Perhaps a reunion with Ben Stiller rekindled a little of that Farrelly fire. Because The Heartbreak Kid, a remake of the Charles Grodin-Cybill Shepherd comedy from 1972, is the brothers' most deliberate effort to recapture that Mary magic.

Stiller once again agrees to pursue the girl of his dreams around an exotic locale (Cabo San Lucas this time instead of Mary's hometown of Miami). And with Stiller comes the actor's willingness to endure the emotional and physical wringer for the good of a grotesque Farrelly gag or two.

The comedian plays Eddie Cantrow, a 40-something commitment-phobe who, for assorted reasons, has avoided taking the marital plunge. When Eddie meets beautiful Lila (Malin Akerman) after a chance encounter, his father (Jerry Stiller) and best friend, Mac (Rob Corddry), convince him to finally pop the question. Vows are exchanged, and the newlyweds jet-set to a honeymoon in paradise that, of course, is destined to fail.

The famous football player Paul Hornung was quoted once as saying, "Never get married in the morning, because you never know who you'll meet that night." Hornung nailed the Heartbreak plot, for the longer Eddie spends with Lila, the more he realizes they are not meant to be together. She's overly aggressive in bed, distrustful of his advice, annoyingly possessive, and mysterious about her past. After a crippling sunburn sidelines Lila for days, Eddie explores their Mexican resort and winds up meeting his soul mate, Miranda (Michelle Monaghan).

Similarities between the '72 version and this update fade once the Farrellys start applying their trademark comedic ticks. Heartbreak is textbook Farrelly brothers. Racial jabs and pornographic asides compete with gay jokes for face time. Obesity, skin rashes, breast augmentations, and other physical abnormalities are openly mocked. For the Farrellys, who tackled such issues in Shallow Hal and Stuck on You, this is practically a way of celebrating one's uniqueness in this conventional world.

Stiller, once again, is a game foil for the Farrellys. He exploits that comedic pocket he has created somewhere between a metaphorical rock and a hard place. Yes, we've seen Stiller dangle on a hook countless times before, but the energy he releases when backed against a wall makes even the most mundane situation seem refreshingly new.

But Stiller isn't a one-man show. Akerman corners Lila's psychological imbalance even as she plows through embarrassingly physical bedroom scenes. And Monaghan brings a sexy tomboy quality to her part that will win over every guy in the audience. The trio has fun with the sharp wordplay and clever misunderstandings in the script.

Remember, though, we are a long way off from the original '72 screenplay, which was credited to Neil Simon. I've yet to see that Heartbreak, though I'd wager my mortgage it doesn't include a scene where the lead actor is urinated on after being stung by a jellyfish. As expected, the Farrellys' ribald humor pushes the envelope at times, though more often than not, there's compassion and hilarity to their vulgarity.

The DVD includes a commentary track, deleted scenes, a gag reel, and a few making-of featurettes. Note that the disc is prefaced by an "edited for content" warning: The only thing missing appears to be a scene with young Stiller at camp that originally ran after the closing credits.

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Many reviewers have already commented on how weak the plot is for Transformers 2 and the bad storytelling abilities of Michael Bay. Roger Ebert did not give the movie his blessings and the crew on the RottenTomatoes website gave it a very low 21% rating.

The movie was actually not that bad regardless of the story and less than superb acting. There are some spectacular special effects during the fight scenes and if this movie was to be rated solely on action sequences, it would be among the best ever. The thing that every reviewer seems to have ignored is the unnecessary immoral and decadent behavior that is littered throughout the movie.

We get a taste of things to come in the opening scene of Sam, played by Shia LeBeof, leaving to go to college. Shortly after Sam's Father slaps his Mother on her behind, he tells his son about how college life will be different. Sam tells his Dad that he is a one woman man but the Father responds by telling his son about how he needs to "discover" and explore his sexuality while in college. In other words, he needs to sleep around with many girls and does not need to be faithful. What a great message to send to teenagers around the country.

We are soon visited upon a scene of Michaela, played by Megan Fox, who is spread out on a motorcycle with her rear end out so that everyone can examine it. A few scenes later, she is ripping off her clothes and surprising Sam with a very short and revealing dress that shows us her underwear. The purpose of this scene is something we will never know. Speaking of underwear, there is a scene with John Torturro which has him showing us more of his backside than most movie goers would ever want to see. The purpose of the scene is shock value because wearing a normal underwear does not entertain people enough.

Then we have the college girl who tempts Sam and is ridiculously over the top as the slut of the movie. The Autobot radio appropriately plays "She's a SuperFreak" when she is in the car, but this does nothing to erase the uncomfortableness that parents will feel from the sexual encounters when she is on the screen. The sexual scenes are complimented by the curse words that are used by the Transformers. There are two new Autobots who use foul language in numerous scenes. The audience chuckled a few times after hearing the obscenities, but I am sure they looked around afterwards to see how many kids heard those foul words.

The rating of this movie was PG-13 for sci-fi action violence, language, some crude and sexual material, and brief drug material. While the rating is accurate, I do not think that many parents pay attention to the full rating of the movie. I saw the movie in the theater and found more than a third of the audience were kids who were 10 years old or younger. One kid appeared to be around 5 years old and was so small; he had to sit in his Fathers lap during the movie.

Many would accuse me of being uptight and not adapting to our times. It is true that Transformers 2 is not the only movie to flaunt the female body nor is it the first to use curse words. This review is meant as a wakeup call to parents that all PG-13 movies have the potential to pollute the minds of your children with immoral images and foul language.

