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New at the movies

Thoraia Abou Bakr
Last updated: 2013/06/09 at 1:42 AM
By Thoraia Abou Bakr 3 Min Read
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8-3 a

The Hangover 3

The wolfpack are back for another drunken night of unbelievably stupid acts. One has to admit that the first film was quite funny, however, the sequel proved a bit of a letdown. Therefore, the pressure was on third film to restore the name of the boozed-up brand. Or not.

According to Stephen Holden, of The New York Times: “The Wolfpack rides again. Or rather, it limps exhaustedly over the tundra in what is billed as the final edition of the Hangover trilogy. Defanged, with glazed eyes and creaking joints, these superannuated party animals try vainly to stir up some enthusiasm during a return visit to Las Vegas, the site of the first Hangover movie. But their heart isn’t in it.”

8-3 b

Now You See Me

Another crime-slash-thriller movie, but this time with a twist; think The Prestige meets Inside Man, but with more flash and less substance. A team of magicians steal banks on stage and give the money to the audience. The whole movie revolves around solving how the robberies were done. The cast is quite attractive, with Morgan Freeman, Michael Kane, and Mark Ruffalo heading the ensemble. Right now it is number two in the American Box Office.

Said David Denbty of The New Yorker: “Some people may want to view Now You See Me twice—if only they can manage to get through it once. A large-scale, jackrabbity film about magic and larceny, it has the kind of plot that keeps turning itself inside out. Again and again, one character tells another that he’s a step behind what’s going on, and that’s what the movie is saying to the audience: ‘You think you get it, but you don’t. By the time you catch up, the story will be doing something else.’”

8-3 c

Epic (3D)

The cartoon handles the idea of the guardians of the forest, much like the 90s cartoon, FernGully. Actually, exactly like FernGully, but with a shift in the gender of the main characters. However, this time it is 3D and the characters are less enchanting and more physically alluring. The main character, Mary Katherine, is a teenager who finds herself in the world of those guardians, and continues to seek her destiny. I find myself less intrigued and more flabbergasted by the unoriginality of it all.

“Basically, it’s a passable combination of Bambi, The Borrowers and Avatar (which plays in my memory as an animated picture),” said Philip French of The Guardian. “A necessary touch of comedy is provided by a slug and snail, which sounds like the name of a pub you wouldn’t feel like drinking in.”

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