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February 6, 2015
At the Movies: 'Jupiter Ascending' falls a little flat
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
"The Theory of Everything" star Eddie Redmayne appears with Mila Kunis and Channing Tatum in "Jupiter Ascending."
Within the warped wardrobe of the Wachowskis latest sci-fi extravaganza, “Jupiter Ascending,” there are some fantastical feasts of intergalactic ridiculousness. Channing Tatum as a combination elf and speed skater. Space dinosaurs in leather jackets. A robed Eddie Redmayne as the universe's overload, who so gravely whispers his lines that you fear he is, for the length of the movie, being castrated just off camera. That, at least, would explain his sporadic shrieking.
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