Cinema: Childish world of groan ups

Aug 27 2010 by Lizzie Struthers, Ayrshire Post (main ed)

ADAM Sandler, Kevin James, Chris Rock, Rob Schneider and David Spade star in the family comedy Grown Ups (12A).

When their former basketball coach dies, five old team mates get together in his honour. Along with their wives and kids, they hook up at an old lake house.

Soon they realise that just because they’ve grown old, it doesn’t mean they have to grow up.

Meet wisecracking pre-teen Greg Heffley (Zachary Gordon), the kid who makes being weedy cool in the family comedy Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG).

For Greg, middle school is stupid.He decides to record his struggles and triumphs in a journal.

Marmaduke (U) is the world’s most loveable Great Dane. The film is based on a US newspaper cartoon strip about a family’s big dog.

Marmaduke, voiced by Owen Wilson, is new to California and tries to blend in with the pooches at a dog park. Unfortunately, the vicious Bosco (Keifer Sutherland) fights to maintain boundaries between mutts and purebreds.

It's up to Marmaduke to unite the clashing canines in this family comedy.

From the director of The Hills Have Eyes comes the aquatic action thriller Piranha (18) using the latest razor-sharp 3D technology.

Every summer 50,000 revellers descend on Lake Victoria. But this year there’s more to worry about than hangovers and sunburn, as an underwater tremor releases scores of prehistoric, bloodthirsty, man-eating fish.

The unlikely group of tourists must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food.