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Cinderella ****The Spongebob iPhone 5s case Movie: Sponge out of Rainwater ****Get Hard **

Does the whole need another version of Cinderella (G)? No, but Kenneth Branagh's take on the classic rags-to-riches fable can be charming that it feels churlish to assist you to complain. Lily James is beautiful as Cinderella, a sweet-natured, constantly smiling girl who takes to assist you to heart her doting father's (Ben Chaplin) advice to 'have bravery and be kind'.

Her courage along with kindness are tested when the father dies, and Cinderella is certainly left to the less-than-tender mercies because of her stepmother (Cate Blanchett) along with her adopted sisters, Drisella (Sophie McShera) and Anastasia (Holliday Grainger).

It's with the entrance of the nasty Blanchett — she crackles using suppressed menace — that the facts begins to come alive.

But there are handful of surprises here: apart from droll asides from the Fairy Godmother (Helena Bonham Carter), as she grants Cinderella licence to go to the ball, and well bitter bickering among the Ugly Siblings, this version of Cinderella is certainly far less subversive than recent cartoon versions of fairytales. Branagh gives crafted a live-action remake of these Disney animated classic from 1950.

Unabashedly old-fashioned in its directness, the storyplot makes full use of its spectacular settings — this is no Grimm tale of caution, but the dreams of pure fantasy, glittering translucent glass slippers and all.

Taken on the same terms, Cinderella should prove a single delight for a younger audience, even older viewers might find it all exceedingly sugary-sweet.

A decade or so on via his silver screen debut, iPhone 5 Spongebob case Squarepants (voiced by Tom Kenny) does not older, nor — you will notr be surprised to learn — a lot of wiser in The Spongebob Movie: Sponge or cloth Out of Water (G).

When cowardly[a]: craven; pusillanimous pirate, Burger Beard (Antonio Banderas), steals the secret formula that makes Spongebob's crab patties the toast of these sea-floor town of Bikini Bottom of the page, the loss quickly turns it correct into a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Determined to put information right, Spongebob and his friends — Patrick (Bill Fagerbakke), Squidward (Rodger Bumpass), Mr Krabs (Clancy Brown) — set out to track Burger Hairs down, aided and abetted simply by Spongebob's implacable foe, Plankton (Mr Lawrence).

Stuffed to the gills using quips, puns and one-liners, functional gags and wacky asides, The exact Spongebob Movie is gloriously irreverent.

As always, it's difficult to believe that Spongebob & Co are pitched predominately at children: the absurdist esprit would do credit to the Monty Python team in peak shape.

Not content with that, the copy writers and director (Paul Tibbitt) take on every opportunity to divert the storyline aside anything remotely approaching convention or to expectation, and do a very fine job because of spoofing the current mania for super hero movies when Spongebob and his cohorts emerge from beneath the waves to threaten Burger Beard on dry land.

Every single one of told, it's tremendous fun, along with here's hoping we don't have to await another decade to see Spongebob return on the big screen.

Get Hard (16s) stars Will Ferrell as The james King, a millionaire stockbroker who will convicted of fraud and sentenced to hard time in San Quentin.

With a month to put his contrariety in order, and terrified by the chance of the violence he will face contained in the product, James commissions his car laundry, Darnell Lewis (Kevin Hart), to assist you to toughen him up before the dog goes away. Directed by Etan Cohen (who is not to be confused with Ethan Coen), Get Hard is hit-and-miss — the promising prospect from a black comedy about inequality along with radically different types of capitalism morphs for the clumsy 'humour' suggested by the primitive innuendo of the title.

Darnell, like is an upstanding, law-abiding guy who will scraping together money to pay for the puppy's daughter's education, but he has to assist you to pretend to be a stereotypical ghetto gangsta to persuade James that he can sometimes 'get him hard' for the living hell yard.

Rather than focus on this along with others potentially intriguing aspects, however , Cohen creates a story in which much of the focus is on amplifying stereotypes because of race, culture and sexuality (James is horrified at the prospect because of prison rape, a topic referred to nearly every three minutes or so).

Here are some laugh-out-loud moments, most of them courtesy of Ferrell's patented dumb buffoon schtick, but also for the most part Get Hard is certainly monotonously dull.