The studio’s latest been-there-done-that computer-generated cash cow is “Megamind.” Like the “Shrek” franchise, it features a bad guy who isn’t a villain so much as a misunderstood lug. Like the “Madagascar” movies, it often confuses wit with frenetic montages in which creatures dance, dance, dance. Like “Monsters vs. Aliens,” it offers characters only as memorable […]
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All-Star Superman
And that’s not the only eyebrow-raiser in the feature, based on Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely’s revamp of the Man of Steel, as played out in the team’s 2005 comic-book series. For another, Jimmy Olsen appears in drag. There’s more. The film finds Superman (voiced by James Denton of TV’s “Desperate Housewives”) not as invincible […]
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Love at First Kill
Also known as “The Box Collector,” the film finds its biggest star in Margot Kidder, now a far, far cry from Lois Lane as Beth, one kooky, miserable old hag who lives alone with her long-suffering, socially awkward son, Harry (Noah Segan, “The Brothers Bloom”). They’re both on meds of some sort, but things look […]