Take the exclamation mark in the title of Mamma Mia! as a warning. In practically every scene of this glossy, saucy adaptation of the Broadway musical, the actors talk to each other at such a high pitch, you wonder if every line in the script ended like this! Or this!! Or this!!!
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Write your own reviewAlice's House is actually a crowded Sao Paulo high-rise apartment where Alice (Carla Ribas) suffers the indignities of her adulterous cab-driving husband (Zecarlos Machado), keeps the peace between her three rambunctious sons (Vinicius Zinn, Ricardo Vilaca and Felipe Massuia) and tends after her aging mother (Berta Zemel).
Write your own reviewTake the exclamation mark in the title of Mamma Mia! as a warning. In practically every scene of this glossy, saucy adaptation of the Broadway musical, the actors talk to each other at such a high pitch, you wonder if every line in the script ended like this! Or this!! Or this!!!
Write your own reviewIs computer animation still such a novelty that it will pull moviegoers into theaters? Do wisecracking critters still push children's joy buttons? Is Space Chimps really necessary?
Write your own reviewThe Dark Knight is such a moody, dramatic, dead-serious affair that it feels more like a noirish crime thriller than a superhero movie. Everything in the movie is played straight and aimed at grown-ups (or at least older kids). There is no geeky joy in Gotham City, no trace of the gee-whiz wonder most comic-book pictures trade on for effect. At times, when Batman pops up onscreen in all his high-tech gothic regalia, you wonder, ``What's that clown doing here?''
Write your own reviewThere are two ways to see Journey to the Center of the Earth: In plain old two dimensions and, in theaters equipped with the proper projectors, in 3-D format. The second option is definitely the way to go.
Write your own reviewThe title of Hellboy II: The Golden Army makes the movie sound like something intended primarily for people who saw the first Hellboy movie -- which was OK but not exactly memorable -- and can get excited about another one. It's a dry, mundane title. It's also the only thing about the film that doesn't blow your mind right out of its comfortable, I've-seen-all-this-before rut.
Write your own reviewLife has not been kind to Nazneen, a watchful immigrant woman living with her husband and daughters in a London neighborhood. At 17, she left behind her beloved sister in Bangladesh for a cold new country and an arranged marriage. Her first-born child, a son, died in his crib. Her world is as cramped and claustrophobic in England as it was lush and glorious back home when she was happy.
Write your own reviewKerala, South India, in 1937, was the wild frontier for English colonialists, a land rich in resources for the taking and restless natives.
Write your own reviewWalking in to see Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, I was unaware the movie was spun off from a popular line of toy dolls -- more than 14 million of them have been sold. Nor did I know about the anticipation and excitement many little girls have for the movie, which is the fourth in the series (the previous three, made for TV, are available on DVD).
Write your own reviewNo one complains about collateral damage when Superman tries to confound Lex Luthor's schemes. The residents of Gotham never file lawsuits against Batman if he bangs up a few cars in pursuit of the Joker. For Hancock, though, fighting crime is a different story, possibly because he tends to fly to the rescue clutching a bottle of whiskey.
For good or for ill, Clint Eastwood's five Dirty Harry films, which have been released in a new seven-disc DVD boxed set by Warner Home Video ($74.98), have done more to define today's cop movie than virtually any other film.
British actor Jason Statham may be known primarily as an action-film guy (The Transporter, The Italian Job, War), but he has also proven himself more than capable of holding his own in movies that don't require cast members to have black belts in karate. In the excellent caper The Bank Job (Lionsgate, $30 DVD; $35 two-disc DVD; $40 Blu-ray) Statham stars as a used-car salesman who, working off a tip from an old flame (Saffron Burrows), hatches a complicated bank heist that has unexpected consequences...
The Bank Job (R) The real question about this by-the-numbers heist movie set in 1970s London isn't ''Is it any good?'' but rather ''Why bother?'' Packed with all the required elements -- a former thief (Jason Statham) gone straight, an alluring woman (Saffron Burrows) with a secret agenda, a couple of sidekicks for comic relief and an unguarded bank vault -- the movie hopes nostalgia will make up for the fact that we've seen this story a thousand times before. It doesn't. -- Ogle (violence, language...
