‘Mama’s’ comments come only in Spanish

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Maribel Verdu, Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna

MGM, $27

Alfonso Cuaron’s sexually audacious Mexican comedy-drama about two randy teenage boys who learn about sex and love from an older woman was a big art house hit earlier this year. And for good reason -- it’s dizzyingly good, with near-perfect performances from its three leads.

The digital edition, available in both the unrated theatrical and R-rated versions, has very readable subtitles and some appealing extras. But the commentary track with Luna and Bernal is a real bust for those viewers who don’t know Spanish because it’s only available in that language.

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Mr. Deeds

Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder

Columbia TriStar. $23 for VHS; $28 for DVD

Listen! What’s that noise? It’s director Frank Capra, writer Robert Riskin and actors Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur turning over in their graves about “Mr. Deeds,” the witless Adam Sandler-Winona Ryder remake of their classic 1936 comedy, “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.”

Capra won his second best director Oscar for the social comedy about a small-town poet who inherits a fortune from a distant relative living in New York. Sandler is no match for Coop’s charm and likability, and Ryder pales in comparison to Arthur as a savvy reporter who falls for Deeds.

For fans of the original, the commentary from director Steve Brill and writer Tim Herlihy, who did the Sandler bomb “Little Nicky,” will make them scream. Not only do they refer to the original as “Mr. Deeds Comes to Town,” they admit they don’t like old movies and never even watched the original all the way through because they didn’t want to deal with the plot point in which Deeds tries to give away his money to the poor and homeless during the Depression. Perhaps if Brill and Herlihy studied the classics, they wouldn’t make movies like “Little Nicky” and “Mr. Deeds.”

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Wild Style

“Lee” Georges Quinones, Fab Five Freddy

Rhino, $20

Filmed entirely in New York’s South Bronx on a shoestring budget in 1982, “Wild Style” works much better as a time capsule than a drama. Graffiti artist Quinones plays an outlaw artist named Zorro who paints an arena for a big outdoor hip-hop concert.

The DVD features a new digital transfer from the original 16-millimeter film, a photo gallery, the trailer and decent commentary from writer-director Charlie Ahearn and Fab Five Freddy.

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Tabu

Reri, Matahi

Image/Milestone, $30

“Tabu” is the last film of the acclaimed German director F.W. Murnau (“Sunrise,” “Nosferatu”). Released just weeks after Murnau’s death in a car accident in 1931, “Tabu” was the only collaboration between Murnau and documentarian Robert Flaherty (“Nanook of the North”).

The drama, filmed in Tahiti, revolves around two lovers (Reri, Matahi) who find their relationship doomed when a tribal edict declares she’s “tabu” to men. It’s been beautifully restored by the UCLA Film & Television Archive.

The DVD features a low-key but informative commentary by UCLA film professor Janet Bergstrom, who talks about numerous production problems and the stormy relationship between Murnau and Flaherty.