“Dallas: Complete Seventh Season”: Proves again that where there’s oil, there’s drama. The seventh season of “Dallas” features Southfork on fire, with Bobby to the rescue, as well as the engagement between Clayton and Miss Ellie, which fans a few flames of its own amid the Ewing brood. As Miss Ellie, Barbara Bel Geddes, who for years lived in Northeast Harbor before her 2005 death, is the glue that keeps the series together. Amid all the fireworks, the alcoholic benders, the backstabbings and the dirty little adulteries, she’s the backbone that sustains the melodrama and, in this season, who lifts it. Grade: B

“Eureka: Season One”: Weird science. A sketchy cross between “Northern Exposure,” “The Twilight Zone,” “The X-Files” and “Twin Peaks,” “Eureka” borrows so liberally from each, it fails to come into its own. Set in the Pacific Northwest nowhere of Eureka, where the government has tucked away some of the world’s smartest scientists, the series stars Colin Ferguson as Jack Carter, a U.S. marshal who, along with his irritable daughter Zoe (Jordan Hinson), comes to know the locals, not to mention their unusual experiments. The problem? The show wants to be too much to too many, and the characters, as such, struggle to find their groove. Grade: C+

“Kung-Fu Hustle: Axe-Kickin’ Edition”: Outrageous, often hilarious cartoon moviemaking made with real people who feel as if they sprung from the loins of Warner Bros. powerhouse Chuck Jones. Digging deep into the chopsockey genre, director Stephen Chow joins Quentin Tarantino in challenging the genre’s conventions and pressing its humor against its raw edges. It works. The film is filled with inside jokes and surprises, veering in directions you don’t anticipate because the movie has no rules other than to stand apart and to entertain. In this new edition, which adds never-before-seen footage from the Hong Kong version, it succeeds. Rated PG-13. Grade: A

“Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps – HD DVD”: Now available on high definition HD DVD, this 2000 comedy finds Eddie Murphy’s Sherman Klump discovering a formula for turning back the aging processes. It’s an event that would have been worth celebrating if Buddy Love – Sherman’s vicious alter ego – hadn’t burst free from Sherman’s DNA to cause a boatload of trouble. The movie is at its best when it focuses on Murphy’s performance as Cletus, Mama, Ernie and the scandalous, scene-stealing Granny. He’s very good here. Unfortunately, the same can’t be said for the raunchy script, which is so thick with bad gas, it sours the show. Rated PG-13. Grade: C+

“300: DVD, HD DVD and Blu-ray”: Beefcake gone berserk. Set in 5th Century B.C., the film follows the three-day Battle of Thermopylae, in which 300 bellowing, muscle-bound Spartans got pumped up to rumble against a million Persians. It’s something of an understatement to say that they were outnumbered, but as the movie sees it, they nevertheless were gifted soldiers aided considerably (or screwed considerably – you decide) by Sparta’s King Leonidas (Gerard Butler), who led the fight and, as history tells us, lost it in a crimson rush of valor. For a film filled with so many characters, there isn’t one fully realized character in the mix – not Leonidas, who bellows from his bowels as if he just sat on the Hot Gates themselves; not the Persian emperor Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro), who is one wig shy from becoming RuPaul; and not Leonidas’ enemy Theron (Dominic West), whose evil fails to spark a half-cooked subplot involving Leonidas’ wife, Queen Gorgo (Lena Headey). Adapted from Frank Miller and Lynn Varley’s graphic novel. Rated R. Grade: C-

“Unleashed: HD DVD”: In France, the film was released under the title “Danny the Dog,” which gets right to the point – the movie is a howler. Jet Li is a confused, embattled orphan named Danny, who is raised by his brutish Uncle Bart (Bob Hoskins) to be nothing short of a killer dog. That’s the good news. Not surprisingly, Li is at his best here when he’s called upon to fight – his blows are precise, elegant, deadly. It’s when he’s called upon to act that things get deadlier. After a violent start, this action movie weepy sags into marshmallow land with cutesy-pie scenes of awkward character building, such as when Danny breaks free from his life of crime with Bart and comes to live with an adoptive family – Morgan Freeman’s Sam, a blind piano tuner, and his stepdaughter Victoria (Kerry Condon), who is in Glasgow studying music. Before Bart seeks his revenge, Danny is a naif in utopia, flirting with Victoria over ice cream while working to reconnect with the world. What he finds are revelations about his mother (painful), the sort of dialogue that sets the movie on its can (atrocious), and the proper way to thump a melon (helpful). “Ripe means sweet!” Danny says as he taps a piece of fruit. “And sweet means good!” If only that were true for the movie, Danny boy. Here, ripe means rot, sweet means cloying, and good doesn’t even come close to describing all that follows. Rated R. Grade: C-

“Weeds: Season Two – DVD and Blu-ray”: What’s a suburban mother to do when her husband drops dead and leaves her and their two sons saddled with debt? For Nancy Botwin (Mary-Louise Parker), the answer is to pick herself up and to sell a little weed on the side. Okay, a lot of weed on the side. This smart, darkly comic Showtime series echoes “Six Feet Under” in that its grim comedy is laced with just enough drama to give it depth. This is, after all, the season in which Nancy dangerously starts to grow her own plants. The writing is as sharp as its excellent cast, with Elizabeth Perkins especially good as Nancy’s friend Celia, who is so cynical, she makes for one of the best desperate housewives on television. Grade: A-