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Fox 2000 Pictures, Regency Enterprises, Bagdasarian Productions,

Justin Long, Jesse McCartney, Matthew Gray Gubler, Christina Applegate, Anna Faris, Jason Lee, Alyssa Milano, David Cross, Andy Buckley, Tucker Albrizzi

The Chipmunks and the Chipettes are on a cruise vacation when accidentally they are carried overboard and end up on a desert island. But is it really deserted? Things get really weird as the Chipmunks try their best to get along and survive being castaways.

This is the 3rd in the recent Chipmunk movies. The first one felt really nostalgic and it was fun to see the boys again. The second was a bit tedious, and this one is nearly awful. But the kids, especially really little kids are probably going to love it. But it’s not one of those films that work well with adults and kids alike, so now that it’s out on DVD you can bring this home, and let the kids go at it while you pay bills or cook dinner! It’s really a good kids film. It doesn’t have anything bad in it, and the kids will really like it. But I gave it a middle rating, but actually I’d say that’s an average of 4 or 4.5 for those under 12 and definitely about a 2 for those over 12!

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Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday May 8, 2012

• The Vow [Click here for Ed's Review]
• Underworld: Awakening [Click here for Eds Review]
• Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie

Constantin Film Produktion, Impact Pictures, Nouvelles Éditions de Films (NEF),

Matthew Macfadyen, Milla Jovovich, Logan Lerman, Luke Evans, Ray Stevenson, Gabriella Wilde, Orlando Bloom, Mads Mikkelsen, Christoph Waltz, Juno Temple, Til Schweiger

The Musketeers are old. There’s not much for them to do but to hang around and get in trouble. They have nothing to do with their time. But a young man named D’Artagnan (Logan Lerman) comes to town and picks a fight with each of them and challenges them to a fight in the square. But when the soldiers come to arrest them D’Artangan starts a battle and the Musketeers decide to join in and it’s epic. Deciding to go back to work, then unite to defeat a very beautiful Milady de Winter (Milla Jovovich) and her employer who is trying to seize the French throne and start a war in Europe.

Did the world need another Three (Four) Musketeers story? This has been done over and over. Well, they made it, so naturally I waited for it to come out on DVD before I plunked down $13.00 to see it in the theater. I’m glad I did, as it was pretty underwhelming. However, the actors were good and did a good job with what they were given, and the fight scenes are really well choreographed. It’s very much like dancing with swords. There was a hydrogen flying machine battle that was very well done. The look of the movie is really good too, so it’s not without it’s good parts. But the script is very, very shallow. I felt like it was done just to show off the battle and fight scenes without much effort at all in the dialog department. We seem to go from skirmish to skirmish without any real reason and without learning much about the characters at all. I guess they assume everyone knows the story at this point, but with a little effort on the script, this could have been a decent movie. As it is, it just isn’t up to par. I can’t rate it very highly for this reason alone. However, if you’re a big sword fight fan, or a fan of the Musketeers, you might want to check it out. But as a stand alone film, on it’s on right, it just doesn’t cut it.

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Movie Rentals Releasing Tuesday May 1, 2012

• New Years Eve [Click here for Ed's Review]
• Joyful Noise [Click here for Ed's Review]
• Haywire
• W.E.

Before The Door Pictures, Benaroya Pictures, Washington Square Films,

Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Penn Badgley, Simon Baker, Mary McDonnell, Demi Moore, Stanley Tucci, Aasif Mandvi

This exciting drama brings us into the middle of a large investment bank on a day when half of the floor is being let go to lower costs. Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci) has been with the company nineteen years, and has been working on some theoretical financial formulas that are likely to cause chaos in the entire financial world. As he is walked out of the building, he hands a zip drive to one of his co-workers with the instructions to look at this right away. His last words were, “Be careful”. Then he walks out and disappears. As the co-worker discovers, all hell is about to break loose, and he calls his new boss who calls his boss who calls the CEO and they set out on an all night marathon session to decide whether to do the right thing or to cut their losses and run, trying to liquidate before anyone catches on.

I found this drama to be very exciting. The cast is awesome, with Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Jeremy Irons, Demi Moore, and many more. The pace is exciting and they explain the financial world in a way that’s possible to understand. I usually find banking and finance rather boring,but this one was very interesting from start to the very end. In a week where I was really disappointed in the films I got to watch, this was one bright spot. I didn’t expect a lot going in, but was very pleasantly surprised. There was a lot of dialog, but it did explore each person’s concerns and their set of values under which they operate. It was interesting to see how each person dealt with the situation when everything was out of their control. This is typical of big business in general. Some are the greedy bastards, just looking out for themselves, and others really have a conscience. This was a very interesting film.

Click here for the trailer for Margin Call.