The Forbidden Kingdom

After getting knocked out during a fight, a Kung Fu obsessed American teenager Jason Tripitikas (Michael Angarano) wakes up in ancient China where he meets Lu Yan (Jackie Chan) and sets about freeing the Monkey King (Jet Li).

The Forbidden Kingdom unites two of the most well known Kung Fu masters in an epic trip across China. More Hollywood family fun than martial arts masterpiece this movie knew wanted it wanted to be. But it's a shame it didn't go down the Crouching Tiger or House of Flying Daggers route because it would have been amazing. Oh, and by the way, after spending five minutes in China, Jason miraculously grew a ponytail...how?

2 elephants.

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

Famed archaeologist Dr Henry "Indiana" Jones is called back into action when he becomes entangled in a Soviet plot to uncover the secret behind the Crystal Skulls.

Rewind to 1981 when Indiana Jones burst onto the cinema screens and blew the cobwebs out of the movie business. Fast forward to 2008 and "Indy" is back. The movie business has moved on but Indiana Jones hasn't. BUT that isn't a bad thing because Indiana Jones has everything we've come to know and love from this movie franchise. Creepy crawlies, plunging waterfalls, death defying action scenes that are so ludicrous and yet so much fun to watch we don't care. Okay, there's perhaps too much CGI and the storyline is flimsy but we can't help but marvel at the intricate openings to doors and caves and the way Indiana drops over monumental waterfalls and still manages to keep his hat on. This movie is fast paced action and good, clean family fun. And when Indy's fedora blows to the feet of his son "Mutt" (played by Shia LeBeouf) we wonder if he will take up the mantle. We hope so.

3 elephants

Get Smart

Analyst Maxwell Smart dreams of becoming an agent for top secret organization CONTROL. When CONTROL is attacked by its nemesis KAOS and some of its agents are compromised, Smart is promoted to Agent 86 with a reluctant partner Agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) and they set out to thwart KAOS plans for world domination.

We expect Steve Carell's 'Maxwell Smart' to be a hapless character. A loser who get's everything wrong. But he isn't. He's smart. Really smart. And, apart from a really good storyline, that is what makes this film so good. We laughed out loud and we want to see it again and that means for Saturday Night Bright - it's a great movie.

4 elephants

Burn After Reading (Watching!)

Osbourne Cox is fired at the CIA. His wife wants a divorce and expects her lover, Harry, to leave his wife. A diskette of Osbourne's falls out of a gym bag at a Georgetown fitness center. Two employees there try to turn it into cash: Linda, who wants money for cosmetic surgery, and Chad a nice, but dumb, guy. They try to sell the disc back to Osbourne, then the Russian embassy. But it all goes stupidly wrong.

Burn After Reading - huh! Burn after watching would be our advice. Our opinion is that this is rubbish. It said side splitting funny on the dvd box - whoever wrote that surely didn't watch the movie. The only remotely funny thing about this movie was Brad Pitts character 'Chad' and they killed him off well before the movie ends. This movie leaves with you a 'what was that all about' feeling. The shame of it is some of the characters are good and it is undoubtedly well acted by its all star cast, but the story is weak and stupid and makes little sense. We don't do this often but Saturday Night Bright are going to give this a great big fat 0 elephant.

Open Season

A happily domesticated grizzly bear named Boog, has his world turned upside down after he meets Elliot, a scrawny, fast-talking one-horned deer. They both end up in the woods during hunting season and it's up to them to rally all the other forest animals and turn the tables on the hunters.

We at Saturday Night Bright love animated movies, but this one is decidedly average. The story is weak, it's only 1 hour 23 mins (including credits) but hey! the kids will like it.

We give it 1 elephant.

Step Brothers

Brennan and Dale, two middle-age layabouts that act like ten year olds, are forced to live together when their respective parents get married. As reluctant step-siblings their immature antics cause chaos.

If you want to watch a film that takes you out of yourself, a film that for one hour and thirty-four minutes makes you forget all your problems then watch this movie - not once but twice, three times. Listen to the dialogue - it's hilarious.

Anchorman, Talladega Nights and now Stepbrothers. Will Ferrell, Adam McKay - you guys rock!

We give it Five elephants.