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MPAA Rated – PG
It’s 1:32 Long
A Review by:
- The Dude on the Right

First off, unless there is absolutely nothing else playing the weekend this movie comes out, I probably won’t see it. It’s not that it doesn’t look kind of cute, but it just doesn’t look to be this bachelor’s cup of tea. You, on the other hand, might wonder “Why are they making a sequel to ‘Are We There Yet?’” Well, when a movie has a budget of around $32 Million and the film does around $83 Mill, well, you get to make a sequel.

Anyway, reminding me of “Money Pit,” “Are We Done Yet” brings us Ice Cube as Nick, with his new wife Suzanne (Nia Long). When he finds out he’s going to be a daddy, Nick decides Suzanne and her kids, along with his up-and-coming kid, need to move to the suburbs/woods, and live in his dream home. The problem is that his dream house is a fix-er-upper, and as much as Nick thinks he is a handyman, he’s not, and hilarity ensues.

The movie does look cute, especially for the fans of “Are We There Yet?” so it should do well. And if they keep it PG, it should be cute for the kids as well.

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MPAA Rated – PG
It’s 1:28 Long
A Review by:
- The Dude on the Right

It’s an animated movie, and it looks cute. You get a little kid, Lucas, pissing off an ant hill of, well, ants, usually by drowning them with the water hose. Low and behold, somehow, the ants get a magic potion that will shrink a child down to ant size. Ah, now it time for our little Lucas to learn a lot of lessons about working together, friendship, and being strong, by becoming one with the ant colony.
The movie looks cute, but maybe more for the kids rather than the adults. I’ll still probably try to catch it, but this doesn’t seem to have the fun adult fair other animated movies tend to throw in.

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MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:48 Long
A Review by:
- The Dude on the Right

Opening in January, finally most of the artsy movies will be done, and we can just get a decent movie about a recruit joining the Naval Academy. Isn’t that what we all want after Christmas?

Here’s the simple synopsis…

James Franko is Jack. He’s a dude who doesn’t have nearly the connections or standing in society to get into the United States Naval Academy, yet from the trailer, he pesters his way in. Cole is played by Tyrese Gibson. For most of those at the Academy, they got in after high school, yet Cole found his way there after serving a couple of tours of duty and now is an instructor. Cole sees a great future for Jack, only Jack doesn’t always see it, and the story isn’t new, but it looks fairly entertaining. It’s also got Jordana Brewster, who’s looking great.

I’ll have to see how the football season is going if I get a chance to see this film, but it doesn’t look horrible, just kind of re-hashed at a different military school. So what.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

MPAA Rated – R
It’s 1:25 Long
A Preview by:
- The Dude on the Right

The teaser trailer seems to try to build this movie on the “Saw” genre of horror films, and really, there isn’t too much to really care about other than the basic synopsis is that some dude wants to stalk some dudettes related to something when they were all young ins.

The key for this film will be the obvious for the horror genre being a little more fun than the “Saw” side of things, namely some nudity and some sex. It’d got the women, hopefully they will get naked, and then if things are done right there will be blood, and a lot of it. Right now the teaser trailer is only out, it’s from Picturehouse Entertainment so that might mean it won’t even make it to my gigaplex, but in any case I sort of look forward to seeing this on my small screen where I can jump in my seat without the fear of ridicule from the theater goers around me.

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MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:25 Long
A Preview by:
- The Dude on the Right

The trailer shows a quirky comedy and that’s about it. It doesn’t really give any hints at the story except seeing some thieves and hitting a goat. But after some research the movie, get this, intertwines a divorced dad, cops, the FBI, a housewife, and a homeless dude when there’s a nuclear bomb in a suitcase. And, oh yea, it also has a toad, a python, and a theme park.

From Barry Sonnenfeld and based on a book by Dave Barry, well, who knows. The trailer is kind of funny and now that I know a little more about the story it actually sounds like this could be a wacked-out movie that might just please me.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:39 Long
A Preview by:
- The Dude on the Right

I didn’t find the first “Big Momma’s House” very entertaining, thought it tried too hard to get laughs, even giving it only 2 out of 5 stars. It should come as no surprise, then, that my initial thought of hearing they are making a sequel was “Why in God’s name would you make a sequel for this movie?” I guess when the original was budgeted around $30 million and made over $100 million you give Martin Lawrence a few bucks to put on the fat lady suit once again to try and fight some crime. After seeing the trailer, this movie really looks horrible, and that’s all I’ve got to say about this.

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MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:45 Long
A Preview by:
- The Dude on the Right

The first trailer for “Beauty Shop” didn’t really tell much other than Queen Latifah runs a beauty shop and things will go sort of like the “Barbershop” series of movies. The latest trailer, however, shows what is shaping up to be a pretty funny movie.

It seems Gina (Latifah) moves to Atlanta and is working for this fancy-shmancy hairdresser in the likes of Jorge (played to the hilt by Kevin Bacon). When he starts taking credit for her work, she decides to open her own beauty shop, brings in a cast of funny characters as her own hairdressers, including the likes of Lynn (Alicia Silverstone) who used to work with her over at Jorge’s, and now she is developing her own reputation in the hair industry.

The jokes seem to be a lot of what you’d expect for this “Barbershop” offshoot, and I laughed quite a bit during the trailer. Hopefully they aren’t the only jokes.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!

MPAA Rated – R
It’s 1:26 Long
A Preview by:
- The Dude on the Right

Just the other day as I was watching “The Karate Kid” on cable, I was wondering to myself, “Self, I wonder what is going on with Ralph Macchio’s career.” Okay, I’m lying because I already know – he’s coming up next in a movie called “Beer League.”

If you listen to Howard Stern you probably already know all about “Beer League” because Artie Lange from the show has a whole lot to do with the movie, from some producing, to some writing, to starring in the film. Pretty much the story is about a bunch of softball dudes who are going to get kicked out of the league if they don’t straighten up their act and play better softball, and hilarity is supposed to ensue.

The trailer that was shown during The Howard Stern Film Festival looked pretty funny, and as a fan of the show, I’ll hopefully be able to catch the flick as long as it opens at my local gigaplex.

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MPAA Rated – PG
It’s 2:00 Long
A Preview by:
- The Dude on the Right

Sometimes I have no problem with the girly-type film, hell I liked “Nancy Drew,” but other than the fact Anne Hathaway is in this film I have no real desire to see it. Supposedly it’s about Jane Austen before she became famous, and how she developed her style because of the things that happened around her.

Look, I’m not saying it doesn’t look like a decent film, it does look like some fun for young girls, but I really don’t like period pieces set across the pond. Take the girls to see “Becoming Jane,” I’ll probably be catching “Rush Hour 3.”

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MPAA Rated – PG-13
It’s 1:42 Long
A Preview by:
- The Dude on the Right

Okay, I know this is totally a chick-flick, and I’m a Mandy Moore and Piper Perabo fan, but so far the only reason I have to legitimize my going to see it is because there doesn’t seem to be any other movies I really want to see that opens the same weekend. I can see myself in the theater right now, with about 20 dudettes, all of them looking at me funny.

The things I have to do to review movies sometimes.

That’s it for this preview! I’m The Dude on the Right!! L8R!!!