Name: movielover
Most Recent Reviews by movielover
Bottom Line: A lovably though misbehaving dog dominates everything in a family film with little drama.
To read the full review about this loveable yet very misbehaving tale, go to:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/film-review-marley-me-1003924277.story
Bottom Line: A total misfire that tries to sort out the boundary between the real and the imagined. Whatever made the German novel "Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke so popular that it got translated into 37 languages is nowhere in evidence in its film version.
To read the review that explains why its so bad, go to:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film-reviews/film-review-inkheart-1003922899.story
The pleasant but far-from-pioneering crew of the cheerful 2005 DreamWorks animated film "Madagascar" reunite for "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" to similar results. Essentially this sequel has settled down into a sitcom: Each of its major zoo-raised animals has a comical issue that must get resolved before the credits roll. The film, like its predecessor, is aimed mostly at children and should score a direct hit......
Jason Statham returns for a third go-round as mercenary courier Frank Martin in creator Luc Besson's lucrative "Transporter" series, but this time he's firing blanks....
Those Beverly Hills Chihuahuas might have run their course, but a Hollywood White Shepherd efficiently marks his territory in "Bolt," an animated adventure about a canine action hero who's inadvertently shipped from his studio to the East Coast.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=11956
The fantasy element in F. Scott Fitgerald's 1922 short story, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button," in which a man ages backwards, does not begin to suggest the urgent drama and romantic fatalism that director David Fincher and writers Eric Roth and Robin Swicord have so strikingly brought to the screen in the movie version. Fitzgerald's story is little more than a plot gimmick. Yet the film transforms this gimmick into an epic tale that contemplates the wonders of life -- of birth and death and, most of all, love.
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/film/reviews/article_display.jsp?&rid=11986
The simple story line centers on the ill-fated plan by comely television reporter Angela (Jennifer Carpenter) and her cameraman (Steve Harris) to cover the night shift at a local firehouse. After an obligatory slow-build depicting Angela's playful interactions with the flirtatious firefighters, the film kicks into higher gear when a distress call sends the men to a small apartment building, with the journalists tagging along.
The little-known account of a trio of Jewish brothers who rose up against the Nazis in occupied Eastern Europe is given its due by Edward Zwick in the passionate if prosaically rendered "Defiance."
Writer-director David Wain jumps effectively into the movie mainstream with "Role Models," a comedy that retains a bit of the sensibility and many cast members familiar from his previous films but should have no problem connecting with a wider audience
"Max Payne" is a banal revenge melodrama-cum-detective story, but fans of the video game on which it is based should not be alarmed.
