DVD previews: 'Whiplash,' 'Big Hero 6'

Here's a look at DVDs coming out Tuesday, Feb. 24:

"Whiplash" (R, 106 minutes, Sony): In "Whiplash," the promising feature debut of writer-director Damien Chazelle, J.K. Simmons plays a music professor named Fletcher, a tightly coiled martinet who joins a long line of cinematic drill sergeants, football coaches, prison bulls and dysfunctional fathers as a towering patriarchal figure who breaks down an impressionable young man, the better to build him back up. The Sundance favorite, which also stars Miles Teller ("The Spectacular Now") as the impressionable drummer, earned a Golden Globe for Simmons and five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture. Contains language. Extras include commentary with Simmons and Chazelle and a Q&A with Teller, Simmons and Chazelle. Also, on Blu-ray: the original short film the movie was based on and a deleted scene, both of which include optional commentary; and a 42-minute documentary featuring famous drummers.

"Big Hero 6" (PG, 108 minutes, Disney): This animated tale of the friendship between a boy and his robot features a plus-size health care droid named Baymax. With a plot built around the formation of a team of misfit heroes, it's more like an "Avengers" origin story for the Saturday morning cartoon crowd. Extras include a theatrical short, deleted scenes and featurettes. Also, on Blu-ray: "Big Hero Secrets" feature hidden Easter eggs.

"Horrible Bosses 2" (R, 108 minutes, Warner): Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day once again play three amateur miscreants who find themselves resorting to crime to strike back at the authority figures who have messed them over. For their part, the three lead actors keep a saggy snore of a plot afloat through their proven improvisatory chemistry, infusing their characters' arguments, cross talk and scheming banter with a contagiously stupid-funny fizz that the surrounding movie doesn't deserve. But "Horrible Bosses 2" goes for the laziest gambits - like restaging one of the most notorious gross-out jokes from the first film - or the most objectionable ones, such as an ill-advised date-rape joke. Contains sexual situations and language. Blu-ray-only extras include: Extended cut "Let The Sexual Healing Begin," "Who Invented the Shower Buddy," "Nick Kurt Dale INC: Employee Testimonials," the Shower Buddy infomercial, "High Speed Crash Course," "Off the Cuff: One Liners You Didn't See."

"Code Black" (unrated, 82 minutes, Music Box Films): Though set in the busy emergency room of Los Angeles County General Hospital, this documentary is less about saving lives than it is about saving the American health care system. That's the most critical patient in this fascinating tale, which follows a group of idealistic residents in emergency medicine being trained in the hospital that, according to the film, gave birth to the modern E.R. "Code Black's" first-time director is one of those young trainees, physician Ryan McGarry, who interviewed his classmates and watched them work over the course of several years. Taking its title from the hospital's in-house euphemism for "overwhelmed," "Code Black" starts in 2008, before McGarry and his colleagues relocated to a new, state-of-the-art building. Contains language, nudity, images of bloody surgery and some drug references. Extras include an interview with McGarry and "#Reconnection," a short film by McGarry and a theatrical trailer.

Also: "The Intruders," "Watchers of the Sky," "Love Me" (Turkey/Ukraine), "Outside Bet" (2009), "Dragonheart 3: The Sorcerer's Curse," "The Shift," "Green Street Hooligans: Underground," "Horse Camp," "Fellini Satyricon" (1969), "Traitors" (Morocco), "VANish," "Watership Down" (1978 animated), "Zombieworld" (a collection of post-apocalyptic short films), "Julius Jr.: Pirates and Superheroes," "Final Prayer," "Devil May Call," "The Frank Darabont Collection" and "The Beyond."

Television series: "Sons of Anarchy: Season Seven," "Mountain Men: Season 3," "Midsomer Murders, Set 25," "Lilies," "The Carol Burnett Show: Together Again," "Serangoon Road" and "My Little Pony - Friendship is Magic: Adventures of the Cutie Mark Crusaders."