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Bottom Line: “Airplane”-style antic through Hitler’s endure days.,CANNES — Evidently, aback in the Commie days, Mel Brooks and the Zuckers accept to accept sneaked in abaft the Iron Curtain. “Hitler Goes Kaput,” an aggressive aberration actuality at the market, catapults through the endure canicule of Berlin, which heretofore accept been Verboten as ball in das blur community.

As every historian and fashionista knows, the Nazis had the best administrator uniforms, and “Hitler Goes Kaput” is a beautiful accumulation of craziness. Its campy, bookish and base absurdity could acreage it play time on cable ball outlets, as able-bodied as position it as a midnight antic at gay blur festivals. Best, this Montecristo International alms plays in any accent back it’s mostly song and ball and ball and the chat is the accepted accent of nonsense.

With Pavel Derevyanko goose-stepping as Colonel Shurenberg in what one ability dub the Leslie Nielsen role, “Hitler Goes Kaput” chronicles the artful operations from the Red Army Conspiratorial Penthouse in downtown, bombed-up Berlin. Shurenberg is a bifold agent, flouncing about to all the top Nazi contest in Gestapo Hills. Plowing through the endure canicule bacchanal with a assured fraulein in tow (Anna Seminovich) Shurenberg is such a romp-meister that he even gets adulation addendum from Martin Bormann. Download online Movies

In this goofery, there’s something to amuse everyone: Dean Martin singing “Sway,” big blondes bouncing uber-bosoms, inferior admiral break-dancing to Viennese waltzes, handsome admiral angry kung fu, and there’s even SS lugs application Facebook.

Serious NYU blur advisers and added nitpickers may bickering about anachronisms and incongruities or artifice about the accuracy of Iron Hans’ existence, but “Hitler Goes Kaput” will contentment Busby Berkeley fans, Zucker aficionados, and those adulatory to aggrandize their minds above the austere ambit of the History Channel. Download new Movies

Zac Efron takes a lot of heat for singing high-pitched tunes and prancing around on basketball courts in the High School Musical movies, but in 17 Again he finally gets to prove that he’s more than Disney’s poster boy. Here, he plays Mike O’Donnell, a 17-year-old high school senior with a basketball scholarship on the horizon (not exactly a stretch for the actor). When he discovers that his girlfriend, Scarlett, is pregnant, he finds himself having to choose between marrying her and pursuing college athletics. He chooses the girl.

That was back in 1989. Twenty years later, Mike (now Matthew Perry) finds himself regretting some of those choices. He’s now in his thirties, and life has fallen apart. He hates his dead-end job and wishes he would have gone to college. His two teenage kids (Michelle Trachtenberg and Sterling Knight) have nothing to do with him, and Scarlett (Leslie Mann) is in the process of divorcing him. All the while, his nerdy best friend, Ned (Thomas Lennon), has become an inventor and has more money than he knows what to do with. If only Mike could turn back the clock.

Then his wish comes true. After talking with a mysterious high school janitor, he’s magically transformed back into the 17-year-old version of himself. He enrolls back in high school to investigate the lives of his kids, help Ned score a date with the principal, and chase another basketball scholarship. But will he choose a different path for himself this time around, or realize that his “mistakes” were not mistakes, after all?

There’s nothing original about 17 Again. The film recycles a premise they’ve been making over and over since the ’70s. And yet its stroll through familiar territory isn’t necessarily a mortal sin. Surprisingly, the movie has both amusing and endearing qualities, and far surpasses its sub-par expectations. There are laugh-out-loud scenes — especially with Ned and the principal — and scenes with enough romantic sincerity to bring a tear to the eye.

It’s easy to dismiss 17 Again as well-worn teenybopper fluff, but there’s a shocking level of maturity here. This isn’t just a movie for teenage girls searching for new footage of Zac Efron in basketball shorts; it actually works as a high-concept romantic comedy, or even a perfect date movie. Yes, there’s enough here to please the pre-pubescent demographic, but it’s just enough. There’s plenty of depth and material to entertain an older audience, as as you can get past the fact that you’re watching a Zac Efron film.

