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‘Journey 2’ sinks Verne’s isle in 3-D muck

By DAVID GERMAINAP Movie Writer

There’s little mystery about “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.”

This 3-D sort-of sequel wears its formula-for-dol-lars purpose with pride, de-livering a dash of cinematic nonsense that represents Hollywood calculation at its shrewdest and most shameless.

Aga i n p o k i n g Ju l e s Verne’s remains with a sharp stick, the producers of the 2008 hit “Journey to the Center of the Earth” present their second mod-ern take on the 19th cen-tury fantasist’s wild stories. And “Mysterious Island” is every bit the amusement park ride cloaked as a mov-ie that the first “Journey” was, the new flick strand-ing a misfit band of adven-turers on Verne’s lost island of freakish creatures.

What this one lacks by comparison is the rela-tive novelty of digital 3-D, which was in its infancy for mainstream theatrical releases when “Journey to the Center of the Earth” came out.

It also lacks the likable goof factor of Brendan Fra-ser, who starred in the first movie but isn’t back for the second. Dwayne Johnson steps in this time, and while he tries to yuck it up amid

the nonstop action, he’s just not a goofball on the order of Fraser, who some-how can make extreme sil-liness palatable with that big, simpering grin of his. Johnson, on the other hand, merely simpers.

“Journey 2” also fea-tures a change of directors, with Brad Peyton (“Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore”) overseeing a col-lection of impressive but annoying visuals, serving up gimmicky 3-D that’s continually trying to poke things in your eye.

Johnson stars as ex-Navy guy Hank, stepfather to troublesome teenager Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcher-son, reprising his role from the first “Journey”).

In its rushed and clunky opening minutes, “Journey

2” establishes that Sean’s a bad boy genius who re-sents his stepdad; bonds the two in a scene that shows Hank’s an OK guy and Sean’s not such a bad boy and not such a genius; sends them off to the South Pacific in search of Sean’s g ra n d fa t h e r ( M i c h a e l Caine), who sent a cryptic transmission that he had found Verne’s supposedly fictional island; and lands them in the company of he-licopter pilot Gabato (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful daughter, Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens), who ferry the visitors to the remote isle.

Peyton and cousins Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn, who wrote the screenplay, waste no time giving the charac-ters more than the barest cartoon personalities, al-

lowing the filmmakers to focus on the movie’s only reason to exist. And that’s purely as a thrill ride, the actors racing from a giant lizard, flying on monster bees while pursued by co-lossal hungry birds, rush-ing to escape an enormous electric eel.

Size matters to the film-makers here, which might be why they signed up Johnson, a co-producer as well as star, who strains for some laughs with an over-done gag about his massive pectoral muscles.

The actors make an ef-fort with the interminable repartee they’re given to mutter, but the presence of actors as good as Caine and Guzman only highlights how dreadful and dumb the banter is (“Journey 2”

will be preceded by a new Daffy Duck cartoon; that short didn’t play before a recent critics’ screening, but we’re betting its dia-logue will be sharper than the main attraction’s).

The 3-D images have improved greatly since the first “Journey,” but even more this time, the film-

makers play a game of “made you flinch” with cheap shots of objects hur-tling off the screen. Good for a giggle at a theme park attraction, good for some groans and grousing when paying a 3-D premium to park your carcass in a the-ater for 90 minutes.

There’s promise of more, too, the movie hanging out the prospect of a “Journey 3” inspired by another of Verne’s sci-fi classics.

The root of the franchise is kind of clever, updating Verne’s novels to our times by pretending they weren’t fantasies but chronicles of actual expeditions. And “Journey 2” has its heart in the right place as a fam-ily-friendly adventure that might interest some kids in checking out Verne’s books.

If only the movie had the hint of a brain.

“Journey 2: The Mys-terious Island,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG for some adventure action, and brief mild language. Run-ning time: 94 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

Associated Press

In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, from left, Michael Caine and Luis Guzman are shown in a scene from “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.”

“Mysterious island” is every bit the amusement park ride cloaked as a movie that the first “Journey” was.

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Event information can be submitted via email to frontdoor@cumberlink.com, by mail, 457 E. North St., Carlisle, PA 17013 or by fax at 243-3121. For more information, visit www.cumberlink.com/entertainment

• The Big Band Sound will perform from 8 to 11 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10 at the Carlisle Comfort Suites. Tickets are $30 per person, $50 per couple. Call 385-1933.

• Lock and Key Events will hold a Singles Lock and Key Event Saturday, Feb. 11, at Champions Sports Bar in Highspire. Check-in begins at 7;15 p.m. Visit www.lockand-keyevents.com or call 645-9898.

• The Metropolitan Area Dance Club will hold a dance 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the PA Dance Sport Ballroom, 585 E. Main St., Hummelstown. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Marino will provide music. Call 774-2171.

• “Pillow Talk” will be shown at the Hershey Theatre at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 12. General admission tickets are $7. Visit www.HersheyTheatre.com or call 534-3405.

• An Evening with Spike Lee at 8 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Luhrs Center, Shippensburg Uni-versity. Tickets are $20. Visit www.luhrscenter.com or call 477-7469.

• Dickinson College to host a poetry reading by Elyse Fenton at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17 in the Stern Center, great room. The event is free. Visit clarkeforum.org or call 245-1875.

• Pat’s Singles Dance Club will hold a dance from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19 at the Valencia Ballroom, York. 142 N. George St. Admission is $10. Visit http://NewS-ingles3.tripod.com or call 303-1969.

• The International Fly Fishing Film Festival will be held at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at the Lancaster County Convetion Center in conjuction with the 2012 Fly Fishing Show. Admis-sion is $15 or $10 advance purchase or with admission ot the Fly Fishing Show. Visit www.flyfishingshow.com or call (866)481-2393.

• The Metropolitan Area Dance Club will hold a dance 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, at the PA Dance Sport Ballroom, 585 E. Main St., Hummelstown. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Call 774-2171.

• Comedian Lewis Black will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8, at the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center, York. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 9. Visit www.strandcapitol.org or call the box office at 846-1111.

• “Stars on Ice” will be coming to the area at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at the Giant Center in Hershey. Tickets are $25 and are available via www.ticketmaster.com or at the Giant Center Box Office. Special on-ice seating is also available upon request.

• Ballroom dance lessons will be offered Mondays, March 19-April 23, in Grove The-atre at the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University. Three ses-sions will be offered: beginner from 5:30-6:30 p.m., advanced from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and third timers from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Classes are taught by Frank Hancock. Cost is $35 per person; you do not need to be in a couple to register. Registration is open now by calling the box office at 477-SHOW.

• Garrison Keillor is coming back to Harrisburg at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 22, at Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Harrisburg. For tickets and information, visit www.whitak-ercenter.org or call 214-ARTS.

• Joan Rivers will be performing at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 22, at the Hershey Theatre. Tickets are $40-$65, or $95 for the show and a meet-and-greet. Visit www.hersheythe-atre.com or www.ticketmaster.com or call 534-3405.

• The Imagination Movers will bring their show “Rock-O-Matic” to the Hershey Theatre at 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26. Tickets are $25.75-$45.75. Visit www.hersheytheatre.com or www.ticketmaster.com or call 534-3405.

• Oyster Mill Playhouse will present “Angel Street,” a psychological thriller by Patrick Hamilton, at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, through Feb. 12, at its playhouse, 1001 Oyster Mill Road, Camp Hill. Opening night tickets are $16 and include a reception. All other performances are $14. Visit www.oystermill.com or call 737-6768.

• Open Stage of Harrisburg presents “Ma Rain-ey’s Black Bottom” Feb. 3-25 at the theater, 223 Walnut St., Harrisburg. Visit www.openstagehbg.com or call 232-OPEN.

• Theatre Harrisburg presents “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Feb. 4-19. There will also be shows at 4 p.m. Saturdays, Feb. 4 and 18, and 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. Perfor-mances are held at Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, harrisburg. Tickets are $20-$33. Call 214-ARTS.

• The Popcorn Hat Players will present “Han-sel and Gretel” at 10:15 a.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays and 1 p.m. Saturdays, Feb. 8-March 3, at Gamut Classic Theatre, third floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg. Tickets are $5-$8. Visit www.gamutplays.org or call 238-4111.

• The Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg will present “Shakespeare in Hollywood” Feb. 10 through Feb. 26. Visit www.ltmonline.net or call 766-0535.

• The Luhrs Center will present “Fiddler on the Roof” at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 14. Reserved tickets are $48, $43 and $35. Visit luhrscenter.com or call 477-7469.

• The Gamut Theatre Group will present “First in Our Hearts” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19 at Gamut Classic Theatre, 605 Strawberry Square, Harrisburg. Tickets are $12. Visit www.gamutplays.org.

• The Tap Dancers Collective, a newly formed tap dancing group for current and former tap danc-ers, will meet Sundays at 5 p.m. at Nee Danse Com-pany, 2040 Derry St., Harrisburg. The only cost is a shared fee to cover space rental. For more informa-tion, call Jerry Bowers at 697-2748.

• Pennsylvania playwrights are encouraged to submit original, full-length scripts to York Little The-atre’s annual Pennsylvania Original Playwright Competition. Plays should be full-length, unpro-duced scripts by playwrights who are currently Pennsylvania residents. For more information about the competition, call 854-3894 or visit www.ylt.org.

• A Valentine Date Night Community Concert fea-turing Randy Simpson and Pete Einstein will be held 7-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at The Tree House, 1090 Franklin St., Carlisle. Admission, beverages and dessert are avail-able by donation. Proceeds benefit SonPower Ministries and Randy Simpson Ministries. Call 249-6003.

• Cheryl Wheeler will perform 8-10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third St., Harrisburg. Tickets are $25 or $30. Visit www.midtown-scholar.com or call 236-1680.

• True North Brass will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at Hostetter Chapel at Messiah College. Tickets are $23. Visit www.messiah.edu/culturalseries or call 691-6036.

• Dickinson College faculty will perfrom solo works by Bach and Lau at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12 at the First Lutheran Church, Carlisle. The concert is free. Call 245-1568.

• Gary McCarren and the Blues to Rock will per-form at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at Carlisle Ribbon Mill, 320 E. Louther St., Carlisle. Call 422-7017. Cost is $20, BYOB.

• Carlisle Musical Arts Club will present its monthly program at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 14 at the Carlisle YWCA on G Street.

• The 16th Annual Millennium Music Conference and Showcase will be held Feb. 17 and 18 at the Radis-son Hotel and Convention Center, Camp Hill. Visit www.musicconference.net.

• Beck & Benedict Hardware Music Theatre will present a concert of blue grass music featuring Iron Ridge Bluegrass Band and Salem Bottom Boys Blue-grass Band at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 18, 118 Walnut St., Waynesboro. Cost is $13, children under 12 are free. Call 762-4711 or visit www.beck-benedicthardware.com

• Dickinson College faculty will present “Tyvie/music: Music for Horn, Electronics and Visual Multimedia,” at 7 p.m. Saturday Feb. 18 at Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts, West High Street. The concert is free. Call 248-1568.

• The Susquehanna Folk Music Society presents a concert of unique acoustic music from Sweden, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19 at the Unitarian Universalist Con-gregation of York, 925 S. George St., York. The cost is $20 general admission, $16 for members and $10 for students. Visit www.sfmsfolk.org or call 763-5744.

• Cantate Carlisle is holding auditions for interested singers of all voice parts. Call 245-0144 or visit www.cantatecarlisle.org for more information or to request an audition time.

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Regal Carlisle Commons 8Big Miracle (PG) Thu. 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, Fri.-Sun. 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30, Mon.-Thu. 1:40, 4:20, 6:50Chronicle (PG-13) Thu. 2:25, 5, 7:50, Fri. 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15, Sat.-Sun. 12:30, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15, Mon.-Thu. 2:40, 5:10, 7:50Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu. 4, 7The Grey (R) Thu. 1:45, 4:50, 7:40, Fri.-Sun. 2, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20, Mon.-Thu. 2, 4:40, 7:40Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 2D (PG) Fri. 5, Sat.-Thu. 2:30Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri. 2:30, 7:20, 9:40, Sat.-Sun. 12:10, 5, 7:20, 9:40, Mon.-Thu. 5, 7:20Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Thu. 2:40, 5:10, 8One for the Money (PG-13) Thu. 2, 4:15, 7:30, Fri. 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:50, Sat.-Sun. 12:05, 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:50, Mon.-Thu. 2:20, 4:50, 7:10Red Tails (PG-13) Thu. 1:30, 4:30, 7:20Safe House (R) Fri. 1:50, 4, 7, 10, Sat.-Sun. 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10, Mon.-Thu. 1:50, 4:30, 7:30Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Fri.-Sun. 1:05, 4, 7, 10, Mon.-Thu. 1:05, 4, 7This Means War (PG-13) Tue. (Feb. 14) 7:50Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu. 1:30, 4:30, 7:20The Vow (PG-13) Fri.-Thu. 11:50 a.m., 12:50, 2:40, 5:05, 6:40, 7:30, 9:55

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Red Tails (PG-13) Thu. 12:40, 4, 7:15, 10:05, Fri.-Thu. 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20Safe House (R) Fri.-Thu. 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 2:25, 3:45, 5:15, 6:50, 7:50, 9:25, 10:25Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 12:45, 4, 7, 10This Means War (PG-13) Tue. (Feb. 14) 7:20Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu.-Thu. 12, 2:15, 4:40, 7:35, 9:50The Vow (PG-13) Fri.-Thu. 11:50 a.m., 12:50, 2:40, 5:05, 6:40, 7:30, 9:55Woman in Black (PG-13) Thu. 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:10, 6:40, 7:40, 9:10, 10, Fri.-Thu. 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:20, 7:40, 10

