With “Deadpool’’ (2016) arriving on disc this week as the highest-grossing R-rated comedy ever, we wonder: Is it still accurate to categorize Ryan Reynolds’s notoriously wisecracking mercenary as a cult superhero? Some will remember how Fox bungled Reynolds’s earlier appearance as “the Merc With a Mouth’’ in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,’’ physically robbing him of his ability to speak. But Reynolds and a new crew of filmmakers get it right with this reboot, serving up giddy, boundary-pushing mayhem so true to the comics’ sophomoric spirit that the irreverence is infectious. Another idle musing as we give the Blu-ray a spin: Have Crocs seen a sales spike thanks to Deadpool’s superheroic leisure-wear endorsement? And speaking of dressing casual, is it just us or does Reynolds’s man-sweater peekaboo during his, um, romance montage stir repressed memories of Donald Sutherland’s “Animal House’’ prof? Again, pretty darn funny (to put it in terms that Deadpool wouldn’t). Hi-def extras include deleted material, of course, as well as a pair of commentaries. Reynolds supplies one track with screenwriters Rhett Reese and Paul Wernick (“Zombieland’’), while director Tim Miller sits for another track with Deadpool’s co-creator, comics artist Rob Liefeld. But the most telling commentary on the movie’s success just might come from a couple of recent DVD announcements. Warner has stated plans to make “Batman v Superman’’ available in an R-rated cut on disc, while the studio’s DVD animation division has set an August release for the R-rated “Batman: The Killing Joke,’’ from “Watchmen’’ writer Alan Moore. (Fox, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99; available Tuesday)

COMEDY/DRAMA

JOY (2015)

You’ve got a couple of options for a Jennifer Lawrence three-peat this month. You could head to the multiplex and see her in blue mutant makeup for a third time as she lends some mystique to Mystique in “X-Men: Apocalypse.’’ Or — and this might be Mom’s pick on her special day — you could catch “Joy,’’ her locally shot portrait of home-shopping entrepreneur Joy Mangano. It’s Lawrence’s third outing with her “Silver Linings Playbook’’ and “American Hustle’’ troupe of director David O. Russell, Bradley Cooper, and Robert De Niro; extras include a conversation with Lawrence, Russell, and New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd. (Fox, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.99; available now)

DRAMA/ROMANCE

THE CHOICE (2016)

There seems to be a movie with some poignant depth trying to break through in this Nicholas Sparks weepie. It’s there in the aching dilemmas that the story builds toward and in the way that Benjamin Walker and Teresa Palmer play the reluctant romance between their characters, a Southern charmer and a fussy med student. In the end, though, the film shies away from being anything more than you’d expect. Extras: Features include a segment on the handsomely shot North Carolina locations, a Sparks production requisite. (Lionsgate, $29.95; Blu-ray, $39.99; available now)

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