Less engrossing than its 2004 predecessor National Treasure, Jon Turteltaubs busy sequel National Treasure: Book of Secrets is nevertheless a colorful and witty adventure, another race against overwhelming odds for the answer to a historical riddle. Ben Gates (Nicolas Cage), the treasure hunter who feverishly sought, in the first film, the whereabouts of a war chest hidden by Americas forefathers, is now charged with protecting family honor. When a rival (Ed Harris) offers alleged proof that Gates ancestor, Thomas Gates, was not a Civil War-era hero but a participant in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, Ben and his father (Jon Voight) and crew (Justin Bartha, Diane Kruger) hopscotch through Paris, London, Washington DC, and South Dakota to gather evidence refuting the claim. The film is most fun when the hunt, as in National Treasure, squeezes Ben into such impossible situations as examining twin desks in the queens chambers in Buckingham Palace and the White House (more…)
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![Endless Waltz: Gundam Wing - The Movie [UMD for PSP]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517NZ9NF9GL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
With the colonies at peace, tranquility has spread through Earth. No longer needing their weapons of war; the Gundams are sent into the sun to be destroyed. But a high-ranking official is kidnapped by a colony with aspirations of total domination! The pilots and their allies find themselves called into action once again. The Endless Waltz has begun. Includes Special Collector’s Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz PSP Screen Cover While Supplies Last!! Genre: Action / Sci-Fi / Mecha.
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![Not Another Teen Movie [UMD for PSP]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NXWS8174L._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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Not Another Teen Movie hits all the easy targets until it finally becomes one of the movies it’s attempting to spoof. But it’s a painless diversion if you enjoy taking the low road for a few good laughs. With the exception of hailing John Hughes’s 1980s teen-flick monopoly (including a cameo by Pretty in Pink’s Molly Ringwald), the film spoofs subjects of a later vintage. References to She’s All That, Can’t Hardly Wait, Bring It On, and several others are whipped into a tasteless gumbo of gags concerning sex, diarrhea, Tourette’s Syndrome, brain concussions, desperate male virgins, and token black guys. Ostensibly Not Another Teen Movie is about a jock (Chris Evans) betting that he can turn the cute-ugly duckling (Chyler Leigh) into a prom queen, but plot hardly matters when a firm-breasted exchange student appears regularly in her birthday suit. Five writers came up with this stuff; it’s a safe bet they’re still stuck in detention. –Jeff Shannon
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February 28th, 2010
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![Spider-Man 2 (UMD mini for PSP) [UMD for PSP] Widescreen Movie](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51KR0Z3KYWL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
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More than a few critics hailed Spider-Man 2 as “the best superhero movie ever,” and there’s no compelling reason to argue–thanks to a bigger budget, better special effects, and a dynamic, character-driven plot, it’s a notch above Spider-Man in terms of emotional depth and rich comic-book sensibility. Ordinary People Oscar®-winner Alvin Sargent received screenplay credit, and celebrated author and comic-book expert Michael Chabon worked on the story, but it’s director Sam Raimi’s affinity for the material that brings Spidey 2 to vivid life. When a fusion experiment goes terribly wrong, a brilliant physicist (Alfred Molina) is turned into Spidey’s newest nemesis, the deranged, mechanically tentacled “Doctor Octopus,” obsessed with completing his experiment and killing Spider-Man (Tobey Maguire) in the process. Even more compelling is Peter Parker’s urgent dilemma: continue his burdensome, lonely life of crime-fighting as Spider-Man, or pursue love and happine (more…)
