Amy Adams

It’s unclear what Amy Adams did to deserve “Leap Year,’’ but all that’s missing from the movie is a set of jailhouse bars over her scenes. She plays Anna, one of those uptight, over-prepared yuppies whose goals amount to engagement rings and real estate. It’s not that she looks miserable - her eyes continue to pop with bliss and her voice retains its soothing lilt. But the snobbery, blind determination, and materialism she deploys are aggravating since they have nothing to do with the Amy Adams we’ve come to know.

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS ★ ★ ½ (Comcast Movie Collections: New Movies) Quentin Tarantino takes on the Nazis. Strenuously unserious, it's a manically playful revenge fantasia made from the spare parts of Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns and strapping WWII action flicks like ‘‘The Great Escape. " It's also the director's weakest film yet. (R; runs through June 4) Ty Burr FAST FOOD NATION ★ ★ ★ ★ (Comcast Movie Collections: New Movies)

Kingston-based actor Chris Cooper was in Los Angeles over the weekend for the premiere of "The Muppets," which will be released here next week. Jason Segel , who is related to the folks who run Mr. Sid's in Newton, co-wrote and stars in the comedy with Amy Adams of "The Fighter" and Harvard graduate Rashida Jones . Cooper plays the movie's villain, Tex Richman.

Kingston-based actor Chris Cooper was in Los Angeles over the weekend for the premiere of "The Muppets," which will be released here next week. Jason Segel , who is related to the folks who run Mr. Sid's in Newton, co-wrote and stars in the comedy with Amy Adams of "The Fighter" and Harvard graduate Rashida Jones . Cooper plays the movie's villain, Tex Richman.

INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS ★ ★ ½ (Comcast Movie Collections: New Movies) Quentin Tarantino takes on the Nazis. Strenuously unserious, it's a manically playful revenge fantasia made from the spare parts of Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns and strapping WWII action flicks like ‘‘The Great Escape. " It's also the director's weakest film yet. (R; runs through June 4) Ty Burr FAST FOOD NATION ★ ★ ★ ★ (Comcast Movie Collections: New Movies)

In "Enchanted," Amy Adams smiles like the sort of maiden you'd find on a butter wrapper or some fancy heavy cream. She's sweet and charmingly seductive. You may not need any cream, but the woman's so pretty you'd toss a container in your cart anyway. She also demonstrates a real performer's ingenuity for comic timing and physical eloquence (her big eyes pop, and she signals melodrama by swaying her arms like Lillian Gish). The sight of Adams gliding and beaming and chirping in this movie - a self-mocking cartoon that transforms into an inspired live-action musical farce - is just about the happiest...

ON WGBH Greater Boston "Where We Live" 7 p.m. WGBH (Channel 2) The recession is making Norwood's version of the American Dream increasingly harder to attain – though the town's boosters insist it's still possible. ON CHRONICLE Mystery Main Streets 7:30 p.m. WCVB-TV (Channel 5) Our destination is a place where the people are happy, you can find America's forgotten fruit, and there's a 1928 Ford with 460,000 miles on it. RADIO HIGHLIGHTS The Diane Rehm Show 10 a.m. WGBH-FM (89.7)

***½ THE MUPPETS Directed by: James Bobin Written by: Nicholas Stoller and Jason Segel Starring: Segel, Amy Adams, Chris Cooper, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Walter, and the rest of the Muppets At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs Running time: 98 minutes Rated: PG (nothing more offensive than showbiz-related flatulence) So often with remakes and movies based on a television show, there's no point. Or the point is not what we're watching but that we're watching it at all, that the Hollywood apparatus has seduced (or brainwashed)

ON WGBH Greater Boston "Where We Live" 7 p.m. WGBH (Channel 2) The recession is making Norwood's version of the American Dream increasingly harder to attain – though the town's boosters insist it's still possible. ON CHRONICLE Mystery Main Streets 7:30 p.m. WCVB-TV (Channel 5) Our destination is a place where the people are happy, you can find America's forgotten fruit, and there's a 1928 Ford with 460,000 miles on it. RADIO HIGHLIGHTS The Diane Rehm Show 10 a.m. WGBH-FM (89.7)

It’s unclear what Amy Adams did to deserve “Leap Year,’’ but all that’s missing from the movie is a set of jailhouse bars over her scenes. She plays Anna, one of those uptight, over-prepared yuppies whose goals amount to engagement rings and real estate. It’s not that she looks miserable - her eyes continue to pop with bliss and her voice retains its soothing lilt. But the snobbery, blind determination, and materialism she deploys are aggravating since they have nothing to do with the Amy Adams we’ve come to know.

In "Enchanted," Amy Adams smiles like the sort of maiden you'd find on a butter wrapper or some fancy heavy cream. She's sweet and charmingly seductive. You may not need any cream, but the woman's so pretty you'd toss a container in your cart anyway. She also demonstrates a real performer's ingenuity for comic timing and physical eloquence (her big eyes pop, and she signals melodrama by swaying her arms like Lillian Gish). The sight of Adams gliding and beaming and chirping in this movie - a self-mocking cartoon that transforms into an inspired live-action musical farce - is...