When a mysterious toxic foam starts spreading in the jungle, The Jungle Bunch must stop it. ! With no time to spare, it's time to stop cracking jokes and starting sailing boats on their journey across the world to find the antidote. Will their arch-nemesis Henry the Beaver stop our …
The ride offers more motivation and depth of character than the movie. Think The African Queen if Katherine Hepburn had to ward off computer generated marine life and Bogey had a 25-inch neck. With no story to speak of other than finding an arrowhead, the plot experiences more climaxes than …
The ride offers more motivation and depth of character than the movie. Think The African Queen if Katherine Hepburn had to ward off computer generated marine life and Bogey had a 25-inch neck. With no story to speak of other than finding an arrowhead, the plot experiences more climaxes than …
The ride offers more motivation and depth of character than the movie. Think The African Queen if Katherine Hepburn had to ward off computer generated marine life and Bogey had a 25-inch neck. With no story to speak of other than finding an arrowhead, the plot experiences more climaxes than …
Spike Lee's heated discussion of interracial romance is engaging enough on the level of a TV talk show (a girl-talk session of black women itemizing the shortcomings of black men could be transplanted bodily to The Oprah Winfrey Show), but not on the level of fiction. The most glaring problem …
The co-stars of Twins, Schwarzenegger and DeVito, together again, in another one-joke comedy, this time to do with the world's first pregnant man (not counting Marcello Mastroianni in The Most Important Event Since Man Walked on the Moon or Billy Crystal in Rabbit Test). The script -- "My nipples are …
Sam has been on a self-destructive spiral that could lead to his death. He returns home from boarding school to find his wheelchair-bound English grandmother, Ruth, has moved in. Ruth is an ex-war photographer with a lust for life and a love of the bottle. Sam soon finds himself profoundly …
Scruffy little bleached-out comic thriller from Norway, with the attention-holding situation of a dishonest Oslo postman nosing into the private affairs of an attractive blonde on his route and finding himself up to his ears in criminal activity: not only his own. Robert Skaerstad, Andrine Saether; directed by Pal Sletaune.
Japanese haunted-house thriller, released in America just ahead of its Hollywood remake, simply called The Grudge. Sympathy may be stirred, if nothing like terror, at the spectacle of low-budget filmmaking reliant on imagination and ingenuity instead of special effects. Narrative context, however, is filled in so sketchily and belatedly that …
How can something so busy be so boring? Maybe it's because the Wachowskis have officially begun cannibalizing their own work. Way back in 1999, The Matrix gave us a Chosen One who gets introduced to a reality entirely beyond his experience, a reality based on a terrifying premise: humanity reduced …
Spielberg. Dinosaurs. What more need be said? You get what you expect. Or in blurb-ese: "It delivers the goods." But it nowhere exceeds or confounds expectations. The premise, from the Michael Crichton novel, is essentially that of Crichton's Westworld with dinosaurs in lieu of robots: amusement park gone haywire. And …