Show CM rC DU CM M bBCSv fiul&flUC ping and ripping of skin become' so repetitive they’d leave the Opening this week o “Broken Lizard’s Club Dread" Rated R What a perfect title This splatter-genre spoof is so dreadful you want to bash its disagreeably unfunny characters with a dub The movie’s a surprising n slide for the comedy troupe Broken Lizard which wrote and starred in the am g 2002 cop farce "Super Troopers" Aiming for a medley of humor and horror the Lizard boys achieve neither spinning a loud boorish cheesy tale about a machete madman slidng up the randy Staff at a tropical resort How Broken Lizard got Bill Paxton to debase himself with an embarrassing role as a one-h- it worn Jimmy Buffett-styl- e der is the biggest puzzler R for violencegore sexual content language and drug use 103 min One and a half stars out of' four ' — The Associated Press 2 £ £ T3 IE a) D us-in- U So E 0 — o 2 CD X CD e 1 o CD G £ “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights” Rated PG-- 1 3 Nobody puts Baby in the cor- ner in this prequel to "Dirty Dandng" For that you can be ' thankful But you probably won’t have the time of your life And from their stilted dialogue mediocre dandng ability and total lack of chemistry it doesn't ‘ look like stars Diego Luna and Romda Garai are having the time of their lives either Garai plays a prim bookish American who moves to Havana in 1958 with her parents (Seta Ward and John Slattery) and little sister (Mika Boorem) There she fads ' for a waiter at her upscale hotel (Luna from "Y Tu Mama Tambi- -' en”) who teaches her to "just feel the music” The best thing about the movie is Patrick Swayze reprising his role as a dance instructor from the 1987 original — but it’s also a reminder of how substandard this second Dirty Dandng” is by comparison PG-- 1 3 for sensuali- -' ' ty 86 min One and a half stars out of four —The Associated Press ' “Eurotrip” Rated R A formless shapeless bit of teen gross-odrivel that surprisingly manages a few fresh and funny laughs The thin story centers on a new grad (Scott Mechtowicz) in his quest to find his cyber dream girl in Germany accompanied by his pals (Jacob Pitts Michele Trachten- berg and Travis Webster) While the movie merits its hard R rating audience emotionally drained and stunned As for the widely reported criticisms that the film might foster let's just say nearly everyone ends up looking responsible for the death of Jesus (a lean and intense Jim Caviezel) Despite its gruesome content "The Passion” is beauts fully photographed — and it’s a huge meticulously detailed film R for sequences of graphic violence In Latin and Aramaic with English subtitles 127 min Two stars out of four —The Associated Press : five-ma- £ msrsmrtBB i: ' ut high-scho- for nudity sex and partying the coarse sight gags still are a cut above the body-flu- id jokes that litter most teen flicks And the young largely unknown cast is so dopily unassuming that the result is one of the more inof-tensive offerings in the offensive teen R for sexuafity nudity language and driigfalco- hoi content 91 min Two stars out of four Stiil showing “Against the Ropes” Rated PG--1 3 re sub-gen- Imagine Meg Ryan strutting around in Julia Roberts' "Erin Brockovtch" and you'd have a good idea of what this movie is like Dressed iri an increasingly distracting series of that ultimately skintight get-up- s resemble dominatrix gear Ryan stars aS female boxing manager Jackie Kaden in a story based extremely loosely on Kallen’s dfe She tries way too hard to be tough as nads as the only woman in a man's world where ' nearly every man is a stereotypical chauvinist Omar Epps plays the fighter she helps mold into a champion and Charles S Dut-ton who also directs this pile of sports-movi- e cliches as his trainer PG--1 3 for crude language violence brief sensuality and some drug material Ill min One and a half stars out of —The Associated Press hand-me-dow- WMCOITW iIP MOOMpOft Rated PG-- 1 3 The Howard Dean of HoSy-woo-d holding al the cards to succeed then stumbling and tumbling when show time arrives It sounds like a splendid comedy ticket Gene Hackman as an enormously popular president who leaves office retires to his summer home in a sleepy Maine town and blunders into a farcical mayoral-racagainst local plumber (Ray Romano) The talented leadsare backed by an excellent supporting cast (Marcia - e co-sta- rs Gay Harden Rip Tom Maura Tierney Fred Savage and Christine Baransid) Yet director Donald Petrie’s pacing is sluggish while Tom Schuiman’s script is awkwardy constructed and just for some plain not funny PG-1- 3 brief sexual comments and nud-t- y Ill min Two stars out of four — The Associated Press “50 First Dates” Rated PG-1- 3 50 First Dates” stare Drew Barrymore as a girl with shortterm memory loss and Adam Sander as the guy who loves her ’ enough to introduce himself anew each day It’s 'Groundhog Day" in reverse: In Harold Ramis' 1993 comedy Bill Murray knew that he was repeating the same day over and over again even if no one else dd this time around Barrymore doesn't know she is repeating the same day but everyone else does Ifs "Memento rewritten 88 an occasionafly crude but surprisingly thoughtful romantic comedy Two stars out offour — Brian McCuskey ' : for The Herald Journal “The Last Samurai” Rated R "The Last Samurai" stare Tom Cruise as Captain Nathan Aigren a onetime Civi War hero embarking on a lateral career move across the Pacific Ocean to work for the' Japanese emperor who needs a modernized army to put down a samurai rebellion Captured by the samurai Aigren comes to admire their methods The movie charts Ihe prsdctable course of Aigren's changing loyalties as he adopts the bushido code of the samurai and becomes "the warrior the old ways have joined the new" Two stare out of four —Brian McCuskey for The Herald Journal old-scho- ol “Miracle" Rated PG Nearly everyone already knows how this film ends even though a generation has been bom since the underdog US hockey team upset the dominant Soviets during the 1980 Olympics in Lake Placid The fact that director Gavin O'Connor still manages to build palpable suspense is a testament to how entertaining the dm is The hockey sequences are shot and edited beautifully — you feel as if you're being checked into the boards as if the puck is flying at your lace through the back of the net Kurt Russel in the showy role of coach Herb Brooks finds enough nuance fo avoid being a caricature It may sound fike a movie but glorified made-for-T- V it’s hard not to get caught up in the deafening chants of "USA! 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