Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks, as mismatched fathers of the bride and groom, work up some comedic steam in this remake, but ludicrous spy shenanigans push the movie over the top. Instead of allowing the stars to deliver a small comedy of manners, The In-Laws packs them onto a Sea-Doo and sends them racing after

The Man is a buddy comedy with a fatal misunderstanding of the concept of a comedic duo. Samuel L. Jackson and Eugene Levy pair up as Derrick Vann (Jackson), a growling undercover ATF agent, and Andy Fidler (Levy), a cheery dental supplies salesman who is mistaken for an arms dealer. Rather than playing off of

David Spade’s signature trait has always been a smugness that far outweighs any talent he might have to be smug about. You may think the joke is on him as he wades through the likes of Dickie Roberts – a toothless satire about a washed-up actor (Spade) who tries to regain his fame – but

This would-be comedy, about a professional basketball player who tries out for a women’s team, is so astonishingly, obviously bad you’re left wondering who even considered going to see it. I suppose star Miguel A. Nunez Jr. has a few relatives who attended out of duty, but for the rest of us, the broad, redundant

An easygoing comedy that would have benefited from some more work. To help pay for his niece’s college tuition, an uncle (Jason Lee) and his clueless friend (Tom Green) attempt some petty thefts. Lee makes for an affable hero and Green’s bizarre antics produce a few laughs, but the downtime between gags is long and

Despite the slight novelty of having women as its main characters, The Sweetest Thing is a redundant exercise in gross-out humor. Cameron Diaz – returning to There’s Something About Mary territory, but without the benefit of an original script and a director with comic timing – stars as a single girl on the dating scene

Forced quirkiness built around a flimsy gimmick, this independent feature follows an outrageously cultured 15-year-old (Aaron Stanford) who goes about wooing his stepmother (Sigourney Weaver) by quoting Voltaire. While the precocious high-schooler of Wes Anderson’s Rushmore – this movie’s obvious model – existed in a carefully cultivated fairy-tale world, the hero here is all too

Mr. 3000 would probably not seem quite as factory-made if it didn’t star irreverent comic Bernie Mac, playing a retired baseball player who mounts a comeback campaign when a mistake is found in the record books. Mac is allowed to swing free at the start, but as sure as the inevitable workout montage gets rolled

This Jim Carrey-less sequel to the 1994 comedy about a mask that unleashes the wearer’s id offers not just one, but two entries into the annals of repulsive computer-generated movie characters. Jamie Kennedy’s nightmarish game-show host shtick while wearing the mask is only slightly less unnerving than the antics of his character’s infant son, who

The sitcom premise of this German import follows a staunch socialist (Katrin Sass) who falls into a coma during East Germany’s setting sun. She sleeps through the conquest of capitalism, awakening eight months later. Afraid all the excitement will endanger her health, her son (Daniel Bruhl) confines her to her bedroom and tries to recreate