Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
Cast: Mike Myers,Jessica Alba,Justin Timberlake,Romany Malco,Meagan Good Director: Marco Schnabel MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language, some comic violence and drug references. IMDb User Rating: 3.8/10
This is the story about a Mossad agent Zohan Dvir, who fakes his death so he can re-emerge in New York City as a hair stylist. He romances his clients by giving them "special services" in the back room. However, he is eventually recognized, and risks losing his newfound life and career.
Cast: Adam Sandler,John Turturro,Emmanuelle Chriqui,Nick Swardson,Lainie Kazan Director: Dennis Dugan MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language and nudity. IMDb User Rating: 5.7/10
After Kevin (Drake Bell), a high school senior, gets dumped by his girlfriend Gina (Alona Tal) for being too boring, he doesn't want to go to the freshman orientation weekend at Fieldmont University, where they had planned to go together. But his best friends Carter (Andrew Caldwell) and Morris (Kevin Covais) convince him that the weekend away will help get his mind off her. Once there, one of the rowdiest Fraternities and sororities fraternities on campus pretends to recruit them as pledges in return for granting them access to the college party scene. Though forced to put up with the disgusting antics of fraternity brothers Teague (Nick Zano), Bearcat (Gary Owen), and Cooper (Zach Cregger), the guys meet sorority girls Kendall (Haley Bennett), Heather (Camille Mana), and Amy (Nathalie Walker), and sparks fly. But once Teague feels threatened by Kevin's new relationship with Kendall, he takes the pre-frosh humiliation to a greater level, forcing the guys to decide to fight back.
Cast: Drake Bell,Andrew Caldwell,Andree Moss,Carolyn Moss,Wendy Talley Director: Deb Hagan MPAA Rating: Rated R for pervasive crude and sexual content, nudity, language, drug and alcohol abuse. IMDb Rating: 4.1/10
Actor-turned-director Brian Robbins (VARSITY BLUES, THE PERFECT SCORE) is at the helm of comedian Eddie Murphy's alien adventure, MEET DAVE. Murphy stars as the minuscule captain of an alien spaceship that lands on Earth in the shape of a...Actor-turned-director Brian Robbins (VARSITY BLUES, THE PERFECT SCORE) is at the helm of comedian Eddie Murphy's alien adventure, MEET DAVE. Murphy stars as the minuscule captain of an alien spaceship that lands on Earth in the shape of a human being that looks just like him. The tiny crew is responsible for making the spaceship look and act like a human being as they search for a powerful orb that went off course and landed in Manhattan. Along the way, the captain--aka Dave--is befriended by Josh (Austyn Lind Myers), a fifth-grade boy who is being raised by his artist mother, Gina (Elizabeth Banks), since the death of his heroic Naval officer father. Although Dave and his crew land on Earth believing that the human race is inferior, they soon realize that there is something to be said for emotions, feelings, and friendship. The fun in this film lies in watching the spaceship Murphy try to assimilate as a human. His exaggerated facial expressions are priceless, and his skill at physical comedy is apparent throughout the film. Dave is a sponge soaking up everything around him. The crew's attempts to understand human culture are also amusing, as they get most of their cultural information from Google and Yahoo. Gabrielle Union stars as No. 3, the cultural officer, while Ed Helms is No 2., the second in command who thinks that his captain is adapting to Earth way too easily. Kevin Hart is No. 17, the crew member charged with dealing with many of the spaceship's internal functions.
Cast: Eddie Murphy,Elizabeth Banks,Gabrielle Union,Scott Caan,Ed Helms Director: Brian Robbins MPAA Rating: Rated PG for bawdy and suggestive humor, action and some language. IMDb User Rating: 4.4/10
A very heart-warming and kid-friendly film, brought up-to-date in terms of some of the plot twists and humour. When Ratso, a slick city rat, sees Ugly (yep, that's his real name), all he can imagine is dollar signs. He plans on exploiting the duckling at carnival sideshows. But, "the best-laid plans of rats and ducks" don't always work out the way we originally want them to. At the Toronto Festival, this was part of the pilot "Family First" series, an outreach of the "Sprockets" Children's Film Festival, so it was unusual but very refreshing to have so many kids in the audience. Their laughter was genuine, and the rest of us had plenty to laugh about as well (Got a teenager in your life? you'll love the scenes of Ugly's very rapid-onset 'puberty'). The animation is crisp and inviting, and the voices in the English language version were excellent.
