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After timidly littering its movies with the garbage of pop culture for years, DreamWorks Animation makes a rather astonishing transformation with "Kung Fu Panda."

People may be calling this summer's Stone Temple Pilots tour a reunion outing. But that's probably not the word guitarist Dean DeLeo would use -- even though in the five years since the group's last show, the four band members moved on to different projects.

ARIES (March 21-April 19): Spend time with friends or involved in an activity that will help you better yourself or your position. If you can swing it, take the day off.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The King and I" is a classic, most folks would agree. One for the ages.

The tabloid rich aren't so different from you and me.

There's a spirit of avant-garde goofiness to the new Adam Sandler movie that sets it apart from his usual sophomoric work. Sprung from the fertile comic imaginations of Robert Smigel (creator/performer behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog) and Judd Apatow (the grand vizier of film comedy), it exists in a slap-happy parallel universe. In "You Don't Mess with the Zohan," Israeli commandos dream of styling mousse and blow driers, hummus is a dip served with eyeglasses, and Mariah Carey asks terrorists to explain Bluetooth technology.

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It's been called "Desperate Housewives" on an Army base. Lifetime just calls it the network's signature hit.

Late last year, when I was playing Valve's brilliant puzzle game "Portal," I felt a weird sensation: Laughter. I'm not sure when I first noticed it; perhaps it was when GLaDOS, the insane artificial intelligence that was tormenting me, promised "grief counseling and cake" after my ordeal. What really threw me was the idea that a video game could make me laugh out loud.

'Dirty Harry'

Clint Eastwood is back to make your day again as all five of his "Dirty Harry" cop thrillers return to DVD and debut on Blu-ray high-definition disc. Eastwood introduced the character of San Francisco inspector Harry Callahan in 1971's serial-killer tale "Dirty Harry" and reprised the role in "Magnum Force," "The Enforcer," "Sudden Impact" and "The Dead Pool." The original film comes in a two-disc DVD set or a single-disc Blu-ray release. The others are available separately as single DVDs or in a seven-disc DVD or five-disc Blu-ray "Dirty Harry Ultimate Collector's Edition." The films are accompanied by extensive cast and crew interviews in new and vintage documentary segments, while each includes commentary with such people as critic Richard Schickel, "Magnum Force" screenwriter John Milius and "Enforcer" director James Fargo. The boxed set comes with the documentary "Clint Eastwood: Out of the Shadows," a 40-page book and a replica of Harry's wallet with police badge and identification card. "Dirty Harry" two-disc DVD set, $20.97; single-disc sequels on DVD, $14.97 each; "Dirty Harry" seven-disc DVD collector's set, $74.92; "Dirty Harry" single-disc Blu-ray release, $34.99; "Dirty Harry" five-disc Blu-ray collector's set, $129.95. (Warner Bros.)

'Semi-Pro'

Maybe Will Ferrell should have appended a long subtitle to this box-office dud, which failed to score with audiences the way his "Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy" and "Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby" did. This time out, Ferrell plays a former pop singer who's now the owner and player for a flashy but second-rate American Basketball Association team with an uncertain future as the league merges with the NBA. The movie comes in a bare-bones single-disc release or two-disc "Let's Get Sweaty" editions on DVD and Blu-ray. Among the extras are behind-the-scenes featurettes and a segment on the ABA, plus Ferrell's music video for his character's hit song. Single DVD, $28.98; two-disc DVD set, $34.99; two-disc Blu-ray set, $39.98. (New Line)

'Meet the Spartans'

The Hollywood craze for releasing dumb spoofs of its own hits continues with this comic knockoff that takes its cue from the blockbuster "300," centering on a last-stand siege in which a small band of Spartan soldiers held off hordes of Persian invaders. The filmmakers behind previous parodies "Epic Movie" and "Date Movie" are at the helm of this one, which was brutalized by critics, and the cast includes spoof queen Carmen Electra and Kevin Sorbo (TV's "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"). Available in an unrated edition on DVD and Blu-ray disc, the movie comes with cast and crew commentary, a gag reel and a few making-of segments. DVD, $29.98; Blu-ray, $39.98. (20th Century Fox)

'The Eye'

The U.S. remake of the Japanese horror hit landed with a thud among fans of fright flicks. Jessica Alba stars as a blind woman who has her sight restored by a surgical eye transplant only to find herself seeing terrifying visions, sending her on a quest to find out whose eyes she inherited and what the images mean. The movie comes in a single-disc DVD or two-disc DVD and Blu-ray sets, with extras that include deleted scenes and four behind-the-scenes featurettes. Single-disc DVD, $29.95; two-disc DVD set, $34.98; two-disc Blu-ray set, $39.99. (Lionsgate).

TV on DVD:

"Weeds: Season Three" -- Mary-Louise Parker and her pot-peddling pals are back in the sly comedy about a suburban widow who becomes a hot new dealer on the marijuana circuit to pay the family bills. The three-disc DVD and two-disc Blu-ray sets have all 15 episodes from season three, plus commentary and featurettes. DVD set, $39.98; Blu-ray set, $39.99. (Lionsgate)

Dead doesn't necessarily mean gone from "Lost" entirely. That said, don't expect Michael to be popping back up on the show in the immediate future.