"The Campaign" (Warner Bros.) is “morally offensive”
A potentially salient critique of the nation's political process gets buried under a landslide of vulgarity and sex jokes in this comedy from director Jay Roach. With the career of a longtime North Carolina congressman (Will Ferrell) endangered after he misdirects an obscene phone call intended for his mistress, the two wealthy brothers who were formerly his most powerful supporters (John Lithgow and Dan Aykroyd) scheme to replace him."Hope Springs" (Columbia) for “limited adult audience”
Flawed, but fundamentally moral, mix of comedy and drama in which Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a long-married couple who have grown physically and emotionally distant. At her insistence, they set off from their home in suburban Omaha, Neb., to Maine for a week of intensive therapy with a marriage counselor and self-help author (Steve Carell)."Nitro Circus: The Movie 3D" (ARC Entertainment) for “adults”
Amiable collection of stunts, performed with dirt bikes, monster trucks and even tricked-up Big Wheels, adapted for the big screen from the popular MTV series, with a crew headed by Travis Pastrana. The flying conveyances are balletic in slow motion, and their tricks are possibly not quite as dangerous as co-directors Gregg Godfrey and Jeremy Rawle would like you to believe. Fleeting crass language and stunts no one should try at home."Total Recall" (Columbia) for “limited adult audience”
In a post-apocalyptic world divided between a rich region where people live in luxury and an oppressed colony where the working classes dwell, an Everyman factory drudge (Colin Farrell) discovers his past identity as a secret agent. Stunned by the revelation -- which instantly makes him a wanted man -- and thrown further off balance when his seemingly loyal wife (Kate Beckinsale) turns against him, he goes on the lam, eventually joining forces with the envoy (Jessica Biel) of a guerrilla resistance group.