Your Highness

RATING:** (2 stars)

When Prince Fabious's bride-to-be is kidnapped, he embarks on a quest to save her... joined by his lazy brother Prince Thadeous.

Danny McBride stars in what could have been a funny spoof on the fantasy genre, similar to what Blazing Saddles was for westerns. Instead the film quickly turns to little more than poor attempts at sexual humor... and stays there for the entirety of the film.

This is one of those films where I can't find anything particularly nice to say about the film, but I recognize that there is a minority of people who enjoy this kind of humor. For everyone else, I recommend this movie if you want fantasy/comedy or this movie for fantasy/action... and just about anything else currently showing if you want something recent.

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Source Code

RATING:*** (3 stars)

An action thriller centered on a soldier who wakes up in the body of an unknown man and discovers he's part of a mission to find the bomber of a Chicago commuter train.

The increase in the number of films dealing with alternate realities and and other fun science-fiction concepts could be analyzed, but for the purpose of our review here I'll just say that it has given us some great films and some not so great films. Source Code is a really solid film that moves quickly and keeps the plot twists to a minimum, preferring instead to focus on a straightforward story and a moral question.

Jake Gyllenhaal stars as Capt. Colter Stevens, a soldier who is being sent into the last eight minutes of a dead man's life in order to learn who was the bomber on a commuter train and hopefully prevent a second attack. The supporting cast does a fantastic job, and to be quite frank the entire film is rather well done--the pacing is strong (only 93 minutes long), no *real* surprises to be had, and the only big question isn't asked until just before the credits roll.

If there is anything negative to be said about Source Code, it is that there isn't anything absolutely amazing about it. It is a great movie and thoroughly enjoyable, but it also doesn't do anything to stand out from the plethora of great movies. If you don't see it in theaters, add this to your list of movies to rent as soon as it comes out.

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