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Beauty and the Beast 3D (G) Thu. 11:40 a.m., 1:55, 4:15Big Miracle (PG) Thu. 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 2, 3, 4:30, 5:30, 7, 9:30, Fri.-Thu. 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35Chronicle (PG-13) Thu.-Thu. 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40Contraband (R) Thu. 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:20, Fri.-Thu. 7:45, 10:20The Descendants (R) Thu. 12:25, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu. 12:35, 7:05Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (R) Thu. 8The Grey (R) Thu. 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10, Fri.-Thu. 12:35, 4:15, 7:25, 10:10The Iron Lady (PG-13) Thu. 11:35 a.m., 2, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15Joyful Noise (PG-13) Thu. 3:55, 10Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 2D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 12:20, 2:45, 5Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 11:30 a.m., 1:45, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Thu. 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15, Fri.-Thu. 3:50, 9:15One for the Money (PG-13) Thu. 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45, Fri.-Thu. 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu. 12:30, 3:20, 6:45, 9:35The Grey (R) Thu. 1, 3:35, 7, 9:40Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Thu. 12:50, 3:15, 7:10, 10Safe House (R) Fri.-Thu. 1, 3:35, 7, 9:35Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 12:30, 3:25, 6:45, 9:40Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu. 12:45, 3:10, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50The Vow (PG-13) Fri.-Thu. 12:50, 3:15, 7:10, 10Woman in Black (PG-13) Thu.-Thu. 12:40, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05

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Agneepath (NR) Thu. 8:10Beauty and the Beast 3D (G) Thu. 1:40, 4:20, 6:40Big Miracle (PG) Thu. 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50, Fri.-Thu. 1:10, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20Chronicle (PG-13) Thu. 2:50, 5:10, 7:40, 10, Fri.-Thu. 2, 4:20, 7, 9:40Contraband (R) Thu. 4:45, 10:05The Descendants (R) Thu. 1:10, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25, Fri.-Thu. 1:05, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30Ek Main Aur Ekk Tu (NR) Fri.-Thu. 2:50, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu. 1:05, 4, 6:50, 9:45, Fri.-Thu. 1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 10:05The Grey (R) Thu. 1, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10, Fri.-Thu. 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 10:10Haywire (R) Thu. 2:30, 7:45Hugo (PG) Thu. 2:10, 5The Iron Lady (PG-13) Thu. 1, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 2D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 5:10Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 2:30, 7:30, 9:50Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Thu. 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:40The Metropolitan Opera: Gotterdammerung (NR) Sat. 12One for the Money (PG-13) Thu. 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30, Fri.-Thu. 1:30, 4, 6:30, 9:10Red Tails (PG-13) Thu. 1:20, 4:10, 7, 9:55, Fri.-Thu. 1, 3:50, 6:40, 9:45Safe House (R) Fri.-Thu. 2:20, 5, 7:50, 10:30Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (PG-13) Thu. 9:10Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40This Means War (PG-13) Tue. (Feb.14) 7Underworld Awakening 3D (R) Thu. 2:45, 5:30, 8, 10:20, Fri.-Thu. 2:45, 5:15, 7:55, 10:15The Vow (PG-13) Fri.-Thu. 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 10:10Woman in Black (PG-13) Thu. 2:40, 5:20, 7:50, 10:30, Fri.-Thu. 2:40, 5:20, 8, 10:20

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MUSIC |D8-9Local music clubs are setting high

standards in the community.Also, the iTunes Top 10 lists.

NIGHTLIFE | D9Highlights from performing arts

centers in the area. “Fiddler on the Roof” is coming to the Luhrs Cen-

ter in Shippensburg Valentine’s Day.

THEATRE | D6-7“Shakespeare in Hollywood” opens at the Little Theatre of Mechanics-burg tomorrow, launching the 2012

production season.Also, the Theatre Development Fund

plans to offer several autism-friendly broadway shows.

BOOKS | D4-5Review of “Hunger Games,” “Go-ing Solo” and “The Lady in Gold.”

MOVIES | D10-12Reviews of upcoming film releases. “Journey 2” gets a lukewarm review

while Woody Harrelson give a “crazy eyed” performance in “Rampart.”Also, see a list of movies opening

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‘Journey 2’ sinks Verne’s isle in 3-D muck

By DAVID GERMAINAP Movie Writer

There’s little mystery about “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.”

This 3-D sort-of sequel wears its formula-for-dol-lars purpose with pride, de-livering a dash of cinematic nonsense that represents Hollywood calculation at its shrewdest and most shameless.

Aga i n p o k i n g Ju l e s Verne’s remains with a sharp stick, the producers of the 2008 hit “Journey to the Center of the Earth” present their second mod-ern take on the 19th cen-tury fantasist’s wild stories. And “Mysterious Island” is every bit the amusement park ride cloaked as a mov-ie that the first “Journey” was, the new flick strand-ing a misfit band of adven-turers on Verne’s lost island of freakish creatures.

What this one lacks by comparison is the rela-tive novelty of digital 3-D, which was in its infancy for mainstream theatrical releases when “Journey to the Center of the Earth” came out.

It also lacks the likable goof factor of Brendan Fra-ser, who starred in the first movie but isn’t back for the second. Dwayne Johnson steps in this time, and while he tries to yuck it up amid

the nonstop action, he’s just not a goofball on the order of Fraser, who some-how can make extreme sil-liness palatable with that big, simpering grin of his. Johnson, on the other hand, merely simpers.

“Journey 2” also fea-tures a change of directors, with Brad Peyton (“Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore”) overseeing a col-lection of impressive but annoying visuals, serving up gimmicky 3-D that’s continually trying to poke things in your eye.

Johnson stars as ex-Navy guy Hank, stepfather to troublesome teenager Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcher-son, reprising his role from the first “Journey”).

In its rushed and clunky opening minutes, “Journey

2” establishes that Sean’s a bad boy genius who re-sents his stepdad; bonds the two in a scene that shows Hank’s an OK guy and Sean’s not such a bad boy and not such a genius; sends them off to the South Pacific in search of Sean’s g ra n d fa t h e r ( M i c h a e l Caine), who sent a cryptic transmission that he had found Verne’s supposedly fictional island; and lands them in the company of he-licopter pilot Gabato (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful daughter, Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens), who ferry the visitors to the remote isle.

Peyton and cousins Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn, who wrote the screenplay, waste no time giving the charac-ters more than the barest cartoon personalities, al-

lowing the filmmakers to focus on the movie’s only reason to exist. And that’s purely as a thrill ride, the actors racing from a giant lizard, flying on monster bees while pursued by co-lossal hungry birds, rush-ing to escape an enormous electric eel.

Size matters to the film-makers here, which might be why they signed up Johnson, a co-producer as well as star, who strains for some laughs with an over-done gag about his massive pectoral muscles.

The actors make an ef-fort with the interminable repartee they’re given to mutter, but the presence of actors as good as Caine and Guzman only highlights how dreadful and dumb the banter is (“Journey 2”

will be preceded by a new Daffy Duck cartoon; that short didn’t play before a recent critics’ screening, but we’re betting its dia-logue will be sharper than the main attraction’s).

The 3-D images have improved greatly since the first “Journey,” but even more this time, the film-

makers play a game of “made you flinch” with cheap shots of objects hur-tling off the screen. Good for a giggle at a theme park attraction, good for some groans and grousing when paying a 3-D premium to park your carcass in a the-ater for 90 minutes.

There’s promise of more, too, the movie hanging out the prospect of a “Journey 3” inspired by another of Verne’s sci-fi classics.

The root of the franchise is kind of clever, updating Verne’s novels to our times by pretending they weren’t fantasies but chronicles of actual expeditions. And “Journey 2” has its heart in the right place as a fam-ily-friendly adventure that might interest some kids in checking out Verne’s books.

If only the movie had the hint of a brain.

“Journey 2: The Mys-terious Island,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG for some adventure action, and brief mild language. Run-ning time: 94 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

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In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, from left, Michael Caine and Luis Guzman are shown in a scene from “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.”

“Mysterious island” is every bit the amusement park ride cloaked as a movie that the first “Journey” was.

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Play based on movie opens at Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg Friday

• Jim Guard’s “A Retrospective” will be on display through March 9 at the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., Gettysburg. Visit www.gettysburg.edu/gallery or call 337-6080.

• Cindy Haden Baker’s “White Pass and Yukon Railroad, Lake Bennett, Alaska” will be on display through May 24 at the Franklin County Area Development Corporation, Chambersburg. Visit www.councilofthearts.net or call 264-6883.

• “Earth, Water, Fire, Glaze,” pottery and ceramics exhibition on display through Feb. 24 at the SHAPE Gallery, Shippensburg. Visit www.shapeart.org or call 532-2559.

• Nancy Stawitz will display her mixed media works through-out the month of February in the Charley Krone Gallery at New Cumberland Public Library, 1 Benjamin Plaza. Call 774-7820.

• Mechanicsburg artist Patty Toth will display her exhibition “Grandeur of Yosemite” through March 7 at the Perry County Council of the Arts Gallery, 1 S. Second St., Newport. An opening reception will be held 7-8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3. Visit www.perry-countyarts.org or call 567-7023.

• “Art is an entree, not a dessert” will be on display Feb. 12 through July 15 at the DOSHI Gallery at the State Museum of Pennsylvania.

• Therese Zemlin will display her artwork through March 9 in the Aughinbaugh Art Gallery at Messiah College’s Climenhaga Fine Arts Center. There will be an artist’s talk and reception at 4:15 p.m. Feb. 10 in the gallery.

• The “La Soiree Bleu” Fundraiser will be held Saturday, Feb. 11, at the home of Ann Hoffer. Cost is $50 per person, which includes cocktails, hors d-euvres, music and a gift. Sponsored by the Carlisle Arts Learning Center. Visit www.carlislearts.org.

• “Mechanicsburg – A Look at Bygone Days” will be on

display Feb. 11-May 26 at the Mechanicsburg Museum Associa-tion, 2 W. Strawberry Alley, Mechanicsburg. This exhibit features artifacts and photographs of Mechanicsburg’s bygone days of business and industry. Free and open to the public. Visit www.mechanicsburgmuseum.org or call 697-6088.

• “Three Visions,” a juried photographer exhibit featuring Jeb Boyd, Mike Knowlton and John Wright, will be on display through Saturday, Feb. 11, at the gallery at the Carlisle Arts Learning Cen-ter, 19 N. Hanover St., Carlisle. Call 249-6973.

• “The Blue,” a CALC member exhibit, will run Feb.17-March 17 at Carlisle Arts Learning Center, 19 N. Hanover St., Carlisle. An opening reception will be held 6:30-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17. Two pieces of artowrk allowed per member; cost is $10 per piece. Prizes will be awarded by jurror Anthony Wolking, visiting profes-sor of art at Dickinson College. visit www.carlislearts.org.

• The Council for the Arts of Chambersburg will display pho-tography by local artists in an exhibit entitled “Picture This” through Feb. 17 at its 159 S. Main St. location. Photographers include Chuck Armstrong, Denise Dockey, Kristin Pixler and Bill Stoler. Call 264-6883.

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Friday, Feb. 10: Moutain road(CD release party) with guests JT & The Mild Heat 9 p.m. no cover Saturday, Feb. 11: The Jellybricks (CD release party) with guest Julian Fist 9 p.m. $7 cover Wednesday, Feb. 15: The Great White Caps, 8 pm. no

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www.marketcrosspub.comFriday, Feb. 10: Troegs Night, 5 to 7 p.m., The Willy’s, 8:30

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Stand with TuRae Monday, Feb. 13: Broke Ass Monday, karaoke with Giovanni, 9 p.m.

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Harrelson rages in weary LA noir ‘Rampart’ BY JAKE COYLEAP ENTErTAINMENT WrITEr

The crazy eyes and idio-syncratic drawl of Woody Harrelson are enough to carry the dirty cop study “Rampart,” but even such powers as those can’t make engaging this weary L.A. noir.

Without Harrelson’s inherent intrigue, the heavy-handed provoca-tions of “Rampart” would be difficult to suffer. But Harrelson’s intense and committed performance keeps Oren Moverman’s film moving, even while the grim and overdone story wallows affectedly.

Among the dirty cops of movies — Harvey Keitel in “Bad Lieutenant,” Denzel Washington in “Training Day” — Harrelson’s LAPD officer Dave Brown is par-ticularly ugly. He’s nick-named “Date Rape Dave,” a moniker he came by from killing a serial date rapist years ago. The name may hint of Brown’s most decent side (a protector of women) but it also serves as a frightening warning.

“Rampart” is set in 1999 Los Angeles and its title refers to a noto-riously scandal-plagued police division. The film, which Moverman wrote with crime novel writer James Ellroy (“L.A. Con-fidential”), doesn’t try to analyze what led to a cor-rupt division, but rather the specific formation of a badge-wearing monster.

“ H o w d o we s o l ve a p ro b l e m l i ke Dave Brown?” asks police at-torney Joan Confrey (Si-gourney Weaver).

By then, we’ve already seen Brown lament “Rod-n ey K i n g wa n n a b e s,” abuse a handcuffed sus-

pect and beat to a pulp a man who had the mis-fortune of colliding with Brown’s cruiser. That in-cident is caught on cam-era and replayed on the evening news, sparking protests and an investiga-tion.

“This used to be a glori-ous soldiers’ department,” sneers Brown to a mixed-race female officer. “And now it’s ... you.”

N ice g uy, r ight? At home, we see a softer, complicated side. Brown has two ex-wives (Cynthia Nixon and Anne Heche, both looking lost) who are sisters and neighbors, with whom he has a teen-age daughter (Brie Larson) and a younger daughter

(Sammy Boyarsky). It’s an incredulous arrangement and we can only be glad, for basic clarity, when the younger girl sweetly asks her father if she’s inbred. (He laughs and tells her she isn’t and that she’s “native.”)

The bizarre domestic situation aside, Brown’s fa ce ge n u i n e ly g l ows around his daughters, surely his only possible pathway to salvation.

