We start with a celebrated sequel:

The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian ***

Rated PG, 144 minutes. Coming Tuesday to DVD and Blu-Ray.

This follow-up to the highly successful first Narnia Chronicle, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, sees a cast of returning young faces blending in with some veteran talent like Liam Neeson and, again, Tilda Swinton.

This time, the Pevensie children discover yet another magical world, one in which 1,300 years have passed, and the White Witch has disappeared. But an evil presence rules this principality, and Aslan has been gone for a millennium.

Eddie Izzard, Peter Dinkalge, and Sergio Castellitto add some sparkle as some of the new residents of Narnia, while William Moseley, Georgie Henley, Anna Popplewell and Skandar Keynes reprise their roles as the children.

The DVD comes in various incarnations: a two-disc collector’s edition, two-disc Blu-ray and three-disc Blu-ray. All editions hold commentary by director Andrew Adamson and some of the young actors.

The collector’s edition also offers interviews with cast and crew, a tour of the sets, bloopers, deleted scenes, a behind-the-scenes featurette, and more. The Blu-ray version holds all of this as well as additional interactive Narnia games, downloadable features and more.

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Lower Learning (**1/2) Three former Daily Show correspondents (Rob Corddry, Ed Helms and Matt Walsh) take part in this school-based comedy with a pronounced Bad Santa vibe. Geraldine Ferraro Elementary School in Los Angeles teeters on foreclosure because the conniving principal (Corddry) has intentionally run it into the ground, so as to hide his embezzlement.

When a pill-popping and whiskey-chugging inspector (Eva Longoria Parker) discovers the canard, the school’s vice principal (Jason Biggs) rises to save the school. Or not. This decidedly politically incorrect film is filled with unrepentant, irredeemable, yet often hilarious, characters. Promising feature debut by writer/director Mark Lafferty.

Rated R, 97 minutes.

The DVD holds a standard 14-minute “making of” featurette along with 10 deleted scenes.

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Kidulthood (**) This hard-to-watch, but socially relevant, British film melds some of the realism of American director Larry Clark ( Kids, Bully) with overly brutal depictions of youth violence in a United Kingdom school.

The story quickly devolves as a 15-year-old girl hangs herself after abuse and humiliation. Her friends and tormentors respond by retreating further into their closeted world of drugs and sex.

Rated R, 92 minutes.

The DVD holds a comprehensive, seven-part “making of” featurette and nine deleted and extended scenes.

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In addition to Prince Caspian, kids might also enjoy some of the following animated offerings. The first two come from the vaults of the cherished team of Hanna-Barbera.

Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear! In Yogi Bear’s first feature-length film, from 1964, he substitutes a Yogi look-alike to outwit Forest Ranger Smith, who thinks he has sent the pesky Yogi to a zoo in San Diego. When Yogi’s girlfriend, Cindy, goes looking for him, Yogi and Boo Boo (no relation) travel across the country to find her.

Rated G, 89 minutes.

The Man Called Flintstone In this unlikely tale from 1966, also the first feature-length film by its star caveman, Fred is recruited by a secret organization to take the place of a special agent who is Fred’s double. Fred cannot tell anyone about it, so he has to keep quiet during a family vacation, even while fighting a super villain out for world domination.

Not rated, 89 minutes.

Curious George Leads the Band Eight episodes of the multiple Emmy Award-winning PBS kids’ TV series about the rambunctious monkey arrive on one disc. Included are such enticing segments as “Skunked,” “Color Me Monkey,” and “The Elephant Upstairs.”

Not rated, 108 minutes.

The DVD also contains “George’s Conductor Game” and the DVD-ROM supplements of printable coloring pages and a dot-to-dot feature.

Impy’s Island In this tale about a group of animals on a South Seas island, animators Reinhard Kloos and Holger Tappe see the hatching of their creation, a frozen dinosaur egg. When Little Impy breaks out of her shell, the mean human ruler of a nearby island wants to take her. But all her new animal friends band together to protect her. Music by Hans Zimmer.

Rated G, 80 minutes.

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This week’s small screen arrivals contain a few nuggets:

Law and Order: Season Six In this perennial hit that achieved 11 consecutive Emmy nominations for Outstanding Drama Series, this season marked the debut of Benjamin Bratt as Detective Rey Curtis. Regulars Sam Waterston, Jerry Orbach and Jill Hennessey greet this season’s guest stars Andre Braugher, Richard Belzer, Jennifer Garner, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Imperoli and others. All 23 episodes arrive on five discs, along with the bonus featurette Homicide: Life on the Street episode: “For God and Country.”

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Saturday Night Live — Season Four: 1978-79 Season four of SNL still held some surprises from some now legendary names.

The Blues Brothers (John Belushi and Dan Aykroyd) were still belting out tunes, Nick (Bill Murray) ruled in the lounge, and Candy Slice (Gilda Radner) continued to amuse. Plus, ensembles such as The Nerds and the Loud Family enjoyed periodic exposure. Seen hosting during this pivotal season were “Mr. Television” Milton Berle, Monty Python members Eric Idle and Michael Palin, Frank Zappa, Carrie Fisher, Walter Matthau and others.

Musical numbers were provided by such luminaries as Rickie Lee Jones, Peter Tosh, The Doobie Brothers, Talking Heads, Devo, Bette Midler, Van Morrison, the Grateful Dead, James Taylor and the Rolling Stones.

The seven-disc set holds all 22 90-minute episodes along with archival interviews with the cast.

Not rated, 33 hours.

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Also this week: American Teen, Dark World, Step Brothers, Trojan Horse, Wanted.