Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009) Watch Streaming

Adults have the choice of either admiring the scenery or taking a nap. There's not much else worth doing. Certainly, paying attention to the story is an exercise in futility, but you're welcome to try.... The sequel to the big family hit Night at the Museum struggles with a big creative challenge. The sense of wonderment you feel in seeing museum displays magically come to life is not as strong the second time around.. The museum sparkles, but the movie is awfully dull.. Pleasant, innocuous and ...

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The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou (2004) Download Movie

The movie feels like an uneasy combination of new and old western stylings.. So long as there are people, there will be love stories -- I hope they all feel as lush and lively as this one.. This Yuma is Shane with a train.. Weitz's pacing is so limp you're going to need the electricity generated by a live audience to keep from yelling, "Hurry it up!". Alone of all the earnest players in this turgidly euphemistic melodrama, Sheen seems to grasp that the only way you can keep a straight face throu...

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Peter Pan (2003) Download Full

What it is lacking is any kind of wonder. True fairy dust is in decidedly short supply and without it, the movie sinks like a cannonball.. If you've seen the others, you'll want to see this one. Let's face it -- there's no turning back.. .. even though Revenge is a better experience than Phantom Menace or Attack of the Clones, it doesn't add anything that satisfying or compelling to the big picture.. Both enchantingly old-fashioned and daringly modern.. The trouble is that, as the plot quickens,...

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The Golden Compass (2007) Download Full

Why is it so joyless?. The Golden Compass is a blatant attempt to duplicate the success of the Harry Potter franchise. The only thing missing is richly imagined characters, a comprehensible story line, good acting, and satisfying special effects.. The carefully crafted look, in which fabulous fantasy mingles with hand-woven sweaters, offers a visual feast. The acting is impeccable from performers to voices.. Weitz's film is short, punchy and efficient, and it's full of engaging spectacle.. Will ...

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Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) Play Streaming

Yakin doesn't condescend to his audience, and infuses his plot with a surprisingly ambitious and revealing commentary about the experience of war.. The movie is downright laughable when it isn't merely unpleasant.. It has the feel of a TV drama renewed for one season too many, a last, furtive run at the till before it closes for business.. Max is an absurdly violent PG-rated movie in which kids and dogs are repeatedly in peril.. Ahoy me hearties, No. 4 is surprisingly not bad.. Except for one mo...

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X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) Watch Streaming

Witherspoon uses her own undoubted discomfort with the physical demands of the role to make us feel Strayed's predicament in our bones.. Alas, there's nothing quite memorable here: much of the combat is just a whirl of movement photographed up close. As the X-Men series has progressed, the startling poetic extravagances of the first film have given way to flesh-pounding clumsiness.. With some dire blue-screen effects, dizzying tonal instability and a total absence of suspense or originality, 'Wo...

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The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) Watch Streaming

A kitchen-sink fantasy, in both mood and content. It is exciting, funny, adventurous, magical and very romantic. The special effects are great, but the characters are even better.. When Gandalf arrives with reinforcements, descending a near-vertical slope using horses where you or I would use snowboards, the spirit of triumphant rampage is something rarely glimpsed since the days of Olivier and Henry V.. It won't change your life but you'll walk away smiling.. Rather than go to the trouble of cr...

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