But Brown is in a self-destructive tailspin: act-ing out violently, des-perate for departmental cover (Ned Beatty plays a sinister LAPD retiree) and picking up women easily. He approaches one (Robin Wright) at a bar by com-

menting on her “litigator eyes.” Their relationship forms as one based on mutual self-loathing, and Wright is captivating in

every moment.How does he live with

himself? Quite self-as-suredly, actually. The most interesting quality

of Brown is how hyper-literate he is.

He might curse all man-ner of citizens as “scum,” but, when confronted by superiors or lawyers (Steve Buscemi makes a cameo as one), he re-sponds with a torrent of dubious legalese and moral equivocation. He shrouds his behavior in a labyrinth of caginess, de-fending himself as a Viet-nam vet and a true-blue of the old guard.

This is Moverman’s sec-ond stab at direction fol-lowing 2009’s “The Mes-senger,” which also fitted the famously liberal Har-relson in a uniform (as a soldier whose duty is to inform the families of the fallen).

W i t h c i n e m a to g ra -pher Bobby Bukowski, Moverman’s jerky, hand-held camera keeps LA al-ways in the background. The first shot is a profile of Brown driving, smok-ing and stoic behind sun-glasses, while Los Ange-les passes behind as mere backdrop. The protests over his beating, we never see, just hear.

Harrelson dominates the picture, but the sto-ry of Brown’s unraveling feels increasingly unre-alistic and uninteresting while it circles around ideas established in the first half hour. Instead of leading toward un-derstanding, “Rampart” remains a dirty cop cari-cature, more a complaint than a story.

“Rampart,” a Millen-nium Entertainment re-lease, is rated R for per-vasive language, sexual content and some vio-lence. Running time: 108 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

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In this image released by Millennium Entertainment, Woody Harrelson is shown in a scene from “Ram-part.”

Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions:

G — General audiences. All ages admitted.

PG — Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

PG-13 — Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.

r — restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

NC-17 — No one under 17 admitted.

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‘Hunger Games’ hard to put downBy Matthew McLaughLinSentinel RepoRteRmmclaughlin @cumbeRlink.com

In a little over a month (March 23 to be exact) “The Hunger Games” will hit theaters, and as is usually the case, I decided I needed to check out Suzanne Col-lins’ young adult trilogy before seeing any film ad-aptations.

Let me first say, the last time I reviewed a young adult trilogy I tackled all three books. I will not be doing that this time.

games vs. BattleThe basic premise of “The

Hunger Games” is simple (and awesome). In a dysto-pian future North Ameri-ca is ruled by the Capitol, where people don’t want for anything and advanced technology is freely avail-able.

But, as I said, this is a dystopia, so unfortunately life isn’t that great for ev-eryone under the Capitol’s rule. In the twelve outly-ing districts many live in poverty and are forced to harvest resources like coal and food for the people of

Capitol. Then there are the annual Hunger Games as well.

Because the districts once rebelled against the Capi-tol, each year two children between the ages of 12 and 18 are selected from each district (but not the Capi-tol of course) to fight in the Hunger Games, in which the 24 children are thrown into the wilderness and forced to fight to the death on national television. For the Capitol it’s entertain-ment, but it’s also a power-ful message to prevent fur-ther insurrections.

Awesome, no? It is, but it’s not really the first time someone has written a book or made a movie about teens being forced to fight to the death by a dystopian society as a means to dis-courage rebellion.

Collins has been flamed (that’s internet slang for bashed) in the blogosphere for sharing her basic prem-ise with the 1999 Japanese novel “Battle Royale” and the subsequent film adap-tation made in 2000.

I only mention this be-cause I want to weigh in on the subject, as someone who loves “Battle Royale,”

before getting too deep into my review. My personal opinion is, I don’t care.

I personally can believe Collins could have, as she claims, come up with the idea independently of “Bat-tle Royale” (corrupt gov-ernments wanting to throw their weight around, death matches and fights for survival are nothing new),

but, even if she didn’t, I am grateful to have it told again in a different way and for different reasons.

In “Battle Royale” a single high school class is selected to fight to the death. The teens know one another and the way they interact with, turn on or help one anoth-er seems to be metaphor for the social life of teens

(kicked up 1,000 notches). As Susan Dominus wrote in a New York Times review on Collins’ trilogy, “‘Battle Royale’ is a more deliberate study of adolescence, its coming-of-age savageries and posturings.”

holding to humanityIf “Battle Royale” is a

violent and bloody meta-phor for every teen’s social experience, “The Hunger Games” is about the strug-gle between maintaining one’s humanity and sur-vival.

Protagonist Katniss Ever-deen as well as many other participants in the games fumble through a morally grey area, until at the end... well you’ll have to read the book to see how Kat-niss deals with the inevi-table end to every Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games is a sharp and cleanly written book. At no point did Col-lins fumble with a scene, a bit of dialogue or a descrip-tion of her dystopian world, as sometimes will happen, taking the reader out of the story for a moment. I was enthralled and engrossed from page one on. In fact, I never stopped reading until I was done, which was un-fortunate since I started the book at around 11 p.m.

It was not in the least bit

an unfortunate reading ex-perience though, and what really earned my admira-tion and devotion to this book were the characters.

While Collins definitely created an admirable world as a setting for her trilogy, it is her talents for char-acterization and unique, complex characters that bring that world to life. Somewhere in the middle of “The Hunger Games” I realized I could see Kat-niss so clearly in my mind I knew I had to read the rest of the trilogy before seeing “The Hunger Games” film. I didn’t want such perfect harmony of characteriza-tion and my imagination ruined by an actress’ face and performance (no of-fense to actress Jennifer Lawrence).

“The Hunger Games” has everything one could want from a novel, action, suspense, philosophical themes and even romance. This isn’t “Twilight” though my friends (and I can say that ladies because I read it and gave it its fair shake). What conflicted teen girl romance is in-cluded in the pages of “The Hunger Games” won’t in-sult you, and Katniss Ever-deen is a woman of action if there ever was one.

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The cover of “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Col-lins.

book turned movie has resemblance to “battle Royale.”■

By JOnathan LOPeZFoR the aSSociated pReSS

“The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Master-piece, ‘Portrait of Adele

Bloch-Bauer’” (Knopf), by Anne-Marie O’Connor: In 1907, when Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted his famed portrait of the Vien-nese socialite Adele Bloch-Bauer, he could not have

known that the sophisti-cated world inhabited by the sitter’s wealthy Jewish family would be destroyed by the Nazi takeover of the country in 1938. Adele’s heirs fled to Switzerland —

their business interests in tatters and their art collec-tion, including the portrait, confiscated by Hitler’s

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Nightlifers in the Har-risburg area have plenty to choose from when it comes to live music venues. But the local scene also offers several large performing arts cen-ters within driving distance. Whether you’re looking for a pre-Valentine treat or a pair of tickets to give your sweet-ie, there are plenty of options for a special night out.

Luhrs centerThe H. Ric Luhrs Perform-

ing Arts Center at Shippens-burg University offers a wide range of cultural program-ming including full-scale Broadway performances, symphonies, dance troupes and internationally-known speakers. On Valentine’s Day, the center presents the Tony award winning musical, “Fiddler on The Roof” as it embarks on its North Ameri-can tour.

Based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem, the be-loved musical is among Broadway’s best known, and features a score that includes “Tradition,” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” “If I Were A Rich Man” and “Sunrise, Sunset.” The current pro-duction stars veteran John Preece in the role of patriarch Tevye, marking his tenth ap-pearance in the national tour of the show.

The show takes place at 7:30 at the Center, located at 1871 Old Main Drive, Ship-pensburg, Tickets are $35-$48 and are available by call-ing 477-SHOW or online at

www.luhrscenter.com. A special valentine’s re-

ception will be held follow-ing the performance that includes desserts and bev-erages. Tickets for the 9:45 p.m. reception are $20 each. It is not necessary to attend the performance to partici-pate in the reception.

Strand-capitol Downtown York is home to

The Strand Capitol Perform-ing Arts Center, a five-build-ing complex that includes two historic theaters. The Capitol Theatre was built in 1906 as a one-level dance hall and the Strand Theatre opened in 1925 primarily for vaudeville and silent movies. These days, the center hosts a range of shows from rock and classical music concerts to musicals and stand-up comedy as well as cinematic offerings.

On Saturday, Feb. 11, warm up to the melodic sounds of South African traditional

music with internationally renowned ensemble Lady-smith Black Mambazo. First introduced to America on Paul Simon’s Graceland al-bum, the group has since garnered critical acclaim and a devoted following of fans, and have performed with such artists as Stevie Wonder, Josh Groban, Dolly Parton and Ben Harper. The performance includes the synchronized dance moves of the Zulu tradition, as well as beautiful, inspiring music that intends to “spread the message of peace, love and harmony all over the world.”

The show takes place at 7:30 p.m. in the Strand The-ater, 50 N. George St., York. Tickets are $30, $35, $40, and are available by calling 846-1111 or visit www.strandcapi-tol.org.

Pullo centerThe Pullo Family Perform-

ing Arts Center at Penn State York features a 1,016-seat

theatre with full production capabilities offering touring shows, concerts and cultural, community and educational events. This month, look for a unique variety show “Pop Goes the Rock,” featur-ing spectacular feats per-formed to a live soundtrack of recent chart huts such as Like a Prayer, Beautiful and Jump. The brainchild of Neil Goldberg, creator of the Broadway hit Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy and founder of the troupe, the show in-cludes a combination of the-atrical performance, visual artistry and costumes along with musicians, singers and dancers.

Pop Goes the Rock by Cirque Dreams will appear at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18. Tickets are $42 and $56. The Pullo Center is located at 1031 Edgecomb Ave., York. For tickets and informa-tion, visit www.pullocenter.yk.psu.edu or call 505-8900.

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The Luhrs Center in Shippensburg will present ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on Valen-tine’s Day.

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Marie O’Connor relates in her painstak-ingly researched history of the case, it would take 68 years and a massive le-gal fight before descendants succeeded in reclaiming the art from the Austrian government. The bureaucratic stone-walling and politically motivated bad faith they encountered added insult to the tragedy of the Holocaust. But through the tireless efforts of figures including American attorney E. Ran-dol Schoenberg, who spearheaded the recovery effort, justice was eventually done. O’Connor’s narrative is enriched by extensive interviews and a remark-

able trove of family correspondence.“The Lady in Gold” paints a vivid pic-

ture of Vienna’s prewar Jewish intelli-gentsia, the artistic career of Klimt, the horrifying rise of Nazism and the com-plexities of international law and art res-titution.

Visitors to New York’s Neue Galer-ie, where the Bloch-Bauer portrait has been on display since its purchase by billionaire Ronald Lauder for a record $135 million in 2006, will be familiar with the sparkling, seductive image. But O’Connor’s fascinating tale of beauty, terror, loss and remembrance reveals a deeper truth beneath the golden surface.

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“Going Solo” (The Pen-guin Press), by Eric Klinen-berg: Living in families, though traditional and almost universal on this evolving planet, is experi-encing an unplanned but effective attack, according to a new book.

Author Eric Klinenberg, professor of sociology at New York University, sees lessons to be learned. He sums them up in his sub-title: “The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone.”

What good is l iving alone? Isolate yourself from all your friends? No

wife? No husband? No mother? And all that laun-dry to do? Babies? Maybe, later.

Henry David Thoreau tried it in the mid-1800s, when he was still in his twenties. The result was “Walden,” a book about living alone in the woods — a high point in American literature.

“I never found the com-panion so companionable as solitude,” he wrote.

One of four siblings him-self, he died unmarried, at 44. Biographers record one proposal — rejected — to a young woman.

He built his cottage with-in walking distance of his family in Concord, Mass.,

and the pubs he and his friends frequented. It was on property of his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of whose best known works is an essay called “Self-Re-liance.”

Thoreau’s mother vis-ited often, bearing home-

cooked meals.In 1950, about 4 million

Americans were living solo. A half-century later, the number had risen to 31 million, with wom-en outnumbering men 17 million to 14 million — figures that have had

little public attention.Between those two dates

another book appeared that may become a sort of landmark: Helen Gur-ley Brown’s “Sex and the Single Girl.” Klinenberg quotes her on the new young woman:

“She is engaging because she lives by her wits. She is not a parasite, a depen-dent, a scrounger, a spong-er or a bum. She is a giver, not a taker, a winner and not a loser.”

Klinenberg also col-lects interviews with older people who choose inde-pendent living rather than available alternatives as long as they can, though their stories are necessarily sadder than those of young people.

Most Americans, Euro-peans and rising numbers elsewhere, he argues, mea-sure satisfaction with life in terms of independence, integrity and self-respect.

“Our cultural preference for living autonomously is a key reason why today more than 11 million elder-ly Americans and 72 mil-lion Europeans live alone,” he writes, “and why in the coming decades many mil-lions more will do so.”

Though the short book is largely concerned with the United States, it devotes 10 vivid pages to solutions in-novated in Sweden. Back in the 1930s social planner and Nobel Peace Prize win-ner Alva Myrdal opened a “collective house.” It had 57 units for single women and single mothers, with a communal kitchen, a nurs-ery and small elevator ser-vice to each unit for meal deliveries.

“Solitude, once we learn how to use it, does more than restore our personal energy,” Klinenberg con-cludes, “it also sparks new ideas about how we might better live together.”

In this book cover image released by The Penguin Press, “Go-ing Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Ap-peal of Living Alone,” by Eric Klinenberg, is shown.

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Local clubs set high standards in communityWith the Carlisle area

strategically located within a few hours’ drive of New York City, Philadelphia and the Baltimore/Washington area, we have many oppor-tunities to hear the talent out of these cities. Many members of the Harrisburg Symphony are based in one of these metropolitan areas, and they bring their talents regularly into our area. The

H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center in Shippens-burg and the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg bring nationally and internation-ally known artists to our area. The level of musi-cianship is high and should inspire us to do more.

