New on DVD: ‘How to Train Your Dragon,’ ‘I Am Love,’ ‘Jonah Hex’ and ‘Leaves of Grass’

How To Train Your Dragon

DreamWorks, $29.99; Blu-ray, $39.99

DreamWorks Animation’s adaptation of Cressida Cowell’s popular children’s book “How to Train Your Dragon” had a disappointing first week at the box office, but business boomed once audiences started raving about this funny, thrilling movie, all about a teenage Viking who proves to his tribe that there are other ways to deal with danger beyond applying brute force. From the cartoony, expressive character designs to the foggy medieval island where the action unfurls, “How to Train Your Dragon” has a distinctive personality and point of view, which is a rare and wonderful thing in the blanded-out world of children’s entertainment. The DVD and Blu-ray include a slew of featurettes, plus a commentary track.

I Am Love

Magnolia, $26.98; Blu-ray, $29.98

Luca Guadagnino’s sprawling family drama “I Am Love” stars Tilda Swinton as a powerful Milanese businessman’s fashionable Russian wife, who falls for a young chef with a passion for simplicity. The story loses focus whenever Guadagnino turns the camera away from Swinton, primarily because his characters all have a formal stiffness that works against his attempt to convey a dizzying, terrifying sense of profound change. But “I Am Love” is sensual throughout, relishing the elegance of old world estates, the textures of lovingly prepared food and the blur of naked bodies writhing against each other. It looks especially great on DVD and Blu-ray, where it’s enhanced by featurettes and a Guadagnino-Swinton commentary track.

Jonah Hex

Warner, $28.98; Blu-ray, $35.99

No movie based on DC Comics’ obscure western anti-hero Jonah Hex was ever going to set the world afire, but it’d be hard to botch the project any worse than this: to hire irreverent “Crank” auteurs Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor to write and direct and then kick them off and replace them with director Jimmy Hayward, an animator trying his hand at live-action. While star Josh Brolin delivers the right amount of snarl as a hideously scarred Civil War veteran tracking a terrorist, the clash of creative voices and the tongue-in-cheek approach to the material results in a movie that’s both unappealing and unfaithful to its source. The DVD and Blu-ray adds featurettes and deleted scenes.

Leaves of Grass

First Look, $28.98; Blu-ray, $29.98

Edward Norton plays dual roles as a philosophy professor and his pot-dealing twin brother in writer-director Tim Blake Nelson’s eccentric, pensive film. Set in and around the Jewish community of Tulsa, Okla., “Leaves of Grass” is a crime drama that doubles as a study of values, both in the abstract and as put into action by real people. The movie is sometimes too quirky for its own good, but Norton is funny playing against himself, and Nelson clearly has a lot more on his mind than the average indie filmmaker. The rapport between Norton and Nelson carries over to an entertaining commentary track on the DVD and Blu-ray.

And...

“The Darjeeling Limited” (Criterion, $39.95; Blu-ray, $39.95); “Dollhouse: Season Two” ( 20th Century Fox, $49.98; Blu-ray, $59.99); “The Gates” (Lorber, $29.95); “In Treatment: Season Two” (HBO, $59.99); “Kung-Fu Master” (Lionsgate, $26.98); “Lost Boys: The Thirst” (Warner, $27.98; Blu-ray, $35.99); “The Magician” (Criterion, $29.95; Blu-ray, $39.95); “Peepli [Live]” (UTV, $19.99); “Sex and Lucía” (Palm Blu-ray, $29.99); “The Tudors: The Final Season” (Showtime/Paramount, $42.99)

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