Earth’s warm, but he’s hot

Aftermath I: Forget Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom, Daniel Craig, Leonardo DiCaprio and even Borat. Winner of the hottest male presence this year in a film is none other than former Vice President Al Gore

In “An Inconvenient Truth,” his documentary on global warming, Gore comes across as a wise, witty and sexy grandfather who is on a mission to educate the world on the pressing need to protect the earth. As a presidential candidate six years ago, Gore had as much personality as a stick. But here he’s laid-back, easygoing and self-deprecating.

The film, which arrives Tuesday on DVD, not only has opened eyes about global warming, it is one of the most well-received films of 2006. It even held its own opposite the summer blockbusters, making $23.8 million at the domestic box office and $10.9 million more internationally.

You, me and a divorce decree

Aftermath II: Life sometimes imitates romantic comedies. Case in point: “You, Me and Dupree,” arriving Tuesday on DVD.

In this forgettable piece of fluff, Matt Dillon and Kate Hudson play newlyweds whose lives are turned upside down when Dillon’s good friend, a charming goofball played by -- who else? -- Owen Wilson, comes to live with them. Soon Wilson’s presence in the house causes marital discord between the couple.

Less than a month after the comedy was released this summer, Hudson announced her separation from her husband, singer Chris Robinson.

All fingers pointed to playboy Wilson as the reason why Hudson and hubby split. Wilson and Hudson are still being coy with the media and paparazzi about their relationship. In the interim, Robinson has filed for divorce.

Shades of early Jack Nicholson

Time Capsule: Even at 69, Jack Nicholson is still the coolest dude working in films. After winning three Oscars, the Lakers’ biggest fan certainly is in the running for his fourth as the Irish-gangster kingpin in “The Departed.” But superstardom didn’t come easy for Nicholson, who in his salad days was a guest on “The Andy Griffith Show.”

In fact, he didn’t really hit the big time until his first Oscar-nominated performance in 1969’s “Easy Rider,” as an alcoholic attorney who briefly teams up with Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda.

This Tuesday, Buena Vista goes back to Nicholson’s roots with its “Back-to-Back Jack Edition” DVD of his very first film, the low-budget 1958 thriller “The Cry Baby Killer.” Nicholson plays a 17-year-old high school student who, thinking he has killed two punks, holds a man, woman and an infant hostage while the police surround him. Included on the disc is Roger Corman’s cult 1960 classic “The Little Shop of Horrors,” in which Nicholson steals the film as a most unusual dental patient.

Drawing on the ‘Star Trek’ legacy

The Final Frontier: Seven years after the demise of the “Star Trek” series on NBC and four years before the first feature-film version, producer-creator Gene Roddenberry resurrected the majority of the cast for “Star Trek: The Animated Series.” The 22-episode show, which won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding children’s series, makes its home-video debut on Tuesday. Included in the four-disc set is the Peabody Award-winning “How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth” and Walter Koenig’s “The Infinite Vulcan,” which marked the first time a “Star Trek” regular wrote an episode.

susan.king@latimes.com