Destina Weekend Listings

BRAND-SPANKIN’-NEW (to Destinta) RELEASES

Fired Up (PG13, 94 min.)
Friday (1, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 10), Saturday (1, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 10)

Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail (PG13, 110 min.)
Friday (noon)

PRETTY-EFFIN’-NEW (to Destinta) REVIEWED RELEASES

Confessions of a Shopaholic (PG, 105 min.)
See Grace Kredell’s review on page XXXXXX.
Friday (12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50), Saturday (12:10, 2:35, 5, 7:25, 9:50)

Coraline (PG, 100 min.) – 3/5 unicorns
This one’s directed by Henry Selick of “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” and the stop-motion animation here is just as lovingly detailed and strange. “Coraline” begins in a “real” world, a ramshackle house where a young girl longs for the affection of preoccupied parents. Small human details–tired faces, dark icky spaces in an old house, a child’s feelings of isolation and neglect–are invested with a tender oddness, heightened by blissfully ethereal music. When Coraline discovers an alternate reality, both enticing and eerie, we are right with her. Soon enough, though, the alternate reality gets pegged down in disappointingly literal fashion; her quest plays out like a series of videogame levels. There are still glorious sights and inventive flourishes, but the soul seems to drain away from the lovingly-detailed figures. The movie is ultimately too preoccupied with its fantasy-world to sustain its real one. (Dan O’Sullivan)
Friday (12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05), Saturday (12:20, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05)

Friday the 13th (R, 100 min.)
See Dan O’Sullivan’s review on page XXXXX
Friday (1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10), Saturday (1, 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10)

He’s Just Not That Into You (PG13, 140 min.) (3.5 blarguses)
Come on now, it’s Valentine’s season—I think we can all find a little room in our hearts for this candy-colored rom-com about the divide between the sexes. It may not actually teach you much about the signs that he’s just not that into you (almost everyone ends up together despite the warning signals), but it will prompt a silly grin as the end credits roll. Give it a chance—and give the star-studded cast (Jennifer Aniston, Ben Affleck, Jennifer Connolly, Scarlett Johanssen) props for bringing real emotional depth to their intersecting storylines, which could have turned sappy but stay believable and human. ( Emma Mohney)
Friday (1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10), Saturday (10)

The Pink Panther 2 (PG, 92 min.) – Rating: 2.5 out of 5
The grotesque, pathetic Inspector Clouseau of Blake Edwards’ Pink Panther movies is “updated” as a cuddly kids’-movie buffoon. In the old movies, Peter Sellers was committed, convincing; here, Steve Martin is just clowning around. There are inspired moments when Martin indulges his penchant for non sequiturs and spastic body language, not to mention something unexpectedly pleasant about a seeing the Inspector get a real happy ending after all those brutal comedies of embarrassment. Unfortunately, the movie drowns that sweetness in bombastic, special-effects-heavy pratfalls only vaguely reminiscent of the sly, absurdist physical comedy that marked the Sellers films. Martin’s heart isn’t in most of this, just his ego. John Cleese plays the manically envious Inspector Dreyfus, and he’s perfect for it. The movie seems unaware of this, however, and keeps his anarchic potential carefully in check.
Friday (12:15, 2:30, 4:40, 6:50), Saturday (12:15, 2:30, 4:40, 6:50)

The Uninvited (PG13, 87 min.) – 3.5/5
In a way, it’s disappointing that this becomes a Horror Movie with a Twist. We’re in the head of Anna (Emily Browning), a young girl who’s been in a mental institution since her mother died in a fire. Upon returning home, she finds that mom’s former nurse (a delightfully steely Elizabeth Banks) is now her soon-to-be-stepmother, and seems eerily determined to make the new family work. Early scenes depicting Anna’s fearful visions of a threatened home and psyche are deliciously creepy, but once these trauma-colored visions are put in the service of plot mechanics, they become increasingly literal and derivative (especially some pale ghost-kiddies straight out of “The Shining”). The Twist, however, uproots not only our understanding of the characters and situation, but also our attitude toward those nightmare-visions that seduced us at the start of the film. It’s a genuinely challenging reversal, slickly pulled off. (Dan O’Sullivan)
Friday (9:05), Saturday (9:05)

OLD STUFF THAT’S STILL PLAYING

Gran Torino (R, 116 min.)
Friday (9:20), Saturday (9:20)

Hotel for Dogs (PG, 100)
Friday (12:10, 2:30, 4:45), Saturday (12:10, 2:30, 4:45)

International (R, 132 min.)
Friday (1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50), Saturday (1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50)

Paul Blart: Mall Cop (PG, 98 min.) Rating: 3 out of 5
Friday (12:20), Saturday (12:20)

Push (PG13, 120 min.)
Friday (7:05, 9:40), Saturday (7:05, 9:40)

Slumdog Millionaire (R, 120 min.): 2.5/5 stars
Friday (noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20), Saturday (noon, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20)

Taken (PG13, 91 min.)
Friday (12:50, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30), Saturday (12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30)