Suffice it to say that it's something that would make Austin Powers blush, baby, but it's not supposed to be funny.

The audience should be given game controllers upon entering the theater. It wouldn't mean the film would make any more sense, but at least you'd feel like you had some say in the matter.

If you found "Shrek the Third," the third film in the "Shrek" franchise, tired, it will probably come as no surprise that Shrek Forever After is downright exhausted.

The Losers does a perfectly serviceable job of achieving its low ambitions.

A harmless little mess of a movie whose cast you've mostly heard of, including Tim Allen, who also directed.

Timothy Hutton is a good actor. So whom to blame for Multiple Sarcasms?

A pretty good action movie for about 45 minutes. Unfortunately, it lasts 106.

A by-the-numbers, good-vs.-evil tale.

The interviews throughout are the best part of the movie - the least heavy-handed, yet most effective, element. There is a message here of the necessity for tolerance, but 8: The Mormon Proposition would have been better had its makers presented it in a more consistent, artful fashion.

It's hard not to be disappointed with The Change-Up, which in the end follows the basic conventions of the switched-identity genre, if more profanely, changing up not much at all.

There's far too much going on in Valentine's Day, and far too little of it is worth the trouble.

Awash in mawkish sentimentality, Dear John still will move you deeply - if you're a 12-year-old girl.

Trouble is, it all adds up to . . . not much.

An unruly mix of science, morality, family dysfunction, horror and finger-down-the-throat gross-out ridiculousness.

Charm, alas, is the one thing lost in all the banging and clanging of the remake.

Sex and the City 2 isn't a feature film as much as it is consumer porn. The audience is not asked to relate to the characters, or at least what we remember of them, as much as to their shoes, their bags, their apartments, their couture, their stuff.

For the most part the jokes here are tired. William H. Macy is a welcome presence in the small role of Phil's offbeat-but- intense boss.

It's not as if every funny movie has to offer something in the way of social commentary or greater insight. Sometimes funny is just funny. Sometimes, as is too often the case here, it's not.

Call it what you want, but the best word to describe it is: unnecessary.

Nothing seems real here, with everything too broadly drawn.

True enough, she's trying to do the right thing. But she never quite gets there. And that gets old, making "Ramona" wear out its welcome long before it should have.

A mean-spirited little movie, investing its limited charms in all the wrong characters.

Jonah Hex somehow manages to waste the talents of Josh Brolin, John Malkovich, Michael Fassbender, Will Arnett, Aidan Quinn and Jeffrey Dean Morgan in a story that combines vengeance, the occult and an Old West war on terror (really).

While the special effects are impressive enough, M. Night Shyamalan's film doesn't make a lick of sense.

Dumb, lazy, obvious and largely pointless.