New on DVD: Visual treats and gay "Twenty"-somethings

Lots of great eye candy is new on DVD this week, but each title is thought-provoking in its own way. And only one of them features a big blue dong.

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The most-hyped release of the week is Watchmen, which comes to DVD in a variety of formats and collections (including one that comes with a replica of Nite Owl's airship) and features the debut of Zach Snyder's slightly longer director's cut.

Critics were divided over this big-screen adaptation of the legendary Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons graphic novel, but there's no denying that this film did as much as Brüno to demystify the phallus in Hollywood movies in 2009. (And with freeze-frame, you can find more clues about the homosexuality of Ozymandias, played by Matthew Goode.)

More family-appropriate, but also based on the works of a British comics icon (Neil Gaiman), is the stunning Coraline, about a young girl who finds an alternate dimension where everything is just a little too good to be true. The spot-on voice cast includes Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French. This visually stunning stop-motion feature is another triumph for Henry Selick, who's best known for The Nightmare Before Christmas, but you owe it to yourself to check out his film of Roald Dahl's James and the Giant Peach.

While the at-home 3-D may not be as eye-popping as it was on the big screen, Coraline still gets my vote as the best animated film of the year so far. (Sorry, Up.)

Equally filled with wit, fantasy and color is the delightful Pushing Daisies: The Complete Second Season, chronicling the final outing of a show that was just too cool for network TV.

The product of gay visionary Bryan Fuller (Wonderfalls, Heroes), Pushing Daisies was a smart and charming romance wrapped up in some of the best art direction you'll find on the small screen. Pie Man, we hardly knew ye.

The eye-candy buff guy on the cover of The New Twenty is actually one of the film's heterosexual characters, and that's just one of the surprises in this low-key charmer. This ensemble piece about a group of college friends, queer and otherwise, staring down the big 3-0 was one of the more intelligent offerings on the '08 queer film festival circuit and certainly deserves to find a wider audience on home video.