Music programs should set high standards. Pri-vate music teachers should have high standards. Audi-

ence members must have high standards. If we all combined and agreed to share this high standard,

what would happen? Lo-cal clubs like the Carlisle Musical Arts Club and The Wednesday Club of Har-risburg are examples of this kind of cooperative stan-dard. The clubs provide scholarships to students to continue music study and they give free or low cost, high quality recitals and concerts for the benefit of the community.

Locally based musicians have many reasons for play-ing. It’s a hobby, a passion or a learning experience. We learn and listen to each other without judgment. Enjoying music to a higher standard can be as simple as spending 15 minutes more with your instrument a day or attending one more lo-cal concert a month. Make your time count by invest-

ing in our musicians and our community’s pool of talent.

The Carlisle Musical Arts Club will present its Feb-ruary program at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14 at the YWCA in Carlisle. Per-formers include flutist Lori Elliott, a flute quartet, so-prano Libby Moyer, pianists Joan Boytim and Donna Houser, and a woodwind trio. Admission is free.

By RyAN PEARSONAP enTerTAinmenT WriTer

LOS ANGELES — A whiteboard hangs on the wall of the tiny Hollywood studio used by the Smeez-ingtons, Bruno Mars’ pro-duction and songwriting team. It’s filled with doodles, including a picture of Alf and a joking note that pro-ducer-engineer Ari Levine “hangs out with Jamaican drug lords on the reg.”

Mars, just back from a tour, plinks away at a new-ly-purchased Korg keyboard while Levine and singer-songwriter Philip Lawrence perch on couches. Levine’s dog Rambo snores noisily on the floor.

This is the Smeezing-tons’ moment of calm after storming up pop charts for the past two years.

“What I just went through the past year, I’ve never done before in my life. Ev-erything: Interviews, on television, we’ve toured ev-erywhere,” Mars says, shak-ing his head. “I’m excited for round two.”

The first round was a doozy: Mars has six nomi-nations at this Sunday’s Grammy Awards, including one for album of the year for the worldwide best-seller “Doo-Wops and Hooligans.” The Smeezingtons were be-hind not just Mars’ “It Will

Rain” and “Grenade” but also some of the last two years’ catchiest hits, from “Billionaire” to “Nothin’ on You” to “(Expletive) You” to “Lighters.”

While Mars, also nomi-nated for multiple Gram-mys last year for his hit-

making contributions, is in the spotlight, it’s also the Smeezingtons time to shine. The trio is nominated in the producer of the year catego-ry for their hits with Mars, but also Lil Wayne and the Far East Movement.

Mars, who has been per-

forming music since he was a toddler, approaches success with a disarming blend of flippancy and ex-acting, perfectionist crafts-manship. The 26-year-old jokes with a wide smile that he and Lawrence will walk the Grammys red carpet in matching ruffled pale blue suits, a la “Dumb and Dumber”: “I’ll be the belle of the ball,” he exclaims.

In response, Levine ear-nestly pulls out his phone with an image of a male fashion model in a well-tailored ensemble, saying he hopes to don something similar for the awards show. This prompts loud laughter

from Lawrence and Mars. “You’re serious?!” Mars howls.

The trio was brought to-gether by Lawrence, a 27-year-old who plays some keyboards and now backs up Mars at performances. He had been working with Mars and Levine separately with-out success before they all joined together at Levine’s unassuming studio. Levine, 26, contributed his equip-

ment and expertise in drum programming, sampling and other electronic sounds that dominate airwaves.

“Ari turned out to be the secret ingredient to what me and Phil were doing,” Mars said. “I’m used to live stuff. So you give me a studio with a bunch of live instruments, I can do it. But radio’s not playing that stuff.”

The Smeezingtons clicked and began by churning out songs for other art-ists. They produced 11 top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, funneling lessons learned through la-bel meetings and early hits into Mars’ solo work, which took off in 2010 with the sweet, driving No. 1 single “Just The Way You Are.”

Mars was suddenly in the pop spotlight, with well-re-ceived performances at last year’s Grammy Awards and MTV Video Music Awards and even a “Sesame Street” appearance. Levine says he isn’t recognized in pub-lic but is happy to see Mars lose his anonymity.

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Philip Lawrence, left, Ari Levine, center, and Bruno Mars of the songwriting and production team The Smeezingtons, pose for a portrait at their recording studio in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

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BY MARK KENNEDYAP DrAmA Writer

N EW YO R K — Two more autism-friendly performances of Broad-way musicals will be of-fered this spring and fall following the success last year of the first show-ing of a Broadway show specially altered for those diagnosed with the dis-order.

The Theatre Develop-ment Fund, a nonprofit organization focused on providing access to live theater, said Tuesday it plans to offer specially designed matinee show-ings of “Mary Poppins” on April 29 and “The Lion King” on Sept. 30.

The move comes after the Fund got enthusias-tic feedback from grateful families when it launched a pilot effort in October with an autism-friendly showing of “The Lion King.”

“It went so much better than any of us had hoped,” said Victoria Bailey, the Fund’s executive direc-tor. “The value of being able to go to the theater as a family with kids on the autism spectrum and their siblings in an envi-ronment that felt safe was huge.”

Autism disorders strike one in 100 children, ac-cording to U.S. govern-ment estimates. Chil-dren with the diagnosis are often sensitive to loud noises and harsh lights and find it difficult to sit still or remain quiet. Au-tism spectrum disorders

include both severe and relatively mild symp-toms.

After news of the initial performance of “The Lion King,” about 1,500 people expressed interest in additional shows, organizers said.

“It says to me that there is an enormous pent-up desire for this,” Bai-ley said. “There’s a huge need.”

The Fund, which has bought out both theaters for the special dates, will offer tickets at discount prices from its website. It said the “Mary Pop-pins” performance at the 1,797-seat New Amster-dam Theatre is nearly sold out and tickets to the performance of “The Lion King” at the 1,677-seat Minskoff Theatre will go on sale in late spring.

Both shows, presented by Disney Theatrical Pro-ductions, will be slight-ly altered to make those with autism more com-fortable, including cut-ting jarring sounds and strobe lights. Quiet areas with beanbag chairs and coloring books, staffed by autism experts, also will be created inside the the-ater for those who might feel overwhelmed.

To accommodate the special audience, ex-perts identified several moments in “The Lion King” when the sound or lights needed to be toned down, but none was more than 30 percent softened. There were seven changes in all, including the vol-ume adjusted down in

the opening number, on steam blasts and on Mu-fasa’s roar at the Elephant Graveyard. Actors walk-ing in the aisles were kept, to the delight of the audi-ence.

The Fund, which has consulted an advisory

panel of experts in the field of autism, has also made itself available to consult with other the-aters attempting their ow n a u t i s m - f r i e n d ly performances. It also publishes a download-able guide telling chil-

dren with autism what to expect during the show, including what ushers do and what to do during a curtain call.

Organizers learned some lessons after the initial performance, including that some families can

stay only for part of the show and that there’s a need to warn theatergo-ers about any props or set design that might move over the seats. Convert-ing bathrooms for unisex use also will be attempted this time to accommo-date children and their parents.

The team has learned how to make “The Lion King” accommodating to those with the develop-mental disorder and now they must tackle “Mary Poppins.”

“We’re working with that creative team to fig-ure out where the tweaks need to be in the perfor-mance,” Bailey said. “You have to listen really care-fully. You have to provide the service and let the people who know the ex-pertise help you.”

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“The Lion King” marquee is displayed at The Minskoff Theatre are seen in New York. A nonprofit group is planning two autism-friendly performances of Broadway’s “The Lion King” and “Mary Poppins” for families with children diag-nosed with the disorder. The Theatre Devel-opment Fund, an organiza-tion focused on providing access to live theater, announced Tuesday its plan to offer specially designed mati-nee showings of “Mary Poppins.”

theatre plans to offer specially designed matinee showings of “mary Poppins” and “the Lion King.”

■ “It went so much better than any of us had hoped. The value of being able to go to the theater as a family

with kids on the autism spectrum and their siblings in an environment that felt safe was huge.”

VicToriA BAiLeYFunDs’s executive Director

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BY BARBARA TRAININ BlANKsentineL corresPonDentFrontDoor@cumberLinK.com

The daughter of a Rock-ette, Chris Krahulec grew up on musicals. She ap-peared in her first straight play in college, in a pro-duction of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Now Krahulec is direct-ing a play based on Shake-speare’s beloved comedy— or, actually, on the making of the 1934 Warner Broth-ers film version of it. The only movie ever directed by Max Reinhardt, the famed stage director who came to Hollywood to escape Na-zism, it had what some considered an unlikely cast that included James Cag-ney, Dick Powell and Joe E. Brown.

“Shakespeare in Holly-wood,” the opening 2012 production of Little The-atre of Mechanicsburg, was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Its author, Ken Ludwig, for-merly penned “Lend Me a Tenor” and other works in which the theater itself is a star.

Winner of the 2004 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play of the Year, “Shake-speare in Hollywood” has a quirky premise— What if (as actually happened) the

actors portraying the im-mortals Puck and Oberon in the movie are indis-posed, and the characters from the Bard’s comedy turn up on the set because of a faulty spell and end up portraying themselves?

What if, along with the film’s stars, the immortals encounter such notables as Groucho Marx visiting the set, blonde bombshells, the four Warner Brothers, and gossip columnist Louella Parsons? And the immor-tals, true to form, can’t help weaving magic into the ac-tors’ lives?

Mayhem might begin to describe the results.

“It might be called ‘Mid-summer Night’s Night-mare,’ “ laughs Josh Lebo,

the Fairy King Oberon— a character he calls both “compassionate and char-ismatic as well as a power-hungry jerk.”

Part of the mayhem is Olivia, with whom Oberon becomes “smitten.”

“She’s a typical Midwest girl from Iowa,” says Steph-anie Via, playing the role. “She wants to be in the movies and worked hard to get the role of Puck, but got Hermia instead.”

For his part, Oberon becomes torn between “wanting to go home and not wanting to leave,” says Lebo. “He also has a su-pernatural wife back home, Tatania.”

For her part, Olivia is “in-trigued” by someone who

clearly isn’t local, says Via.Aside from all the mortal-

immortal complications, Will Hays (of the Hays Pro-duction Code— portrayed by Ira Rappaport) wants to make changes to the script.

“This is her first big break, and Hays is stand-ing in the way of the pic-ture getting made,” she adds.

Oberon’s decision to return home is hastened when he and Puck, a mis-chievous sprite, start to fade. What doesn’t fade, according to Krahulec, is the humor.

“Ludwig is one of my fa-vorites,” says the director. “There are a lot of inside jokes, and the play is fast paced and hilarious.”

In “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the supernaturals poke fun of the mortals visiting their forest. Here, in a reversal, the super-naturals try to figure out the strange world they’ve fallen upon. But certain elements remain— Ober-on tries to help some of the mortals and “is really falling in human love,” Krahulec says.

Also in the cast are Am-ber Stout as Puck; Jeff McNelly as Reinhardt;

and Jamie Lewis as Lydia, a bombshell.

Play based on film based on play at LTM

nancy Zimmerman/special to the sentinel

Above: Stephen Hensel (left) and Amber Stout (right) during rehearsal for the “Shakespeare in Hollywood” play at the Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg.Right: Shephanie Via playing olivia Darnell during rehearsals for Shakespeare in Hollywood.

“shakespeare in Hollywood” runs Feb. 10-26 at Little theatre of mechanicsburg, 915 s. York st. tickets for opening night are $16 and include admission to the post-show recep-tion. tickets to all other performances are $14.

For reservations, call 766-0535 or visit: www.ltmonline.net.

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BY MARK KENNEDYAP DrAmA Writer

N EW YO R K — Two more autism-friendly performances of Broad-way musicals will be of-fered this spring and fall following the success last year of the first show-ing of a Broadway show specially altered for those diagnosed with the dis-order.

The Theatre Develop-ment Fund, a nonprofit organization focused on providing access to live theater, said Tuesday it plans to offer specially designed matinee show-ings of “Mary Poppins” on April 29 and “The Lion King” on Sept. 30.

The move comes after the Fund got enthusias-tic feedback from grateful families when it launched a pilot effort in October with an autism-friendly showing of “The Lion King.”

“It went so much better than any of us had hoped,” said Victoria Bailey, the Fund’s executive direc-tor. “The value of being able to go to the theater as a family with kids on the autism spectrum and their siblings in an envi-ronment that felt safe was huge.”

Autism disorders strike one in 100 children, ac-cording to U.S. govern-ment estimates. Chil-dren with the diagnosis are often sensitive to loud noises and harsh lights and find it difficult to sit still or remain quiet. Au-tism spectrum disorders

include both severe and relatively mild symp-toms.

After news of the initial performance of “The Lion King,” about 1,500 people expressed interest in additional shows, organizers said.

“It says to me that there is an enormous pent-up desire for this,” Bai-ley said. “There’s a huge need.”

The Fund, which has bought out both theaters for the special dates, will offer tickets at discount prices from its website. It said the “Mary Pop-pins” performance at the 1,797-seat New Amster-dam Theatre is nearly sold out and tickets to the performance of “The Lion King” at the 1,677-seat Minskoff Theatre will go on sale in late spring.

Both shows, presented by Disney Theatrical Pro-ductions, will be slight-ly altered to make those with autism more com-fortable, including cut-ting jarring sounds and strobe lights. Quiet areas with beanbag chairs and coloring books, staffed by autism experts, also will be created inside the the-ater for those who might feel overwhelmed.

To accommodate the special audience, ex-perts identified several moments in “The Lion King” when the sound or lights needed to be toned down, but none was more than 30 percent softened. There were seven changes in all, including the vol-ume adjusted down in

the opening number, on steam blasts and on Mu-fasa’s roar at the Elephant Graveyard. Actors walk-ing in the aisles were kept, to the delight of the audi-ence.

The Fund, which has consulted an advisory

panel of experts in the field of autism, has also made itself available to consult with other the-aters attempting their ow n a u t i s m - f r i e n d ly performances. It also publishes a download-able guide telling chil-

dren with autism what to expect during the show, including what ushers do and what to do during a curtain call.

