Arthur (2011 PG13)

   The movie stars Russell Brand (Get Him to the Geek, Hop), Helen Mirren (Gosford Park, A Midsummer Nights Dream), Greta Gerwig (Geenberg, Hannah Takes the Stairs), Jennifer Garner (Catch Me if You Can, 13 Going on 30), Luis Guzman (Anger Management, Fast Food Nation), and Leslie Hendrix (Law and Order SVU).
   The plot is the same as the origional.  In order to get his inheritance Brand has to marry Garner but falls in love with Gerwig. 
   The best thing about this movie is Brand.  He is good.  His interaction with Mirren is also good (her characters resolution in the movie was very good).  Im debating if I did not like Garner in the movie because she plays a bitch or if it was a bad performance.  Eather way she was a drag on the movie big time.  Another drag in the movie was a scene on a construction site.  It was stupid and just wrong.  Brand uses a nail gun to shoot nails across a room.  The only trouble is all of the nail guns I have used have had two safty measures that make what he did undoable.  (You have to pull the trigger and have the place where the nails come out in contact with a solid service.)  The other one is less trouble.  Most people who use tabel saws only extend the height of the blade just deep enough to cut the wood to prevent loosing a finger or two like I almost did. 
   I think they used a version of the origional song in this version I liked it.  They did use the origional song in the credits.  Some lines fell flat, Like Mirren to Evander Holleyfield  "get him out of the ring ir I will bite your other ear off."  There were some others that were duds.  I did like the use of classic movie cars in the film.  The Batmobile (From the ones in the 90's, the Back to the Future DeLorean, and the Mystery Mobile from Scooby Doo, there are others but cant remember.
   Im rating the movie as a C or C+.  Brand performance I would rate as a B or B+, the rest of the movie as a C-.  I think the movie is worth seeing just for Brands performance and have not seen the origional recently enough to say if it was better.