In "Transamerica," teen hustler Toby (Kevin Zegers), left, joins transsexual Bree (Oscar nominee Felicity Huffman) on the road.

It's almost vacation time, so it seems fitting that very different road trips dominate ...

The big screen scene: Starting out in the mainstream, "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" (Fox) sends Steve Martin, Bonnie Hunt and family on vacation, where they encounter a rival clan headed by Eugene Levy.

Venturing far off the beaten path, "Transamerica" (Weinstein) showcases Felicity Huffman's Oscar-nominated performance as a pre-operative transsexual on the road with a teenage hustler (Kevin Zegers) who's the son (s)he never knew.

"Game 6" (Hart Sharp) flashes back to the night of the fateful sixth game of the 1986 World Series, as a playwright (Michael Keaton) is torn between the Broadway debut of his latest work -- or watching his beloved Boston Red Sox take on the New York Mets.

And Ridley Scott's Crusades epic "Kingdom of Heaven" (Fox) returns in a director's cut that restores the footage trimmed for its underwhelming theatrical run last year.

Rounding out the recent releases, "Bloodrayne" (Uwe Boll Productions) transports us to 18th-century Romania, where the title character (Kristanna Loken) vows to avenge her mother's death at the fangs of a vampire king (a slumming Ben Kingsley).

Critic's choice: If you think "The Da Vinci Code" has triggered outrage within Catholic circles, check out Spanish master Luis Buñuel's sublimely subversive 1961 "Viridiana" (Criterion), about a young nun (Silvia Pinal) whose virtue is sorely tested by the world around her.

Meanwhile, back in Hollywood, director Cecil B. DeMille cranked out crowd-pleasing epics set in every era, from ancient Rome (1932's "Sign of the Cross") to the Wild West (1939's "Union Pacific"). Rounding out Universal's DeMille Collection: "Cleopatra" (1934), with a slinky Claudette Colbert in the title role; the shipwreck drama "Four Frightened People" (1934) and "The Crusades" (1935).

On a starker note, 1959's "Compulsion" (Fox) recounts the notorious '20s Leopold-Loeb thrill kill case, with Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman.

Back on the foreign front, "Hamsun" (First Run) stars Max von Sydow as a Norwegian author who supports a Nazi takeover.

Hot docs: Barbara Kopple's 1976 Oscar-winner, "Harlan County, U.S.A." (Criterion), focuses on a bitter Kentucky miners' strike. And legendary artists from Andy Warhol to Jasper Johns ponder the question "Who Gets to Call It Art?" (Palm).

Kenneth Branagh supplies the voice of Nazi propaganda mastermind Josef Goebbels in "The Goebbels Experiment" (First Run), while an anthropologist embarks on a global musical quest in "Metal: A Headbanger's Journey" (Warner).

Kidvid corner: Fantastic tales come alive in "Jim Henson's The Storyteller -- The Definitive Collection" (Sony), while three boys set sail on animated adventure in "Pirates of Tortuga: Under the Black Flag" (Gaiam).

Other favorite friends returning to DVD include "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Chipmunk Adventure" (Paramount), "The Berenstain Bears: Fun Family Adventure" (Sony), "Dragon Tales: Let's Be Brave" (Sony), "The Fairly OddParents: Fairy Idol" (Paramount), plus three new chapters in "The Secret World of Benjamin Bear" (Genius Productions) and two "Growing Up With Winnie the Pooh" volumes (Disney).

TV transfers: Two teens follow their gotta-sing, gotta-dance dreams in "High School Musical" (Disney). And the crime drama "EZ Streets," from "Crash" writer-director Paul Haggis, joins Universal's "Brilliant But Canceled" lineup.

"Boston Legal: Season One" (Fox), "The Closer: The Complete First Season" (Warner) and "Wings: The Complete First and Second Seasons" (Paramount) also debut on DVD, while "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Commercial Parodies" (Universal) revives pitches for everything from "Little Chocolate Doughnuts" to "Trump's House of Wings."

Joining those titles on DVD: "Deadwood: The Complete Second Season" (HBO), "The 4400: The Complete Second Season" (Paramount), "M*A*S*H -- Season 10 Collector's Edition" (Fox), "Samurai Jack: Season 3" (Warner) and -- simma down now! -- "Saturday Night Live: The Best of Cheri Oteri" (Universal).

Vintage vault: With Father's Day a few weeks away, prepare for a veritable fusillade of dad-friendly war movies, crime dramas and Westerns.

On the battlefield, a two-disc special edition of 1967's "The Dirty Dozen" (Warner) joins such new-to-DVD winners as 1952's World War II espionage tale "Decision Before Dawn" (Fox). Prime crime DVD debuts range from 1960's "Murder, Inc." to 1973's "The Seven-Ups" (both from Fox).

And, finding a home on the range, Fox's DVD stampede includes Richard Widmark in "The Last Wagon" (1956), Widmark and Gregory Peck in "Yellow Sky" (1949) and Robert Ryan in "The Proud Ones" (1956).