Organizers learned some lessons after the initial performance, including that some families can

stay only for part of the show and that there’s a need to warn theatergo-ers about any props or set design that might move over the seats. Convert-ing bathrooms for unisex use also will be attempted this time to accommo-date children and their parents.

The team has learned how to make “The Lion King” accommodating to those with the develop-mental disorder and now they must tackle “Mary Poppins.”

“We’re working with that creative team to fig-ure out where the tweaks need to be in the perfor-mance,” Bailey said. “You have to listen really care-fully. You have to provide the service and let the people who know the ex-pertise help you.”

Associated Press

“The Lion King” marquee is displayed at The Minskoff Theatre are seen in New York. A nonprofit group is planning two autism-friendly performances of Broadway’s “The Lion King” and “Mary Poppins” for families with children diag-nosed with the disorder. The Theatre Devel-opment Fund, an organiza-tion focused on providing access to live theater, announced Tuesday its plan to offer specially designed mati-nee showings of “Mary Poppins.”

theatre plans to offer specially designed matinee showings of “mary Poppins” and “the Lion King.”

■ “It went so much better than any of us had hoped. The value of being able to go to the theater as a family

with kids on the autism spectrum and their siblings in an environment that felt safe was huge.”

VicToriA BAiLeYFunDs’s executive Director

food. movies.entertainment.sports. parenting.

Theatre

BY BARBARA TRAININ BlANKsentineL corresPonDentFrontDoor@cumberLinK.com

The daughter of a Rock-ette, Chris Krahulec grew up on musicals. She ap-peared in her first straight play in college, in a pro-duction of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

Now Krahulec is direct-ing a play based on Shake-speare’s beloved comedy— or, actually, on the making of the 1934 Warner Broth-ers film version of it. The only movie ever directed by Max Reinhardt, the famed stage director who came to Hollywood to escape Na-zism, it had what some considered an unlikely cast that included James Cag-ney, Dick Powell and Joe E. Brown.

“Shakespeare in Holly-wood,” the opening 2012 production of Little The-atre of Mechanicsburg, was commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company. Its author, Ken Ludwig, for-merly penned “Lend Me a Tenor” and other works in which the theater itself is a star.

Winner of the 2004 Helen Hayes Award for Best New Play of the Year, “Shake-speare in Hollywood” has a quirky premise— What if (as actually happened) the

actors portraying the im-mortals Puck and Oberon in the movie are indis-posed, and the characters from the Bard’s comedy turn up on the set because of a faulty spell and end up portraying themselves?

What if, along with the film’s stars, the immortals encounter such notables as Groucho Marx visiting the set, blonde bombshells, the four Warner Brothers, and gossip columnist Louella Parsons? And the immor-tals, true to form, can’t help weaving magic into the ac-tors’ lives?

Mayhem might begin to describe the results.

“It might be called ‘Mid-summer Night’s Night-mare,’ “ laughs Josh Lebo,

the Fairy King Oberon— a character he calls both “compassionate and char-ismatic as well as a power-hungry jerk.”

Part of the mayhem is Olivia, with whom Oberon becomes “smitten.”

“She’s a typical Midwest girl from Iowa,” says Steph-anie Via, playing the role. “She wants to be in the movies and worked hard to get the role of Puck, but got Hermia instead.”

For his part, Oberon becomes torn between “wanting to go home and not wanting to leave,” says Lebo. “He also has a su-pernatural wife back home, Tatania.”

For her part, Olivia is “in-trigued” by someone who

clearly isn’t local, says Via.Aside from all the mortal-

immortal complications, Will Hays (of the Hays Pro-duction Code— portrayed by Ira Rappaport) wants to make changes to the script.

“This is her first big break, and Hays is stand-ing in the way of the pic-ture getting made,” she adds.

Oberon’s decision to return home is hastened when he and Puck, a mis-chievous sprite, start to fade. What doesn’t fade, according to Krahulec, is the humor.

“Ludwig is one of my fa-vorites,” says the director. “There are a lot of inside jokes, and the play is fast paced and hilarious.”

In “Midsummer Night’s Dream,” the supernaturals poke fun of the mortals visiting their forest. Here, in a reversal, the super-naturals try to figure out the strange world they’ve fallen upon. But certain elements remain— Ober-on tries to help some of the mortals and “is really falling in human love,” Krahulec says.

Also in the cast are Am-ber Stout as Puck; Jeff McNelly as Reinhardt;

and Jamie Lewis as Lydia, a bombshell.

Play based on film based on play at LTM

nancy Zimmerman/special to the sentinel

Above: Stephen Hensel (left) and Amber Stout (right) during rehearsal for the “Shakespeare in Hollywood” play at the Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg.Right: Shephanie Via playing olivia Darnell during rehearsals for Shakespeare in Hollywood.

“shakespeare in Hollywood” runs Feb. 10-26 at Little theatre of mechanicsburg, 915 s. York st. tickets for opening night are $16 and include admission to the post-show recep-tion. tickets to all other performances are $14.

For reservations, call 766-0535 or visit: www.ltmonline.net.

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Marie O’Connor relates in her painstak-ingly researched history of the case, it would take 68 years and a massive le-gal fight before descendants succeeded in reclaiming the art from the Austrian government. The bureaucratic stone-walling and politically motivated bad faith they encountered added insult to the tragedy of the Holocaust. But through the tireless efforts of figures including American attorney E. Ran-dol Schoenberg, who spearheaded the recovery effort, justice was eventually done. O’Connor’s narrative is enriched by extensive interviews and a remark-

able trove of family correspondence.“The Lady in Gold” paints a vivid pic-

ture of Vienna’s prewar Jewish intelli-gentsia, the artistic career of Klimt, the horrifying rise of Nazism and the com-plexities of international law and art res-titution.

Visitors to New York’s Neue Galer-ie, where the Bloch-Bauer portrait has been on display since its purchase by billionaire Ronald Lauder for a record $135 million in 2006, will be familiar with the sparkling, seductive image. But O’Connor’s fascinating tale of beauty, terror, loss and remembrance reveals a deeper truth beneath the golden surface.

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& Antiques.

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Review

By CARL HARTMANFor The AssociATed Press

“Going Solo” (The Pen-guin Press), by Eric Klinen-berg: Living in families, though traditional and almost universal on this evolving planet, is experi-encing an unplanned but effective attack, according to a new book.

Author Eric Klinenberg, professor of sociology at New York University, sees lessons to be learned. He sums them up in his sub-title: “The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Appeal of Living Alone.”

What good is l iving alone? Isolate yourself from all your friends? No

wife? No husband? No mother? And all that laun-dry to do? Babies? Maybe, later.

Henry David Thoreau tried it in the mid-1800s, when he was still in his twenties. The result was “Walden,” a book about living alone in the woods — a high point in American literature.

“I never found the com-panion so companionable as solitude,” he wrote.

One of four siblings him-self, he died unmarried, at 44. Biographers record one proposal — rejected — to a young woman.

He built his cottage with-in walking distance of his family in Concord, Mass.,

and the pubs he and his friends frequented. It was on property of his mentor, Ralph Waldo Emerson, one of whose best known works is an essay called “Self-Re-liance.”

Thoreau’s mother vis-ited often, bearing home-

cooked meals.In 1950, about 4 million

Americans were living solo. A half-century later, the number had risen to 31 million, with wom-en outnumbering men 17 million to 14 million — figures that have had

little public attention.Between those two dates

another book appeared that may become a sort of landmark: Helen Gur-ley Brown’s “Sex and the Single Girl.” Klinenberg quotes her on the new young woman:

“She is engaging because she lives by her wits. She is not a parasite, a depen-dent, a scrounger, a spong-er or a bum. She is a giver, not a taker, a winner and not a loser.”

Klinenberg also col-lects interviews with older people who choose inde-pendent living rather than available alternatives as long as they can, though their stories are necessarily sadder than those of young people.

Most Americans, Euro-peans and rising numbers elsewhere, he argues, mea-sure satisfaction with life in terms of independence, integrity and self-respect.

“Our cultural preference for living autonomously is a key reason why today more than 11 million elder-ly Americans and 72 mil-lion Europeans live alone,” he writes, “and why in the coming decades many mil-lions more will do so.”

Though the short book is largely concerned with the United States, it devotes 10 vivid pages to solutions in-novated in Sweden. Back in the 1930s social planner and Nobel Peace Prize win-ner Alva Myrdal opened a “collective house.” It had 57 units for single women and single mothers, with a communal kitchen, a nurs-ery and small elevator ser-vice to each unit for meal deliveries.

“Solitude, once we learn how to use it, does more than restore our personal energy,” Klinenberg con-cludes, “it also sparks new ideas about how we might better live together.”

In this book cover image released by The Penguin Press, “Go-ing Solo: The Extraordinary Rise and Surprising Ap-peal of Living Alone,” by Eric Klinenberg, is shown.

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Music Notes

Local clubs set high standards in communityWith the Carlisle area

strategically located within a few hours’ drive of New York City, Philadelphia and the Baltimore/Washington area, we have many oppor-tunities to hear the talent out of these cities. Many members of the Harrisburg Symphony are based in one of these metropolitan areas, and they bring their talents regularly into our area. The

H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center in Shippens-burg and the Whitaker Center in Harrisburg bring nationally and internation-ally known artists to our area. The level of musi-cianship is high and should inspire us to do more.

Music programs should set high standards. Pri-vate music teachers should have high standards. Audi-

ence members must have high standards. If we all combined and agreed to share this high standard,

what would happen? Lo-cal clubs like the Carlisle Musical Arts Club and The Wednesday Club of Har-risburg are examples of this kind of cooperative stan-dard. The clubs provide scholarships to students to continue music study and they give free or low cost, high quality recitals and concerts for the benefit of the community.

Locally based musicians have many reasons for play-ing. It’s a hobby, a passion or a learning experience. We learn and listen to each other without judgment. Enjoying music to a higher standard can be as simple as spending 15 minutes more with your instrument a day or attending one more lo-cal concert a month. Make your time count by invest-

ing in our musicians and our community’s pool of talent.

The Carlisle Musical Arts Club will present its Feb-ruary program at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14 at the YWCA in Carlisle. Per-formers include flutist Lori Elliott, a flute quartet, so-prano Libby Moyer, pianists Joan Boytim and Donna Houser, and a woodwind trio. Admission is free.

By RyAN PEARSONAP enTerTAinmenT WriTer

LOS ANGELES — A whiteboard hangs on the wall of the tiny Hollywood studio used by the Smeez-ingtons, Bruno Mars’ pro-duction and songwriting team. It’s filled with doodles, including a picture of Alf and a joking note that pro-ducer-engineer Ari Levine “hangs out with Jamaican drug lords on the reg.”

Mars, just back from a tour, plinks away at a new-ly-purchased Korg keyboard while Levine and singer-songwriter Philip Lawrence perch on couches. Levine’s dog Rambo snores noisily on the floor.

This is the Smeezing-tons’ moment of calm after storming up pop charts for the past two years.

“What I just went through the past year, I’ve never done before in my life. Ev-erything: Interviews, on television, we’ve toured ev-erywhere,” Mars says, shak-ing his head. “I’m excited for round two.”

The first round was a doozy: Mars has six nomi-nations at this Sunday’s Grammy Awards, including one for album of the year for the worldwide best-seller “Doo-Wops and Hooligans.” The Smeezingtons were be-hind not just Mars’ “It Will

Rain” and “Grenade” but also some of the last two years’ catchiest hits, from “Billionaire” to “Nothin’ on You” to “(Expletive) You” to “Lighters.”

While Mars, also nomi-nated for multiple Gram-mys last year for his hit-

making contributions, is in the spotlight, it’s also the Smeezingtons time to shine. The trio is nominated in the producer of the year catego-ry for their hits with Mars, but also Lil Wayne and the Far East Movement.

Mars, who has been per-

forming music since he was a toddler, approaches success with a disarming blend of flippancy and ex-acting, perfectionist crafts-manship. The 26-year-old jokes with a wide smile that he and Lawrence will walk the Grammys red carpet in matching ruffled pale blue suits, a la “Dumb and Dumber”: “I’ll be the belle of the ball,” he exclaims.

In response, Levine ear-nestly pulls out his phone with an image of a male fashion model in a well-tailored ensemble, saying he hopes to don something similar for the awards show. This prompts loud laughter

from Lawrence and Mars. “You’re serious?!” Mars howls.

The trio was brought to-gether by Lawrence, a 27-year-old who plays some keyboards and now backs up Mars at performances. He had been working with Mars and Levine separately with-out success before they all joined together at Levine’s unassuming studio. Levine, 26, contributed his equip-

ment and expertise in drum programming, sampling and other electronic sounds that dominate airwaves.

“Ari turned out to be the secret ingredient to what me and Phil were doing,” Mars said. “I’m used to live stuff. So you give me a studio with a bunch of live instruments, I can do it. But radio’s not playing that stuff.”

The Smeezingtons clicked and began by churning out songs for other art-ists. They produced 11 top 10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, funneling lessons learned through la-bel meetings and early hits into Mars’ solo work, which took off in 2010 with the sweet, driving No. 1 single “Just The Way You Are.”

Mars was suddenly in the pop spotlight, with well-re-ceived performances at last year’s Grammy Awards and MTV Video Music Awards and even a “Sesame Street” appearance. Levine says he isn’t recognized in pub-lic but is happy to see Mars lose his anonymity.

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Philip Lawrence, left, Ari Levine, center, and Bruno Mars of the songwriting and production team The Smeezingtons, pose for a portrait at their recording studio in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles.

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‘Hunger Games’ hard to put downBy Matthew McLaughLinSentinel RepoRteRmmclaughlin @cumbeRlink.com

In a little over a month (March 23 to be exact) “The Hunger Games” will hit theaters, and as is usually the case, I decided I needed to check out Suzanne Col-lins’ young adult trilogy before seeing any film ad-aptations.

