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

Its legion of teen male fans would be loathe to admit it, but this spinoff of the MTV reality series is the most blatant display of latent homosexuality since The Ambiguously Gay Duo on “Saturday Night Live.” Nearly every stunt eventually finds its way to the crotch, while two particular members of the gang might

Another Ice Cube ode to laziness, pot smoking and other negative African-American stereotypes, this time set to a jingle-bell beat. Along with Mike Epps, the rapper returns to his old south-central Los Angeles neighborhood in this third installment of the comedy series, primarily to chase down a renegade Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Decidedly less

Further evidence that Matthew Perry, “Friends” star and king of inconsequential movie comedies, is a strictly small-screen talent. This time he plays a process server trying to deliver divorce papers to a Texas trophy wife (Elizabeth Hurley), and it’s painful to watch him flub his way through nearly two hours of lifeless, would-be comedic situations.

Writer-star Paul Reiser plays a very “Mad About You”-type New York married man whose even-keel life takes a hit when his mother abruptly leaves his father, Sam (Peter Falk), after 47 years of marriage. Much kvetching and bonding between the men ensues. Reiser claims to have written the role of Sam with Falk in mind,

As you would expect from a sequel of sorts to the frat-house comedy Road Trip, Eurotrip runs on crude humor, sex gags and a “Girls Gone Wild” level of nudity. Yet it’s all elevated by a penchant for inspired lunacy. As four high school friends meander from London to Rome – leaving no Continental stereotype