New on DVD

Rio

(20th Century Fox, $30)

If nothing else, this recent animated hit “will make you want to take a trip to Brazil,” said USA Today. Jesse Eisenberg and Anne Hathaway voice a pair of exotic birds too predictably destined for romance. Still, the Rio setting gives the film a “stunning, iridescent look” and an “infectious” soundtrack.

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Omnibus: American Profiles

(E1 Entertainment, $40)

The 1950s TV series Omnibus makes fascinating viewing today “not only for who and what it profiles but as a time-capsule glimpse into an era,” said the Los Angeles Daily News. This two-disc best-of set features interviews with Dr. Seuss, William Faulkner, E.B. White, and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Skidoo

(Olive, $25)

This “surpassingly weird” 1968 Otto Preminger comedy is “one of the most uncomfortably evocative films of its time,” said The New York Times. Jackie Gleason stars as a hit man whose plan goes awry when he’s given a dose of LSD. Among the movie’s all-star cast: Groucho Marx, as God.