Let me first say, the last time I reviewed a young adult trilogy I tackled all three books. I will not be doing that this time.

games vs. BattleThe basic premise of “The

Hunger Games” is simple (and awesome). In a dysto-pian future North Ameri-ca is ruled by the Capitol, where people don’t want for anything and advanced technology is freely avail-able.

But, as I said, this is a dystopia, so unfortunately life isn’t that great for ev-eryone under the Capitol’s rule. In the twelve outly-ing districts many live in poverty and are forced to harvest resources like coal and food for the people of

Capitol. Then there are the annual Hunger Games as well.

Because the districts once rebelled against the Capi-tol, each year two children between the ages of 12 and 18 are selected from each district (but not the Capi-tol of course) to fight in the Hunger Games, in which the 24 children are thrown into the wilderness and forced to fight to the death on national television. For the Capitol it’s entertain-ment, but it’s also a power-ful message to prevent fur-ther insurrections.

Awesome, no? It is, but it’s not really the first time someone has written a book or made a movie about teens being forced to fight to the death by a dystopian society as a means to dis-courage rebellion.

Collins has been flamed (that’s internet slang for bashed) in the blogosphere for sharing her basic prem-ise with the 1999 Japanese novel “Battle Royale” and the subsequent film adap-tation made in 2000.

I only mention this be-cause I want to weigh in on the subject, as someone who loves “Battle Royale,”

before getting too deep into my review. My personal opinion is, I don’t care.

I personally can believe Collins could have, as she claims, come up with the idea independently of “Bat-tle Royale” (corrupt gov-ernments wanting to throw their weight around, death matches and fights for survival are nothing new),

but, even if she didn’t, I am grateful to have it told again in a different way and for different reasons.

In “Battle Royale” a single high school class is selected to fight to the death. The teens know one another and the way they interact with, turn on or help one anoth-er seems to be metaphor for the social life of teens

(kicked up 1,000 notches). As Susan Dominus wrote in a New York Times review on Collins’ trilogy, “‘Battle Royale’ is a more deliberate study of adolescence, its coming-of-age savageries and posturings.”

holding to humanityIf “Battle Royale” is a

violent and bloody meta-phor for every teen’s social experience, “The Hunger Games” is about the strug-gle between maintaining one’s humanity and sur-vival.

Protagonist Katniss Ever-deen as well as many other participants in the games fumble through a morally grey area, until at the end... well you’ll have to read the book to see how Kat-niss deals with the inevi-table end to every Hunger Games.

The Hunger Games is a sharp and cleanly written book. At no point did Col-lins fumble with a scene, a bit of dialogue or a descrip-tion of her dystopian world, as sometimes will happen, taking the reader out of the story for a moment. I was enthralled and engrossed from page one on. In fact, I never stopped reading until I was done, which was un-fortunate since I started the book at around 11 p.m.

It was not in the least bit

an unfortunate reading ex-perience though, and what really earned my admira-tion and devotion to this book were the characters.

While Collins definitely created an admirable world as a setting for her trilogy, it is her talents for char-acterization and unique, complex characters that bring that world to life. Somewhere in the middle of “The Hunger Games” I realized I could see Kat-niss so clearly in my mind I knew I had to read the rest of the trilogy before seeing “The Hunger Games” film. I didn’t want such perfect harmony of characteriza-tion and my imagination ruined by an actress’ face and performance (no of-fense to actress Jennifer Lawrence).

“The Hunger Games” has everything one could want from a novel, action, suspense, philosophical themes and even romance. This isn’t “Twilight” though my friends (and I can say that ladies because I read it and gave it its fair shake). What conflicted teen girl romance is in-cluded in the pages of “The Hunger Games” won’t in-sult you, and Katniss Ever-deen is a woman of action if there ever was one.

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The cover of “Hunger Games” by Suzanne Col-lins.

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By JOnathan LOPeZFoR the aSSociated pReSS

“The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Master-piece, ‘Portrait of Adele

Bloch-Bauer’” (Knopf), by Anne-Marie O’Connor: In 1907, when Austrian artist Gustav Klimt painted his famed portrait of the Vien-nese socialite Adele Bloch-Bauer, he could not have

known that the sophisti-cated world inhabited by the sitter’s wealthy Jewish family would be destroyed by the Nazi takeover of the country in 1938. Adele’s heirs fled to Switzerland —

their business interests in tatters and their art collec-tion, including the portrait, confiscated by Hitler’s

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Nightlifers in the Har-risburg area have plenty to choose from when it comes to live music venues. But the local scene also offers several large performing arts cen-ters within driving distance. Whether you’re looking for a pre-Valentine treat or a pair of tickets to give your sweet-ie, there are plenty of options for a special night out.

Luhrs centerThe H. Ric Luhrs Perform-

ing Arts Center at Shippens-burg University offers a wide range of cultural program-ming including full-scale Broadway performances, symphonies, dance troupes and internationally-known speakers. On Valentine’s Day, the center presents the Tony award winning musical, “Fiddler on The Roof” as it embarks on its North Ameri-can tour.

Based on the stories of Sholom Aleichem, the be-loved musical is among Broadway’s best known, and features a score that includes “Tradition,” “Matchmaker, Matchmaker,” “If I Were A Rich Man” and “Sunrise, Sunset.” The current pro-duction stars veteran John Preece in the role of patriarch Tevye, marking his tenth ap-pearance in the national tour of the show.

The show takes place at 7:30 at the Center, located at 1871 Old Main Drive, Ship-pensburg, Tickets are $35-$48 and are available by call-ing 477-SHOW or online at

www.luhrscenter.com. A special valentine’s re-

ception will be held follow-ing the performance that includes desserts and bev-erages. Tickets for the 9:45 p.m. reception are $20 each. It is not necessary to attend the performance to partici-pate in the reception.

Strand-capitol Downtown York is home to

The Strand Capitol Perform-ing Arts Center, a five-build-ing complex that includes two historic theaters. The Capitol Theatre was built in 1906 as a one-level dance hall and the Strand Theatre opened in 1925 primarily for vaudeville and silent movies. These days, the center hosts a range of shows from rock and classical music concerts to musicals and stand-up comedy as well as cinematic offerings.

On Saturday, Feb. 11, warm up to the melodic sounds of South African traditional

music with internationally renowned ensemble Lady-smith Black Mambazo. First introduced to America on Paul Simon’s Graceland al-bum, the group has since garnered critical acclaim and a devoted following of fans, and have performed with such artists as Stevie Wonder, Josh Groban, Dolly Parton and Ben Harper. The performance includes the synchronized dance moves of the Zulu tradition, as well as beautiful, inspiring music that intends to “spread the message of peace, love and harmony all over the world.”

The show takes place at 7:30 p.m. in the Strand The-ater, 50 N. George St., York. Tickets are $30, $35, $40, and are available by calling 846-1111 or visit www.strandcapi-tol.org.

Pullo centerThe Pullo Family Perform-

ing Arts Center at Penn State York features a 1,016-seat

theatre with full production capabilities offering touring shows, concerts and cultural, community and educational events. This month, look for a unique variety show “Pop Goes the Rock,” featur-ing spectacular feats per-formed to a live soundtrack of recent chart huts such as Like a Prayer, Beautiful and Jump. The brainchild of Neil Goldberg, creator of the Broadway hit Cirque Dreams Jungle Fantasy and founder of the troupe, the show in-cludes a combination of the-atrical performance, visual artistry and costumes along with musicians, singers and dancers.

Pop Goes the Rock by Cirque Dreams will appear at 7 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18. Tickets are $42 and $56. The Pullo Center is located at 1031 Edgecomb Ave., York. For tickets and informa-tion, visit www.pullocenter.yk.psu.edu or call 505-8900.

Highlights from area performing centers

The Luhrs Center in Shippensburg will present ‘Fiddler on the Roof’ on Valen-tine’s Day.

A guide to area events

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MUSIC |D8-9Local music clubs are setting high

standards in the community.Also, the iTunes Top 10 lists.

NIGHTLIFE | D9Highlights from performing arts

centers in the area. “Fiddler on the Roof” is coming to the Luhrs Cen-

ter in Shippensburg Valentine’s Day.

THEATRE | D6-7“Shakespeare in Hollywood” opens at the Little Theatre of Mechanics-burg tomorrow, launching the 2012

production season.Also, the Theatre Development Fund

plans to offer several autism-friendly broadway shows.

BOOKS | D4-5Review of “Hunger Games,” “Go-ing Solo” and “The Lady in Gold.”

MOVIES | D10-12Reviews of upcoming film releases. “Journey 2” gets a lukewarm review

while Woody Harrelson give a “crazy eyed” performance in “Rampart.”Also, see a list of movies opening

this weekend in area theaters on D11.

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‘Journey 2’ sinks Verne’s isle in 3-D muck

By DAVID GERMAINAP Movie Writer

There’s little mystery about “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.”

This 3-D sort-of sequel wears its formula-for-dol-lars purpose with pride, de-livering a dash of cinematic nonsense that represents Hollywood calculation at its shrewdest and most shameless.

Aga i n p o k i n g Ju l e s Verne’s remains with a sharp stick, the producers of the 2008 hit “Journey to the Center of the Earth” present their second mod-ern take on the 19th cen-tury fantasist’s wild stories. And “Mysterious Island” is every bit the amusement park ride cloaked as a mov-ie that the first “Journey” was, the new flick strand-ing a misfit band of adven-turers on Verne’s lost island of freakish creatures.

What this one lacks by comparison is the rela-tive novelty of digital 3-D, which was in its infancy for mainstream theatrical releases when “Journey to the Center of the Earth” came out.

It also lacks the likable goof factor of Brendan Fra-ser, who starred in the first movie but isn’t back for the second. Dwayne Johnson steps in this time, and while he tries to yuck it up amid

the nonstop action, he’s just not a goofball on the order of Fraser, who some-how can make extreme sil-liness palatable with that big, simpering grin of his. Johnson, on the other hand, merely simpers.

“Journey 2” also fea-tures a change of directors, with Brad Peyton (“Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore”) overseeing a col-lection of impressive but annoying visuals, serving up gimmicky 3-D that’s continually trying to poke things in your eye.

Johnson stars as ex-Navy guy Hank, stepfather to troublesome teenager Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcher-son, reprising his role from the first “Journey”).

In its rushed and clunky opening minutes, “Journey

2” establishes that Sean’s a bad boy genius who re-sents his stepdad; bonds the two in a scene that shows Hank’s an OK guy and Sean’s not such a bad boy and not such a genius; sends them off to the South Pacific in search of Sean’s g ra n d fa t h e r ( M i c h a e l Caine), who sent a cryptic transmission that he had found Verne’s supposedly fictional island; and lands them in the company of he-licopter pilot Gabato (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful daughter, Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens), who ferry the visitors to the remote isle.

Peyton and cousins Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn, who wrote the screenplay, waste no time giving the charac-ters more than the barest cartoon personalities, al-

lowing the filmmakers to focus on the movie’s only reason to exist. And that’s purely as a thrill ride, the actors racing from a giant lizard, flying on monster bees while pursued by co-lossal hungry birds, rush-ing to escape an enormous electric eel.

Size matters to the film-makers here, which might be why they signed up Johnson, a co-producer as well as star, who strains for some laughs with an over-done gag about his massive pectoral muscles.

The actors make an ef-fort with the interminable repartee they’re given to mutter, but the presence of actors as good as Caine and Guzman only highlights how dreadful and dumb the banter is (“Journey 2”

will be preceded by a new Daffy Duck cartoon; that short didn’t play before a recent critics’ screening, but we’re betting its dia-logue will be sharper than the main attraction’s).

The 3-D images have improved greatly since the first “Journey,” but even more this time, the film-

makers play a game of “made you flinch” with cheap shots of objects hur-tling off the screen. Good for a giggle at a theme park attraction, good for some groans and grousing when paying a 3-D premium to park your carcass in a the-ater for 90 minutes.

There’s promise of more, too, the movie hanging out the prospect of a “Journey 3” inspired by another of Verne’s sci-fi classics.

The root of the franchise is kind of clever, updating Verne’s novels to our times by pretending they weren’t fantasies but chronicles of actual expeditions. And “Journey 2” has its heart in the right place as a fam-ily-friendly adventure that might interest some kids in checking out Verne’s books.

If only the movie had the hint of a brain.

“Journey 2: The Mys-terious Island,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG for some adventure action, and brief mild language. Run-ning time: 94 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

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In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, from left, Michael Caine and Luis Guzman are shown in a scene from “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.”

“Mysterious island” is every bit the amusement park ride cloaked as a movie that the first “Journey” was.

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Play based on movie opens at Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg Friday

• Jim Guard’s “A Retrospective” will be on display through March 9 at the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College, 300 N. Washington St., Gettysburg. Visit www.gettysburg.edu/gallery or call 337-6080.

• Cindy Haden Baker’s “White Pass and Yukon Railroad, Lake Bennett, Alaska” will be on display through May 24 at the Franklin County Area Development Corporation, Chambersburg. Visit www.councilofthearts.net or call 264-6883.

• “Earth, Water, Fire, Glaze,” pottery and ceramics exhibition on display through Feb. 24 at the SHAPE Gallery, Shippensburg. Visit www.shapeart.org or call 532-2559.

• Nancy Stawitz will display her mixed media works through-out the month of February in the Charley Krone Gallery at New Cumberland Public Library, 1 Benjamin Plaza. Call 774-7820.

• Mechanicsburg artist Patty Toth will display her exhibition “Grandeur of Yosemite” through March 7 at the Perry County Council of the Arts Gallery, 1 S. Second St., Newport. An opening reception will be held 7-8:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 3. Visit www.perry-countyarts.org or call 567-7023.

• “Art is an entree, not a dessert” will be on display Feb. 12 through July 15 at the DOSHI Gallery at the State Museum of Pennsylvania.

