On Demand picks

January 28, 2010

I LOVE YOU, BETH COOPER

(Comcast Movies: All Movies) Writer Larry Doyle (“The Simpsons’’) adapts his novel about a high school geek (Paul Rust) enduring one long night with his cheerleader dream girl (Hayden Panettiere, pictured, with Rust). Chris Columbus directs, and what could have been a nice John Hughes revamp ends up just another teen stu-com. (PG-13; runs through May 25) TY BURR

FUNNY PEOPLE

(Comcast Movies: All Movies) Bad-boy comedy maestro Judd Apatow has decided he has something important to say: Being funny is no fun. Adam Sandler is excellent as a nasty Hollywood star with a fatal disease, but at two and a half hours, “People’’ is two movies, neither very good. (R; runs through May 1) TY BURR

RUGRATS IN PARIS: THE MOVIE

(Showtime on Comcast) The wildly successful kid-TV characters make the transition to their second big-screen outing, which whisks them off to Paris. Nose picking, bubbly tummies, spitting up, and other examples of bodily-function humor are the stock-in-trade of this lowbrow Peanuts gang. The plot is predictable and not terribly clever, but considering the slim pickings of movies geared to the preschool and grade-school set, it could be much worse. (G; runs through Feb. 2)

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