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Reviewed by: Edward Douglas
Rating: 8 out of 10

Cast:
Jesse Eisenberg as Nick
Danny McBride as Dwayne
Aziz Ansari as Chet
Nick Swardson as Travis
Dilshad Vadsaria as Kate
Michael Peña as Chango
Bianca Kajlich as Juicy
Fred Ward as The Major
Elizabeth Wright Shapiro as Chet's Date
Brett Gelman as Pizza Boss
Paul Tierney as Rodney

Directed by Ruben Fleischer

Story:
Nick (Jesse Eisenberg) is a pizza guy with few long-term goals in life, and his friend Chet (Aziz Ansari) is sick of hearing about it, especially when Nick admits his interest in Chet's sister Kate. When Nick is knocked out by two guys in masks, a bomb is strapped to him and he's told that he has ten hours to rob a bank if he wants to live. He has to call upon Chet to help him and the two of them have just ten hours to get the criminals their money if Nick wants to live to take Kate out on a date.

The Dark Knight Film Review

The 2008 action drama The Dark Knight is distributed by Warner Bros. Some of its stars include Christian Bale as Batman/Bruce Wayne, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Heath Ledger as The Joker, Gary Oldman as James Gordon, and Maggie Gyllenhaal as Rachel Dawes. The writers are Jonathan Nolan (The Prestige), Christopher Nolan (Batman Begins), David S. Goyer (The Unborn), and Bob Kane (Batman). The director is Christopher Nolan.

The film opens roughly a year after the events of Batman Begins. The Joker and his men rob a bank in the first scene. New District Attorney Harvey Dent joins Lieutenant Gordon and Batman to help destroy the mob. During a mob boss meeting, a Chinese mafia accountant named Lau informs them that the stolen money has been hidden and he has fled to Hong Kong. The Joker interrupts the meeting and tells the mob bosses that Batman will go after Lau and he will offer to kill him if he receives half the shares. They refuse and place a bounty on the Joker's head. Batman does go after Lau in Hong Kong and brings him back to Gotham City.

He agrees to testify against the mob bosses, freeing up Dent to arrest and charge them. Because of these recent events, the Joker threatens to kill people until Batman reveals his true identity. The first deaths are Commissioner Loeb and the judge presiding over the mob boss trial. A later attempt to assassinate the mayor is foiled and Lieutenant Gordon appears to be killed. In order to prevent further loss of life, Bruce Wayne plans to reveal himself until Harvey Dent says he's Batman to keep the truth secure. While being transported across the city, the DA is captured by the Joker's men. In the process, the Joker himself is arrested.

He reveals to Batman that Dent and Rachel Dawes, Bruce Wayne's love interest, have been placed in separate buildings at opposite ends of town, each surrounded with explosives. The Caped Crusader goes after who he thinks will be Rachel while Gordon, who had faked his own death to lure the Joker, goes after Dent. Batman arrives and discovers that Harvey Dent is the one held captive there while Gordon fails in his attempt to save Rachel. In the explosion, Dent is badly burned on half his face and is distraught over her death.

Movie Review: Gnomeo and Juliet (2011)

Though a scant few scenes might have you laughing, Gnomeo and Juliet doesn't seem at all concerned with entertaining the adult audiences dragged along to the theater with the target group of small children. The juvenile humor and immaturity run rampant, as do several annoyingly hyperactive supporting characters, resulting in a tug-of-war between eye rolling and grimacing. Plenty of attention has been given to the texturing and detailing of the clay creations, though the mishmash of ceramic materials, squash and stretch animation, and clanking stone sound effects strains general acceptance as much as the rehashed usage of sudden immobility in the presence of humans (at least we're given the ground rules for gnome desirability: a rotund belly and a thick, pointy hat). With tired Matrix parodies, several bland character designs and a flamingo (voice by Jim Cummings, who reuses his own unique voice of Don Karnage from Talespin) and a frog that won't stop jabbering, it's quite likely you'll be begging for the end to come - and hoping it remains faithful to Shakespeare's original play.

It's love at first sight when blue garden decoration Gnomeo (James McAvoy) meets red lawn ornament Juliet (Emily Blunt). There's only one problem - they belong to opposing factions of a ceaseless feud between backyards. As the pranks and paybacks continue to escalate amongst the warring forces, Gnomeo and Juliet realize they must bring the conflict to an end if they wish to find true happiness and alter the tragic fate befallen their namesakes.

Gnomeo and Juliet started with an amusing pun for a title and just went for it - a feature-length animated movie with nothing more than a one-dimensional riff on a universally renowned play. Without interesting characters, situations or even creative jokes on Shakespeare, and armed with the remnants of a hobbled-together, terribly generic rip of the most basic love story, this half-hearted attempt at family entertainment is void of any screen magic. None of the pieces combine to make even the faintest form of fun; tragedy is included for the sake of staying reminiscent to the source material (and then promptly withdrawn), the romance is childish and the humor is hopelessly infantile.

X-Men: First Class

X-Men: First Class
Reviewed by: Scott Chitwood

Cast:
James McAvoy as Professor Charles Xavier
Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto
Jennifer Lawrence as Raven Darkholme / Mystique
Kevin Bacon as Sebastian Shaw
Rose Byrne as Dr. Moira MacTaggert
January Jones as Emma Frost
Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy / Beast
Jason Flemyng as Azazel
Zoë Kravitz as Angel Salvadore

Lucas Till as Alex Summers / Havok
Morgan Lily as Young Raven Darkholme / Young Mystique
Oliver Platt as Man in Black
Edi Gathegi as Armando Muñoz / Darwin

Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

Rating: PG-13 | Runtime: 2 hr 17 mins | Genre: Adventure Movie
Produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Rob Marshall, "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides" captures the fun, adventure and humor that ignited the hit franchise...this time in Disney Digital 3D(TM).
Synopsis:
Flamboyant seafarer Jack Sparrow grounds himself in a bit of a bind after being lured onto Blackbeard's ship by enigmatic siren Angelica, and forced to seek out the Fountain of Youth. Trapped on the Queen Anne's Revenge with the most nefarious pirate in history, Captain Jack reflects on his past with the elusive Angelica while embarking on his wildest adventure to date. With shambling zombies on deck and gorgeous mermaids beckoning sailors into the icy waters below, this time Jack Sparrow has his work cut out for him.

Director: Rob Marshall
Starring: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Ian McShane, Kevin R. McNally, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Sam Claflin, Geoffrey Rush

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