Speaking of Efron, the guy definitely has a career beyond the Disney lot. People will have a new respect for him after this movie. The role of Mike O’Donnell is trickier than his previous work in High School Musical and Hairspray, demanding a wide range of emotions, from slapstick comedy to tearful drama. Confidently, Efron steps up to the challenge and nails it dead-on. Efron is perfect for the role, giving an honest, charismatic performance through and through. He’s one of the biggest cinematic surprises this year. Now I’d like to see him in a real dramatic role, perhaps something a little edgier. I just hope his contract with Disney permits it. New Movies Download

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What would you do if you got a second shot at life? Class of 1989, Mike O’Donnell is a star on his high school basketball court with a college scout in the stands and a bright future in his grasp. But instead, he decides to throw it all away to share his life with his girlfriend Scarlett and the baby he just learned they are expecting. Almost 20 years later, Mike’s glory days are decidedly behind him. His marriage to Scarlett has fallen apart, he has been passed over for a promotion at work, his teenage kids think he is a loser, and he has been reduced to crashing with his high school nerd-turned-techno-billionaire best friend Ned. But Mike is given another chance when he is miraculously transformed back to the age of 17. Unfortunately, Mike may look 17 again, but his thirtysomething outlook is totally uncool in the class of 2009. And in trying to recapture his best years, Mike could lose the best things that ever happened to him.

Also Known As:	17 Seventeen Seventeen Again Untitled (New Line Cinema/Jason Filardi Project)
Production Status:	Released
Logline:	A middle-aged father wakes up to find he’s seventeen again. So, he enrolls in the same high school as his children to be close to them.
Genres:	Comedy, Science Fiction/Fantasy and Teen
Running Time:	1 hr. 42 min.
Release Date:	April 17th, 2009 (wide)
MPAA Rating:	PG-13 for language, some sexual material and teen partying.
Distributors:	Warner Bros. Pictures Distribution
Production Co.:	Offspring Entertainment
Studios:	New Line Cinema
U.S. Box Office:	$60,314,000
Filming Locations:	Los Angeles, California USA Los Angeles, California USA
Produced in:	United States

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Obsessed: Jenna Elfman, Sam Robards, Kate Burton, Mark Camacho,
Charles Edwin Powell, Amy Sloan, Kwasi Songui, Amanda Strawn, Carl Alacchi,

 This is actually a review of the review. I think it was very nasty and uncalled for by all means. I haven’t seen the movie and im sure its not very good. But such hostility for no reason whatsoever. Whats the matter pete? Did the director of this movie fornicate with a family member? Does he owe you money or something?

Is calling the people who probably worked hard on this, tv hacks really necessary? A mans name is all he has and when you tarnish it over a MOVIE he made, thats pretty bad. Wheres the humility? And writing things like “Derek gets hit on by Lisa (Ali Larter), a temp from central slut casting”. There is underlying spite in that line. Whats the point!?!!?

Review the movie not the people. Review there acting, review there directing, editing, but stop reviewing the person. The last half of this review does not tell me anything about the movie. If i wanted to read a person tearing apart another person i would read perez hiltons blog. Which i chose not to read for obvious reasons. I read reviews to know about the movie and nothing else. Stop feeding me this anti-people propaganda. Download online Movies

Memo to Beyoncé Knowles: You were so good as Etta James in Cadillac Records, so why’d you go spoil everything with a rank cheeseball thriller that buries you in clichés and won’t even help you dig yourself out?

 I’d call this stenchcloud “Fatal Attraction meets The Temp,” but that would insult those movies. Movie? Obsessed doesn’t move at all. It lays there like undigested latkes. Beyoncé Knowles (she uses two names for movies) plays Sharon. She’s happily married to asset manager Derek (Idris Elba), once on fire with The Wire and now reduced to a situation dire.

OK, I’ll stop. But the movie doesn’t. Everything you need to know is in the trailer. Derek gets hit on by Lisa (Ali Larter), a temp from central slut casting. He resists her jiggly butt and pert breasts. This is the kind of no-balls movie where the guy is a saint, even before the temp turns psycho stalker. So where’s the conflict? Nowhere.

