Hollywood should take the rest of August’s movies and shove them — straight to DVD. It seems we’ve hit one of those unavoidable and ultimately lame weeks at the box office.

The week’s biggest opener hit screens Wednesday and features two actors who should really keep their television day jobs. Rainn Wilson is best known as Dwight from the hit TV comedy “The Office.” Dwight’s quirks play heavily into Wilson’s big-screen role as a former ’80s hair-band drummer who joins his nephew’s high school-age band in “The Rocker.”

Channeling a bit Jack Black’s performance from “The School of Rock,” Wilson embarrasses his nephew and new bandmates by appearing naked in a rehearsal via webcam and causes an internet sensation as “The Naked Drummer.” That’s terribly scandalous for an act whose biggest gig is the prom.

Christina Applegate, of television’s sophomore program “Samantha Who?,” co-stars as the pretty girl counterpart to Wilson’s pathetic stuck-in-the-’80s wannabe rocker. The flick is helmed by Peter Cattaneo, who is a good 10 years past his directorial prime with “The Full Monty.”

A rival comedy features actress Anna Faris (“Scary Movie,” “My Super Ex-Girlfriend”) as an outcast Playboy bunny who ends up playing house mother at a sorority. “The House Bunny” also features former “American Idol” crooner Katharine McPhee, along with A-lister offspring Colin Hanks and Rumer Willis.

If there were any doubts about this flick’s idiot factor, knowing it comes from director Fred Wolf should certainly put those doubts to rest. Wolf’s comic style is evident in the horrifyingly stupid David Spade vehicles he helped create: “Joe Dirt” and “Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star.”

Speaking of bonehead directors, Fred Durst — yes, that Fred Durst — puts his Limp Bizkit rocker image on the line to direct rapper-actor Ice Cube in a family-friendly dramedy. “The Longshots” wasn’t as big of a gamble for Ice Cube, who had already shed some serious street cred by appearing in the low-concept family comedies “Are We There Yet?” and “Are We Done Yet?”

He plays the supportive uncle, coach and mentor to a young girl who joins her school’s football team and succeeds against the odds. Keke Palmer, who wowed critics in “Akeelah and the Bee,” is the young lady quarterback in this light-hearted sports flick, which was inspired by a true story.

There’s a much more extreme sport also on the movie menu this week. Action star Jason Statham (“Crank,” “The Transporter”) is the driving force behind “Death Race.”

Respected veteran actors Joan Allen (“The Bourne Ultimatum”) and Ian McShane (TV’s “Deadwood”) also star. Allen plays the harsh warden who frames Statham’s former NASCAR driver character for murder just to get extra publicity for a car race to the death at her prison. McShane is an inmate and coach to Statham’s character, who needs to win the race to earn his freedom.

“Henry Poole Is Here.” Seriously, he has arrived at the Regal Augusta Exchange. The limited-release flick finds Luke Wilson playing a hard-drinking loner whose privacy is invaded by a nosy neighbor who claims to see an image of the Virgin Mary in a stain on his house. The typical media frenzy follows, much to his chagrin.

Movie Buzz is a column by Mariah Gardner. It appears in The Metro Spirit each Wednesday.