Cross Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with The Grifters, add a healthy dose of sexual intrigue and you have Heartbreakers a glorious crime comedy with Sigourney Weaver, Jennifer Love Hewitt and Gene Hackman. Second movies are always a problem particularly if your first film was an enormous hit. Full Monty director Peter Cattaneo has come up with a prison comedy featuring a governor who goes around singing extracts from South Pacific and writing musicals for the inmates. Those of a certain age will remember the TV cartoon from the early Seventies, based on the Archie Comics characters. When it was first announced that Hollywood auteur Tim Burton was making Planet of the Apes for the 21st century, in the very next breath it was announced that the film wasn't going to be a remake but a re-imagining .
Sequels are part and parcel of cinema s summer season.
They provide reasonable entertainment and a chance to revisit old friends. Dr Aki Ross, who is infected by a foreign body in the year 2065. With the release of The Parole Officer, Steve Coogan is making his bid for big- screen stardom. We've suspected it all along. Or at least anyone who owns one.