April 2009 Archives

How can the same thing happen to one man twice? For Chev Chelios (Jason Stratham) it certainly can.

Crank 2 carries on where the original left off with Chev seemingly falling to his death from a helicopter. Hitting the street below Chev is crudely shovelled up (still in one piece) by a shady-group of Chinese medics.

A rather groggy Chev comes too some time later to see his heart being removed before his very eyes. Passing out from the sickening sight he awakes again to discover himself still on the medical bed only to disocver that his heart's been replaced with an artifical one.

Escaping from the make-shift hospital-come-brothel Chev gets into a gunfight. Interrogating a man after the street has been lain with carnage he discovers that his heart was stolen (albeit in a non-romantic way) by a one Johnny Vang (Art Hsu).

Things then take a turn for the worse as the external battery to Chev's artifical heart is destroyed in a car crash. With the back-up internal battery only powerful enough to keep him alive for an hour Chev must come up with more and more ingenious ways to keep his heart going (similiar to the first film where he had to keep his adrenaline racing to survive).

Teaming up with his former girlfriend Eve Lydon (Amy Smart) Chev gives chase to the man who quite literally stole his heart.

This sequel to the 2006 indulges in all the boyhood fantasies of gun fights, sex, violence and gritty humour.

If you are not overly struck by extensive chase scenes there is enough one liners and black humour to make you laugh including the more and more ingenius ways Chev keeps himself alive including hooking himself up to a car battery, being tazered and even rubbing himself against an old lady...

Animation fans will be glad to see the third installment of the popular long-running Ice Age series coming to the islver screen this summer.

Manny and Elle the mammoths, Diego the sabre-tooth tiger and Sid the sloth discover a prehistoric world beneath their feet where dinosaurs still live and breathe.

Kids will laughing out-loud when Ice Age 3 hits the cinemas this summer.

Dwayne Johnson has come a long way since his WWF days and once again shows off his softer side in this latest helping from Disney.

Johnson plays Bruno, an Las Vegas cabbie who inadvertently picks up two teenagers who claim to be extraterrestials. Seth and Sara's claims are laughed off by The Rock who believes they are just two more over excited kids who have been attending a UFO convention in the city.

But he quickly learns that their claims are anything but false when weird events begin to occur...

Race to Witch Mountain is in cinemas now.

High School Musical fans will be jumping up and down with excitment with the return of teen heart-throb Zac Efron in 17 Again.

37-year-old Mike O'Donnell (Mathew Perry) hates his job, has been divorced and fears he is losing touch with his teenage kids. Returning to his old high school to reflect on the promising life he could of had, he meets a janitor who offers him a shoulder to lean on and share his woes.

On his way home Mike spots the janitor again, about to jump from a bridge. Mike goes after him and falls into the water, only to emerge as his younger self (Zac Efron) when he was 17.

But even in the guise of his younger, former-self, as he really got what it take to be down with the kids?

17 Again is in cinemas April 17th.