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A sharp sendup of Jane Austen
Jay Maidment/Sony Pictures
Thibault Grabherr/Focus Features
Bob Mahoney/Open Road Films
By Tom Russo
Globe Correspondent

So you say you wouldn’t have been caught (un)dead seeing “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’’ (2016) at the multiplex? Well, maybe you’ll reconsider on DVD, given that this unlikely mash-up is generally done in the right, warped spirit. It lampoons Jane Austen cleverly enough at points, without winking any harder than needed. It’s more entertaining than source novelist Seth Grahame-Smith’s previously adapted “Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.’’ And in its less out-there moments, it looks the part of a Regency romance, with Lily James toting along her “Downton Abbey’’ costume-drama cred as a sword-swinging Elizabeth Bennet. Extras: Funny that the disc’s bonus materials should kick off with a hi-def gag reel — isn’t the entire movie sort of a gag reel, pun intended or no? Featurettes include “From Austen to Zombies: Adapting a Classic,’’ which predictably isn’t so much a lit-minded overview as it is just standard happy talk from cast and crew. Their comments are politely smirking rather than rollicking, consistent with the movie, but in a way that also sounds inadvertently obtuse sometimes. The segment’s take on zombifying Austen’s original material: “It raises the stakes.’’ (Duh!) But writer-director Burr Steers (“Charlie St. Cloud’’) does offer a nicely put justification for his riff on Elizabeth’s pivotal quarrel with Mr. Darcy (Sam Riley), a fight that turns knockdown, drag-out here. “These scenes with Darcy and Liz, it’s a sparring match, and each thing is a punch and a counter-punch,’’ he says. “We were [just] literally doing that.’’ (Sony, $26.99; Blu-ray, $34.99)

HISTORICAL DRAMA

RACE (2016)

Maybe you’re finding it hard getting swept up in Olympic dreams and heroism again when all the talk about the Rio summer games seems to concern dirty water and bungled infrastructure . But there’s always this biopic of Jesse Owens (Stephan James, “Selma’’) and his enduring achievement at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, where he took on both the competition and the racial climate of Hitler’s Germany. Not the boldest filmmaking, but as sports drama goes, a respectable account of a truly historic moment. Extras: production featurettes. (Universal, $29.98; Blu-ray, $34.98)

CRIME DRAMA

TRIPLE 9 (2016)

So intriguing, so consternating. Director John Hillcoat (“The Proposition’’) gathers a stacked cast and explores a solid development about bank robbers orchestrating a cop shooting (code 999) as a diversion. And then the film squanders these assets on a clunky script and one particularly ridiculous bit of characterization. Chiwetel Ejiofor and Anthony Mackie lead a crew of crooked cops and ex-military pulling heists around Atlanta, with Kate Winslet as the Russian gangster (!) manipulating them, and Woody Harrelson and ensemble standout Casey Affleck as good cops on the case. Extras include a featurette titled — Bozhe moi! — “An Authentic World.’’ (Universal, $29.98; Blu-ray, $34.98)

Titles are in stores Tuesday. Tom Russo can be reached at trusso2222@gmail.com.