Screenwriter David Loughery and director Steve Shill, a TV hack (who’d have guessed?) have built something silly and shockingly unsexy (a wimpy PG-13 rating for this kind of trash — whaat?) all in the name of big, climactic catfight that should been camp fun but is no fun at all. Beyoncé does go medieval on what she calls Larter’s “skinny white ass.” She also calls her “crazy ass bitch.” Obsessed is crazy-ass also. Crazy-ass awful.

Sony’s “Angels & Demons” owned the international circuit during the weekend, claiming the No. 1 spot in all of its 96 debut markets with a heavenly $102.1 million from 10,274 screens for a powerful $9,934 per-screen average. 

An adaptation of Dan Brown’s novel written before Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code” — the film version of which Sony skillfully exploited offshore in 2006 — “Angels” registered the 10th biggest international launch ever, and easily the biggest foreign opening of 2009.

“Angels’ ” opening weekend was also the biggest overseas since the May 21, 2008, launch of Paramount’s “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull,” which drew $147 million playing 8,399 screens in 55 territories. “Angels’ ” worldwide opening gross was $148.1 million. 

Created by the same team responsible for “Da Vinci” — co-producer Imagine Entertainment and director Ron Howard, with Tom Hanks reprising as Harvard symbologist Dr. Robert Langdon — the summer’s latest tentpole failed to match “Da Vinci’s” $155 million opening weekend tally (from 12,213 screens in some 80 markets).

Nonetheless, “Angels” is off to a very strong foreign start, critical for such an adult-oriented title.

“Da Vinci” grossed $539.7 million over the course of its overseas run, enough to become the 15th biggest offshore hit ever. A full 71% of “Da Vinci’s” worldwide boxoffice revenue ($757.2 million) came from outside North America. (Sony, as it did with “Da Vinci,” opened “Angels” simultaneously with its domestic debut.)

Sony said that on a local currency basis, nine of the territories “Angels” played actually beat the comparable market launches of “Da Vinci.” The strongest individual markets for “Angels” were Germany ($11.8 million from 792 screens) and Italy ($8 million from 818 sites).

The $104.3 million weekend tally does not include proceeds from several significant markets. Mexico and India openings are scheduled for May 22 and May 29, respectively. A Norway debut is set for May 20, and a Vietnam opening is due May 29. “Angels” has been approved for China, but the opening date is not yet set.

“The way I look at it is that if you extract those opening grosses (from the markets where ‘Angels’ has not yet premiered) from ‘The Da Vinci Code’s’ $155 million (opening weekend), you would be comparing ‘Angels’ ‘ $104.3 million against $142 million,” said Mark Zucker, president of Sony Pictures Releasing International.

Last week’s No. 1 title, Paramount’s “Star Trek,” opened Friday in China to an estimated $1.8 million from 723 screens. The overall weekend gross was $19.3 million from 5,587 screens in 50 territories, raising the rejuvenated space adventure’s foreign cume to $67.7 million (worldwide, $215.3 million).

That makes the latest “Star Trek” screen version the biggest foreign grosser of the 11-title series thus far, besting 1996′s “Star Trek: First Contact,” which tallied $57.4 million overseas.

No. 3 was Fox’s “X-Men Origins: Wolverine,” which in its third weekend extracted $13.9 million from 7,695 situations in 68 territories. Its cume stands at a lofty $145 million. Notable on the weekend was its No. 4 ranking in its third U.K. weekend with $1.8 million from 452 screens and a market cume of $21 million.

Finishing fourth was the New Line comedy “17 Again” with Zac Efron, which raised its overseas cume to $48.7 million thanks to a $5.6 million weekend from 2,498 situations in 38 markets. Launches in Germany, Italy, Japan and Austria contributed $2.9 million from a combined 776 screens.

No. 5 was Disney’s “Hannah Montana: The Movie,” which grossed $4.7 million from 1,814 screens in 16 markets. The cume stands at $26.1 million. The biggest contributor was Spain, where the Miley Cyrus vehicle finished No. 2 with $1.9 million from 383 locations for a market cume of $6.1 million.  Download New movies