Just Go with It is from the production team Happy Madison which has been together a very long time and has successfully brought moviegoers most of Adam Sandler's films, but this magical team has apparently lost its charm and if Sandler expects to continue making successful movies I would suggest he take a long hard look at this film and have an honest conversation with himself. Just Go with It may just signal the end of Sandler's instant hit status and I would be shocked the film does any business beyond opening weekend. Yes, it's that bad.

The premise of this film, where utilizing a wedding ring to tell woeful stories of a pretend marriage gone horribly wrong, to his advantage to score with women (we are led to believe that this is indeed a foolproof method), Danny Maccabee (Sandler) attends a party, plays the hero and then meets "the one." A successful Hollywood plastic surgeon, Danny's office is the background for the promising beginning to the film and what looked like a serious comedic effort was being made to poke fun at that plastic surgery craze but once it quickly goes horribly wrong it never rights itself, ever! Jennifer Aniston (The Bounty Hunter) plays his medical assistant Katherine and after Danny meets the stunningly beautiful Palmer played by newcomer Brooklyn Decker at a party he recruits Katherine to help him in his ruse to woo Palmer.

Palmer, all of 23, a school teacher and one of high moralistic character, finds the magical wedding ring and needs to be convinced that Danny isn't, in fact, married and insists on meeting his soon to be ex-wife. Enter assistant Katherine and her children as the fake family and the mayhem begins in every imaginable way. There's the scene where Katherine goes and gets the makeover so

We live in the Age of Pixar where the art of animation has been elevated to its highest form yet. The real genius of that small California start-up was twofold. They combined the latest high-end computer graphics with primal emotional story-telling to create such cinematic gems as Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and WALL-E. This bodes well for moviegoers young and young-at-heart but sends

The initial skepticism surrounding Steven Spielberg's directorial undertaking quickly dissipated when Schindler's List, an alarmingly powerful and affecting tale of an unlikely German-Czech industrialist who manages to save 1,100 Jews from the Nazi death camps, hit theater screens late in 1993 during the holiday season. In March of the following year, Spielberg won an Academy Award for "Best Director" and Schindler's List went

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Apparently, it's not only January releases that find themselves the target of critics … the two top films of the weekend were both new releases on Friday (in February), and critics and audiences alike aren't finding much to like about them. The Roommate opened in 1st with $15.6 million, the teen-aimed thriller drawing in both money and the ire of the reviewers. And

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The first two films chronicle success and failure, while Sunset Boulevard deals only with decline. It

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