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out, drug use and sexual content. Area thea- ters.
BBBHOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON
Our hero in this briskly paced computer- animated 3-D film, Hiccup (voice of Jay Baruchel), is a young Viking who has his hurdles cut out for him. Hiccup’s father, a burly giant named Stoick (voice of Gerard Butler), sports a belt-length red beard and looks as if he begins each day by downing a dozen mead shooters on his way out to slay scaly adversaries. Hiccup develops his own approach to dealing with the dragon threat; he prefers com- munication and attempts to help all scaly creatures find their inner Puff (-the-Mag- ic). With a school assignment hanging over him to slay a dragon, Hiccup instead befriends a potential victim, Toothless. Filmmakers Dean DeBlois and Chris Sand- ers are best known for 2002’s “Lilo & Stitch”; this one is better — and even for those seeing it on a flat screen — funnier.
(PG, 90 minutes) Contains sequences of in- tense action and scary images, plus brief mild language. Area theaters.
BTHE HUMAN CENTIPEDE (FIRST SEQUENCE)
Touted in press materials as “100% medi- cally accurate” — translation: yuck — “The Human Centipede” is the story of a de- ranged German surgeon (Dieter Laser) who kidnaps three people and sutures them to- gether, mouth to rectum, in order to create a kind of freakish conjoined triplet, sharing one long digestive tract. Why on Earth would somebody do such a thing? Never mind why. You think a mad scientist needs
— A.H.
to write a grant proposal? All he needs is a dark and stormy night, a basement labora- tory, Rohypnol and a couple of whiny Amer- ican tourists (Ashley C. Williams and Ash- lynn Yennie) with a flat tire and the bad judgment to seek roadside assistance from a guy who looks like Nosferatu, lives alone and says such things as “I hate hu-
mans.” (Unrated, 90 minutes) Contains vio-
lence, gruesome imagery, obscenity, sex talk and partial nudity. In English, German ad Japanese with English subtitles. At Land- mark’s E Street Cinema.
BBIRON MAN 2
— Mike Clark
The best thing about “Iron Man” was Rob- ert Downey Jr.’s cheek and expressiveness. The worst was the hardware. The sequel drowns any potential sophistication in a busy, unfocused clatter of cross-talk punc- tuated by occasional fender-bender roy- ales. But a terrific villain is a terrible thing to waste — namely Mickey Rourke’s Ivan Vanko, who as the movie opens is working in Moscow on a metallic exoskeleton that will rival Iron Man’s both in technological complexity and destructive throw-weight. When Vanko confronts Tony Stark (Dow- ney) for their first showdown at the Grand Prix in Monaco, it’s clear the film will be propelled by Oedipal psychological issues and struggles with mortality. Aw, who’s anybody kidding? It’s propelled by stuff getting blown up, strafed, consumed by fireballs and blasted into oblivion, all of which occurs with the dull sense of due
diligence. (PG-13, 126 minutes) Contains se-
quences of intense sci-fi action and violence, and profanity. Area theaters.
BBJUST WRIGHT
Fifteen minutes into “Just Wright,” a ro- mantic comedy about a 35-year-old per-
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This profane, ultra-violent, surprisingly winning adaptation of Mark Millar’s com- ic-book series directed by Matthew Vaughn should delight fans of the original comics and garden-variety action junkies as well. Aaron Johnson plays Dave Lizew- ski, a bespectacled, mild-mannered high school student who, after being mugged for the umpteenth time, wonders why more everyday people don’t dress up like superheroes and become vigilantes. Soon thereafter, Dave is dressing up in a green wet suit, yellow rubber gloves and work boots and . . . pretty much getting his tushie whipped. When Dave is joined by two mysterious cohorts named Big Daddy (Nicolas Cage) and Hit-Girl (Chloe Grace Moretz), however, his success rate be- gins to spike. (R, 118 minutes) Contains
brutal violence throughout, pervasive pro- fanity, sexual content, nudity and drug use, some of which involves children. At Regal Fairfax Towne Center and Kentlands Stadi- um.
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Will Forte, right, with Ryan Phillippe, plays a bumbling crime fighter who is the title character in “MacGruber.”
— M.O.
petually single gal named Leslie Wright (Queen Latifah) asks, “When am I going to meet that one amazing guy who thinks I’m the one woman he can’t live without?” It takes about five minutes before basketball star Scott McKnight (rapper-actor Common) shows up at the gas station. He’s charming, hand- some and rich, not to mention a perfect gentleman. He’s in a new car and can’t open his tank. Leslie, a tomboyish physical therapist, helps him out, re- sulting in an invitation to a party at his
house for Leslie and her much prettier god sister, Morgan (Paula Patton). Scott falls in love with Morgan, who re- fers to seduction as her “job.” When he seriously injures his knee, Morgan dumps him and Leslie steps back in. For amovie with no surprises, Common and his co-star have a connection that feels unforced and very, very real. (PG, 111 min-
utes) Contains brief vulgarity and a scene of sensuality. Area theaters.
BBTHE LAST SONG
In this film based on a novel by Nicholas Sparks, Miley Cyrus tries on some emo- inspired black outfits, a nose stud and a bad attitude as she not-quite-convincing- ly plays troubled high school senior Ron- nie Miller. Fresh from a shoplifting arrest at home in New York, Ronnie is shipped off, along with little brother Jonah, to their father’s beach house in Georgia. You may not think summer at the beach sounds like much of a punishment, but Ronnie — a piano prodigy who hasn’t played since her parents broke up — sure does. Salvation comes, of course, in the
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