Swingers
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Schlubby housesitter-turned-hustler Deuce Bigalow (Rob Schneider) travels to Amsterdam to clear his former pimp (Eddie Griffin) of murdering Europe's top ''prostidudes.'' To solve the mystery, he'll have to sleep with the escorts' extremely dysfunctional clients in a comedy that takes the premise behind Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? and drags it through the gutter. For anyone who thinks the sight of a pimp eating French fries out of a toilet bowl is funny, this is the movie for you. -- Debruge (pervasive strong crude and sexual humor, language, nudity and drug content) 83 minutes.
Fascinating, often astounding documentary about Emperor penguins, who live in the most inhospitable climate on Earth and face tremendous danger each year in order to procreate. Director Luc Jacquet's cameras manage to surreptitiously invade the flock without altering its behavior, capture each step of these beautiful birds' breeding process, with the parents risking death by starvation, exposure and sheer exhaustion for the sake of their fragile offspring. -- Rodriguez (no offensive material). 80 minutes.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie make a formidable pair in this screwball shoot-em-up about a pair of married assassins assigned to take each other out. The two leads obviously like each other and share a terrific chemistry, but the movie's premise is thin, and despite lots of elaborate, effective action sequences, director Doug Liman (''Go,'' ''Swingers'') eventually runs out of material and resorts to action for action's sake. -- Rodriguez (vulgar language, violence, adult themes). 119 minutes.
You might expect a documentary about the sport of quad rugby -- wheelchair rugby, played on a basketball court by quadriplegics racing around in souped-up wheelchairs -- to be inspiring and uplifting, and this one certainly is. But directors Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro are storytellers before everything else, and they pack enough narrative into these brief 85 minutes to shame most feature films. The film is utterly absorbing, whether it's focusing on the family life of the victory-obsessed coach of the Canadian team, who longs to pay back his former American teammates, or the strained friendship between two Broward men, whose relationship was tested after an accident left one of them disabled. Gripping, thoroughly entertaining and -- yes -- moving, too. -- Rodriguez (vulgar language, adult themes). 85 minutes.
Equal parts of ''The Incredibles,'' ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' and ''Pretty in Pink'' are combined to not-bad effect in this cookie-cutter movie, which seems specifically designed to remind you of other movies you probably liked more. Will (Michael Angarano) is a kid whose parents (Kurt Russell and Kelly Preston) are walking action figures, excited about sending him to his first day of superhero school at Sky High. Will hasn't discovered his superpowers yet, which sets up some John Hughes, I-don't-fit-in action. Fresh? No. But it is easy to relate to Will and his friends as they try to find their way in the world. -- Herald wire services (mild language) 102 minutes.
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