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Cartoony romantic comedy or cartoon adventure? Today's video releases have you covered, whichever you prefer.
Chick flick devotees should flock to "Two Weeks Notice" (Warner, $22.99 on VHS, $27.98 DVD), which sends charmers Sandra Bullock (as an activist attorney) and Hugh Grant (as her airheaded, real-estate tycoon boss) bumbling down the road to romance.
Intrepid souls seeking swashbuckling animated action, meanwhile, should blast off for "Treasure Planet" (Disney, $24.99 VHS, $29.99 DVD), which gives Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island" an otherworldly spin in a fantasy universe where young Jim Hawkins (voiced by "Third Rock From the Sun's" Joseph Gordon-Levitt) becomes cabin boy on a space galleon where cyborg John Silver (Brian Murray) hatches piratical plans. Emma Thompson, David Hyde Pierce, Martin Short, Laurie Metcalf and Patrick McGoohan round out the stellar vocal cast.
For those who prefer their pirate adventures in purer form, Disney also serves up the $29.99 DVD debut of its rousing live- action "Treasure Island" (1950), with "Song of the South's" Bobby Driscoll as Jim and the scene-chomping (and scene-stealing) Robert Newton as a splendidly rascally Long John Silver. (It's already available on VHS, priced at $19.99.)
While we're on the subject of DVD debuts, some legendary leading men turn up in an eclectic roster of vintage hits.
Cary Grant made his final screen bow (two decades before his death) in 1966's "Walk, Don't Run" (Columbia/TriStar, $24.95), a remake of the 1943 three's-a-crowd classic "The More the Merrier," with Grant playing Cupid to Jim Hutton and Samantha Eggar in a crowded Tokyo apartment during the 1964 Olympics. Burt Lancaster, meanwhile, shines in 1968's "The Swimmer" (Columbia/TriStar, $19.95), based on John Cheever's tale of a troubled, middle-aged advertising executive revisiting...