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Going Down... Under THE INBETWEENERS 2

Dusty’s all fired up PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE

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Release Date: 17/12/14

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Release Date: 10/12/14

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Six months after their misadventures in Greece, the lads head Down Under in their second big screen OS trip. Jay (James Buckley) is on “a mental gap year in Australia” and convinces buddies Simon (Joe Thomas), Neil (Blake Harrison) and Will (Simon Bird) to join him. Cue rampant innuendo regarding “going bush” and backpacking, as the boys hit the Outback, Byron Bay and other iconic Aussie locations – if you thought Mrs. Brown’s one-liners were obvious, you haven’t met these guys. The Inbetweeners 2 set an opening day box office

The original Planes movie was the first major theatrical release from DisneyToon Studios, which until then was best known for its video premieres. And there is still a bit of direct-to-DVD feel to this fast-tracked sequel, even though this has taken more than $1.2 million at the local box office. However, Planes: Fire & Rescue is a big improvement on the first movie, being less of a Cars cash-in and more a cheery, action-packed adventure yarn in its own right. This time around, plucky crop-duster and racing champ Dusty (once again voiced by Dane Cook),

record for a UK comedy on its home turf – not bad for a movie whose major set piece involves faeces and a water slide, which pretty much tells you what to expect from this adolescent romp. Do you need to have seen the first film or the TV series? Not really; the toilet humour is, after all, universal.

is devastated to discover he may never be able to compete again when his gear-box suffers major damage. He decides to lend his flying skills to a fire and rescue unit, but soon learns that fighting forest fires is much more of a team effort. Little kids will love it – particularly boys seeking a break from ice-bound Disney princesses.

Master chefs THE HUNDRED FOOT JOURNEY

Fecking feature-length fun MRS BROWN’S BOYS D’MOVIE

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Release Date: 10/12/14

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Release Date: 17/12/14

Lasse Hallström is the master of these middlebrow comic dramas and his latest smash finds him revisiting the themes of one of his most popular flicks Chocolat . Helen Mirren plays the snooty owner of a Michelin- starred restaurant in a sleepy village in the South of France, who is appalled when the empty restaurant opposite her establishment is converted to an Indian by a newly arrived family from Mumbai. Om Puri ( East Is Eas t) is the equally stubborn family patriarch who refuses to back down, while caught between

Brendan O’Carroll’s incredibly (some might say inexplicably) popular cross-dressing creation follows the likes of Mr. Bean and The Inbetweeners onto the big screen, with the series’ slapstick improvisation, crude humour and fourth wall breaking intact. But does hilarity ensue? Let’s just say that you either get this type of ramshackle comedy, or you don’t. Suffice to say, Agnes Brown’s attempts to save her Dublin market stall from greedy developers and Russian gangsters results in an onslaught of broad gags that make the

the feuding pair is his son Manish Dayal, an untrained but immensely talented cook who becomes fascinated with the idea of merging the best of French and Indian cuisines. As a cinematic meal, it lacks substance, but a tasty treat all the same.

Carry On movies look restrained. Love her or hate her, Mrs. Brown is a bona fide phenomenon, and O’Carroll should be regarded as some kind of comic genius simply for getting so much mileage (TV series, stage show, movie) out of one joke.

DECEMBER 2014 JB Hi-Fi www.jbhifi.co.nz

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