New on DVD

Here's a look at what's new in video and DVD:

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DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY ($29.98, 20TH CENTURY FOX): Hurl a wrench at somebody's head, score a $100 million hit. The surprise box-office success stars Vince Vaughn as leader of a gaggle of losers trying to save their local gym by competing in a dodgeball tournament against a megalomaniac rival (Ben Stiller). DVD extras include seven deleted and extended scenes, plus an alternate ending, accompanied by commentary from director Rawson Marshall Thurber. Features include background on the cast's dodgeball training.

THE ULTIMATE MATRIX COLLECTION ($79.92, OR $129.92 GIFT SET, WARNER BROS.): If you want more detail on the Wachowski brothers' sci-fi franchise than this comprehensive 10-disc set offers, then it might be time for a virtual-reality check, and maybe a little therapy. The set packs the three flicks starring Keanu Reeves as humanity's savior in a war against machine enslavers, plus The Animatrix, a series of nine animated shorts filling in the back story. The 35 hours - yes, 35 hours - of DVD extras include commentaries by critics and movie scholars, more than 100 features and several full-length documentaries. The collection also is available in a gift set with a figurine of Mr. Reeves' hero, Neo.

M ($29.95, CRITERION): Those kindly geniuses at Criterion replace their previous single-disc release with a two-disc reissue of Fritz Lang's 1931 masterpiece, starring Peter Lorre as a psycho-killer preying on children and hunted himself by the Berlin underworld.

The set features a digital high-definition transfer and new English subtitles, an interview with Mr. Lang directed by William Friedkin, commentary by German film scholars Anton Kaes and Eric Rentschler, and a short film by Claude Chabrol that was inspired by M.

THE KING OF KINGS ($39.95, CRITERION): Check out Cecil B. DeMille's 1927 silent-film version of the life of Jesus (H.B. Warner, best known to modern audiences as the drunken druggist Mr. Gower in It's a Wonderful Life). The two-disc set has the original 2-hour cut and the general theatrical release that ran 40 minutes shorter.

WALT DISNEY TREASURES ($32.99 EACH, DISNEY): Three new batches of cartoons and TV goodies from the Disney vaults arrive in two-disc sets packaged in sleek, embossed metal cases. Mickey Mouse in Black and White: Volume Two features 40 cartoon shorts of the little rodent from 1928-35. The Complete Pluto: Volume One packs 28 cartoons with Mickey's canine pal front and center. The Mickey Mouse Club has the original five broadcasts of the kids' show that aired Oct. 3-7, 1955. Each set has introductions by Leonard Maltin.

- David Germain