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  • Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs (2009)
    Review preview for Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs

    Meatballs doesn't bother throwing much at the audience, it uses 3D technology mainly to add depth rather than extend the action outwards.

    Martin Gray · 3 out of 5
    Will a weather wonder spell the end of the world?
  • Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2 (2013)
    Review preview for Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2

    Rich and strange, although its trippy, LSD vibe becomes almost overwhelming in places.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
    Flint heads back to Swallow Falls to retrieve his mutant-creating food machine.
  • The Dictator (2012)
    Review preview for The Dictator

    Like the best comedy, it's both wilfully stupid and deceptively clever, pushing buttons you may not expect.

    David Graham · 3.5 out of 5
    A Middle Eastern dictator is summoned before the UN Security Council in relation to concerns about his nuclear weapons programme.
  • The Emoji Movie (2017)
    Review preview for The Emoji Movie

    The brave new world of electronic dictatorship is not ready for this. There are no maps.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Emojis live in a parallel universe inside a teenager's smart phone hoping to help out with his romantic messaging before marauding bots erase them
  • Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel (2009)
    Review preview for Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel

    If TV sitcom veteran Carrivick’s film debut doesn’t quite milk the film's comic potential to the full there are still worse ways to pass 86 minutes – in this dimension, anyway.

    Jeff Robson · 3 out of 5
    A sci-fi nerd and his two mates discover a time travel portal – in their local pub.
  • The Hot Chick (2002)
    Review preview for The Hot Chick

    Teen movies are pushing the lid on the trash can.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Rob Schneider turns into a bitchy teenage girl in magic teen character swop comedy.
  • The House Bunny (2008)
    Review preview for The House Bunny

    Anna Faris plays ditsy like a young Goldie Hawn, though not nearly so well.

    Val Kermode · 1 out of 5
    A cast-off Playboy bunny is put in charge of a sorority house.
  • I Give It A Year (2013)
    Review preview for I Give It A Year

    Despite the good laughs, I Give It A Year is predictable.

    Paul Logan · 3 out of 5
    A newly wed couple think they have found happiness, but will they make their first year of marriage?
  • Just Friends (2005)
    Review preview for Just Friends

    Just Friends is less crude than many films of its kind and even made me laugh.

    Stephen McMorland · 3 out of 5
    High school fatty becomes slim womanising record exec in role reversal comedy, with hot girls vs hometown sweetheart.
  • May (2002)
    Review preview for May

    The film stitches together a remarkably good cast, a witty and knowing script, and some great cinematography.

    Donald Munro · 4.5 out of 5
    A socially awkward veterinary assistant with a lazy eye and obsession with perfection descends into depravity after developing a crush on a boy with perfect hands.
  • My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)
    Review preview for My Super Ex-Girlfriend

    At heart a deeply misogynistic view of female empowerment.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    Super-charged break-up leads to powerful problems.
  • Observe and Report (2009)
    Review preview for Observe and Report

    I found myself half-laughing at moments of acidic and keenly observed characterisation before being blasted with horrific crassness and vicious violence.

    Scott Macdonald · 2 out of 5
    Mall cop comes off his meds, and the world had better watch out!
  • Scary Movie (2000)
    Review preview for Scary Movie

    Although very hit and miss, Scary Movie is funny enough to be worthwhile.

    Keith Hennessey Brown · 3 out of 5
    Horror spoof, based loosely on the Scream franchise.
  • Scary Movie 2 (2001)
    Review preview for Scary Movie 2

    The secret, by the way, is that there is nothing to say about this film, except 'Don't go'.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Horror movie parody sequel with squealy teenagers.
  • Scary Movie 3 (2003)
    Review preview for Scary Movie 3

    The gags are at death's door.

    David Stanners · 2 out of 5
    Third instalment in the comedy horror spoof.
  • Take Me Home Tonight (2011)
    Review preview for Take Me Home Tonight

    It’s a film to be watched late at night, sunken into the sofa with one eye open. And then entirely forgotten about come the morning.

    Robert Munro · 2.5 out of 5
    As the summer of 1988 winds down, three friends on the verge of adulthood attend an out-of-control party in celebration of their last night of unbridled youth.
  • Waiting... (2005)
    Review preview for Waiting...

    This movie demonstrates in nauseating detail how chefs garnish a dish with excreta and pubic hairs, because a customer has complained too loudly, and you watch them eat it and laugh till you're sick (or should that be the other way round?).

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 2 out of 5
    Low grade genitalia humour in a restaurant kitchen.
  • What's Your Number? (2011)
    Review preview for What's Your Number?

    Mylod doles out cliche after cliche - drinks and debauchery in clubs, waking up with Mr Wrong - but never injects enough warmth or humor into proceedings to keep them fresh.

    David Graham · 2.5 out of 5
    A woman revisits her past 20 boyfriends to see if she's lost Mr Right.
  • Yogi Bear (2010)
    Review preview for Yogi Bear

    There are no real scares here but there's still a sense of adventure and the villains are suitably mean.

    Jennie Kermode · 2 out of 5
    Yogi and his friend Boo Boo join forces with Ranger Smith to foil a plot to sell off Jellystone's trees.

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