Theatrical Releases This Week
Paranormal Activity 3
Director: Michael R. Perry and Oren Peli
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90r3CnPI0AM&ob=av3e
The Paranormal Activity franchise continues with this third outing from Paramount Pictures. Oren Peli and Jason Blum return to produce the highly secretive feature, with Catfish’s directing duo of Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman taking on the helming duties. (Synopsis by Jeremy Wheeler, Rovi)
It’s the time of the year to roll out the horror genre once again, for better or worse. This film is garnering good reviews, but offering more of the same. Fortunately, it appears that enough has been modified from the original story line to make this worth seeing, even if you’ve watched the two previous installments.
The Three Musketeers
Director: Paul W.S. Anderson
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQd3MwT2fAM
The hot-headed young D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) joins forces with three rogue Musketeers (Matthew MacFadyen, Luke Evans and Ray Stevenson) in this reboot of Alexandre Dumas’ story. They must stop the evil Richlieu (Christoph Waltz) and face off with Buckingham (Orlando Bloom) and the treacherous Milady (Milla Jovovich). The action adventure is given a state of the art update in 3-D. (Synopsis by Summit)
You hadn’t heard they were rebooting this franchise? That’s because it’s terrible. When Logan “Percy Jackson” Lerman is your main attraction you’re already starting in a hole, one left by the “Pirates” franchise. This film takes as little as possible from the books, replacing the classic story with 3D swashbuckling. Adding insult to injury is director Anderson’s track record—“highlighted” by 1995’s “Mortal Kombat.”
Johnny English Reborn
Director: Oliver Parker
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXQSfSu1Y0s
In the years since MI7’s top spy vanished off the grid, Johnny English (Rowan Atkinson) has been honing his unique skills in a remote region of Asia. But when his agency superiors learn of an attempt against the Chinese premier’s life, they must hunt down the highly unorthodox agent. Now that the world needs him once again, Johnny English is back in action. With one shot at redemption, he must employ the latest in hi-tech gadgets to unravel a web of conspiracy that runs throughout the KGB, CIA and even MI-7. With mere days until a heads of state conference, one man must use every trick in his playbook to protect us all. For Johnny English, disaster may be an option, but failure never is. (Synopsis by the official site)
Fans of Atkinson will rejoice. The rest of us will wonder why we are being subjected to throwback English humor that never caught on state-side in the first place. The unfortunate truth is that Atkinson’s characters work best in small doses (see “Rat Race”). Trying to fill whole film with him grows tiresome fast.
DVD Releases This Week
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Director: Rob Marshall
Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErsA8WaesRE
Johnny Depp returns to his iconic role of Captain Jack Sparrow in an action-packed adventure. Crossing paths with the enigmatic Angelica (Penélope Cruz), he’s not sure if it’s love-or if she’s a ruthless con artist who’s using him to find the fabled Fountain of Youth. When she forces him aboard the “Queen Anne’s Revenge,” the ship of the legendary pirate Blackbeard (Ian McShane), Jack finds himself on an unexpected adventure in which he doesn’t know whom to fear more: Blackbeard or Angelica, with whom he shares a mysterious past. (Synopsis by Disney)
Previously reviewed on The Dagger.
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