Cast: Morgan C. Jones,Paul Tylack,Anna Olson,Gary Hetzler,Danna Davis Director: Michael Hegner,Karsten Kiilerich MPAA Rating: - IMDb User Rating: 5.8/10
John Hancock (Will Smith) is an unhappy and reluctant superhero who is living in his own world. For some unknown reason, Hancock is depressed and has started drinking very heavily. He has saved many lives in Los Angeles over the years, but in doing so, he has no regards for damaging buildings, trains, roads, cars, or anything that gets in his way of getting the job done. The last time he captured several criminals, it cost the city $9 million to fix the damages. The public has had enough of Hancock, and they want him to stop or go to another city. Then one day, Hancock saves the life of Ray Embrey (Jason Bateman) from being run over by a train. Ray is a public relations executive who now can go home to his wife and child, because Hancock was there. Ray owes Hancock his life, and he makes it his mission to change his superhero's image and have the public cheering him. Ray's wife, Mary (Charlize Theron), believes Hancock cannot be fixed, and she doesn't want Ray to be hurt.
Cast: Will Smith,Charlize Theron,Jason Bateman,Jae Head,Eddie Marsan Director: Peter Berg MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for some intense sequences of sci-fi action and violence, and language. IMDb User Rating: 6.7/10
Bungling secret agent Maxwell Smart, also known as Agent 86 for CONTROL, is on a mission to battle the forces of their evil crime nemesis known as KAOS with his more-competent partner Agent 99, (whose real name is never revealed) at his side. When the headquarters of U.S. spy agency Control is attacked and the identities of its agents compromised, the Chief has no choice but to promote his ever-eager analyst Maxwell Smart, who has always dreams of working in the field alongside stalwart superstar Agent 23. Smart will do whatever it takes to thwart the latest plot for world domination by KAOS.
Cast: Steve Carell,Anne Hathaway,Dwayne Johnson,Alan Arkin,Terence Stamp Director: Peter Segal MPAA Rating: Rated PG-13 for some rude humor, action violence and language. IMDb User Rating: 7.0/10
It's the story about a lazy, irreverent slacker panda, named Po, who is the biggest fan of Kung Fu around...which doesn't exactly come in handy while working every day in his family's noodle shop. Unexpectedly chosen to fulfill an ancient prophecy, Po's dreams become reality when he joins the world of Kung Fu and studies alongside his idols, the legendary Furious Five -- Tigress, Crane, Mantis, Viper and Monkey -- under the leadership of their guru, Master Shifu. But before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way, and it's up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat. Can he turn his dreams of becoming a Kung Fu master into reality? Po puts his heart - and his girth - into the task, and the unlikely hero ultimately finds that his greatest weaknesses turn out to be his greatest strengths.
Cast: Jack Black,Dustin Hoffman,Angelina Jolie,Ian McShane,Jackie Chan Directors: Mark Osborne,John Stevenson MPAA Rating: Rated PG for sequences of martial arts action. IMDb User Rating: 7.8/10
Two NASA chimps that are sent to a galaxy far, far away. One chimp has "The Right Stuff," and the other, a good natured goofball, has "The Wrong Stuff." The simian slacker becomes a reluctant hero and learns the true meaning of courage as he and his crewmates, the fearless Lt. Luna and their uptight commander, Titan, risk everything in an effort to save the peaceful inhabitants of a distant planet from the evil dictator Zartog.
Cast:Andy Samberg,Cheryl Hines,Jeff Daniels,Patrick Warburton,Kristin Chenoweth Director: Kirk De Micco MPAA Rating: - IMDb User Rating: 4.0/10
It's turning out to be a pretty rotten Christmas for the Saunders family. Having just moved to a new city from Los Angeles, they have no friends, no money and, with the exception of the bright-eyed Mary, no Christmas spirit. To make matters worse, their mother is stuck in L.A., stranded by airline overbookings. So, the Christmas shopping duties fall on Dad and the gloomy kids. Things start looking a bit more like Christmas when 12-year old Brian and 6-year old Mary find a satchel of money at the local mall and they launch a Yuletide shopping spree...that is, until the crooks who counterfeited the money chase them through the mall packed with holiday shoppers.
Cast: Patrick Swayze,Matthew Knight,Amy Schlagel,Zoe Schlagel,Tim Curry Director: James Orr MPAA Rating: Rated PG for rude language. IMDb User Rating: 4.7/10
What if mankind had to leave Earth, and somebody forgot to turn the last robot off? After hundreds of lonely years of doing what he was built for, WALL*E (short for Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class) discovers a new purpose in life (besides collecting knick-knacks) when he meets a sleek search robot named EVE. EVE comes to realize that WALL*E has inadvertently stumbled upon the key to the planet's future, and races back to space to report her findings to the humans (who have been eagerly awaiting word that it is safe to return home). Meanwhile, WALL*E chases EVE across the galaxy and sets an adventure into motion. Joining WALL*E on his journey across the universe is a cast of characters including a pet cockroach and a heroic team of malfunctioning misfit robots.
