How to Train Your Dragon

Posted by Admin in March 19th 2010  

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 		Starring:
Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Jay
B…
Review:
Kid stuff? Maybe. But How to Train Your Dragon, from
the book by Cressida Cowell, works enough miracles of 3-D animation
to charm your socks off. The story follows conventional lines:
Viking teen Hiccup (voiced with sly comic skill by Jay Baruchel) is
a wimpy misfit to his chief-dad, Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler),
and the babe-ish Astrid (America Ferrera). They want all dragons
dead. After befriending the wounded beast Toothless, Hiccup wants
to make peace, and Gobber (Craig Ferguson, hilarious), the village
blacksmith, thinks he has a point. That’s it for plot. But
writer-directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois (Lilo &
Stitch) make funny, touching, sublime entertainment out of
it.
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Rating: 3 Stars
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How to Train Your Dragon

Posted by Admin in March 19th 2010  

Photo
 		Starring:
Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Jay
B…
Review:
Kid stuff? Maybe. But How to Train Your Dragon, from
the book by Cressida Cowell, works enough miracles of 3-D animation
to charm your socks off. The story follows conventional lines:
Viking teen Hiccup (voiced with sly comic skill by Jay Baruchel) is
a wimpy misfit to his chief-dad, Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler),
and the babe-ish Astrid (America Ferrera). They want all dragons
dead. After befriending the wounded beast Toothless, Hiccup wants
to make peace, and Gobber (Craig Ferguson, hilarious), the village
blacksmith, thinks he has a point. That’s it for plot. But
writer-directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois (Lilo &
Stitch) make funny, touching, sublime entertainment out of
it.
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Rating: 3 Stars
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How to Train Your Dragon

Posted by Admin in March 19th 2010  

Photo
 		Starring:
Gerard Butler, Craig Ferguson, America Ferrera, Jonah Hill, Jay
B…
Review:
Kid stuff? Maybe. But How to Train Your Dragon, from
the book by Cressida Cowell, works enough miracles of 3-D animation
to charm your socks off. The story follows conventional lines:
Viking teen Hiccup (voiced with sly comic skill by Jay Baruchel) is
a wimpy misfit to his chief-dad, Stoick the Vast (Gerard Butler),
and the babe-ish Astrid (America Ferrera). They want all dragons
dead. After befriending the wounded beast Toothless, Hiccup wants
to make peace, and Gobber (Craig Ferguson, hilarious), the village
blacksmith, thinks he has a point. That’s it for plot. But
writer-directors Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois (Lilo &
Stitch) make funny, touching, sublime entertainment out of
it.
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news, reviews and interviews from Peter Travers on The Travers
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Rating: 3 Stars
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Greenberg

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 		Starring:
Ben Stiller, Greta Gerwig
Review:
See this darkly comic character study unburdened by
preconceptions. Writer-director Noah Baumbach (The Squid and
the Whale) walks the fragile line between humor and
heartbreak. Ben Stiller is exceptional as Roger Greenberg, a failed
New York musician housesitting for his brother in the Hollywood
Hills and wondering how life sent him adrift. Selfish, neurotic and
often an asshole, Roger exists to sweat the small stuff. He’s
delusional about his ex-girlfriend (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and his
former bandmate (Rhys Ifans). Why his brother’s sweet, affectless
assistant, Florence (Greta Gerwig), would go to bed with this grab
bag of dysfunctions is a mystery even to Roger. But not to us.
Baumbach tracks Roger without glib condescension. That’s why
Greenberg pulls you in. Even when you laugh, like…

Rating: 3 Stars
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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 		Starring:
Noomi Rapace, Michael Nyqvist
Review:
This dynamite thriller shivers with suspense. So if you ignore
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (from the global
bestseller by the late Stieg Larsson) because it’s in Swedish with
English subtitles, you probably deserve the remake Hollywood will
surely screw up. (
Peter Travers reviews The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo in
his weekly video podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”)
Better to just go with the twisty flow as pierced, tattooed
twentysomething hacker Lisbeth Salander (a dazzling Noomi Rapace in
a star-making performance) teams up with middle-aged journalist
Mikael Blomqvist (the excellent Michael Nyqvist) to unearth secrets
in the family of an industrialist who thinks his niece was murdered
40 years ago. Homicide is just the tip of this Nordic iceberg,
which finds Lisbeth and…

Rating: 3 Stars
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The Runaways

