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The film, however, has a funny way paying its respects to the sword-wielding saboteurs.", ""); MSNBCstories[14] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34049264/ns/entertainment-movies", "'New Moon' is boring - eternally so", "What fans are about to find out is that critics, present company included, don't care much for this adaptation of the second in Meyer's \"Twilight\" series. And those fans won't give a fig what these critics have to say about their beloved Bella and her beastie boy toys.", ""); MSNBCstories[15] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34052541/ns/entertainment-movies", "Wildness intact, 'Bad Lieutenant' returns", "Director Werner Herzog, working from a William Finkelstein screenplay, has summoned the spirit of the original \"Bad Lieutenant\" while making something fresh and gloriously insane.", ""); MSNBCstories[16] = new Array("http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34023979/ns/entertainment-movies", "'Planet 51' proves unable to support life", "Film lacks any real cleverness, the movie piles on frantic slapstick and chases, which may go some distance in satisfying young children. 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