Arthur

Russell Brand slips into the tuxedo of Dudley Moore in Arthur, an energetic but essentially only middling re-imagining of the 1981 comedy about a perpetually soused man-child who awakens to life outside his debauched comfort zone. Despite some amusing bits and a very capable and handsomely mounted production, the results never truly outgrow diversionary setpiece amusement, and coalesce or gel into something humanistic and more deeply funny. For the full, original review, from Screen International, click here. (Universal, PG-13, 110 minutes)