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“Monsters vs. Aliens”
From directors Conrad Vernon and Rob Letterman, who have coughed up “Shrek 2″ and “Shark Tale” between them, comes the homage-heavy “Monster vs. Aliens.” Reese Witherspoon falls into the former category as Susan, a blushing bride whose big day gets even bigger when she transforms into a 50-foot tall woman, thanks to some gelatinous space-goo. Once carted off to a government facility, she meets a ragtag bunch of freaks and mutants — voiced by the likes of Will Arnett, Hugh Laurie and Seth Rogen — who have squirreled away for tests and experiments. Faced with the prospect of invasion by Gallaxhar (Rainn Wilson) and his alien armada, the government turns to this extra-terrestrial A-Team as humanity’s last, best hope for salvation. Kiefer Sutherland, Stephen Colbert, Amy Poehler and Renée Zellweger round out this impressive, eclectic voice cast.
Opens wide in Tru 3-D, conventional theaters and IMAX.

“Shall We Kiss?”
Based on his predilection towards matters of the heart for neurotics and his ongoing screen persona as a loveable, muddled doofus, helmer Emmanuel Mouret has cultivated something of a label as the European Woody Allen, and his latest film is another playfully whimsical tale of impossibly well-mannered courtship that is quintessentially French. Bookended by a somewhat awkward end of a date between Gabriel (Michaël Cohen) and Emilie (Julie Gayet), the body of the story is Emilie’s cautionary tale (told to Gabriel to illustrate why she won’t kiss him) of two best friends, Nicolas and Judith (Mouret and Virginie Ledoyen), who elect to transition to best friends with benefits, highlighting the myriad of possibility that often begins with the simple act of a kiss. In French with subtitles.
Opens in New York.

“Spinning Into Butter”
Despite the heavyweight presence of Sarah Jessica Parker in the lead, there’s something distinctly Lifetime Original Movie about director Mark Brokaw’s adaptation of Rebecca Gilman’s race relations play, which has been adapted by Gilman and “Akeelah and the Bee”‘s Doug Atchison for the big screen. Based on her own life experience at Middlebury College in the ’80s, Gilman’s story centers on newly arrived dean of students Sarah Daniels (Parker), hired on the assumption that she was black and must confront her own prejudice as she battles the hypocrisy of the administration and the volatility of the student body in her efforts to contain an outbreak of racial harassment.
Opens in limited release.

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