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Week of April 24, 2015
Shoot the ugly hostages first. First up…
Taken 3
As someone who has been taken by Nigerian
princes on the Internet many times over, it never gets easier.
Oops, apparently this action movie is about
being physically taken, not swindled out of your life savings.
Accused of killing his ex-wife Lenore
(Famke Janssen), Bryan (Liam Neeson) flees from the authorities (Forest
Whittaker) in order to catch the real killer.
On the lam, he contacts his daughter
(Maggie Grace) - who has another surprise for him - and uncovers clues
connecting Lenore’s new husband (Dougray Scott ) with the Russian mafia.
While the trademark fisticuffs, shoot-outs
and car chases are all present and accounted for in this final entry in the
one-trick pony franchise, they lack the verve they once had.
The boilerplate script, cardboard acting,
and stock villains don’t help Taken 3’s case much either.
Incidentally, in addition to vodka and
caviar, organized crime is Russia’s other main export. Red Light
The Wedding Ringer
Destination weddings are like eloping with
your wedding guests in tow.
Fortunately the groom in this comedy has no
family or friends to speak of.
While prepping for his pending nuptials to
Gretchen (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting), Doug (Josh Gad) discovers that he has no close
guy friends he can ask to be his groomsmen.
Desperate, he reaches out to a professional
best man Jimmy (Kevin Hart), who will pretend to be his best friend and supply
groomsmen to round out the wedding party.
Despite preliminary problems with their
backstories, Doug, Jimmy and the others form the kind of friendships Doug’s
been longing for.
However, his new experiences, and many
lies, threaten Gretchen’s big day.
Occasionally funny and periodically
imprudent, The Wedding Ringer is a derivative wedding comedy that vacillates
between off-kilter and offensive humour.
Besides, picking groomsmen would be a lot
easy if your fiancée didn’t hate all your friends. Yellow Light
Paddington
The upside to adopting an abandoned animal
is they have more issues than you do.
Mind you, the patriarch in this
family-comedy isn’t too keen on finding out what those issues are.
Unable to remain in the jungle where he was
raised, a rare talking-bear (Ben Whishaw) makes his way to a London train
station in hopes of being adopted by a family.
As it would happen, Henry (Hugh
Bonneville), Mary (Sally Hawkins) and their children take in the well-mannered
wild animal, despite Henry’s objections.
Christened Paddington, the accident-prone
bruin attracts the attention of an obsessed taxidermist (Nicole Kidman) who
wants to display his hide in the Natural History Museum.
With playful direction, remarkable
character design and Booneville’s hilarious turn as the cantankerous dad, this
live-action/animated adaption of the children’s books is surprisingly
entertaining.
However, having a bear as a pet takes a lot
of hard work and bear spray. Green Light
***Helter Shelter Dog***
Beethoven
If owning a dog is such a huge
responsibility, why does every homeless person have one?
Thankfully, the tentative dog owners in
this family-comedy are also homeowners.
Fleeing from two inept thieves (Oliver
Platt, Stanley Tucci) during a pet store robbery, an ill-behaved St. Bernard
sneaks into the Newton home, where everyone (Bonnie Hunt, Nicholle Tom,
Christopher Castile, Sarah Rose Karr) except the grouchy patriarch, George
(Charles Grodin), welcomes him.
Christensen Beethoven, the accident-prone
puppy helps the Newton kids with their adolescent issues while aggravating
George with excessive drool and damage to his property.
Meanwhile, an unethical vet (Dean Jones)
schemes to dognap Beethoven for one of his twisted experiments.
Despite a derivative script by John Hughes,
Beethoven still manages to be an enjoyable but flawed feature, saved only by
Grodin and the dog’s interactions.
Plus, drivers are less likely to run you
over if you’re walking with a dog.
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