In this week’s MovieStyle, Andrew Westney assays the French buddy comedy The Intouchables — the second-highest grossing movie in French history, by the way — and finds it “more funny and charming than heartstring-pulling.” While Westney regrets that the film misses a few opportunities, on the whole it’s better than your average popcorn muncher.
Such as, well the Ben Stiller-Vince Vaughn paycheck delivery device, The Watch, which Dan Lybarger found underwhelmingly thin on funny. He thinks Step Up Revolution is better — in a “if you’re looking for hot dancers in South Beach” sort of way. We’ve also got a couple of dog stories — Lawrence Kasdan’s Darling Companion, which Philip Martin admits he enjoyed mostly out of nostalgia for better Kasdan projects and the magnificent grown-up animated film My Dog Tulip, which is out on DVD (and Hulu Plus) and which you should see immediately.