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Week of March 30, 2012

Double handshakes muffle the deaf. First up…



Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

Hopefully, by extremely loud and incredibly close, it means there’s going to be tons of abrasive people invading each other’s personal spaces.

Oops! Apparently, it’s worse than a close, loud talker. This drama is about 9/11.

After losing his father (Tom Hanks) on September 11, Oskar (Thomas Horn) sets out to reconnect with him through clues he believes that his dad left behind for him to follow.

Determined to locate the lock that a mystery key marked Black opens, Oskar embarks on a voyage to verbalize with each person in NYC with that last name.

Meanwhile, his mother (Sandra Bullock) is simultaneously trying to mange her son’s erratic behaviour and her own emotional breakdown.   

A failed attempt at a feel-good film, the unlikable lead kid is so grating you’ll wish that he were more like extremely quiet and incredibly faraway.

Besides, it’s post-9/11; shouldn’t this minor be conscripted by now? 0 



Alvin and The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked

Hopefully, the maladroit wordplay in the title of this motion picture doesn’t imply that it’s only for those children with higher brain development.

Phew! Thankfully, this live-action/computer-animated comedy is accessible to dumb kids as well.

While on a cruise with Dave (Jason Lee), Alvin (Justin Long), Simon (Matthew Gray Gubler) and Theodore (Jesse McCartney), along with their female counterparts: The Chipettes (Christina Applegate, Anna Faris, Amy Poehler) find themselves stranded on an island, after an Alvin related accident.

Unfortunately, Dave and the Chipmunks old manager (David Cross) are marooned on the other side of the islet, leaving the rambunctious rodent singing groups to their own devises.

Meanwhile, a localized volcano threatens to erupt. 

The second sequel in the series, this sampling is soured by stale renditions of radio hits and suggestive jokes of an inappropriate nature.

Besides, to stay contemporary shouldn’t their high-pitched chipmunk singing voices be modified with auto-tune?  0  




A Dangerous Method

Upon graduating with a Ph. D in Psychiatry, proud parents most likely buy their graduate a brand new couch.

Unfortunately, the pioneering shrinks in this drama only have wooden chairs to sit upon while they analyze each other.

When promising psychoanalyst Sabina (Keira Knightley) is put in the care of Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), one of the architects of psychoanalysis, he employs her as an assistant, while also treating her as a patient.

Over endless conversations with his mentor Freud (Viggo Mortensen) and interactions with a playboy patient (Vincent Cassel), Jung ultimately decides to probe something other than Sabina’s mind.

Based on the non-fiction novel that scrutinizes the two masters of the mind, this sexually explicit and astute anatomize of the theory is masterfully directed by David Cronenberg.  

Thankfully, nowadays, the only person you have to discuss your mental disorder with is the Walmart pharmacist filling out your weekly refill.  0

***An All-Star Castaway***


Swiss Family Robinson

The worst part of being stranded on an island with your family is that all of your future children will either resemble your brother or a wild boar.

Fortunately, the family marooned on the tropical atoll in this action/adventure is comprised of only males. 

When pirates push a vessel into peril, the crew abandons it, leaving only an emigrating Swiss family aboard to weather the shipwreck.

Salvaging want they can, the patriarch (John Mills), his wife (Dorothy McGuire) and their sons, Fritz (James MacArthur), Ernst (Tommy Kirk) and Francis (Kevin Corcoran), paddle ashore and colonize.

But once again they soon find themselves at the mercy of the bloodthirsty pirates.

Disney’s adaptation of the famed novel, this Technicolor family classic is chock full of harrowing hardships and hair-raising escapades.

Unfortunately, 3 out of the 3 books that this religiously persecuted family brought with them to the deserted island are The Bible.

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