American Pie: Reunion (15)
HH
Dirs: Jon Hurwitz, Hayden Schlossberg
With: Jason Biggs, Seann William Scott
Running time: 112 minutes
THE boys are back in town – again. This time round, the reason for the get-together is the high school reunion.
All the familiar jokes and faces are present and politically incorrect, with Jim (Jason Biggs) being his usual uptight self and Stifler (Seann William Scott) managing to offend everyone within a 100-mile radius.
Though directors Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg succeed in bring a few fresh touches to the comedy franchise, it all feels rather disco dad and past it.
The Lucky One (12A)
HH
Dir: Scott Hicks
With: Zac Efron, Taylor Schilling
Running time: 100 minutes
ANOTHER slushie of a movie from mush master Nicholas Sparks (Dear John, Nights in Rodanthe).
Zac Efron stars as Logan, a troubled war veteran who hits the road to deliver a photograph he found on the battlefield.
The intended recipient is Beth (Taylor Schilling), the tousled owner of a kennel for cute, equally tousled dogs.
As soppy as a Labradoodle post bubble-bath, it never recovers from a fatal plot flaw early on, ensuring this is one shaggy dog story for diehard romantics and mutt lovers only.
Goodbye First Love (15)
HHH
Dir: Mia Hansen-Leve
With: Lola Creton, Sebastian Urzendowsky
Running time: 110 minutes
TWO impossibly cool Parisiens are at the heart of Mia Hansen-Leve's poignant tale of young love as it grows older and wiser.
We first meet Sullivan and Camille (Sebastian Urzendowsky and Lola Creton) in 1999. Though devoted to each other, problems are beginning to surface, with Sullivan keen to travel the world while Camille is content to stay at home and gaze into his eyes all day.
It's all very puppy love for a long time and fairly tiresome, but Hansen-Leve, helmer of Father of My Children, is a writer-director who knows how to put an interesting spin on many a familiar story and she eventually does so here.
Even with a sag in the middle, Urzendowsky and Creton, new French stars in the making, hold the attention throughout.
Glasgow Film Theatre, tomorrow-May 13; Filmhouse, Edinburgh, May 25-31.
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