THE REVIEW CORNER

Starring: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, and Zach Galifianakis Directed by: Todd Phillips Screenplay by: Craig Mazin, and Scot Armstrong      If you're interested in lack of originality, you're in the right place.  While "The Hangover" was great a few years ago, was there any need for a sequel?      "The Hangover Part 2" is almost an exact copy of the first "Hangover" film.  The difference, a new place (Bangkok instead of Las Vegas), and Stu (Ed Helms) is getting married instead of Doug (Justin Bartha).  They also lose another person in their group, Teddy (Mason Lee), the bride's little brother.     After a night of hard partying and not knowing what on earth the wolf pack trio (Phil, Stu, and Alan) has done, they wake up to find themselves mysteriously in Bangkok, Thailand, instead of where they should be, at a resort in another part of Thailand getting ready for Stu's wedding.  Nothing seems to have happened to Phil (Br...

Starring:  Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, and Ian McShane Directed by:  Rob Marshall Screenplay by:  Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio      Our pirate friends are back for the fourth time.  This time, they bring along new people for the journey, while some of the characters from the previous films are nowhere to be seen.      Captain Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) is in London rescuing his good old friend and former first mate, Mr. Gibbs (Kevin McNally) from the crime of impersonating Jack Sparrow, saying that he's looking for a ship and a crew (because apparently the Black Pearl has been sunk) to sail to ye olde Fountain of Youth.  While Jack's purpose in London isn't to find a crew and a ship, it eventually becomes his task to find the Fountain of Youth before the Spanish conquistadores find it first.  From there, it becomes a race between Captain Jack, Captain Barbosa (Geoffrey Rush), Blackbeard (Ian McShane), and th...

Starring: Paul Bettany, Karl Urban, and Maggie Q Directed by:  Scott Charles Stewart Written by: Cory Goodman      "To go against the Church is to go against God."  If this is the case, then what is going against this movie?  While Priest tries to be an epic thriller, it's easy to go against seeing it.      For as long as anyone can remember, humans and vampires (yes, vampires, but not the kind like in Twilight ) have been involved in a seemingly never ending struggle with each other.  Constant wars have forced humans into massive cities, protected by the Church, to stay safe, until they discover the power of a small group of warriors called Priests.  However, during peacetime, they are not needed and must re-assimilate with the rest of the population.      Our hero's (Paul Bettany) name is never mentioned and is only called by his job description, Priest.  His niece is captured by vampires, so it is Priest...

Starring: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, and Anthony Hopkins Directed by: Kenneth Branagh Written by: Ashley Miller, and Zack Stentz      If the warriors from the Capital One commercials had their own movie, this would be it.  The difference, "Thor" has cooler warriors.      Thor (Chris Hemsworth) is the son of Odin (Anthony Hopkins), the king of Asgard, a kingdom in space that's one of the 9 realms.  Their biggest enemy is the Frost Giants from the planet Yodenheim, a neigboring realm.  War is looming between the two realms and Earth is going to be caught in the middle because of Thor's banishment from the kingdom after defying Odin when he tells Thor and his brother, Loki (Tom Hiddleston), not to go to Yodenheim.  They go to Yodenheim on the day that Thor is supposed to become king of Asgard, but instead of becoming king, he gets banished to Earth, forced to live with the mortals.  Once on Earth, Thor meets Jane Foster (Na...