New movies to be released tomorrow on DVD

Bolt (2008) *** This animated adventure centers on a dashing German shepherd named Bolt, a canine action-hero actor, forced into making an action-filled cross-country trek when he’s accidentally shipped from Hollywood to New York. As the voice of Bolt, John Travolta does a fine job and Disney star Miley Cyrus is fine as well, but neither one can overcome the lack of personality in their scripted characters.

The Cake Eaters (2009) **½ The return of aspiring musician Guy Kimbrough (Jayce Bartok) to his family home in rural upstate New York shakes up his father, Easy (Bruce Dern), and brother Beagle (Aaron Stanford), both still devastated by the recent death of the family matriarch. Superior acting elevates a small, overcrowded ensemble piece into something a little deeper and truer than the mawkish disease-of-the-week movie it threatens to become.

Gardens of the Night (2008) *½ Kidnapped as children and raised in captivity by an older man (Tom Arnold) and his accomplice (Kevin Zegers), Leslie (Gillian Jacobs) and Donnie (Evan Ross) grew up to be as close as real siblings. But now that they’re young adults, they’re haunted by their traumatic upbringing. Pitched at the risible level of Marco Kreuzpaintner’s Trade, the film never quite recovers from writer-director Damian Harris’s dithering way of shooting things.

Quantum of Solace (2008) **½ Picking up an hour after the events of 2006's Casino Royale, this James Bond adventure finds 007 (Daniel Craig) tracking a traitor who’s infiltrated Britain’s MI6. Stripped of Royale’s humor, elegance and reinvented old-school stylishness, Quantum has little left except its plot, which is rudimentary and slightly barmy, in the line of the Roger Moore pictures of the ‘70s and ‘80s.