Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

(12, 107 mins, Universal Pictures, DVD £19.99/three-disc DVD Box Set £27.99/Blu-ray £24.99/Steelbook Blu-ray £27.99/three-disc Blu-ray Box Set £39.99)

SCOTT Pilgrim (Michael Cera) is the 22-year-old bass guitarist with the band Sex Bob-omb, which also includes guitarist Stephen Stills (Mark Webber), drummer Kim Pine (Alison Pill) and lifelong fan Young Neil (Johnny Simmons).

Scott meets the girl of his dreams, Ramona Flowers (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), but is told. ‘‘If we’re going to date, you might have to defeat my seven evil exes,’’ Based on the graphic novels by Bryan Lee O’Malley. Edgar Wright’s film is a blitzkrieg on the senses from the opening frames, blessed with a snappy script littered with choice oneliners (‘‘If your life had a face, I’d punch it.’’).

The stylised digital effects are cute at first but the visual bombardment lasts for almost two hours and by the end, we feel almost as exhausted as the characters.

Piranha 3D

(18, 84 mins, Entertainment In Video, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99)

SHERIFF Julie Forester (Elisabeth Shue) leaveS teenage son Jake (Steven McQueen) to babysit her younger children at Lake Victoria just as an underwater tremor unleashes swarms of prehistoric razor-toothed fish. A bloodbath leave Foresters, her deputy Fallon (Ving Rhames) and a small group of survivors fighting for their lives. Opening with an all-too brief appearance from Richard Dreyfuss, Piranha 3D is what you’d expect: a B-movie awash with bouncing breasts and lashings of gore. French film-maker Alexandre Aja, who previously remade The Hills Have Eyes, certainly doesn’t stint on the body count as he turns his hand from mutants to flesh-eating fish.

The 3D adds little to our enjoyment since, apart from a couple of nice shocks, Aja almost forgets about the format. The DVD and Blu-ray both include the 3D and 2D versions of the film and are packaged with two pairs of spectacles.

TO BUY

Aftershock

(Cert 15, 130 mins, Metrodome Distribution Ltd, DVD £19.99)

THE most successful film ever made in China is also the country’s official entry as Best Film In A Foreign Language at next year’s Oscars.

Directed Feng Xiaogang, Aftershock chronicles the true story of the devastation wrought in the town of Tangshan by a massive earthquake which killed more than 200,000 people.