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A galaxy's worth of nihilism buried under a '70s Velveeta topping, the Planet of the Apes series stands today as a dark marvel of pop cinema, a group of wildly variable films that combine to form a giant inescapable kiss-off to the human race. (That said message was able to withstand such distractions as ever-cheapening makeup and Charlton Heston loudly pounding sand makes its achievements even more impressive, really.) Boasting a keen awareness of its predecessors' particular charms and a gem of a central CGI performance by Andy Serkis, Rise of the Planet of the Apes makes for a rather miraculous summer movie: a big-budget special effects extravaganza that also delivers a killer backhand. Sort of redoing 1972's Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, the film follows the events set in motion when a bereaved scientist (James Franco) attempts to create a cure for Alzheimer's, resulting in a supernaturally intelligent chimp named Caesar. The old bit about science tampering in God's domain quickly applies. Director Rupert Wyatt (The Escapist) displays an admirable sense of pacing, deftly levying the escalating action scenes with small character moments from the likes of John Lithgow and Brian Cox. That said, the film belongs to Caesar, whose path from wide-eyed innocent to reluctant revolutionary generates the ironic pulp empathy that gave the original series such a kick. Watching the climactic confrontation on the Golden Gate Bridge, it's distressingly easy to figure out which side to root for. Chuck Heston would no doubt grit his teeth in approval. Note: Those skeptical that this revamp could wholly retain the original's doomy backbeat would do well to stick around during the end credits. --Andrew WrightPrice: $39.99
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Shark Night 3D
Bill Gibron is a veteran film critic from Tampa, Florida.There is only one definitive shark movie: Jaws. All others (Open Water, Blood Surf, Deep Blue Sea) are just pretenders to the aquatic throne. You can cheese it up (Megalodon), confuse it up (Cyclone), or straight out copy it (insert name of foreign rip-off here) and you still can't better Steven Spielberg's original Summer blockbuster. Luckily, something like Shark Night 3D doesn't even try. Instead, it goes for a more semi-schlock oriented approach to underwater horror. Sadly, the decision to go PG-13, and the lack of a significant sense of its inherent strengths, all but destroys any potential fun. With Finals rapidly winding down, a group of students from Tulane University decide to head out to a nearby Louisiana lake and participate in a little drunken R&R. They include conveniently pre-med Nick (Dustin Milligan), bad girl Beth (Katherine McPhee), gamer geek Gordon (Joel David Moore), football star Maliki (Sinqua Walls), his soon to be fiancé Maya (Alyssa Diaz), male model type Blake (Chris Zylka) and the owner of the island pad, rich misunderstood ice queen Sara (Sara Paxton).
Arriving in the adjoining small town, they run into the local rube sheriff (Donal Logue) and rude hicks Red (Joshua Leonard) and Dennis (Chris Carmack). They also discover that the waters are somehow filled with multiple man-eating sharks. Soon, it becomes readily apparent that someone is using these underwater killers as fodder for a fiendish plot - with our undergrads as the less than enthusiastic bait.
Shark Night 3D is such a disappointment. At least the last time we saw partying teens being attacked by evil fishies, it was in service of the slyly subversive and satiric Piranha 3D. There, director Alexandre Aja understood that nothing spells mindless exploitative entertainment better than an abundance of B's - babes, breasts, blood, buffoons, and beasts. The result was a jokey genre mash-up where lewdness and laughter went hand in severed hand. In this case, however, director David R. Ellis must have been under strict orders to make the MPAA happy. There's no gore, no naked women (we do get to see Chris Zylka's butt, if that's any consolation), and definitely no excitement. It's as if someone decided to make a shark attack movie and then restricted themselves to avoid splatter almost all together. Boo!
Besides, who begins by blatantly ripping off Spielberg and thinks they can get away with it? The script, by Will Hayes and Jesse Studenberg starts out with a couple getting frisky in the water. He swims away, she stays around, and the next thing you know, our victim is doing a lame Susan Backlinie imitation. As she swirls around in the surf, bits of pint foam indicating the carnage going on beneath the surface, you'd swear it was 1975 all over again. You'd also swear that had Jaws been this way, that new kid Steve...Someone would never have gotten a second job.
Indeed, all throughout Shark Night 3D is a sense that Ellis doesn't know what he's doing. Give him some Snakes on a Plane or a Final Destination or 2 and he's more than capable. But with the underwater footage (confused and muddied by the inclusion of the unnecessary 3D), the kills are crappy. We don't come to a nature gone wild movie to hear boring backstory and crudely drawn character traits. Shark Night 3D overdoses on these while keeping the body parts and bobbing torsos to a bare (if clothed) minimum.
When we finally hear the reason behind the appearance of these uncommon critters, when the motive for the wild wicked waterworks is made clear, Shark Night 3D finds a brief moment of goofy charm. The rest of the time, this is subpar SyFy Channel chum.
