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"You know I'm married to Brad Pitt, right?"

Switch Your Brains Off and Enjoy…

Ask me why critics hated the Tomb Raider sequel, and I’ll honestly have no idea what to say. Although “Lara Croft: Tomb Raider II The Cradle of Life” isn’t a masterpiece by any standards (you’d be better off re-watching Indiana Jones’ adventures), it still is significantly better than its predecessor. The film boasts an ambitious female hero (Jolie rocks!), awe-inspiring stunts (she flies!), hot settings (England! China! Africa!), an involving plot which includes frightening creatures that leap at everything that moves, and a wonderful underwater shark-fighting sequence. Despite simple dialogue, a predictable structure and uneven editing, `Cradle…’ offers a harmlessly adventurous yarn, and by ‘harmless’ I mean it is not racist, feminist, or discriminatory in any other ways, which is a blessing, with the likes of “Rush Hour 2″, “Bulletproof Monk” and “2 Fast 2 Furious” stretching their forced PG-13 rating with dim-witted offensive material. Those movies’ inanity is an insult by itself – the only insult Jan De Bont’s audacious, enthused sequel presents to the viewer is the prospect of recollecting its ridiculously lengthy title.