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THE SMURFS 2

105 minutes (G)

Director: Raja Gosnell (Beverly

Hills Chihuahua)

Starring: Hank Azaria and the

voices of Katy Perry, Jonathan

Winters.

Reviewer: Leigh Paatsch

HH

HERE comes another onejust like the other one. Onlynot as good. And the otherone? Well, it wasn’t muchgood to begin with.

To no-one’s great sur-prise, the makers of TheSmurfs 2 have brought noth-ing new to the table hereaside from a fresh digit atthe end of the title.

If you were feeling partic-ularly generous, you couldalso factor in a change ofgeneral locale to Paris as achange for the better.

But really, when it’s allabout the squeaky bluefreaks eeking away in theforeground, the backgroundjust doesn’t matter.

Nor does the B-list talentlining up for an easy paycheque here.

Katy Perry provides theunoiled-door voice ofSmurfette, who has been ab-ducted by the villainousGargamel (Hank Azaria) tobring on what he calls‘‘Smurf-A-Geddon.’’

Papa Smurf leads a mis-sion from Smurf Village toParis to save the day.

There are jokes aboutmovies like Scarface andStar Wars, the wacky waysof Europeans, and Smurfspassing wind in the bath tokeep entertainment valuestrending downwards.

VERDICT: BRIGHT-EYED AND DARK-HEARTED

Blanchett at her best

New York socialite Jasmine, played by Cate Blanchett, in a scene from Blue Jasmine

BLUE JASMINE

98 minutes (M)

Director: Woody Allen

(Manhattan)

Starring: Cate Blanchett, Sally

Hawkins, Alec Baldwin, Andrew

Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard.

Reviewer: Leigh Paatsch

HHHH½

JASMINE is broke. Jasmineis broken.

The state of her financesand the state of her mentalhealth are inextricably lin-ked. Both melted down, andthen melted together, sometime ago.

A career-best performanceby Cate Blanchett in the titlerole is the most obviousreason to catch this movie,easily one of the year’s best.

But there is so much moreto savour here, not the leastof which is the opportunity towitness veteran writer-director Woody Allen recap-ture the greatness manythought was long-gone.

This is a film about the waythings used to be.

If you cannot let go of thepast — or at the very least,learn from it — then the waythings are right now willswallow you whole.

In the present, Jasmine isdown to her very last dollar.

That didn’t stop her fromflying first-class from NewYork to San Francisco to seekrefuge with the only personwho was willing to take herin, her adopted sister Ginger(Sally Hawkins).

In the past, Jasmine was awoman of privilege, cultureand sophistication.

She was also married to aman (Alec Baldwin) whoswindled everyone to keepher in the manner to whichshe had become accustomed.

Once the scam was over,the government took every-thing. Jasmine’s husband?He took his own life.

Jasmine? She had a ner-vous breakdown.

Now she’s trying to get herlife back together, sleeping ona stretcher bed in Ginger’ssmall flat.

Like all of the finest WoodyAllen films, Blue Jasmine isat once funny, sad, bright-

eyed, dark-hearted and, lastbut not least, incredibly as-tute about human nature.

The hand-picked ensembleAllen has gathered to fleshout this bittersweet tale ofwoe is flawless.

Some will surprise youwith their contributions(particularly Andrew DiceClay, a once-popular stand-upof ill repute).

Others deliver everything

expected of them, and stillleave you wanting more(such as Bobby Cannavaleand another stand-up, LouisC.K., as Ginger’s currentboyfriends). But the film be-longs to Cate Blanchett in somany different ways, all ofwhich could see her accept-ing a Best Actress statuette atthe next Oscars.

By now, we are all fullyaware of how great Blanchett

is at her craft. Nevertheless,no one will be fully preparedfor the completeness andcomplexity she extracts fromsuch a difficult character.

Her devastating final mo-ments in the role answereach and every worryingquestion raised before.

Jasmine is broke.Jasmine is broken.And Jasmine will break

your heart.

R.I.P.D

96 minutes (M)

Director: Robert Schwentke

(Flightplan)

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jeff

Bridges, Kevin Bacon, Mary-

Louise Parker

Reviewer: Leigh Paatsch

HH

AFTER stiffing big-time inthe States, R.I.P.D. arrivesin Australia with the reput-ation of a filmed version ofthe killer flu.

It is not hard to under-stand why this indulgentlyeccentric action flick bit thedust. After all, the corepremise here quite literallystates that the only good copis a dead cop. Not every-one’s going to be on-boardwith that.

However, R.I.P.D. is in noway an outright terriblemovie. There is a handful ofstrange and rather awesomemoments on offer.

Ryan Reynolds stars asNick, a Boston cop who hasrecently died at the hands ofa corrupt partner (KevinBacon). Once transported toheaven to face judgment,Nick learns he can onlymake it through the PearlyGates if he joins a heavenlypolice force known the RestIn Peace Dept. which huntsfor those damned souls thathave turned left at the pits ofhell and returned to the realworld. So far, so kind of in-teresting. Unfortunately,R.I.P.D. soon loses interestin the small and intriguingdetails of its premise, andproceeds to become a ratherdaffy clone of Men in Black.