Tucker & Dale Vs. Evil would have been inspired. As a feature, it's unfortunately unable to sustain itself.
Extras: Three featurettes, outtakes, storyboards and a commentary track with the cast and director.

Also on DVD:
The decades-spanning romance One Day seemed poised to become a late-summer hit, but the legions of readers who loved the original best-selling novel apparently didn't feel compelled to seek out the movie version, perhaps because of the savage reviews. We enjoyed it though -- cheesiness and all -- and still believe it could attract the same devoted following as the inexplicably beloved The Notebook. Paul Rudd heads up an ensemble cast that includes Elizabeth Banks, Zooey Deschanel and Emily Mortimer in Our Idiot Brother, a Sundance-approved (we didn't think it was too shabby, either) comedy about a stoner who is forced to get by with a little help from his sisters after he gets out of jail. Documentary filmmaker Werner Herzog had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take 3D cameras into France's famed Chauvet caves, home to some of the oldest cave drawings ever discovered. The resulting film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, was a big hit on the art-house circuit and proved that 3D isn't always just an annoying gimmick. Speaking of art house favorites, visual artist Miranda July followed up her acclaimed debut Me and You and Everyone We Know with The Future, an alternately annoying and enchanting film about a couple whose relationship falls apart after they make the major life decision of adopting a sick cat. Oh, and did we mention that this particular cat talks? Like the film, this kitty narrator is annoying and enchanting.

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