DVD previews: 'Neighbors,' 'The Rover'

Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Sept. 23:

"Neighbors" (R, 96 minutes, Universal): Seth Rogen and Zac Efron make for amusing alter-egos in this collegiate comedy about young marrieds living next to a frat house that is less a coherent movie than a loosely assembled series of lewd jokes and punishing slapstick routines. Directed with characteristic haphazard style by Nicholas Stoller, "Neighbors" isn't designed to impress with subtle comedy or clever construction. Rather, it's a movie of whammies: one-liners, shticks and sight gags. Contains language, sexual content, graphic nudity and drug use. Extras include a gag reel and featurettes "An Unlikely Pair" and "The Frat." Also, on Blu-ray: deleted/alternate scenes, Line-O-Rama, and "Partying With the Neighbors" and "on the set" featurettes.

"The Rover" (R, 102 minutes, Lionsgate): In this post-apocalyptic "Mad Max"-style drama, Guy Pearce and Robert Pattinson set out on a journey across the Australian Outback 10 years after a Western economic collapse in which survivors fight over a broken society's scraps with Darwinian aggression. Director David Michod's film, while sometimes trite and sentimental, possesses moments of astonishing assurance and austere beauty. Cowritten by Joel Edgerton "The Rover" too often succumbs to arty, self-serious posturing meant to disguise its true intent, which is to indulge in pulp violence at its most graphic and fetishistic. The saving grace comes by way of Michod's own poetic sense of framing and composition, as well as a galvanizing lead performance from Pearce, a great, underrated Australian actor. Contains language and violence. Extras include a making-of featurette.

"Ida" (PG-13, 80 minutes, in Polish with subtitles, Music Box Films): Agata Trzebuchowska makes an astonishing screen debut in the political drama by Pawel Pawlikowski set in 1960s Poland. Trzebuchowska is Anna, a young nun raised in a rural convent, where she grew up as an orphan. She learns she has an aunt living in Gdansk, the hard-bitten Wanda (Agata Kulesza). Eventually, these two temperamentally disparate heroines achieve an improbable meeting of the minds, as "Ida" sends each woman on an individual journey that seems as inevitable as it is quietly shocking. In this austere black-and-white character study, Poland is a country and culture locked in the twin tragedies of World War II and postwar communism. Contains thematic elements, some sexuality and smoking. Extras include a behind-the-scenes featurette and a Q&A with Pawlikowski.

Also: "Very Good Girls," "We Are the Best!" (Sweden), "After," "The Last of the Unjust," "Paris-Manhattan," "Where's the Fair?" (documentary), "Come Morning," "The Calling," "Found," "Firestorm," "Game of Assassins," "Roger Corman's Operation Rogue," "The Innocents" (1961), "Wer," "Macbeth" (1971), "That Girl in Yellow Boots," "The Signal," "Rise Up Black Man," "Fort McCoy," "Legend of the Hillbilly Butcher" and "Halloween The Complete Collection."

Television series: "How I Met Your Mother: The Whole Story" (2005-14), "How I Met Your Mother: Season Nine" (includes alternate ending to series finale), "Modern Family: Season Five," "Scandal: Third Season," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - The Fifteenth Year," "Nashville: Second Season," "Brooklyn Nine-Nine: Season One," "Royal Pains: Season Five," "Defiance: Season Two," "Necessary Roughness: Season Three," "Daniel Boone: Complete Series" (1964-70), "Guess How Much I Love You: Autumn's Here" and "The Tom and Jerry Show Season 1 Part 1."