Hide and seek

2/5 stars
robert deniro, dakota fanning

ok i give u where's the good ending hiding
starting up this film you would expect a typical new horror treatment, cheap scares, awkward dialouge and an ending that makes everything in the movie nonsensical. you'd be right except for one key element, dakota fanning. dont get me wrong her character's as poorly drawn as the res, but her emily comes across spooky because dakota takes her character and runs with it. dark stares, wide eyes, alternatly distant and happy voices, hell she'd be creepy even if she wasnt messing around with her homocidal friend "charley". dakota's exceptional talents carries the movie through long stretches of bad dialouge and weirdness(sample dialouge peice,"your lucky to have such a beautiful daughter." what)although the movie does conjure up a few good ideas(dakota dressing up in her mother's dress for dinner). unfortunatly the movie tears itself appart in the end, forcing robert deniro to play himself of as a killer something he's not equiped to do.(need a laugh? watch Deniro try to be chilling singing nursery rhymes with a knife in his hand. it dosent really matter,bad horror movies have a way of burrying themselves never to be seen again. for instance, can anyone tell me what the missing was about? i thought not.

Spider man 3

1.5/5 stars
Kirsten dunst, tobey maquire

threes bad company
if the fray showed us how to save a life, then this movie showed us how to take it away, by having all the actors forget to act, have the plot make no sense and to completly remove all the human edge from the entire movie. the latter started with the removal of realistic dialouge replaced by archaic awkward dialouge and out of place "lets get this movie over with" reavealing lines(if only the whole movie had come as quickly as harry osborne's character realization). then add a whiny emo version of peter parker, and kirsten dunst's "im here for the pay check" acting(dont feel bad kirsten the majority of the cast also attended the ben affleck acting academy in their off time). oh and then the plot, the only thing with bigger hole's then the building trhat got hit with a crane in SP3. sam raimi throws in 2 romantic interests, a case of amnesia, 3 villians, unexplained alien adrenaline, and a bunch of characters with no purpose or point other than to make the audience groan and check their watches? confused? you wont be for long as watching the flick will have you bawling with laughter. a guy who wgoes to church and prays to the scrucifix to kill peter parker? a villian who says all he has left is his daughter who will die in 2 days? come on thats funnier than anything achton kutcher ever did. good points? sp3 has a couple, aunt may is still the voice of reason and the only well written character, jk simmons still delivers the laughs as daily bugle editor, and the final fight is a marvel to behold. up and commer bryce dallace howard and raimi vet bruce cambell pop up for an unsatisfying minute or two trying to salvage some feeling but the directors would rather futz around with dated cgi than write a story, to bad this summer is hard up for action but its bone dry of intriging tales, the wait continues