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Would you believe ... it’s not bad?
- If you attend the latest exploitation of baby boomer TV nostalgia, “Get Smart,” don’t worry. You’ll stay smart — well, smart enough — because this big-screen adaptation of the 1960s series isn’t nearly as dumb as such predecessor bombs of similar origins as “The Flintstones,” “Bewitched,” “Lost in Space” and last month’s “Speed Racer.”
Myers proves he’s a one-trick pony in ‘Love Guru’
- “The Love Guru” is unenlightened. Mike Myers’ New Age spirituality send-up, his first live action project since 2003’s Dr. Seuss debacle “The Cat in the Hat,” might have been subtitled like one of his protagonist’s self-help books, “When Bad Movies Happen to Narcissistic Movie Stars.”
It’s not ‘Incredible’ but it’s pretty good
- It’s now titled “The Incredible Hulk.” But is it incredible?
‘The Happening’ really isn’t
- It’s an inconvenient truth: That “Sixth Sense” guy no longer makes good movies.
Get a kick out of ‘Panda’
- “Kung Fu Panda” panders to the kid audience. Their elder chaperones may not flip for it, but they can still get a kick out of the playful martial artistry and meticulous, computer-generated animation of this conventionally plotted yet occasionally worthwhile family film.
- “Kung Fu Panda” panders to the kid audience. Their elder chaperones may not flip for it, but they can still get a kick out of the playful martial artistry and meticulous, computer-generated animation of this conventionally plotted yet occasionally worthwhile family film.
‘Don’t Mess With’ seeing this movie
- Is it possible to make a funny farce out of the types of people involved with the Arab-Israeli conflict? Forget your Gaza. Because it’s Waterboy making old ladies strip, don’t look for hope during today’s sophomoric foray into the unpromised land of ethnic ridicule and senior citizen defilement.
- Is it possible to make a funny farce out of the types of people involved with the Arab-Israeli conflict? Forget your Gaza. Because it’s Waterboy making old ladies strip, don’t look for hope during today’s sophomoric foray into the unpromised land of ethnic ridicule and senior citizen defilement.
Hang ten with ‘Surfwise’
- If you thought your “peeps” were dysfunctional, just wait until you get a load of the Paskowitz kin in “Surfwise.” About what some consider to be the first family of surfing, director Doug Pray’s indie documentary won’t just make you feel better by comparison about your own clan’s neuroses. It’s probably the most engrossing movie of the year so far.
- If you thought your “peeps” were dysfunctional, just wait until you get a load of the Paskowitz kin in “Surfwise.” About what some consider to be the first family of surfing, director Doug Pray’s indie documentary won’t just make you feel better by comparison about your own clan’s neuroses. It’s probably the most engrossing movie of the year so far.
Good ‘Sex’: Fans will adore big-screen adaptation
- When HBO’s “Sex and the City” went off the air in 2004 after six seasons, fans were left to cry into their cosmos over the end of an era with only some mercilessly neutered syndicated repeats to cheer them.
- When HBO’s “Sex and the City” went off the air in 2004 after six seasons, fans were left to cry into their cosmos over the end of an era with only some mercilessly neutered syndicated repeats to cheer them.
Review: A real-life horror film
- It’s probably good that this movie exists, but that doesn’t mean you’ll want to see it.
- It’s probably good that this movie exists, but that doesn’t mean you’ll want to see it.
Review: Indy returns in another thrilling but brainless adventure
- There’s this scene in the long-awaited fourth installment in the franchise, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Our hero and his returning love interest from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Karen Allen as Marion, find themselves in a remote jungle, captured by bad guys pointing weapons at them. A sexagenarian Harrison Ford shrugs and quips, “Same old, same old.”
- There’s this scene in the long-awaited fourth installment in the franchise, “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.” Our hero and his returning love interest from “Raiders of the Lost Ark,” Karen Allen as Marion, find themselves in a remote jungle, captured by bad guys pointing weapons at them. A sexagenarian Harrison Ford shrugs and quips, “Same old, same old.”
No need for hollow, horribly acted ‘Speed’
- “Speed Racer” crashes and burns! This car accident that passes for a movie is a disproportionate, hollow, horribly acted and just plain bizarre box office blight being steered directly at your small children.
- “Speed Racer” crashes and burns! This car accident that passes for a movie is a disproportionate, hollow, horribly acted and just plain bizarre box office blight being steered directly at your small children.
Misfits and misspellings: ‘Son of Rambow’ is a sweet homage to 1980s
- The intentionally misspelled “Son of Rambow” is a sweet though minor English mix with a no-name junior cast. Part broad coming-of-age comedy, part dysfunctional-family drama, it’s also an affectionate homage to early 1980s nostalgia and a certain bandolier-laden Vietnam vet who looks an awful lot like Sly Stallone in a headband.
- The intentionally misspelled “Son of Rambow” is a sweet though minor English mix with a no-name junior cast. Part broad coming-of-age comedy, part dysfunctional-family drama, it’s also an affectionate homage to early 1980s nostalgia and a certain bandolier-laden Vietnam vet who looks an awful lot like Sly Stallone in a headband.
