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Reviews: Prince of Persia, The A-Team, The Losers, Iron Man 2, How to Train Your Dragon
Prince of Persia - 7/10
Pretty but silly. Unsurprisingly, they dropped historical elements into a multi-millenium blender, but as escapist fluff it was a fun movie to watch.
The A-Team - 7/10
A fun movie if dumb as a bag of hammers; the actors all fit nicely into their respective characters, including to my surprise Face, the bad guys were quite bad, the explosions were copious.
The Losers - 6/10
Although the characters were quite good, the movie never quite escaped from its own stupidity. And when I say the characters were good, I mean the protagonists - the bad guys were so unbelievable as to be moronic. Not even rising to the level of paper cut-outs. Every time any of them were on screen one could only ask "WTF?"
Iron Man 2 - 8/10
Gorgeous to look at, silly but well held together, and chock full of action. I'm a little worn by Tony Stark's self-pity - but then, I always was in the comic book as well, so at least it's accurate to the source material. They brought in the second Iron Man (James Rhodes) with too little introduction, but all of the actors did a bang-up job. Scarlett Johansson, although hot enough to create plasma, is quite simply not well-suited to be Black Widow. But that's just quibbling.
How to Train Your Dragon - 9/10
An excellent film. Simply excellent. It's so compelling to watch, and so inherently grounded in fantasy, that niggling questions never arise, and you can take things at face value and simply enjoy them. Also, the protagonist reminded me strongly of Ian Fagan.