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Tinseltown: "Drive Angry" in 3-D, 2-D. "Hall Pass."
Movies at Meadville: "Drive Angry" in 3-D. "Hall Pass."
Millcreek 6: "Little Fockers." "Gulliver's Travels."
Tinseltown: "The Rite." "The Dilemma." "The Mechanic."
Movies at Meadville: "No Strings Attached." "The Roommate."
DRIVE ANGRY. A vengeful father escapes from hell and chases after the men who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter. With Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard. (1:44. R for strong brutal violence throughout, grisly images, some graphic sexual content, nudity and pervasive language.)
HALL PASS. A married man is granted the opportunity to have an affair by his wife. Joined in the fun by his best pal, things get a little out of control when both wives start engaging in extramarital activities as well. With Jason Sudeikis, Owen Wilson, Jenna Fischer, Christina Applegate. (1:45. R for crude and sexual humor throughout, language, some graphic nudity and drug use.)
BIG MOMMAS: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. FBI agent Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence) and his stepson Trent (Brandon Jackson) go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. (1:48. PG-13 for some sexual humor, brief violence.)
THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE VOYAGE OF THE DAWN TREADER. Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world. Helmed by Michael Apted, this may be best "Narnia" yet. (1:56. PG for some frightening images, fantasy scenes.)
THE DILEMMA. Chicago engineers and buddies Ronny Valentine (Vince Vaughn) and Nick Brannen (Kevin James) each have long-term partners: Ronny's girlfriend, Beth (Jennifer Connelly), and Nick's wife, Geneva (Winona Ryder). After Ronny sees Geneva cheating on Nick with another man (Channing Tatum), he descends into a world of infidelity where seemingly everyone is cheating. Ron Howard's comedy begins and ends in hokey cliché, but for a brief period it carries a slight hint of Billy Wilder, playing uncomfortable stuff for not entirely dumb laughs. (1:50. PG-13 for mature thematic elements involving sexual content.)
DUE DATE. Robert Downey Jr. is miserable, stuck on a cross-country drive with a creepy Zach Galifianakis. It's easy to imagine how he feels: It's often torturous sitting through the movie, and we're not the ones trapped in the middle of Texas with the guy. The script comes from Director Todd Phillips ("The Hangover") and three other writers. But "Due Date" lacks the consistent hilarity and originality of that last-summer hit. (1:35. R for language, drug use, sexual content.)
THE EAGLE. Channing Tatum and Jamie Bell deliver solid though unremarkable performances as a former Roman soldier and a British slave on a quest beyond the edge of the known world to retrieve the standard of a lost legion that vanished in the wilds of 2nd- century Scotland. Director Kevin Macdonald ("The Last King of Scotland") crafts a technically sumptuous epic, glorious to the eye though often dry and uninvolving to the ear. (1:54. PG-13 for battle sequences, some disturbing images.)
GNOMEO & JULIET. This animated riff on "Romeo and Juliet," with yard gnomes standing in for our star-crossed lovers, doesn't have a single original idea in its pointy, ceramic head. Spirited and brisk as this family film can be, its energy cannot disguise the fact that it's an awkward mash-up of Shakespeare puns, hackneyed pop culture references and familiar Elton John songs, with an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink scripts cobbled together by committee. "Gnomeo & Juliet" does feature a strong voice cast, though, led by James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine and Maggie Smith, with cameos from the likes of Dolly Parton, Hulk Hogan and Ozzy Osbourne (1:24. G, suitable for all audiences.)
THE GREEN HORNET. Based on the 1930s radio show, "The Green Hornet" stars Seth Rogen as Britt Reid, playboy heir to the Los Angeles publishing empire built by his father (Tom Wilkinson). But when his father dies suddenly, Britt realizes he has a chance to use his fortune for good and decides to become a vigilante crime fighter with the help of his father's mechanic, the soft-spoken but ever-resourceful Kato (Jay Chou). With Michel Gondry, known for visually inspiring films, at the helm, this looked promising. But it's a surprisingly generic, bombastic action movie with no 3-D excitement. (1:59. PG-13 for sequences of violent action, language, sensuality and drug content.)
