FilmCritic entries tagged "Owen Wilson"

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The Big Year

by Bill Gibron on Oct 13 2011
DVD Release Date: January 31, 2012
The Big Year

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Bird watching...sorry, "birding," is evidently the latest twist in the attempt to jumpstart the high concept comedy. Apparently, a simple sense of humor is not enough. While based on a true story -- who could make this kind of thing up? -- and the book The Big Year: A Tale of Man, Nature and Fowl Obsession by Mark Obmascik, what we really have here is an attempt to marry an obvious life metaphor to a trio of potential comedy kings. Unfortunately, no matter how hard they try, Steve Martin, Jack Black, and Owen Wilson come across as constipated, not clever. Indeed, in the arena of good ideas gone flawed and fractured, The Big Year is mostly small and insignificant.

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Cars 2

by Sean O’Connell on Jun 23 2011
DVD Release Date: November 1, 2011
Cars 2

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At the very least, Cars 2 ends the pesky debate waged by Pixar addicts about which of the animation studio's 12 feature films deserves the undesirable "worst" tag. Prior to this summer, passionate Pixar factions passed time making the case...... more »
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Midnight in Paris

by Chris Cabin on May 19 2011
DVD Release Date: December 20, 2011
Midnight in Paris

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Things seem just a little bit different as Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's 41st feature and his first shot entirely in the eponymous City of Light, gets started. The staple jazz-tinged opening credits are interrupted for an extended sequence of...... more »
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Hall Pass

by Jason Morgan on Feb 24 2011
DVD Release Date: June 14, 2011
Hall Pass

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Marriage and family responsibility are often punch lines at the butt end of jokes told in a smoke-filled poker room or over hot wings and beer. While there's a good amount of independent chest-thumping in a group of buddies, guys...... more »
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Little Fockers

by Jesse Hassenger on Dec 21 2010
DVD Release Date: April 5, 2011
Little Fockers

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It began so simply with Meet the Parents. Nervous Ben Stiller visits his girlfriend's family; her dad is scary Robert De Niro; farcical set pieces ensue. Meet the Fockers introduced Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand as Stiller's parents, a clever...... more »
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How Do You Know

by Jason McKiernan on Dec 16 2010
DVD Release Date: March 22, 2011
How Do You Know

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James L. Brooks makes movies about charmingly quirky people going through the most defining decisions of their lives. In a Brooks film, every emotion is writ large -- the laughs are big, the struggles are monumental, and even the subtlest...... more »
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Marmaduke

by Bill Gibron on Jun 3 2010
DVD Release Date: August 31, 2010
Marmaduke

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There is only one truly great animal movie -- 1995's brilliant, Oscar-nominated Babe. Everything else, past and present, is just fodder for families with nothing better to do than sit their impressionable ones down in front of the home video...... more »
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Fantastic Mr. Fox

by Chris Barsanti on Mar 9 2010
DVD Release Date: March 23, 2010
Fantastic Mr. Fox

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Harkening back to the joys of their first collaboration, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Wes Anderson and Noah Baumbach's script for their stop-motion animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's novel The Fantastic Mr. Fox brings a wry and mature...... more »
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Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

by Bill Gibron on May 22 2009
DVD Release Date: December 1, 2009
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

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Shawn Levy has no soul. Perhaps put another way, he is one of the few filmmakers working today who lacks the requisite motion picture magic to make his fantastical ideas sing. Now that's nothing new to anyone who's seen his...... more »
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Anaconda

by Jason McKiernan on Jan 23 2009
DVD Release Date: June 2, 2009

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In Anaconda, an eclectic cast of good actors badly feign terror as they run from a giant rubber tube made to look like a snake. The transparently awful digital effects indicate that the snake was also played by a computer...... more »

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