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy
A Good Old Fashioned Orgy has no ambition but is a lot of fun because of it. It may not be as sweet at heart as Our Idiot Brother, but this fun little throwaway offers strong performances from an ensemble of historically underappreciated bit players. What it lacks in drive, it makes up for in barrels of heart. Granted, this movie isn't exactly ha-ha funny; very little of it will leave you rolling in the aisles because there are, quite simply, too many cooks in the soup, too many stories to juggle and conflicts to resolve, not all of them inherently humorous. But this nice little coming-of-delayed-age story wisely shies away from treacly sentiment, and for that we should be grateful. Where does the orgy come in, though? We're getting to it, relax. What happens is that a Peter-Pan complex, ostensibly employed frat boy type named Eric (Jason Sudeikis), known for throwing popular themed parties at his father's shore house in the Hamptons, is suddenly facing the end of his reign: Dad is selling the house. Facing eviction, our hero gathers his motley crew of partiers (Will Forte, Tyler Labine, Lake Bell, The League's Nick Croll, among others) for one final, private orgy amongst friends to send the house off correctly.Our protagonists have been friends since high school, and it doesn't take long for icky emotional complications to emerge. Happily, the movie doesn't dwell on them for too long to amp up the melodrama, opting for speedy resolution instead of a drawn-out sapfest to move us to the orgy of the title (yes, it happens). What hinders the movie, really, is the lead character: Sudeikis is a funny, funny guy who is definitely ready for a lead role, but Eric seems like kind of a wet noodle; if the guy's not drunk you can barely even tell he has a pulse, and how he managed to get (and keep) a semi-legit looking New York job is a mystery the film never addresses. His flirty romance with a realtor (Leslie Bibb) has a lot of meet-cute moments, but never really clicks for some reason. The movie, then, belongs solely to Tyler Labine, who broke out as the slacker friend in the show Reaper a few years back, then recently had a resurgence as one of the monkeyologists in Rise of the Planet of the Apes. With another quirky movie out on the way (Tucker & Dale vs. Evil), Labine seems poised for a major run as a comedy player, and you can see why here: he practically bounces off the walls, all impish id and raging hormones, tequila-in-hand, a facilitator of terrible decisions. The guy seems to have alcohol in his blood and a permanent carnal lust -- love doesn't cut it -- for life; the twinkle in his eyes when Sudeikis announces the orgy suggests a randiness the movie should have, but seems to shy away from.As for the orgy itself? It's funny, but a lot less about the sex than the mushy feelings that inevitably come out during the clumsy proceedings. It's far from the raunchfest you'd expect, but it is kind of sweetly naked, as much a rite of passage as the virginity pact from American Pie. Complain about the lack of naughty humor all you want, but for all its faults, there's a certain logic to taking a movie about an orgy and saddling it with the message that all you need is love.Apollo 18
Bill Gibron is a veteran film critic from Tampa, Florida.Someone, please! Stop the found footage film before it kills entertainment and the horror film again... and this time, for good. From The Last Exorcism to Paranormal Activity, the recent rash of post-Blair Witch wannabes just don't get the basic cinematic needs of the increasingly sloppy subgenre. Perhaps primary among these is the concept of a reasonable threat. Having noises go bump in the night or a momentary glimpse of a ghostly figure doesn't generate suspense, just shock - and even then, the effect is succinct. It doesn't linger. You also need a logical reason for a camera to be constantly on. No one, not even the most dedicated reporter or frightened friend will keep the lens trained on a superbeast as it runs ramshackle over downtown Manhattan. In the new, nauseatingly bad Apollo 18, we get a hopelessly inept POV presentation that's part irritating urban legend, part common conspiracy theory, and all awful. The notion that NASA has been pulling our chain over the entire space program is not new. There are still people who do not believe that man ever set foot on the moon. In this case, the supposedly canceled 18th mission to our interstellar neighbor was not put off at all. Instead, the material gathered was held back and classified "Top Secret"...which doesn't stop some fictional group of hackers (or whatever) from gathering the reels and hastily editing together an "explanation" as to what really happened back in 1974.
Apparently, it had nothing to do with spoiled space food sticks. A pair of astronauts - Ben Anderson (Warren Christie) and Nate Walker (Lloyd Owen) - are sent skyward to retrieve more samples from the moon's rocky surface. In the process, they come across as Russian spaceship, a Cosmonaut corpse, and the distinct feeling that they are not alone. Sure enough, something else is on the planet with them, something intent on keeping their presence unknown by whatever means necessary (usually by killing whoever they come across).
Since it basically does nothing right (not even the various stock elements seem realistic), here are all the things Apollo 18 does wrong. First, it fails to get us caught up in the claustrophobic conceit of the setting. Instead of sticking to the capsule and the craven evil outside, we are constantly wandering the vast lunar surface, the wide open outer spaces draining all the dread from the scenario. Second, we don't care about Ben and Nate. They are interchangeable cogs in a completely uninvolving tale. Third, the supposed threat is so laughable that, within days, bootlegged images will be appearing everywhere, if simply to continue the moviegoer mockery. Finally, by trying to trade on all the "is it true" skepticism of modern audiences, the film simply fuels a lot of foolish speculation, especially where none need be or could be.
Don't be mistaken - there is a decent idea here. The notion of being trapped in space with an almost indestructible 'thing' has been done before...and better (right, Ridley Scott???). But instead of working through the material logically, Spanish director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego shows off his post-production timing and tweaking skills. In fact, the filmmaker spends so much time making his movie look like it was shot some 40 years ago that he forgets to give it any energy or excitement. We end up bored and befuddled, wondering why so much effort is being expelled for so little payoff.
The ad campaign for this movie argued that there was a reason we never returned to the moon after the 'last' Apollo mission. Apparently, 13 wasn't NASA's unluckiest number. 18 was/is - at least, for those unfortunate enough to buy a ticket to see this turkey.
