Luke Sader

Predictable yet passably entertaining.

A giddily subversive addition to the age-old cinema tradition of the horror comedy.

Fairly competent but hardly engrossing.

An ordinary cop picture boosted by two charismatic superstars but hindered by its dearth of surprises.

Raucously fun, fluid follow-up with ecological message.

An embarrassingly meager comedy.

Racially insensitive, politically incorrect and beyond crude.

One thing Marmaduke does have in common with the earlier Disney titles is a blessed scarcity of crass bodily-function gags that often pass as family comedy.

Probably needed more originality than is on display. With an age-old cinema theme of a young man's maturation, it also needs to land female ticket-buyers but seems a lot like something women could find at home on the WE channel.

Daddy's Little Girls may be heavy-handed and drearily predictable, but it also should connect with its core audience as solidly as Perry's previous efforts did, even if the drama is frequently just as over the top as its predecessors.

Slickly made -- in the good sense -- and most entertaining.

A slight story with little action, this rueful dissection of male bonding builds to an undeniably emotional last act.

While youngsters might enjoy the movie, more discerning tweens, teens and adults will not be as easily amused.