A textbook example of how not to mess with success, "Cheaper by the Dozen 2" is every bit as forced, synthetic, banal and mawkish as the first edition

The gorilla is great, the girl terrific, sets are out of this world, creatures icky as hell, and the director clearly does not believe in the word enough.

With his observations about the clash between a tightly wound Manhattan careerist and her boyfriend' s loose-limbed New England clan, writer-director

While the 1997 best-selling novel "Memoirs of a Geisha" was written by an American, Arthur Golden, he absorbed enough of Japanese culture in his years of

The Special Olympics are played for laughs in a sugar-coated comedy that's more Sara Lee than Farrelly. A Farrelly brothers movie that's not a Farrelly

Steven Spielberg successfully enters Costa Gavras territory with Munich thought-provoking highly charged inquiry into the political moral and historical

Officially owing its existence to the 1968 Lucille Ball-Henry Fonda comedy of the same name but clearly going after "Cheaper by the Dozen's" $138.6 million

For legions of Harry Potter fans, the coming of a new film, the fourth adapted from J.K. Rowling's hugely successful literary series