The Game Plan
***
Finally, for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, “The Game Plan” pays off. Cast as an egotistical pro quarterback who learns to put others first when he meets the little girl he never knew he had, The Rock scores in a family comedy that plays to his strengths, and Disney’s. It’s not an ambitious script. But you’d never know that from the way The Rock hurls himself into it, embracing the silly, lampooning the vanity. As Joe “The King” Kingman, he dodges the pass rush and hits the open receiver. And he sings, he dances and spikes the ball in the end zone. PG; 85 minutes. Released today.
The Hunting Party
*1/2
A TV journalist and a cameraman jauntily set out to track down a Serbian war criminal some years after the hostilities in Bosnia have ended. Shot in shell-scarred Sarajevo and over the border in Croatia, “The Hunting Party” looks chillingly authentic. But it also feels too much like it’s all over the map. R; 103 minutes. Released today.
Sydney White
*/12
Sydney is a girl raised “by construction workers.” But she’s wholly unprepared to go to Southern Atlantic University and pledge with the Kappas, her late mother’s beloved sorority. Sydney is cute but fashion- impaired, and entirely too nice and open and honest to manage in the venomous realm of Greek queen Rachel Witchburn. Sydney casts her lot with “the seven dorks.” These guys, living in a rundown house called “the Vortex,” are a motley but amusing collection of stereotypes. You can guess the plot. Sydney leads a populist insurrection against the wealthy minority elite who are sucking up all the resources and power at SAU. PG-13; 106 minutes. Released today.
Roger Moore, The Orlando Sentinel
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