A touching ode to teen angst. As Enid, an 18-year-old who greets life with a withering sarcasm (she rolls her eyes the way other people breathe), Thora Birch paints a vivid portrait of a disaffected teen. But Ghost World offers more than witty putdowns, especially when Enid finally drops her armor of cynicism with the

Ray Romano plays another everyday schmo who’s nice enough but something of a wallflower – at least until a former U.S. president (Gene Hackman) runs against him for mayor. Comedy comfort food, this is never quite as funny as it should have been – its insistence on geniality holds it back – but the movie

The mugging comedic duo of Cuba Gooding Jr. and Horatio Sanz are just two of the many problems in this tone-deaf comedy, which follows two heterosexual buddies who mistakenly book themselves on a gay cruise. Of course the heroes eventually learn to overcome their homophobia – enabling the movie to safely revel in its own.

Not only is this yet another teen movie, but it’s the kind that give teen movies a bad name. Driven primarily by gross-out sex gags, this self-satisfied tale of three goofballs who cheat their way through college is made by the sort of guys who are pushing 30 and still brag about that awesome time

Another laughless affair from Martin Lawrence, who stars as a Renaissance theme-park employee who is transported to actual medieval times. Lawrence pulls out his usual bag of tired tricks – bugging his eyes out, screaming dated hip-hop slang until his voice is hoarse – with the usual, uninspired results.

The Longest Yard is inexplicably faithful to its inspiration, the buffoonish 1974 Burt Reynolds comedy. It’s pandering, puzzling and downright idiotic. Adam Sandler takes over the Reynolds role of Paul Crewe, a former professional quarterback who is sent to prison, where he leads a team of Neanderthal convicts in a game against their guards (Reynolds,

Shot in black and white, with laborious dialogue and wooden acting, this straight-faced tribute to the sci-fi horror flicks of the 1960s is fun for a while, but it soon turns dull, then stale. These are actors trying to be bad, which is far less entertaining than genuinely bad acting. In the end, Skeleton is

Starsky & Hutch accomplishes something truly unique: It has more funny actors than actual laughs. Ben Stiller, Owen Wilson, Vince Vaughn, Will Ferrell and a rejuvenated Jason Bateman all appear, but the two stars in particular are clearly coasting. Director Todd Phillips (Old School), meanwhile, can’t decide whether his movie is a spoof of the

Operating under the apparent belief that every generation needs its own insipid teen comedy, Warner Bros. Pictures has remade 1987’s Can’t Buy Me Love, in which a dorky teen (Nick Cannon this time) pays the most popular girl in school to date him. Sure, the earlier Patrick Dempsey flick has its defenders – most likely