We are in need of a morality meter that parents can check before they take their children to see blockbuster movies because the PG-13 rating does not deter parents from letting their kids see them. If parents feel lenient towards letting their child watch movies like this one, then they should not be surprised when the child imitates what he sees and what he hears. The minds of young people are like sponges and parents must decide what kind of things they want their children to soak up.

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Guide to the best places for buying DVDs online
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CD Wow, popular from their cheap CD deals, now offer a range of top DVD titles online as well. Prices again are very competitive - all DVDs are £13.99 or less (including free delivery), but you will mainly find chart DVDs. Remember that you'll also need a multi-region DVD player in order to play their DVDs, as they cannot provide region specific products. Great though if you are looking to buy cheap DVDs. Click here to visit the CD Wow web site

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The Disney DVD shop is a great place to buy children's DVDs. They've got the entire range of Disney, Winnie the Pooh, Baby Einstein and classic back catalogue titles ... and, they often run special promotions such buy one get one free on Walt Disney cartoons. Click here to visit the Disney DVD Shop web site.

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Precisely! It's not often that I feel genuinely compelled to inflict seriously life altering bodily harm on fictional characters, especially those found in Star Trek videogames. I feel such a desire now, however. Mr. Head of Starfleet Academy and the people behind his wretched voice, infuriating dialogue and unfathomably irrational design need to be drug out into a field and made to repeatedly watch Kangaroo Jack while being shot in the crotch with a potato gun. Thankfully, few other moments of Elite Force II so effortlessly awaken the murderous, primal ape within us all.

Genetics has bred mankind to be a race of killers. Since the earliest of our ancestors learned how to roll boulders onto Mammoths, we've longed to obliterate living things that were not us. Elite Force II is all about keeping this demon within each and every one of us sinners in-check by indulging it and only it. It's about walking, shooting, whipping out the old tricorder on command, and most importantly, killing things. If you need to seriously think while playing, you're going to seriously need to head back to grammar school and play with the colored blocks.

The first Elite Force, as should be expected given the premise of this sequel, was a strict, down and dirty first-person shooter with little time for pleasantries and a lot of time for the exploding of various extraterrestrials by blasting them in the face with an assortment of particle weapons. Unfortunately for Raven, Activision and ourselves, Elite Force had a few problems: it was a part of the deplorable Voyager fiction; the story was out of control; the game was super, super short; and, it wasn't all that Star Trek. Elite Force II phasers away three and a half of those problems, though it seems the boys and girls at Ritual perhaps spent a bit too much time being faithful to the original game, when more time should have been placed on being new, fresh and faithful to Star Trek. Will this underlying problem burst the plasma vent and flood the game's aft decks with lethal radiation, thus killing us all? Do I have any idea what I'm talking about or am I just pulling warp conduits out of my behind? Does anyone even care? All this and more answered in a few thousand words...promise.

This game is about as straightforward as they come. Very linear level design with a few branches here and there contradict what we heard the game would be like early in its development. Branches can be good, even if they are few and far between. A lot of these are wholly unfulfilling. Since a game of pure action and nothing else rarely succeeds, and in this piece of fiction would be preposterous, Ritual had to add a few things between the carnage to maintain pacing, keep the game Trek, and step on any potential repetition, while at the same time delivering much sought after longevity. Some of these implementations work, others do not. Branches in mission all invariably lead to dead ends. The only justification for exploration is the acquisition of golden starships, sure to be made useless by imminent hacks. These collectables allow players to unlock stuff like new maps and new maps and possibly new maps. Fun, fun, fun, only finding this crap involves stumbling about in the dark, fondling walls like a tool and gazing through the red-orange haze of a structural integrity vision filter when you'd rather just shoot the hell out of something.
This is not to say the game's second ploy to spice up the action, the tricorder, is of no use or joy. It's kind of like a sex toy. When you need to use it, it's great. When you want to use it, it can be great. When you're forced to use it, it's not so much fun. Knowing I can scan things is cool.

Knowing that scanning is totally useless unless there's preset gas or a broken wall or some traps around is not cool. Throughout normal play, the tricorder's function is so rigid and defined that any fun that may have come from playing the role of the inquisitive, investigative scientist on a search to complete a mission is sapped dry. And why the hell doesn't the radar in the top right corner actually show up on the damned tricorder itself where there's conveniently a nonfunctional radar in its place?
Sounds like a pretty crappy sex toy, huh? Not entirely, even if implementation is drab and its use is tedious, there are some pleasurable ways to handle the thing. Another key to breaking up the monotony of constant action is the game's few mini-games, some directly related to the tricorder. A few times in each mission it will become necessary to meddle with a computer system of some sort, which involves playing a small game of match the wavelength modulation or connect the pipe looking circuits. Neither is a full game in and of itself, but both compliment the action and help drop players deeper into the role. From their inclusion a question surfaces... Why not have more? More interactive door hacking of different kinds, more computer hacking, more file retrieval? Ritual had a good thing in this regard with Sin and this next-generation of shooter could have and should have been much more, even given as cool as it already is.

So now that you basically know what spruces up the killing, what's the killing like? Neat. The large swamp crickets combust nicely. The story, played out by some rather tedious cutscenes and a predictable assortment of lifeless but intentionally diverse characters, is strong enough and long enough to be engrossing. It gets pretty good and ultimately introduces some interesting concepts, dropping the Enterprise into precarious but never truly outlandish circumstances (we need to stop this giant blob from destroying the universe with its mutated eggs or whatever the hell the first was about). I attribute this engrossment more to the action and atmospheric work and the design itself than to the writing. Sure, scripting is pretty solid, so if you don't help someone or save someone, you'll have an immediately different effect, but not a lasting one that will have any real implications on the gameplay.

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