Documentary on babies among latest DVDs

You'll never see a movie as difficult to resist as "Babies," which leads off this look at movies released on DVD this week.

"Babies" (Universal/Blu-ray, 2010, PG, $39.98). Even if you are not a documentary fan this one will captivate you as four babies in four different cultures around the world are observed from birth through their first year of life.

At less than 80 minutes, the film doesn't wear out its welcome, though it has no narration or talking heads, and simply offers up scenes of these children going through the various stages of early growth with parents of very different monetary and social strata in four very different environments (in Namibia, Mongolia, Tokyo and San Francisco).

You will note many differences among the cultures but you'll also see that when you are a child, it doesn't really matter. You can draw your own conclusions about how we manage to go from a state of complete innocence to whatever kind of adults we eventually become.

Extras: widescreen, featurette (catching up with these babies three years later), trailers (also on DVD, $29.98)

"Good" (NEM, 2008; R for language; $24.98). Viggo Mortensen is a literary professor, author and family man in 1930s Germany with a close friend who is Jewish, and while he has no love for the rising Nazi party, he is flattered into climbing the social/economic ladder and gradually, apathetically, falls into its ideology.

The familiar aphorism on the box, "Evil triumphs when good men do nothing" tells the tale. Interesting, if not particularly original, ideas get lost in a muddle, and Mortensen's stiff performance doesn't help.

Extras: widescreen, featurettes, trailers

"Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky" (Sony Classics, 2010; $ for sex, nudity, violence; $27.98). This dark and dour French film, a biographical period piece that focuses on the relationship that develops between the wealthy fashion designer and the penniless composer, never really comes alive and is laced with pointless, graphic sex scenes.

Extras: widescreen, featurette, trailers

"Get Him to the Greek" (Universal, 2010; R for language, sex, nudity, drugs, violence; two discs, $34.98). Russell Brand is one of those comics who can be a scream in small doses, but put him in the lead role of a two-hour comedy and he'll wear out his welcome for the first reel unspools.