Film clips

By The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Contact)

Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr., left) is fitted into a primitive suit of protective armor by Yinsen (Shaun Toub) in Iron Man. 2008-04-30 09:11:00

LITTLE ROCK — At area theaters

71 ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS, PG

David Seville (Jason Lee) transforms three harmony-singing chipmunks into a hit musical act. Animated and live action. (91 minutes)

70 BABY MAMA, PG-13 Tina Fey plays a successful executive who, when she finds out she’s unlikely to be able to get pregnant, hires a rowdy surrogate mother (Amy Poehler). With Greg Kinnear, Sigourney Weaver; directed by Michael McCullers. (96 minutes) 90 THE COUNTERFEITERS, R Salomon “Sally” Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), the king of counterfeiters in Nazi-era Berlin, has exceptional skills that help him survive and advance in a concentration camp. Subtitled. With August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Martin Brambach; directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. (98 minutes)

78 FIRST SUNDAY, PG-13 Two petty criminals decide to rob their church. (96 minutes)

77 THE FORBIDDEN KINGDOM, PG-13

An American teenager (Michael Angarano) finds an antique Chinese staff in a pawnshop that magically transports him to martial arts-dominated ancient China. (113 minutes)

78 FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL, R A musician (Jason Segel), dumped by his TV star girlfriend (Kristen Bell), struggles to keep her rejection from ruining his life. (110 minutes)

72 HAROLD AND KUMAR ESCAPE FROM GUANTANAMO BAY, R Smuggling a bong onboard a flight to Amsterdam exposes Harold and Kumar to charges of terrorism. With John Cho, Kal Penn; directed by Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg. (102 minutes) 74 HORTON HEARS A WHO!, G A kindly elephant responds to a cry for help from an airborne speck of dust. Animated. (110 minutes)

90 IRON MAN, PG-13 Billionaire weapons manufacturer Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.), injured by one of his own weapons, builds himself a high-tech suit of armor and becomes Iron Man to combat evil on a global scale. With Terrence Howard, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jeff Bridges; directed by Jon Favreau. a(126 minutes)

78 JUMPER, PG-13 A young man with unique genes discovers he has the ability to teleport himself anywhere. (90 minutes)

76 LEATHERHEADS, PG-13 Director George Clooney plays a brash 1920s football player who recruits a warhero college star (John Krasinski), hoping that his struggling sport will finally capture the country’s attention. (114 minutes)

72 MADE OF HONOR, PG-13 Patrick Dempsey plays an attractive guy who suddenly realizes how empty his life is without his best friend (Michelle Monaghan) when she becomes engaged to a handsome and wealthy Scotsman. With Sydney Pollack, Kadeem Hardison; directed by Paul Weiland. (101 minutes)

68 MEET THE BROWNS, PG-13 A struggling single mother takes her three kids to Georgia for the funeral of a father she never knew and gets to know a family that changes her life. (100 minutes)

79 NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS, PG An accusation that an ancestor was involved in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination leads treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicolas Cage) on a wild chase to Europe and back. (124 minutes)

79 NEVER BACK DOWN, PG-13 Sean Faris plays a teen who sees a new form of martial arts as a way to fit in at his new school. (106 minutes)

77 NIM’S ISLAND, PG The imagination of a young girl (Abigail Breslin) brings to life a magical place with fictional heroes and villains. (95 minutes)

62 PROM NIGHT, PG-13 A high school senior’s prom might not turn out to be the grand occasion she envisions after the arrival of an uninvited sadistic killer in this remake. (98 minutes)

70 SHUTTER, PG-13 A newly married couple discover disturbing ghostly images in photographs they develop after a tragic accident. (85 minutes) 84 SMART PEOPLE, R An emotionally stunted professor (Dennis Quaid) is jolted out of lethargy by his overachieving daughter (Ellen Page), his no-account adopted brother (Thomas Haden Church) and a former student (Sarah Jessica Parker). (95 minutes) 90 SNOW ANGELS, R The lives of a high school student, a waitress, her estranged husband and their daughter come together in a small Pennsylvania town in winter. With Sam Rockwell, Michael Angarano, Kate Beckinsale; directed by Arkansas native David Gordon Green. (106 minutes)

82 THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES, PG A family encounters weird experiences when it moves into an isolated old house owned by an aging relative. (97 minutes)

90 STOP-LOSS, R An Iraq war hero isn’t ready to go when he’s ordered back to duty. (113 minutes)

72 10,000 BC, PG-13 Warriors battle saber-toothed tigers and other prehistoric beasts while searching for a lost civilization. (109 minutes)

79 21, PG-13 An MIT student finds the stakes higher than he thinks when joins a group that travels every weekend to Las Vegas to win at blackjack. (123 minutes)

80 UNDER THE SAME MOON, PG-13 A Mexican boy, alone after the death of his grandmother, sets out on a journey to find his mother, who’s working illegally in Los Angeles. With Kate Del Castillo, America Ferrera; directed by Patricia Riggen. (109 minutes)

69 VANTAGE POINT, PG-13 An American tourist, a TV news producer and two Secret Service agents deliver differing perspectives on the shooting of the U.S. president attending a conference on global terror in Spain. (90 minutes)

77 WELCOME HOME ROSCOE JENKINS, PG-13 A TV self-help star (Martin Lawrence) leaves Hollywood to visit his ancestral home in Georgia, intending to show his family he’s made something of himself. (114 minutes)

69 WHERE IN THE WORLD IS OSAMA BIN LADEN?, PG-13 Documentarian Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me) goes in search of Osama bin Laden. (136 minutes)

Movie-rating point system

Movies are rated on a scale from 50 to 100. Guidelines for moviegoers:

96-100 Transcendent 90-95 Exceptional 80-89 Better than most

to remarkable 70-79 Average 60-69 Awful to mediocre 50-59 Irredeemable