GULLIVER'S TRAVELS. Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver (Jack Black) takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Lilliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens. (1:52. PG for brief rude humor, mild language and action.)
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART I. Doom and gloom permeate nearly every minute of the beginning of the end of the behemoth boy-wizard series. This seventh film in the franchise begins with nearly suffocating tension as Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) finds himself face-to-face with his destiny: being the target of the evil Lord Voldemort's (Ralph Fiennes) deadly wrath. Friends and allies will have to band together to protect him; some of them won't make it out alive. The film thrills at the start, repeatedly sags in the middle and picks up at the cliffhanger climax. (2:26. PG-13 for some sequences of intense action violence, frightening images, brief sensuality.
I AM NUMBER FOUR. Alex Pettyfer has the title role. He's one of nine youths being hunted down by the destroyers of their own world before the kids develop genetically inherited abilities that could help them defeat the bad guys, who now aim to invade Earth. It's mostly familiar stuff. While the filmmakers manage some entertaining fight sequences, they offer a standard-issue gang of heroes backed by a vague, unoriginal mythology about human-looking aliens finding refuge on Earth. (1:50. PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language.)
JUST GO WITH IT. Adam Sandler plays a plastic surgeon and supposedly nice guy who has spent two decades pretending to be a mistreated husband so he can score with sympathetic women (yeah, real nice guy). When he finally falls for somebody, he enlists his assistant (Jennifer Aniston) to pose as the wife he's divorcing. This romantic comedy is idiotic, even by Sandler's low big-screen standards, stuffed with unpleasant narcissists saying and doing the dumbest, often cruelest things in hope of cheap laughs. (1:57. PG-13 for frequent crude and sexual content, partial nudity, brief drug references and language.)
JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER. Part biopic, part concert film and all crowd pleaser, this celebration of the pop phenom knows exactly what it needs to do to send its target audience of tween girls into a tizzy of giddy screams. That includes an effective use of 3-D, so get ready for plenty of shots of Bieber looking longingly into the camera, reaching out to grab your hand while singing one of his infectious tunes. Home movies from Bieber's small town outside Toronto, early YouTube clips and interviews with the people who discovered him, show him as preternaturally gifted, freakishly poised and incessantly hardworking. And he genuinely seems like a good kid; it's hard not to like him. (1:45. G, suitable for all audiences.)
LITTLE FOCKERS. Meet the latest in Robert De Niro and Ben Stiller's comedy franchise. Grit your teeth through the fairly short though agonizing duration of its stay. Director Paul Weitz delivers a string of dumb episodes as De Niro's father-in-law from hell again puts Stiller's nervous son-in-law under surveillance. The whole gang returns, including Dustin Hoffman, Barbra Streisand, Owen Wilson, Teri Polo and Blythe Danner, with Jessica Alba, Laura Dern and Harvey Keitel joining the cast. Hopefully, the Fockers will call it quits after this. (1:38. PG-13 for mature sexual humor and language.)
MEGAMIND. A dastardly supervillain who turned evil because of a bad upbringing finds himself seduced to the good side to defeat an even worse guy. The latest action comedy from DreamWorks Animation features dazzling computer-animated design and action. Yet despite a clever hook -- what's a villain to do when he manages to defeat his superhero nemesis? -- it's a thin story that feels familiar and unfolds with no surprises. The movie offers an amiably goofy voice cast led by Will Ferrell, Brad Pitt, Tina Fey and Jonah Hill. (1:36. PG for action, some language.)
NO STRINGS ATTACHED. A guy (Ashton Kutcher) and girl (Golden Globe winner Natalie Portman) try to keep their relationship strictly physical. It's not long before they learn that they want something more. What's intriguing about it is the girl, a young doctor played by Portman, is the one who suggests this arrangement, and the guy, an aspiring TV writer played by Kutcher, is the one who breaks the rules and falls in love. It's a reversal of traditional gender roles, an indication we might be in for something fresh, daring and different. Except, we're not. (1:48. R for sexual content, language, some drug material.)