• Therese Zemlin will display her artwork through March 9 in the Aughinbaugh Art Gallery at Messiah College’s Climenhaga Fine Arts Center. There will be an artist’s talk and reception at 4:15 p.m. Feb. 10 in the gallery.

• The “La Soiree Bleu” Fundraiser will be held Saturday, Feb. 11, at the home of Ann Hoffer. Cost is $50 per person, which includes cocktails, hors d-euvres, music and a gift. Sponsored by the Carlisle Arts Learning Center. Visit www.carlislearts.org.

• “Mechanicsburg – A Look at Bygone Days” will be on

display Feb. 11-May 26 at the Mechanicsburg Museum Associa-tion, 2 W. Strawberry Alley, Mechanicsburg. This exhibit features artifacts and photographs of Mechanicsburg’s bygone days of business and industry. Free and open to the public. Visit www.mechanicsburgmuseum.org or call 697-6088.

• “Three Visions,” a juried photographer exhibit featuring Jeb Boyd, Mike Knowlton and John Wright, will be on display through Saturday, Feb. 11, at the gallery at the Carlisle Arts Learning Cen-ter, 19 N. Hanover St., Carlisle. Call 249-6973.

• “The Blue,” a CALC member exhibit, will run Feb.17-March 17 at Carlisle Arts Learning Center, 19 N. Hanover St., Carlisle. An opening reception will be held 6:30-8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17. Two pieces of artowrk allowed per member; cost is $10 per piece. Prizes will be awarded by jurror Anthony Wolking, visiting profes-sor of art at Dickinson College. visit www.carlislearts.org.

• The Council for the Arts of Chambersburg will display pho-tography by local artists in an exhibit entitled “Picture This” through Feb. 17 at its 159 S. Main St. location. Photographers include Chuck Armstrong, Denise Dockey, Kristin Pixler and Bill Stoler. Call 264-6883.

Alibis Eatery and Spirits 10 N. Pitt St.

Carlisle, 243-4151 www.alibispirits.com

Thursday, Feb. 9: DJ, 10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10: Band Night with Funky Fontana, 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11: DJ, 10 p.m.

Monday, Feb. 13 Wii and Yuengs and Wings Tuesday, Feb. 14: team trivia 7 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 14: open mic 8 p.m.

Appalachian Brewing Company50 N. Cameron St.

Harrisburg, 221-1080 www.abcbrew.com

Friday, Feb. 10: Moutain road(CD release party) with guests JT & The Mild Heat 9 p.m. no cover Saturday, Feb. 11: The Jellybricks (CD release party) with guest Julian Fist 9 p.m. $7 cover Wednesday, Feb. 15: The Great White Caps, 8 pm. no

cover / Central PA @ Tweetup 7 p.m., no cover

Gullifty’s Underground1104 Carlisle Road

Camp Hill, 761-6692www.gulliftys.net

Friday, Feb. 10: Jeffrey Gaines, doors open at 8 p.m., show at 10 p.m. advance tickets $11 Saturday, Feb. 11: Alterna-

tive Education, doors open at 8 p.m., show at 9 p.m. tickets $7

Holly Inn31 S. Baltimore Ave.

Mt. Holly Springs, 486-3823www.hollyinn.com

Tuesday, Feb. 14: Valentine’s Dinner Celebration

Market Cross Pub & Brewery113 N. Hanover St.Carlisle, 258-1234

www.marketcrosspub.comFriday, Feb. 10: Troegs Night, 5 to 7 p.m., The Willy’s, 8:30

p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 11: Seldom Said No, 9 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14: Pint Night TBA Thursday, Feb. 16: Open jame with Gary Brown 8 - 11 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17: Internation

Guinness Toast 11 p.m.

Stage on Herr268 Herr St.

Harrisburg, 441-7506www.harrisburgarts.com

Wednesday, Feb. 8: Open mic hosted by Mike Banks, 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10: The Dirty Sweets “The Bump and Grind”, 9 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11: Suzi Brown and Dana Alexandra’s Birthday Show featuring Christie Lenee, 8 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12: Soul Comedy Event- One Night

Stand with TuRae Monday, Feb. 13: Broke Ass Monday, karaoke with Giovanni, 9 p.m.

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Harrelson rages in weary LA noir ‘Rampart’ BY JAKE COYLEAP ENTErTAINMENT WrITEr

The crazy eyes and idio-syncratic drawl of Woody Harrelson are enough to carry the dirty cop study “Rampart,” but even such powers as those can’t make engaging this weary L.A. noir.

Without Harrelson’s inherent intrigue, the heavy-handed provoca-tions of “Rampart” would be difficult to suffer. But Harrelson’s intense and committed performance keeps Oren Moverman’s film moving, even while the grim and overdone story wallows affectedly.

Among the dirty cops of movies — Harvey Keitel in “Bad Lieutenant,” Denzel Washington in “Training Day” — Harrelson’s LAPD officer Dave Brown is par-ticularly ugly. He’s nick-named “Date Rape Dave,” a moniker he came by from killing a serial date rapist years ago. The name may hint of Brown’s most decent side (a protector of women) but it also serves as a frightening warning.

“Rampart” is set in 1999 Los Angeles and its title refers to a noto-riously scandal-plagued police division. The film, which Moverman wrote with crime novel writer James Ellroy (“L.A. Con-fidential”), doesn’t try to analyze what led to a cor-rupt division, but rather the specific formation of a badge-wearing monster.

“ H o w d o we s o l ve a p ro b l e m l i ke Dave Brown?” asks police at-torney Joan Confrey (Si-gourney Weaver).

By then, we’ve already seen Brown lament “Rod-n ey K i n g wa n n a b e s,” abuse a handcuffed sus-

pect and beat to a pulp a man who had the mis-fortune of colliding with Brown’s cruiser. That in-cident is caught on cam-era and replayed on the evening news, sparking protests and an investiga-tion.

“This used to be a glori-ous soldiers’ department,” sneers Brown to a mixed-race female officer. “And now it’s ... you.”

N ice guy, r ight? At home, we see a softer, complicated side. Brown has two ex-wives (Cynthia Nixon and Anne Heche, both looking lost) who are sisters and neighbors, with whom he has a teen-age daughter (Brie Larson) and a younger daughter

(Sammy Boyarsky). It’s an incredulous arrangement and we can only be glad, for basic clarity, when the younger girl sweetly asks her father if she’s inbred. (He laughs and tells her she isn’t and that she’s “native.”)

The bizarre domestic situation aside, Brown’s fa ce ge n u i n e ly g l ows around his daughters, surely his only possible pathway to salvation.

But Brown is in a self-destructive tailspin: act-ing out violently, des-perate for departmental cover (Ned Beatty plays a sinister LAPD retiree) and picking up women easily. He approaches one (Robin Wright) at a bar by com-

menting on her “litigator eyes.” Their relationship forms as one based on mutual self-loathing, and Wright is captivating in

every moment.How does he live with

himself? Quite self-as-suredly, actually. The most interesting quality

of Brown is how hyper-literate he is.

He might curse all man-ner of citizens as “scum,” but, when confronted by superiors or lawyers (Steve Buscemi makes a cameo as one), he re-sponds with a torrent of dubious legalese and moral equivocation. He shrouds his behavior in a labyrinth of caginess, de-fending himself as a Viet-nam vet and a true-blue of the old guard.

This is Moverman’s sec-ond stab at direction fol-lowing 2009’s “The Mes-senger,” which also fitted the famously liberal Har-relson in a uniform (as a soldier whose duty is to inform the families of the fallen).

W i t h c i n e m a to g ra -pher Bobby Bukowski, Moverman’s jerky, hand-held camera keeps LA al-ways in the background. The first shot is a profile of Brown driving, smok-ing and stoic behind sun-glasses, while Los Ange-les passes behind as mere backdrop. The protests over his beating, we never see, just hear.

Harrelson dominates the picture, but the sto-ry of Brown’s unraveling feels increasingly unre-alistic and uninteresting while it circles around ideas established in the first half hour. Instead of leading toward un-derstanding, “Rampart” remains a dirty cop cari-cature, more a complaint than a story.

“Rampart,” a Millen-nium Entertainment re-lease, is rated R for per-vasive language, sexual content and some vio-lence. Running time: 108 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

Associated Press

In this image released by Millennium Entertainment, Woody Harrelson is shown in a scene from “Ram-part.”

Motion Picture Association of America rating definitions:

G — General audiences. All ages admitted.

PG — Parental guidance suggested. Some material may not be suitable for children.

PG-13 — Special parental guidance strongly suggested for children under 13. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.

r — restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

NC-17 — No one under 17 admitted.

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Out & AboutSpecial Events MusicTheater

Event information can be submitted via email to frontdoor@cumberlink.com, by mail, 457 E. North St., Carlisle, PA 17013 or by fax at 243-3121. For more information, visit www.cumberlink.com/entertainment

• The Big Band Sound will perform from 8 to 11 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10 at the Carlisle Comfort Suites. Tickets are $30 per person, $50 per couple. Call 385-1933.

• Lock and Key Events will hold a Singles Lock and Key Event Saturday, Feb. 11, at Champions Sports Bar in Highspire. Check-in begins at 7;15 p.m. Visit www.lockand-keyevents.com or call 645-9898.

• The Metropolitan Area Dance Club will hold a dance 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at the PA Dance Sport Ballroom, 585 E. Main St., Hummelstown. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Marino will provide music. Call 774-2171.

• “Pillow Talk” will be shown at the Hershey Theatre at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 12. General admission tickets are $7. Visit www.HersheyTheatre.com or call 534-3405.

• An Evening with Spike Lee at 8 p.m. Feb. 16 at the Luhrs Center, Shippensburg Uni-versity. Tickets are $20. Visit www.luhrscenter.com or call 477-7469.

• Dickinson College to host a poetry reading by Elyse Fenton at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 17 in the Stern Center, great room. The event is free. Visit clarkeforum.org or call 245-1875.

• Pat’s Singles Dance Club will hold a dance from 7 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19 at the Valencia Ballroom, York. 142 N. George St. Admission is $10. Visit http://NewS-ingles3.tripod.com or call 303-1969.

• The International Fly Fishing Film Festival will be held at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 18 at the Lancaster County Convetion Center in conjuction with the 2012 Fly Fishing Show. Admis-sion is $15 or $10 advance purchase or with admission ot the Fly Fishing Show. Visit www.flyfishingshow.com or call (866)481-2393.

• The Metropolitan Area Dance Club will hold a dance 7-11 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18, at the PA Dance Sport Ballroom, 585 E. Main St., Hummelstown. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Call 774-2171.

• Comedian Lewis Black will perform at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, March 8, at the Strand-Capitol Performing Arts Center, York. Tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 9. Visit www.strandcapitol.org or call the box office at 846-1111.

• “Stars on Ice” will be coming to the area at 4 p.m. Sunday, March 18, at the Giant Center in Hershey. Tickets are $25 and are available via www.ticketmaster.com or at the Giant Center Box Office. Special on-ice seating is also available upon request.

• Ballroom dance lessons will be offered Mondays, March 19-April 23, in Grove The-atre at the H. Ric Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University. Three ses-sions will be offered: beginner from 5:30-6:30 p.m., advanced from 6:30-7:30 p.m. and third timers from 7:30-8:30 p.m. Classes are taught by Frank Hancock. Cost is $35 per person; you do not need to be in a couple to register. Registration is open now by calling the box office at 477-SHOW.

• Garrison Keillor is coming back to Harrisburg at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 22, at Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, Harrisburg. For tickets and information, visit www.whitak-ercenter.org or call 214-ARTS.

• Joan Rivers will be performing at 8 p.m. Sunday, April 22, at the Hershey Theatre. Tickets are $40-$65, or $95 for the show and a meet-and-greet. Visit www.hersheythe-atre.com or www.ticketmaster.com or call 534-3405.

• The Imagination Movers will bring their show “Rock-O-Matic” to the Hershey Theatre at 3:30 and 6:30 p.m. Thursday, April 26. Tickets are $25.75-$45.75. Visit www.hersheytheatre.com or www.ticketmaster.com or call 534-3405.

• Oyster Mill Playhouse will present “Angel Street,” a psychological thriller by Patrick Hamilton, at 8 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays and 2 p.m. Sundays, through Feb. 12, at its playhouse, 1001 Oyster Mill Road, Camp Hill. Opening night tickets are $16 and include a reception. All other performances are $14. Visit www.oystermill.com or call 737-6768.

• Open Stage of Harrisburg presents “Ma Rain-ey’s Black Bottom” Feb. 3-25 at the theater, 223 Walnut St., Harrisburg. Visit www.openstagehbg.com or call 232-OPEN.

• Theatre Harrisburg presents “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat” at 7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays and 2 p.m. Sundays, Feb. 4-19. There will also be shows at 4 p.m. Saturdays, Feb. 4 and 18, and 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11. Perfor-mances are held at Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts, harrisburg. Tickets are $20-$33. Call 214-ARTS.

• The Popcorn Hat Players will present “Han-sel and Gretel” at 10:15 a.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays and 1 p.m. Saturdays, Feb. 8-March 3, at Gamut Classic Theatre, third floor, Strawberry Square, Harrisburg. Tickets are $5-$8. Visit www.gamutplays.org or call 238-4111.

• The Little Theatre of Mechanicsburg will present “Shakespeare in Hollywood” Feb. 10 through Feb. 26. Visit www.ltmonline.net or call 766-0535.

• The Luhrs Center will present “Fiddler on the Roof” at 7:30 p.m., Feb. 14. Reserved tickets are $48, $43 and $35. Visit luhrscenter.com or call 477-7469.

• The Gamut Theatre Group will present “First in Our Hearts” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 18 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19 at Gamut Classic Theatre, 605 Strawberry Square, Harrisburg. Tickets are $12. Visit www.gamutplays.org.

