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...Ending the story there would make Knocked Up not only consistent with the male-male romances that stock so many Hollywood movies (check my reviews of 300, Blades of Glory and Spider-Man 3 for extensive notes on this trend) but a more honest parable. Instead, in the middle of their stoned bliss, the guys decide to go back home: Pete to his loveless marriage, Ben to the foxy lady who somehow wants him to be the father of their child. Comic birth scene and declarations of love ensue...
...Tintin's arrival in Tinseltown is perhaps inevitable: his popularity as a children's literary hero rivals that of other recent transitions from the page to the screen, including Harry Potter, Spider-Man and The Lord of the Rings...
...movie musicals as far as contemporary audiences go. According to conventional Hollywood wisdom, today's moviegoers, especially the ones born P.G. (post-Grease, or after 1978) are turned off by the implausibility of spontaneous song and dance numbers. But I don't buy it. Not one person got a spider bite and turned into a superhero in front of me today, either, and yet record numbers of folks of all ages happily suspended disbelief for Spider...
...Forget SPIDER-MAN 3's record haul. Sony executive Michael Lynton (speaking to the BBC) is already talking about "a fourth, a fifth and a sixth and on and on ... as many as we can make good stories for." (According to some critics, that criterion didn't govern Spider-Man 3.) No word yet on whether director Sam Raimi or star Tobey Maguire will return. SCORE...
...sense a great movie, a masterpiece that future generations will want to rediscover. But it is a solid, well-made, generally gripping and intelligent movie - and how many of those have lately been made in America? So don't worry if you're shut out of Spider-Man. There is an alternative - and one that will afford you the kind of agreeable pleasure that genre movies once routinely supplied and now only rarely...