Roger Ebert Movie Review           Mobile Weekend Box Office: May 28-31, 2010 Shrek Forever After tops the box office with $57.1 million Daily Box Office: Tuesday, June 1, 2010 Shrek Forever After tops Tuesday's box office with $3.9 million Splice / *** (R) "Splice" (R, 107 minutes). Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley play partners in research and romance who clone human DNA with genes from other animals and unexpectedly produce a child or a monster, take your pick. This creature, named Dren (nerd spelled backwards) is smart, fast-growing, and humanoid. Also very interesting, as are her "parents," but although the film starts on a thoughtful note, it sidesteps some of the implications of this new life form. All the same, it's well done, and intriguing. Three star Get Him to the Greek / *** (R) "Get Him to the Greek" (R, 108 minutes). Jonah Hill plays an earnest young record exec assigned to deliver a wasted rock star (Russell Brand) to his comeback concert at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles. This sets in motion a screwball raunch fest with a surpassingly effective foundation of slow-building friendship. With Elisabeth Moss and Kate Byrne as women tired of enabling. Vulgar, scatological, obscene and funny. Three stars Marmaduke / ** (PG) "Marmaduke" (PG, 87 minutes). I don't mind talking animals in movies, as long as it's a voice-over narration. Most of the speaking roles in "Marmaduke" are by dogs (and a cat), and their dialog is all lip-synched. The effect is grotesque, especially when it appears on the scale of a Great Danes' drooling chops. The dog's family moves to California, there's a romance with a collie, a thrilling action scene involving a burst water main, and so on. So now you know. Rating: Two stars Holy Rollers / ** (R) "Holy Rollers" (R, 80 minutes). Jesse Eisenberg stars as a 20-something Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn Heights, moral and naive, who is tricked into becoming drug courier and later uses a gift for business to participate fully. Said to be based on a true story, the film is interesting but curiously detached; the low-key crime scenes and the suspense-free smuggling episodes seem unconvincing and lacking in energy. Two stars Micmacs / **1/2 (R) "Micmacs" (R, 104 minutes). A feckless video store clerk gets a bullet in his head, is homeless, meets a troupe of oddballs living in high style in a junkyard, and conspires with them to gain revenge against the manufacturer of both the bullet and the land mine that killed his father. An elaborate, fantastical comedy by Jean-Pierre Jeunet ("Amelie"), whose visual invention unfortunately upstages the thin story. Two and a half stars Roger Ebert Archive Previous Weeks On Roger Ebert Movie Review Wikipedia Roger Ebert Article TopSecretNews: Gary C's Ex: 'He Would've Been Like Muhammad Ali' http://www.rss.hm/fox/ Drudge Report RSS Feed | Eagle 97.3 | Fox News RSS Feed | Gun News | Money Maker | Roger Ebert Movie Review | Rudy Giuliani News | Yahoo News RSS Feed Served @ 06/03/10, 14:11 By iNIC | Affiliates | Festivus | Mooj Quotes