THE RITE. Anthony Hopkins classes this up. But even his otherworldly powers can make this overly familiar demonic possession thriller engaging for so long. Colin O'Donoghue plays Michael Kovak, an aspiring Catholic priest suffering a spiritual crisis. Following his mother's death, Michael joins his father (Rutger Hauer) in the family mortuary business. The script is reasonable and even-tempered with its discussions about the nature of faith. For a while, it is neither hyperbolic nor preachy. The intelligent setup makes the over-the-top climax feel like even more of a letdown (1:54. PG-13 for disturbing thematic material, violence, frightening images, and language including sexual references.
THE ROOMMATE. In this thriller, college student Sara finds her safety jeopardized after she's assigned to a dorm room with a new roommate, Rebecca. With Leighton Meester, Cam Gigendot. Minka Kelly. (1:31. PG-13 for violence and menace, sexual content, some language and teen partying.)
SANCTUM. A large expedition headed by grizzled Aussie explorer Frank McGuire (Richard Roxburgh) is in the midst of mapping a mile-deep cave in Papua New Guinea. Frank's less ambitious 17-year-old son, Josh (Rhys Wakefield), along with the team's financier daredevil, Carl (Ioan Gruffudd), and his equally gung-ho girlfriend, Victoria (Alice Parkinson), arrive shortly before a cyclone traps them underground. They're sent scurrying through a labyrinth of cavernous chambers and underwater crevices As a showcase for 3-D, the film is a failure. But as an anti-assisted living testament, it's weirdly bracing. (1:49. R for violence, some language, disturbing images.)
THE TOURIST. Elise (Angelia Jolie) sits next to an American tourist, Frank (Johnny Depp) on a train going to Venice. She has chosen him as a decoy, making believe that he is her lover who is wanted by the police. Not only will they need to evade the police, but the mobster whose money her lover stole. (1:43. Rate PG-13 for violence and brief strong language.)
TRON: LEGACY. Director Joseph Kosinski's feature film debut is thrilling and cool-looking for about the first half. But its races, games and visuals eventually grow repetitive, which only draws attention to how flimsy and preposterous the script is. "Tron: Legacy" is a mishmash of pop culture references and movie rip-offs, Eastern philosophy and various religions, and one insanely cute, strategically placed Boston terrier. With the return of Jeff Bridges, there's plenty of Dude-ishness for you fans of "The Big Lebowski." (2:05. PG for sequences of sci-fi action violence, brief mild language.)
UNKNOWN. Dr. Martin Harris (Liam Neeson) travels to Berlin for a scientific conference, but a car crash places him in a four-day coma. When he awakens, his wife (January Jones) insists she doesn't know him and another man (Aidan Quinn) has assumed his identity. Martin seeks help from the cabdriver (Diane Kruger) to piece together what happened. It's a chilly little thriller about amnesia, mistrust and lost identity, with the kinds of chases and explosions you've seen countless times before. To be fair, the film from Spanish Director Jaume Collet-Serra has its suspenseful moments, including the startling, precisely staged taxicab accident that puts Harris into a coma. (1:53. PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, brief sexual content.)
YOGI BEAR. A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park to shoot a project and soon crosses paths with Yogi Bear (voiced by Dan Aykroyd), his sidekick Boo-Boo (voiced by Justin Timberlake), and Ranger Smith (voiced by Tom Cavanagh). (1:26. PG for some mild rude humor.)
CAPSULE REVIEWS have been excerpted from the Associated Press. Previews are courtesy of the Internet Movie Database.
RATINGS by the Motion Picture Association of America are G for general audiences; PG parental guidance because of material possibly unsuitable for children; PG-13 parents are strongly cautioned to give guidance for attendance of children younger than 13; R restricted, younger than 17 admitted only with parent or adult guardian; NC-17 no one younger than 17 admitted.
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