Cast: Ben Burtt,Elissa Knight,Jeff Garlin,Fred Willard,MacInTalk Director: Andrew Stanton MPAA Rating: - IMDb User Rating: 8.7/10
The makers of ‘Tropic Thunder’ knew they had a challenge on their hands with the character of Lazarus, who is surgically blacked up to play an African-American soldier, meaning that Downey is too. They did a good job of defusing the issue in the US – they’re parodying Hollywood narcissism, not the black experience, for heaven’s sake! – and were enormously helped by Downey’s terrific, compulsive performance. Equal parts brash, bonkers and perplexed, he’s the film’s best bit. (The mental-health lobby was less than impressed by his bravura monologue about the perils of actors going ‘full retard’ in pursuit of Oscar glory, but that’s another story.)
Certainly, the film works much better as Tinseltown parody than as action flick or character drama; on those terms, which co-writer and director Stiller seems to have taken seriously, it’s pretty ordinary stuff. But its better moments of self-referential snark, such as an ace cameo from Tom Cruise as an obnoxious studio exec, have the feel of a superior end-of-term revue.
Cast: Jeff Kahn,Robert Downey Jr.,Anthony Ruivivar,Jack Black,Jay Baruchel Director: Ben Stiller MPAA Rating: Rated R for pervasive language including sexual references, violent content and drug material. IMDb User Rating: 7.5/10
In Step Brothers, two lazy, underemployed fortysomething men -- Brennan Huff (Will Ferrell) and Dale Doback (John C. Reilly) -- still live at home with their parents, enjoying a life of perpetual adolescence devoid of ambition and responsibility. This state of bless (to them) is disrupted when their respective parents -- Robert (Richard Jenkins) and Nancy (Mary Steenburgen) -- fall in love and get married. Suddenly, Brennan and Dale find themselves step brothers.
They start off truly loathing each other, with Dale having the upper hand since they're living in his dad's house. There are certain ground rules set by Dale, in particular that Brennan must stay out of his Beat Laboratory (the room where his drums are kept). They almost kill each other one night, but there's nothing quite like a common enemy to bring two warring sides together.
That person would be Brennan's hugely accomplished younger brother Derek (Adam Scott), a smarmy charmer who made Brennan's life hell as a child and is still doing it thirty years later. When Derek becomes the apple of Robert's eye, Dale grows to hate him, too, and soon these two step brothers discover there is more they have in common -- a love for John Stamos, karate, music, and vintage t-shirts for starters -- than not. When Richard and Nancy's marriage begins to splinter from the strain of supporting these two lazy oafs, Brennan and Dale will have to shape up and grow up fast if they're to save their parents' marriage.
Cast: Will Ferrell,John C. Reilly,Mary Steenburgen,Richard Jenkins,Jason Davis Director: Adam McKay MPAA Rating: Rated R for crude and sexual content, and pervasive language. IMDb User Rating: 6.9/10
Fred Claus has lived his entire life in his brother's very large shadow. Fred tried, but could hardly live up to the example set by the younger Nicholas, who was just a perfect, well, saint. True to form, Nicholas (a.k.a Santa Claus) grew up to be the model of giving, while Fred became the polar opposite: a fast-talking repo man who's run out of luck and money. Eventually Fred's bad behavior catches up with him and he is sent to jail. His only recourse is to turn to his brother. Over Mrs. Claus' objections, Nicholas agrees to help his brother on one condition: that he come to the North Pole and earn the money he needs by working in Santa's Toy Shop. The trouble is that Fred isn't exactly elf material and cut out for creating toys and spreading good cheer. With Christmas fast approaching, Fred could jeopardize the jolliest holiday of the year and ruin Christmas.
Cast: Vince Vaughn,Paul Giamatti,John Michael Higgins,Miranda Richardson,Rachel Weisz Director: David Dobkin MPAA Rating: Rated PG for mild language and some rude humor. IMDb User Rating: 5.6/10
Pitka an American raised outside of his country by gurus, returns to the States in order to break into the self-help business. His first challenge: To settle the romantic troubles and subsequent professional skid of a star hockey player whose wife left him for a rival athlete.
