Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
R
2 stars
Director: Danny Leiner.
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Brook D’Orsay, Neil Patrick Harris
Regina King.
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle
R
2 stars
Director: Danny Leiner.
Starring: John Cho, Kal Penn, Brook D’Orsay, Neil Patrick Harris Regina King.
And along the way they have many adventures, mostly centered on drugs and sex. The multicultural cast gives a shred of substance to what’s otherwise a standard adolescent gross-out flick.
A Cinderella Story
PG
1 star
Director: Mark Rosman.
Starring: Hilary Duff, Jennifer Coolidge, Chad Michael Murray, Regina King.
The timeless fairy tale is updated into a cookie-cutter specimen of the teen-girl comedy about a mistreated high-schooler who goes to a dance despite her stepmother’s wishes and lands the handsome boy. Even the delightful Duff disappoints.
The Bourne Supremacy
PG-13
2 stars
Director: Paul Greengrass
Starring: Matt Damon, Franka Potente, Joan Allen, Brian Cox, Julia Stiles.
Sequel to “The Bourne Identity,” which at least had some psychological tension as the hero learns what his identity is – namely, a CIA assassin with amnesia. This time it’s just chasing, fistfighting, and shooting. A disappointment from the director of “Bloody Sunday.”
Thunderbirds
PG
1 star
Director: Jonathan Frakes.
Starring Brady Corbet, Ben Kingsley, Sophia Miles, Bill Paxton.
An eager adolescent gets to join his family’s super-high-tech rescue team. The action is snappy and quick, but why does this youth-targeted adventure pit white male heroes against a trio of villains comprising a black man, an Asian man, and an ugly woman?
The Village (PG-13)
PG13
2 stars
Director: M. Night Shyamalan.
Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Adrien Brody, Sigourney Weaver, Bryce Dallas Howard, William Hurt.
Hardships beset an isolated town that lives in fear of sinister creatures in the surrounding woods. Shyamalan remains a stilted screenwriter, but Roger Deakins’s cinematography is spooky, creepy, eerie all the way.
