Ostensibly a reworking of Howard Hawks’ masterful 1932 Chicago mob flick of the same name, Brian DePalma’s “Scarface” has become a bona fide piece of Americana that proves once and for all the world is yours.

With the 20th anniversary edition, the previously out-of-print DVD is given a grand overhaul as Tony Montana is brought to brutal, bloody, cocaine-fueled life to a new generation of cinema enthusiasts.

For those unfamiliar with the plot of DePala’s “Scarface,” the story revolves around Cuban immigrant Tony Montana and his malevolent rise to power, eventual fall from grace and subsequent assassination in Miami’s drug underworld.

Highly stylized and literally soaked in blood, “Scarface” has garnered a huge fanbase for its ballsy take on the American dream and themes of money, power and drugs. On the anniversary edition, DePalma’s nearly three hour epic is given digital quality video and sound, as Al Pacino, Michelle Pfeiffer and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio depict life in the seedy underbelly of Miami.

For all of its obscenity-laced, gory charm, “Scarface” has its faults, and the latest edition of the DVD makes many of these blatantly apparent. At almost three hours long, it’s sometimes tough to sit through the entirety of “Scarface” as tedious ’80s musical montages litter the film, and it’s often difficult not to be distracted by many of the film’s decidedly dated scenes.

While many of Pacino’s lines are now pieces of popular culture, his accent in certain scenes is atrocious. Call me crazy, but it’s just sometimes hard to buy an Italian as a flamboyant Cuban immigrant. These minor gripes not withstanding, “Scarface” is a piece of daring and intriguing cinema and is definitely worth a watch whether you’re a noir fan or not.

The thing strangely missing on this edition is any substantial new material or extras that would signify a worthy anniversary edition. The DVD is littered with extras like interviews with Pacino, Stone and DePalma along with deleted scenes; but many of the “extras” were present on the version that was first pressed in the early 90s. One of the only real “additions” is a montage of hip-hop acts talking about the film’s role in urban culture and hip-hop. Honestly, is anyone buying the disk to hear what the likes of P. Diddy or Method Man have to say about the film? I think not.

Also, is DePalma really too busy to not include a director’s commentary or put a little effort into one of the film’s that made his career? It seems as though this edition was jumbled together in order to sate demand for the DVD rather than to actually celebrate the anniversary of one of the grittiest films of this generation.

In short, “Scarface: 20th Anniversary Edition” is a fabulous film packed onto a rather lackluster DVD.