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April 30, 2010

Continuing films

Continuing films:

ALICE IN WONDERLAND — Alice is a 19-year-old girl in Tim Burton’s adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic. PG for fantasy action-violence, scary images and a smoking caterpillar. 109 minutes.

 

THE BACKUP PLAN — After deciding to have a baby on her own, a woman (Jennifer Lopez) meets a man and falls in love during the hormonally charged nine months. 104 minutes. PG-13

THE BOUNTY HUNTER — Gerard Butler plays an ex-cop who gets the chance to drag his ex-wife (Jennifer Aniston) to jail. PG-13 for sexual content and violence. 110 minutes.

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CLASH OF THE TITANS — Who wants to be a god, anyway? That’s the principal twist in the remake of the 1981 film about the fury of the gods of Mount Olympus and the rise of the demigod Perseus (Sam Worthington). PG-13 for fantasy action violence, frightening images and sensuality. 106 minutes.

 

DATE NIGHT — Steve Carell and Tina Fey are two of the funniest people ever on television, yet this is a dreary, uninspired waste of their talents. PG-13 for sexual and crude content, language, violence and a drug reference. 88 minutes.

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DEATH AT A FUNERAL — Neil LaBute and an all-star cast breathe new life into three-year-old material. The 2007 British farce about an extended family coming together for a funeral, with elaborate hijinks ensuing, debuted to mixed reviews. This new version works better because LaBute just goes for it, playing up the wilder elements of the story. R for language, drug content and sexual humor. 92 minutes.

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DIARY OF A WIMPY KID — The film adaptation of Jeff Kinney’s cartoon novel series is mostly faithful, though the books’ middle-school protagonist, sixth-grader Greg (Zachary Gordon), comes off as kind of self-absorbed, lazy and petty. PG for some rude humor and language. 91 minutes.

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HOT TUB TIME MACHINE — John Cusack heads back to the 1980s with this time-travel adventure that’s occasionally amusing but mostly as lazy, self-involved and garish as the decade itself. R for strong crude and sexual content, nudity, drug use and pervasive language. 99 minutes.

 

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON — An exhilarating boy-and-his dragon ride through the ancient Norse world. PG for action and scary images and brief language. 98 minutes.

 

KICK-ASS — Matthew Vaughn’s superhero action comedy is seriously, nastily violent, both satirizing the excesses of superhero flicks and showing genuine, hurtful consequences of the cartoon action Hollywood serves up. As an 11-year-old masked vigilante, supporting player Chloe Grace Moretz simply owns this extremely funny movie. R for strong brutal violence, pervasive language, sex, nudity and drugs. 118 minutes.

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THE LAST SONG — Heard the one about the two photogenic kids who meet cute in a beach town, overcome class and temperament differences and fall in love only to find that tragedy trumps hormones? Dear God, it’s “Dear John,” right? Yes. But it’s also “The Last Song,” the second Nicholas Sparks movie to hit theaters in the past two months. PG for theme, violence, sensuality and mild language. 101 minutes.

 

THE LOSERS — An elite U.S. Special Forces unit, presumed dead after a search-and-destroy mission in the Bolivian jungle, must remain undercover while tracking a ruthless man bent on embroiling the world in a new high-tech global war. 98 minutes. PG-13.

 

OCEANS — A docudrama about the mysteries that lie beneath the very waters that sustain all of mankind. 102 minutes. G.

 

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