• The Tap Dancers Collective, a newly formed tap dancing group for current and former tap danc-ers, will meet Sundays at 5 p.m. at Nee Danse Com-pany, 2040 Derry St., Harrisburg. The only cost is a shared fee to cover space rental. For more informa-tion, call Jerry Bowers at 697-2748.

• Pennsylvania playwrights are encouraged to submit original, full-length scripts to York Little The-atre’s annual Pennsylvania Original Playwright Competition. Plays should be full-length, unpro-duced scripts by playwrights who are currently Pennsylvania residents. For more information about the competition, call 854-3894 or visit www.ylt.org.

• A Valentine Date Night Community Concert fea-turing Randy Simpson and Pete Einstein will be held 7-9 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at The Tree House, 1090 Franklin St., Carlisle. Admission, beverages and dessert are avail-able by donation. Proceeds benefit SonPower Ministries and Randy Simpson Ministries. Call 249-6003.

• Cheryl Wheeler will perform 8-10 p.m. Friday, Feb. 10, at Midtown Scholar Bookstore, 1302 N. Third St., Harrisburg. Tickets are $25 or $30. Visit www.midtown-scholar.com or call 236-1680.

• True North Brass will perform at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 11, at Hostetter Chapel at Messiah College. Tickets are $23. Visit www.messiah.edu/culturalseries or call 691-6036.

• Dickinson College faculty will perfrom solo works by Bach and Lau at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12 at the First Lutheran Church, Carlisle. The concert is free. Call 245-1568.

• Gary McCarren and the Blues to Rock will per-form at 6 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, at Carlisle Ribbon Mill, 320 E. Louther St., Carlisle. Call 422-7017. Cost is $20, BYOB.

• Carlisle Musical Arts Club will present its monthly program at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 14 at the Carlisle YWCA on G Street.

• The 16th Annual Millennium Music Conference and Showcase will be held Feb. 17 and 18 at the Radis-son Hotel and Convention Center, Camp Hill. Visit www.musicconference.net.

• Beck & Benedict Hardware Music Theatre will present a concert of blue grass music featuring Iron Ridge Bluegrass Band and Salem Bottom Boys Blue-grass Band at 7 p.m., Saturday, Feb. 18, 118 Walnut St., Waynesboro. Cost is $13, children under 12 are free. Call 762-4711 or visit www.beck-benedicthardware.com

• Dickinson College faculty will present “Tyvie/music: Music for Horn, Electronics and Visual Multimedia,” at 7 p.m. Saturday Feb. 18 at Rubendall Recital Hall, Weiss Center for the Arts, West High Street. The concert is free. Call 248-1568.

• The Susquehanna Folk Music Society presents a concert of unique acoustic music from Sweden, 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 19 at the Unitarian Universalist Con-gregation of York, 925 S. George St., York. The cost is $20 general admission, $16 for members and $10 for students. Visit www.sfmsfolk.org or call 763-5744.

• Cantate Carlisle is holding auditions for interested singers of all voice parts. Call 245-0144 or visit www.cantatecarlisle.org for more information or to request an audition time.

Now showing

Regal Carlisle Commons 8Big Miracle (PG) Thu. 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, Fri.-Sun. 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30, Mon.-Thu. 1:40, 4:20, 6:50Chronicle (PG-13) Thu. 2:25, 5, 7:50, Fri. 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15, Sat.-Sun. 12:30, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15, Mon.-Thu. 2:40, 5:10, 7:50Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu. 4, 7The Grey (R) Thu. 1:45, 4:50, 7:40, Fri.-Sun. 2, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20, Mon.-Thu. 2, 4:40, 7:40Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 2D (PG) Fri. 5, Sat.-Thu. 2:30Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri. 2:30, 7:20, 9:40, Sat.-Sun. 12:10, 5, 7:20, 9:40, Mon.-Thu. 5, 7:20Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Thu. 2:40, 5:10, 8One for the Money (PG-13) Thu. 2, 4:15, 7:30, Fri. 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:50, Sat.-Sun. 12:05, 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:50, Mon.-Thu. 2:20, 4:50, 7:10Red Tails (PG-13) Thu. 1:30, 4:30, 7:20Safe House (R) Fri. 1:50, 4, 7, 10, Sat.-Sun. 1:50, 4:30, 7:30, 10:10, Mon.-Thu. 1:50, 4:30, 7:30Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Fri.-Sun. 1:05, 4, 7, 10, Mon.-Thu. 1:05, 4, 7This Means War (PG-13) Tue. (Feb. 14) 7:50Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu. 1:30, 4:30, 7:20The Vow (PG-13) Fri.-Thu. 11:50 a.m., 12:50, 2:40, 5:05, 6:40, 7:30, 9:55

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The Artist (PG-13) Thu.-Thu. 10:55 a.m., 1:15, 3:50, 6:50, 9:05Beauty and the Beast 3D (G) Thu. 11 a.m., 1, 3Big Miracle (PG) Thu. 11:35 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:10, 9:35, Fri.-Thu. 11:35 a.m., 2, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30Chronicle (PG-13) Thu. 11:25 a.m., 1:25, 3:25, 5:25, 7:40, 10:05, Fri.-Thu. 11:25 a.m., 1:25, 3:25, 5:25, 7:40, 9:55Contraband (R) Thu. 5, 7:30, 10, Fri.-Thu. 4:25, 9:35Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu. 10:55 a.m., 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:40, Fri.-Thu. 10:55 a.m., 4:15, 6:55The Grey (R) Thu. 11:30 a.m., 2, 4:40, 7:15, 9:55, Fri.-Thu. 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:40, 7:10, 9:55The Iron Lady (PG-13) Thu. 11:15 a.m., 1:45, 4:10, 6:45, 9:10, Fri.-Thu. 11:10 a.m., 1:45, 4:10, 6:40, 9Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 12:15, 2:45, 5:05, 7:30, 9:45Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Thu. 11:40 a.m., 2:20, 4:50, 7:45, 10:10One for the Money (PG-13) Thu. 11:55 a.m., 2:10, 4:25, 7:25, 9:40, Fri.-Thu. 11:55 a.m., 2:10, 7:25Red Tails (PG-13) Thu. 10:50 a.m., 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:50, Fri.-Thu. 1:35, 9:40Safe House (R) Fri.-Thu. 11 a.m., 1:30, 4, 7, 9:50Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 11:30 a.m., 2:40, 6:45, 9:45This Means War (PG-13) Tue. (Feb. 14)-Thu. 10:55 a.m., 1:05, 3:20, 5:35, 7:50, 10:05Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu. 11:10 a.m., 1:10, 3:15, 5:20, 7:50, 10The Vow (PG-13) Fri.-Thu. 11:40 a.m., 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50Woman in Black (PG-13) Thu. 12:25, 2:40, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45, Fri.-Thu. 12:25, 2:35, 4:55, 7:15, 9:30

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Red Tails (PG-13) Thu. 12:40, 4, 7:15, 10:05, Fri.-Thu. 12:30, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20Safe House (R) Fri.-Thu. 11:40 a.m., 12:40, 2:25, 3:45, 5:15, 6:50, 7:50, 9:25, 10:25Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 12:45, 4, 7, 10This Means War (PG-13) Tue. (Feb. 14) 7:20Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu.-Thu. 12, 2:15, 4:40, 7:35, 9:50The Vow (PG-13) Fri.-Thu. 11:50 a.m., 12:50, 2:40, 5:05, 6:40, 7:30, 9:55Woman in Black (PG-13) Thu. 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:10, 6:40, 7:40, 9:10, 10, Fri.-Thu. 11:20 a.m., 1:50, 4:20, 7:40, 10

Flagship Cinemas

Big Miracle (PG) Thu.-Thu. 12:55, 3:40, 6:50, 9:30Chronicle (PG-13) Thu. 12:35, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:55, Fri.-Thu. 12:35, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25, 9:55The Descendants (R) Thu.-Thu. 1:05, 3:45, 7:05, 9:45

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Beauty and the Beast 3D (G) Thu. 11:40 a.m., 1:55, 4:15Big Miracle (PG) Thu. 11:30 a.m., 12:30, 2, 3, 4:30, 5:30, 7, 9:30, Fri.-Thu. 11:35 a.m., 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35Chronicle (PG-13) Thu.-Thu. 12:10, 2:35, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40Contraband (R) Thu. 11:45 a.m., 2:15, 5, 7:45, 10:20, Fri.-Thu. 7:45, 10:20The Descendants (R) Thu. 12:25, 3:50, 6:45, 9:25Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu. 12:35, 7:05Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (R) Thu. 8The Grey (R) Thu. 11:30 a.m., 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10, Fri.-Thu. 12:35, 4:15, 7:25, 10:10The Iron Lady (PG-13) Thu. 11:35 a.m., 2, 4:25, 6:50, 9:15Joyful Noise (PG-13) Thu. 3:55, 10Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 2D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 12:20, 2:45, 5Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 11:30 a.m., 1:45, 4:10, 7:10, 9:30Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Thu. 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15, Fri.-Thu. 3:50, 9:15One for the Money (PG-13) Thu. 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45, Fri.-Thu. 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45

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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (PG-13) Thu. 12:30, 3:20, 6:45, 9:35The Grey (R) Thu. 1, 3:35, 7, 9:40Journey 2: The Mysterious Island 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 12:45, 3, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45Man on a Ledge (PG-13) Thu. 12:50, 3:15, 7:10, 10Safe House (R) Fri.-Thu. 1, 3:35, 7, 9:35Star Wars: Episode 1 – The Phantom Menace 3D (PG) Fri.-Thu. 12:30, 3:25, 6:45, 9:40Underworld: Awakening 3D (R) Thu. 12:45, 3:10, 5:20, 7:35, 9:50The Vow (PG-13) Fri.-Thu. 12:50, 3:15, 7:10, 10Woman in Black (PG-13) Thu.-Thu. 12:40, 3:05, 5:25, 7:45, 10:05

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‘Journey 2’ sinks Verne’s isle in 3-D muck

By DAVID GERMAINAP Movie Writer

There’s little mystery about “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.”

This 3-D sort-of sequel wears its formula-for-dol-lars purpose with pride, de-livering a dash of cinematic nonsense that represents Hollywood calculation at its shrewdest and most shameless.

Aga i n p o k i n g Ju l e s Verne’s remains with a sharp stick, the producers of the 2008 hit “Journey to the Center of the Earth” present their second mod-ern take on the 19th cen-tury fantasist’s wild stories. And “Mysterious Island” is every bit the amusement park ride cloaked as a mov-ie that the first “Journey” was, the new flick strand-ing a misfit band of adven-turers on Verne’s lost island of freakish creatures.

What this one lacks by comparison is the rela-tive novelty of digital 3-D, which was in its infancy for mainstream theatrical releases when “Journey to the Center of the Earth” came out.

It also lacks the likable goof factor of Brendan Fra-ser, who starred in the first movie but isn’t back for the second. Dwayne Johnson steps in this time, and while he tries to yuck it up amid

the nonstop action, he’s just not a goofball on the order of Fraser, who some-how can make extreme sil-liness palatable with that big, simpering grin of his. Johnson, on the other hand, merely simpers.

“Journey 2” also fea-tures a change of directors, with Brad Peyton (“Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore”) overseeing a col-lection of impressive but annoying visuals, serving up gimmicky 3-D that’s continually trying to poke things in your eye.

Johnson stars as ex-Navy guy Hank, stepfather to troublesome teenager Sean Anderson (Josh Hutcher-son, reprising his role from the first “Journey”).

In its rushed and clunky opening minutes, “Journey

2” establishes that Sean’s a bad boy genius who re-sents his stepdad; bonds the two in a scene that shows Hank’s an OK guy and Sean’s not such a bad boy and not such a genius; sends them off to the South Pacific in search of Sean’s g ra n d fa t h e r ( M i c h a e l Caine), who sent a cryptic transmission that he had found Verne’s supposedly fictional island; and lands them in the company of he-licopter pilot Gabato (Luis Guzman) and his beautiful daughter, Kailani (Vanessa Hudgens), who ferry the visitors to the remote isle.

Peyton and cousins Brian Gunn and Mark Gunn, who wrote the screenplay, waste no time giving the charac-ters more than the barest cartoon personalities, al-

lowing the filmmakers to focus on the movie’s only reason to exist. And that’s purely as a thrill ride, the actors racing from a giant lizard, flying on monster bees while pursued by co-lossal hungry birds, rush-ing to escape an enormous electric eel.

Size matters to the film-makers here, which might be why they signed up Johnson, a co-producer as well as star, who strains for some laughs with an over-done gag about his massive pectoral muscles.

The actors make an ef-fort with the interminable repartee they’re given to mutter, but the presence of actors as good as Caine and Guzman only highlights how dreadful and dumb the banter is (“Journey 2”

will be preceded by a new Daffy Duck cartoon; that short didn’t play before a recent critics’ screening, but we’re betting its dia-logue will be sharper than the main attraction’s).

The 3-D images have improved greatly since the first “Journey,” but even more this time, the film-

makers play a game of “made you flinch” with cheap shots of objects hur-tling off the screen. Good for a giggle at a theme park attraction, good for some groans and grousing when paying a 3-D premium to park your carcass in a the-ater for 90 minutes.

There’s promise of more, too, the movie hanging out the prospect of a “Journey 3” inspired by another of Verne’s sci-fi classics.

The root of the franchise is kind of clever, updating Verne’s novels to our times by pretending they weren’t fantasies but chronicles of actual expeditions. And “Journey 2” has its heart in the right place as a fam-ily-friendly adventure that might interest some kids in checking out Verne’s books.

If only the movie had the hint of a brain.

“Journey 2: The Mys-terious Island,” a Warner Bros. release, is rated PG for some adventure action, and brief mild language. Run-ning time: 94 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.

Associated Press

In this image released by Warner Bros. Pictures, from left, Michael Caine and Luis Guzman are shown in a scene from “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.”

“Mysterious island” is every bit the amusement park ride cloaked as a movie that the first “Journey” was.

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