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Angels & Demons (2009) [PG-13]
WIP Scale Rating: $13.00 Running Time: 140 minutes

Well, for starters, the anticipation is over, Tom Hanks has returned as Robert Langdon in the adaptation of Dan Brown’s Angels & Demons directed just as was its predecessor, The Da Vinci Code, by venerable former Mayberry resident,Opie Taylor, now known as the very grown up and Academy Award®-winning, Ron Howard. When it comes to form and function, the film version of Angels & Demons is everything The Da Vinci code wasn’t. This film is heart-pounding action from its beginning in a swimming pool in Cambridge, MA, to its topsy-turvy-twisty ending that can be figured out if you pay attention to clues (or read the spoiler – hehehe). ......continued... or read the ...spoiler... or enjoy the tongue-in-cheek ...2cOrNot2 review...

Battle for Terra (2009) [PG]
WIP Scale Rating: $11.75 Running Time: 85 minutes

Don’t let the lack of a mega-studio advertising campaign deter you from finding and going to see this marvelous new animated film from Snoot Films. It features the voice cast of some great and current big name actors from Evan Rachel Wood and Amand Peet to Luke Wilson and Chris Evans for characters on two sides of a Battle for Terra, hence the title. As the film opens in cosmic, Real D™-3D blowing your mind and soul as you weave amongst stellar debris on a collision course with a mysterious planet inhabited by floating, liquid doe-eyed, peace-loving sentients who live, love, and learn in harmony with their planet. ......continued... or enjoy the tongue-in-cheek ...2cOrNot2 review...

Fighting (2009) [PG-13]
WIP Scale Rating: $7.50 Running Time: 105 minutes

Writer / Director Dito Montiel has done it again. Following precisely the same pattern as with his debut film A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints his second film, Fighting, looks to be so great in the trailer however falls far short of expectations at theatrical length. Utilizing the talent of up and coming James Dean replacement, Channing Tatum, as his featured star and the setting of New York City, this film deals not with gangs of New York but with the elite fight club culture. Somewhere on the circuit between Fight Club and Never Back Down, Mr. Montiel must have felt there was a least one more dude fighting movie story out there to tell. It’s a shame because the fighting in the film isn’t all that great, somewhat derivative, and far less imaginative than its bare-knuckle predecessors. ......continued... or read the ...spoiler... or enjoy the tongue-in-cheek ...2cOrNot2 review...

State of Play (2009) [PG-13]
WIP Scale Rating: $9.75 Running Time: 127 minutes

Director Kevin Macdonald’s previous film, The Last King of Scotland was an electric affair providing Academy Award®-worthy roles and incredibly insight into the nearly mythologically endowed villainous leader, Edi Amin. Sadly, it’s nearly the opposite with his film adaptation of the popular British television drama “State of Play” titled by the same name. The awkwardly plotted film promises to be one of the year’s top thrillers pitting a veteran investigative news reporter, Cal McAffrey (Russell Crowe), against the unseemly underbelly of Washington, D.C. pay for play politics and the corporations that would seek to control the government.......continued... or read the ...spoiler... or enjoy the tongue-in-cheek ...2cOrNot2 review...

17 Again (2009) [PG-13]
WIP Scale Rating: $12.00 Running Time: 102 minutes

A washed up sales executive, Mike O’Donnell (Matthew Perry) not so secretly blames his current failure of a life on a decision he made during senior year of high school to marry his pregnant girlfriend, Scarlett (Allison Miller). His wife, now so fed up with his morose attitude, played as an adult by Leslie Mann, has filed for divorce forcing him to move in with his now millionaire high school best friend, Ned (Thomas Lennon). After disastrous conversations with his two children, Maggie (Michell Trachtenberg) and Alex (Sterling Knight) and losing a promotion to a woman half his age and experience, he revisits the halls of Hayden High where he meets an elder janitor (Brian Doyle-Murray) who asks him, “I’ll bet you wish you had it to do it all over again.” Before he knows it he’s falling off a bridge into a vortex and finds himself 17 again. After Ned tried to hack him to death with movie props, he realizes that ‘newly returned to 17’ Mike is the real deal and is convinced to enroll him back in high school as his son, Mark (Zac Efron). Mark isn’t sure if he’s there to relive his life or what, but slowly he wonders if this isn’t about his kids rather than him. ......continued... or read the ...spoiler... or enjoy the tongue-in-cheek ...2cOrNot2 review...


Other Recent Reviews:

Dragonball Evolution (2009) [PG]
WIP Scale Rating: $9.50 Running Time: 100 minutes

Duplicity (2009) [PG-13]
WIP Scale Rating: $10.75 Running Time: 125 minutes

The Haunting of Connecticut (2009) [PG-13]
WIP Scale Rating: $11.25 Running Time: 92 minutes

I Love You, Man (2009) [R]
WIP Scale Rating: $12.50 Running Time: 104 minutes

Sunshine Cleaning (2009) [R]
WIP Scale Rating: $11.00 Running Time: 102 minutes

Race to Witch Mountain (2009) [PG]
WIP Scale Rating: $10.75 Running Time: 98 minutes

Watchmen (2009) [R]
WIP Scale Rating: $13.00 Running Time: 163 minutes

The Unborn (2009) [PG-13]
WIP Scale Rating: $5.00 Running Time: 87 minutes

Jonas Brothers: The 3D Concert Experience (2009) [G]
WIP Scale Rating: $10.75 Running Time: 76 minutes

Movie Review of Gran Torino (2008) [R]
WIP Scale Rating: $14.50 Running Time: 116 minutes



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