Like someone smacking the bottom of an empty ketchup bottle, American Wedding tries its best to force one last picture out of the American Pie series. For the marriage of Jim (Jason Biggs) and Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), most of their friends and family – as well as the prevalent gross-out humor and occasional sweetness of

An uneasy mixture of self-love and self-loathing, this would-be Hollywood satire – about an estranged movie-star couple (John Cusack and Catherine Zeta-Jones) who try to remain civil while promoting their last joint project – wants to make fun of the celebrity characters even as it fawns over them. Nearly everyone in the top-heavy cast, which

Like its underachieving predecessor, Analyze That is just funny enough to make you realize how much funnier it should be. Billy Crystal’s shrink and Robert De Niro’s conflicted mob boss are reunited, but this time for contrived shenanigans rather than counseling sessions. If you like your laughs to feel prescribed rather than inspired, the doctor

Co-writer and star Will Ferrell gets his own playground with this portrait of a 1970s news anchor, and he delivers what may be his definitive pompous dimwit. It’s often hysterical, if still a one-note role compared to his tragic clown in Old School. Burgundy is more of a living one-liner. With hilarious support from Steve

The irony undermining this sequel to Get Shorty, both of which are based on Elmore Leonard novels, is that you can’t be cool on demand. You either are or you aren’t. Of the ensemble cast to this cartoonish crime flick, set amid the L.A. music business, only returning star John Travolta, The Rock and Cedric

An exercise in absurd silliness, Bubble Boy follows a young man with an immunodeficiency disorder traveling across the country to stop the wedding of his one true love. Some people – most of whom hadn’t seen the movie – protested that Bubble Boy makes fun of such a disease. But if you’re in the mood

At what point does a piece of pop culture become worthless? After the initial television series, followed by TV movies, video games, a Jessica Simpson music video and now this timid feature, The Dukes of Hazzard has run its course. Trying to have fun watching this incarnation is like trying to resuscitate a corpse that

Light on laughs, driven by a creaky plot and peppered with a plinky score, this leaves you little to do but ponder which of the annoying family members should be booted out of the car first. They’re sent barreling through contrived sitcom situations, most of which make National Lampoon’s Vacation look like an observant comedy

A statement of faith in the guise of sacrilege, Saved! takes place in a conservative Christian high school and follows a faithful teen named Mary (Jena Malone) who tells us she’s “been born again my whole life.” That’s fine with her, at least until she gets pregnant, her boyfriend tells her he may be gay