Thursday, June 30, 2011

Night at the movies

A junior high school teacher competes with a much-loved teacher for the attentions of a handsome substitute. Evans, Aiken, Augusta Exchange

In this publicity image released by Paramount Pictures, Bumblebee is shown in a scene from "Transformers: Dark of the Moon."

BRIDESMAIDS (R): A maid of honor's life falls apart while helping with her friend's wedding. Augusta Exchange

CARS 2 (G): Lightning McQueen and Mater go overseas to compete in the World Grand Prix. Monetta, Evans, Aiken, Augusta Exchange

GREEN LANTERN (PG-13): A green ring gives a test pilot otherworldly powers and membership in an intergalactic peacekeeping squadron. Monetta, Evans, Augusta Exchange, Aiken

THE HANGOVER PART II (R): Stu's modest bachelor brunch devolves into a wild weekend in Bangkok. Augusta Exchange, Evans

KUNG FU PANDA 2 (PG): A villain plans to destroy Kung Fu, and it is up to Po and the Furious Five to stop it. Augusta Exchange

LIMITLESS (PG-13): A man uses a drug to enhance his mental abilities to become successful, until supplies dwindle. Masters

LINCOLN LAWYER (PG-13): A lawyer represents a client from his Lincoln Town Car. Masters

MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS (PG): A businessman inherits six penguins. Monetta, Evans, Augusta Exchange, Aiken

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON STRANGER TIDES (PG-13): Jack Sparrow crosses paths with a con artist searching for the fountain of youth and legendary pirate Blackbeard. Evans, Augusta Exchange, Monetta

RIO (G): A macaw lives a happily domesticated life with his human friend, Linda. Masters

SOMETHING BORROWED (PG-13): A "good girl" forms a romantic connection with her best friend's fiance. Masters

SOUL SURFER (PG): True story of champion surfer Bethany Hamilton. Masters

SUPER 8 (PG-13): Locals begin to disappear after a mysterious train crash. Monetta, Evans, Aiken, Augusta Exchange

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG-13): Professor X and Magneto once were allies against Earth's destruction. Evans, Augusta Exchange, Monetta

Bumblebee clears a path in Transformers: Dark of the Moon.

- All the technical promise of decades of "aliens invade" thrillers, from Independence Day through Battle: Lost Angeles, and the best comic character actors money can buy serve Transformers: Dark of the Moon well. The funniest, best-executed film in the bleeding, Earth-protecting-robots-that-look-like-cars-and-trucks series, Moon delivers the popcorn in gigantic fistfuls of fun.

It's as head-slappingly stupid as ever, a product placement action film with a Camaro as a hero and assorted other motoring villains. But Michael Bay's cartoon-come-to-life co-opts NASA history and redecorates Chicago with a gusto as over-the-top as any hammy Shia LaBeouf rant, rave or riff.

- If Transformers 3 isn't the summer's lousiest whiz-bang movie, it's only because there's so much competition. It's not even the best "3-D anthropomorphic automobiles and explosions" movie of the month. The demolition derby of Cars 2 seems a work of staggering genius in comparison. ...

Transformers 3 runs a soul-shredding 154 minutes, most of it a hash of time-killing subplots. The last 50 minutes are spent leveling Chicago. There is exactly one novel idea among the slapdash battle scenes, as our human heroes slip and slide through a toppling skyscraper. That flash of invention aside, the nonstop annihilation becomes obnoxious.

LARRY CROWNE (PG-13): A casualty of corporate downsizing enrolls in college and meets an instructor who lost her passion for both teaching and her marriage. Evans, Aiken, Augusta Exchange

MONTE CARLO (PG-13): Three young women take a humdrum tour of Paris, until one of them is mistaken for a British socialite. Augusta Exchange, Aiken, Evans

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG-13):

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