Forget Jack and Jill and the fact that Adam Sandler plays them both and not particularly well in his new “twins” comedy. Al Pacino is almost reason enough to see it, all by his bigger-than-life self.

DreamWork´s cunning casting of the silky Spaniard Antonio Banderas as a swashbuckling Puss in Boots pays off, brilliantly, in Puss in Boots, a star vehicle for the nursery rhyme kitty cat from the Shrek movies.

Twilight alumnus Taylor Lautner makes his debut as a leading man in a film tailor-made for him. Abduction puts Lautner in motion and never goes wrong as long as he remains in motion.

There was a scene, lo those many (OK, 11) years ago, in the original Final Destination. One of the characters who inadvertently “cheated death” and ruined “death’s grand design” had holed up in a cabin, which then had to be made accident-proof.

The good news about the big-screen 3-D version of The Smurfs is that it’s not the insipid — and some say “socialist” — Smurfs you remember from 1980s TV. Yes, they’re still tiny and blue. They still use “smurf ” as a verb, adverb, swear word, etc.

Winnie the Pooh, Disney’s latest film revival of A.A. Milne’s “willy, nilly, silly old bear,” is longer on charm than it is on laughs. Or length. But it’s a treat for children making their first trek to the multiplex and for parents and grandparents with fond memories of the Hundred Acre Wood.

In Zookeeper, James and his stunt-doubles take a pounding — pratfalls, bicycle spills, porcupine pokes. It’s a kid-friendly romantic comedy, a Night at the Museum at the zoo. With slapstick and sincerity, James buys into the idea that he’s a friend to animals, big and small, and that a guy with his limited prospects and his lineman-gone-to-seed physique has a shot — several shots — at a beauty like Leslie Bibb. And he sells that idea to us, too.

'I just couldn't take this awareness of my mortality,' he says. (Hey, it's better than 'The dog ate my homework.') Highmore plays George as a bit on the perky side for a boy supposedly so depressed he can barely get through the day.

What is the meaning of all this constipation? The hotheaded Tybalt (Jason Statham, perfect) is the one who stirs things up the most. He cheats in the lawnmower races and treats everything as a blood sport. Except there is no blood. When gnomes die, theyre shattered.

Perry reset this choreopoem seven archetypal women, dancers, delivering monologues in an inner city apartment building, setting up a community of relatives, neighbors, acquaintances and employees.