Hop (2011)

Cashing in on Easter but wholly unEastery, this religion-free kids movie features, would you believe, a magic candy factory on Rapa Nui (!) where a Russell Brand-voiced animated rabbit shirks his annual Easter responsibilities and instead goes to Hollywood to be discovered as a drummer on a talent show hosted by David Hasselhoff, receiving help along the way from a goofy human played by James Marsden.

★☆☆☆☆

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Disturbing Behaviour (1998)

The Stepford College Jocks is a not very thrilling nor mysterious mystery thriller set in an American high school where the disturbing behaviour of some of the students turns out to be caused not by puberty, peer pressure or substance abuse but something else much less interesting.

★☆☆☆☆

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Superman Returns (2006)

This reboot of the Superman franchise tries too hard to make Superman relevant to modern audiences and achieves the opposite, with modern audiences having to agree with the views Lois Lane expresses in her Pulitzer Prize-winning article, "Why the world doesn't need Superman" -- she is right, he barely survives a real estate controversy and the world clearly doesn't need him.

★★☆☆☆

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X-men: The Last Stand (2006)

The third installment of the X-men series dutifully upholds the superhero filmmaking law which states a third installment superhero movie must be so unrestrained it collapses from its own bombast.

★★☆☆☆

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