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Oprah, John Travolta shill that she’s become, devoted an entire episode recently to plugging this movie about four dispirited middle-aged men who hit the road on their motorcycles in search of their lost masculinity rather than simply see their doctor for testosterone replacement therapy. The best part was when William H. Macy accidentally outed them all as having been dragged on a trailer to simulate motorcycle-riding and then exposed his three diva cast-mates demand that the skinny-dipping scene take place in a specially built heated pond. But will it be funny? Well, it stars John Travolta and Martin Lawrence and Tim Allen. Each were last funny sometime in the early 1990s. And even then...

Ray Of Hope: Macy’s in it."; Ent_FiveTop_070227[i++] = new Array("","","","http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070226/5top_070226_lovemywife_12p.small.jpg","","\"I Think I Love My Wife\"", "", "", "", "", "right", "", "Fox Searchlight", "125", "198", "", "", "", "", ""); Ent_FiveTop_070227[i-1].body = "\"I Think I Love My Wife\"
Hey, everybody! Remember when Chris Rock directed a movie in 2001 called \"Head of State\"? Remember how incredibly funny it was? Remember how we all loved it so much? No, you don’t? Oh wait, I remember now. It sucked, is why. But remember all those other movies he directed after that? All the none? Well now he’s at bat for the second time. And I have the teensiest suspicion that by the end of the movie he discovers that he really does realize that he loves his wife. Just a guess. Meanwhile, check this cat’s track record. It’s like he picks film projects with a comedy-hating Ouija board.

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My partner is a comic book nerd. And while he’s got a certain itchy excitement over this one (“OMG! Silver Surfer! And the guy from \"Hellboy\" who played the faun in \"Pan’s Labyrinth\" is the Silver Surfer!” Yes, it’s like that in my house.) because it looks like they were fanboy-faithful in character design and whatever, the fact remains that the first \"Fantastic Four\" movie was a steaming pile of crap. The cut-rate, animated TV version from 1978, the one where they replaced Human Torch with a talking robot, was more entertaining. And on the inside tip, I have an on-set mole who told me that this thing stinks.

Ray of hope: My partner’s insistence.
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I love it when a movie feels the need to name itself twice in the same title. Like the audience is so lazy they won’t be able to bother themselves to actually speak the entire thing, even when buying a ticket at the box office, so they give you an out. If you want to call it simply \"AVP2\" then you can and it’s okay. It’s the studios way of telling you that nothing really matters anymore and that this movie is a part of that philosophical manifesto. Will Alien prevail or will Predator? Does it matter in the end? Aren’t we all just dust in the wind?

Ray of hope: The remote possibility of brief sequences of half-way decent monster-fighting. Maybe."; Ent_FiveTop_070227[i++] = new Array("","","","http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/070226/5top_070226_rushhour3_12p.small.jpg","","\"Rush Hour 3\"", "", "", "", "", "right", "", "New Line Cinema", "132", "198", "", "", "", "", ""); Ent_FiveTop_070227[i-1].body = "“Rush Hour 3”
I think at this point in his career you could approach Jackie Chan with a script about Duracell batteries and exploding pens and he’d go, “Okay, sure, I’ll do that. Pay me.” This is a guy who made some of the most flabbergastingly insane action movies of the past 25 years and now he’s taking it easy, hanging with good-times-fun-machine Brett Ratner, making sure the stunt doubles look sort of like him enough to pass and then cashing the checks. I suppose you can’t blame the man. He’s worked hard. But so do I. No part 4, please. Please.

Ray of hope: Shot in Paris. Roman Polanski’s in it.
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