Film clips

— At area theaters

78

DEATH AT A FUNERAL, R As a family comes together to lay a beloved husband and father to rest, mayhem ensues involving shocking revelations, festering resentments, ugly threats, blackmail and a misdirected corpse. A remake of a 2007 British film. (90 minutes)

88

DESPICABLE ME, PG A supervillain has to put his plans for the greatest heist in history - he’s going to steal the moon - on hold when he’s put in charge of three small orphan girls. Animated. (95 minutes)

88

GET HIM TO THE GREEK, R A record company intern (Jonah Hill) has two days to drag an uncooperative rock legend (Russell Brand) to Hollywood for a comeback concert. (109 minutes)

88

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO

, not rated

A discredited journalist and a cunning computer hacker link a disappearance to a number of 40-year-old grotesque murders and a dark and appalling family history. Based on the novel by the late Swedish author Stieg Larsson. Subtitled. (152 minutes)

81

GROWN UPS, PG-13 Over a Fourth of July weekend, 30 years since they graduated from high school, five former basketball teammates (Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Kevin James, David Spade, Rob Schneider) gather at the lake house where they celebrated their biggest victory to mourn the passing of their coach and realize that just because they’re all grown up and have started families doesn’t mean that they’ve lost that old spark. (102 minutes)

79

HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON,

PG

A Viking teenager doesn’t exactly fit in with his tribe’s tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Animated. (98 minutes)

90

INCEPTION, PG-13 Leonardo DiCaprio plays the ultimate dream thief, stealing secrets from deep within the subconscious, an international fugitive who gets a chance at redemption: not to steal an idea this time, but to plant one. (148 minutes)

83

IRON MAN 2, PG-13 Robert Downey Jr. returns as the title superhero, aka billionaire inventorTony Stark, now under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military. Of course, once he does, it’s bound to end up in the wrong hands, right? (125 minutes)

89

JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK

, R

Directors Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg take a documentary look at the life and career of the acerbic comedienne. (104 minutes)

68

JONAH HEX, PG-13 Another graphic-novel-to-big-screen epic, focusing on a scarred gunslinger and part-time bounty hunter (Josh Brolin) with one foot in the Old West and the other “on the other side” (which provides plenty of opportunity for big-budget special effects) who receives an assignment he can’t refuse: track down and stop a dangerous terrorist (John Malkovich) who is gathering an army and preparing to unleash hell. (82 minutes)

72

JUST WRIGHT, PG Queen Latifah plays a sports trainer who finds herself falling in love with a professional basketball player while rehabilitating him from a careerthreatening injury. (111 minutes)

83

THE KARATE KID, PG In this remake, Jaden Smith (son of Will) learns more than martial arts from Chinese master Mr. Han (Jackie Chan). (126 minutes)

74

KILLERS, PG-13 Katherine Heigl plays a woman on the rebound who thinks she has found and married the dashing, handsome man of her dreams (Ashton Kutcher) - until the bullets start flying. Turns out he never quite got around to telling her he’s a superspy/hitman. (100 minutes)

68

THE LAST AIRBENDER, PG A 12-year-old boy (Noah Ringer) provides the last hope for restoring harmony to a land consumed by chaos. (103 minutes)

78

THE LAST SONG, PG A father (Greg Kinnear) in a small Southern beach town gets a chance to spend the summer with his reluctant teenage daughter (Miley Cyrus),who’d rather be home in New York. (105 minutes)

78

LEAP YEAR, PG Amy Adams plays a woman determined to get married to the perfect guy, whose plan to follow her boyfriend to Dublin so she can propose to him on Feb. 29 goes predictably awry. (97 minutes)

70

MARMADUKE, PG The outsized comic strip Great Dane moves to the big screen, living large in Orange County, Calif., but has a hard time fitting in with new four-legged friends and a potential puppy love. (87 minutes)

78

PREDATORS, R Adrien Brodyplays a mercenary leading a group of human predators who discover that they’re being hunted as prey on the alien planet that produced the aliens in the original Predator series. (106 minutes)

83

RAMONA AND BEEZUS, G A sense of fun, adventure and mischief come in handy when youngster Ramona Quimby (Joey King) puts her mind to helping save her family’s home. With Selena Gomez, John Corbett, Sandra Oh, Josh Duhamel; directed by Elizabeth Allen. (104 minutes)

82

ROBIN HOOD, PG-13 Russell Crowe takes a shot at the title role of a 13th-century archer who assembles a mercenary and lethal gang of marauders to take on the corrupt and despotic sheriff of Nottingham while remaining loyal to the king and winning the love of spirited widow Lady Marion (Cate Blanchett). (148 minutes)

86

SALT, PG-13 Angelina Jolieplays a CIA operative on the run after being wrongly accused of being a Russian assassin out to take down the U.S. president. With Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andre Braugher; directed by Phillip Noyce. (99 minutes)

76

SHREK FOREVER AFTER, PG The fourth, and reportedly last, in the saga of the ogre-turned-ruler (voice of Mike Myers), who, trying to restore his lost ogre mojo, signs an ill-advised pact with the underhanded Rumpelstiltskin. Animated. (91 minutes)

85

THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE,

PG

A seemingly average guy (Jay Baruchel) with hidden talents is the reluctant recruit of a master magician (Nicolas Cage) in a fight against the forces of darkness. (111 minutes)

88

TOY STORY 3, G As owner Andy prepares to depart for college, Woody (voice of Tom Hanks), Buzz Lightyear (voice of Tim Allen) and others in the gang face a future in a playroom full of untamed tots who can’t wait to get their sticky little fingers on these “new” toys.(103 minutes)

86

THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE,

PG-13

The love triangle between mortal Bella (Kristen Stewart), vampire Edward (Robert Pattinson) and werewolf Jacob (Taylor Lautner) teeters as the werewolf pack and the Cullen clan join together to fight a new breed of vampires. (124 minutes)

88

WINTER’S BONE, R A 17-yearold (Jennifer Lawrence) challenges her outlaw kin’s code of silence and risks her life to track down her father, who has put their house in the Ozarks up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, she and her family will be turned out into the woods. (100 minutes)

Movie-rating

point system

Movies are rated on

a scale from 50 to

100. Guidelines for

moviegoers:

96-100 Transcendent

90-95 Exceptional

80-89 Better than most to remarkable

70-79 Average

60-69 Awful to mediocre

50-59 Irredeemable

MovieStyle, Pages 33 on 07/30/2010

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