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 		Starring:
Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Michael Shannon
Review:
“Come on, you filthy pussies, let’s rock and roll.”
That trash talk is aimed at Kristen Stewart, 19, and Dakota
Fanning, 16, stars of Twilight: New Moon, by Michael
Shannon, in fierce, flamboyant form as evil-genius manager Kim
Fowley. Kim is cursing the girls as members of the Runaways, a
pioneering band of five jailbait rockers from broken homes that he
wants to turn into the female Beatles.
Peter Travers reviews The Runaways in his weekly video
podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”
Stewart gives as good as she gets. She’s playing Joan Jett, 15,
the shag-haired guitarist, singer and songwriter who co-founded the
Runaways in 1975 and went on ? after the L.A. band dissolved in
1979 ? to achieve star status as a solo act. Fanning has it tougher
as Cherie Currie, 15, a blond…

Rating: 2 Stars
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Remember Me

Posted by Admin in March 12th 2010  


 		Starring:
Robert Pattinson, Emilie de Ravin
Review:
Is there life after Twilight? Kristen Stewart makes a
decent case in The Runaways. Now Rob Pattinson, her vamp
lover, trades fantasy for reality in Remember Me. (
Peter Travers reviews Remember Me in his weekly video
podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”) As Tyler, a New
York college boy, the brooding RPatz doesn?t bite. But his movie
does. It?s crudely written by Will Fetters and directed by Allen
Coulter of The Sopranos (WTF?) as a love story between
Tyler and Ally (Lost?s Emilie de Ravin), both with daddy
issues. His (Pierce Brosnan) rules Wall Street, hers (Chris Cooper)
is a cop. It?s all weepy drool until the twist ending, which turns
it shockingly offensive.
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Rating: 1 Stars
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She’s Out of My League

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 		Starring:
Jay Baruchel, Alice Eve
Review:
Who can relate to a nerd who dreams of rubbing his pencil dick
on the private parts of a blonde hot enough to rate a hard 10? My
guess is that audience is pathetically large, which should chart
She’s Out of My League high as a date-movie must for the
loser in all of us. OK, you’ve seen it before. Lots. Maybe when it
was called 10 or Can’t Buy Me Love or Can’t
Hardly Wait or Knocked Up or Superbad or
anything with Michael Cera. Stop me before I name-check again.
She’s Out of My League is a rowdy blast because the spiky
young cast treats the played-out script like virgin territory.
That’s acting!
Peter Travers reviews She’s Out of My League in his weekly
video podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”
Jay Baruchel, the skinny Canadian actor who scored in…

Rating: 2 Stars
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Green Zone

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 		Starring:
Matt Damon, Greg Kinnear
Review:
How do you make an Iraq War movie that audiences will actually
pay to see? (Don’t holler The Hurt Locker, since all its
Oscar medals never melted into box-office gold.) Matt Damon and
director Paul Greengrass deliver their answer in Green
Zone, taking a nonfiction book, Imperial Life in the
Emerald City, by former Washington Post Baghdad
bureau chief Rajiv Chandrasekaran, and turning it into a
Bourne movie. Who better? Damon starred as the amnesiac
CIA operative in all three Bourne films, and Greengrass
directed the last two. Expect hand-held cameras tracking Damon as
he runs, fights and chases Bush-era bad guys.
Peter Travers reviews Green Zone in his weekly video
podcast, “At the Movies With Peter Travers.”
Nothing wrong with an ace action thriller. But the book,…

Rating: 2 Stars
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Alice in Wonderland

Posted by Admin in March 6th 2010  


 		Starring:
Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Mia Wasikowska
Review:
Sexual panic is the last thing you’d expect to prod Alice to get
her ass down a rabbit hole. But, hell, this is Tim Burton’s
Alice in Wonderland, not your third-grade teacher’s
version. Scholars of British author Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) will
no doubt shriek, “Off with Burton’s head!” for the liberties he
takes in this 3-D mix of live action and animation. In the script
that Linda Woolverton (The Lion King, Beauty and the
Beast) has woven, often forcibly, from Alice’s Adventures
in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, things
have changed — dramatically.
For starters, Alice is no longer seven years old. As played with
feminist fire by Mia Wasikowska (so good as the suicidal,
erotically confused gymnast in HBO’s In Treatment), Alice,
now 19, is her own woman. No way is she…

Rating: 2 Stars
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