BBBDATE NIGHT
A self-described “boring married couple” gets mistaken for blackmailers and spends 90 minutes going through contor- tions to clear their names, to mildly amusing effect. In the hands of, say, a Greg Kinnear and a Sarah Jessica Parker, the thing could be a disaster. It’s not. Not by a long shot. That’s because Steve Ca- rell and Tina Fey have something that no movie, no matter how predictable, can stifle. It’s called chemistry, but it’s not the romantic kind. Instead, it’s the power that each of them has to crack the other up. Aiding Carell and Fey in their efforts is a talented supporting cast that includes James Franco and Mila Kunis as the real blackmailers along with Mark Wahlberg as a black-ops consultant whose help the Fosters seek. I know: It doesn’t make sense. It doesn’t have to. All it needs to do is make us laugh. (PG-13, 87 minutes) Contains obscenity, plentiful crude humor and some gunplay. At University Mall Theatres.
BB1 ⁄2 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID
In Thor Freudenthal’s intermittently in- spired film, Greg Heffley — the 11-year- old known to millions of young Jeff Kinney readers as a glum-faced stick figure with a cowlick — may have been transformed into a live boy played by Zachary Gordon, but his trials and tribulations remain true to the book. He’s just starting middle school as the second-smallest kid in his class. He has parents who don’t under- stand him, a teenage brother who tor- ments him and a best friend who humili- ates him. Despite all that, he has dreams of fame and fortune — or at least of se- curing a spot in the “Class Favorites” sec- tion of the yearbook. As for the rest of the movie, it’s a scattershot affair, too slackly
JASIN BOLAND In “The Karate Kid,” Jackie Chan is a kung fu master who teaches a boy (Jaden Smith) to defend himself.
paced to sustain real comic momentum. But kids who realize they’re fully ordinary — that is, pretty much all of them — will be pleased to see a world they recognize on the big screen. (PG, 92 minutes) Con- tains rude humor and language. At Univer- sity Mall Theatres.
BBBEXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP A celebration of pranksterism and per-
— Dan Kois
haps a superb prank in its own right, this documentary captures the outlaw, mon- key-wrenching glee of the graffiti artists who became art stars at the turn of this century. It purports to be directed by Banksy, the shadowy British street artist whose stencils of rats and puckish acts of mischief have made him a huge interna- tional success. Thierry Guetta, a French- man living in Los Angeles, turns out to be
the real star here, even though the film features Banksy and the equally famous Shepard Fairey. The film offers an absorb- ing glimpse of a bracingly subversive slice of the culture, as well as some tantalizing images of Banksy at work. It may raise a lot of questions, but they’re all the right ones. (R, 87 minutes) Contains profanity. At Landmark’s E Street Cinema.
BBGET HIM TO THE GREEK — Michael O’Sullivan
A spinoff of sorts, this film follows the further exploits of hedonistic British rock star Aldous Snow, last seen get- ting straight and sober in “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.” But Snow has fallen on hard times here. A well-intentioned but enormously offensive single, “African Child,” has put his career into a nose dive, sent his girlfriend and child pack- ing, and caused him to relapse into sub- stance abuse. In an effort to resurrect his public image, the record company sends Aaron Green (Jonah Hill), a rookie intern, to escort him from London to a comeback gig. Green has his own prob- lems, too. He’s trying to salvage a foun- dering romance with his live-in girl- friend (“Mad Men’s” Elisabeth Moss). But at Snow’s insistence, this British assignment devolves into a three-day bender. Rather than acting like a grown- up, Green follows Snow from party to par- ty, guzzling absinthe and hiding illicit sub- stances in uncomfortable places. (R, 109 minutes) Contains strong sexual content and drug use throughout, and pervasive foul language. Area theaters.
BB1 ⁄2 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO
At its simplest, this Swedish thriller based on the first in a series of three popular Stieg Larsson novels is the story of a 40-year-old missing-person investi- gation. Wealthy businessman Henrik Van- ger (Sven-Bertil Taube) hires investigative journalist Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyq- vist) to find out what happened to Van- ger’s favorite niece, Harriet (Ewa Froel- ing), who is presumed to have been mur-
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