ROTTEN TOMATOES: Films Opening This Week

ROTTEN TOMATOES: Films Opening This Week

If you've been looking forward to the remake of Arthur, I suppose you're in for a disappointment. Critics are saying the PG-13 re-Branding is not just bad, but painfully bad. 7% positive reviews.

So you comedy junkies will have to turn to Your Highness, which doesn't seem that much better. One reviewer hit the nail right on the head with the central problem of this juvenile, R-rated stoner comedy: "The target audience for Your Highness is at least four years too young to legally watch it." 36% positive reviews. Actually, 36% for a lowbrow stoner comedy is a pretty good score, approximately equal to 70% for a liberal sermon movie, because of the way that some critics offer knee-jerk responses to certain genres. My guess is that if you like stoner comedies, this will meet your minimal requirements, but not by much.

This week's feel-good family movie is the PG Soul Surfer. "A young, teenage surfer girl summons the courage to go back into the ocean after losing an arm in a shark attack." 36% positive reviews.

The critics did like one film this week, Hanna. "A teenage girl goes out into the world for the first time - and has to battle for her life. Director Joe Wright weaves elements of dark fairy tales into the adventure thriller filmed on location in Europe and Morocco." 83% positive reviews.