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\"\"<\/a>1. Taken 2 (Fox, 3,661 Theaters, 91 Minutes, Rated PG-13):\u00a0<\/strong>You can’t say he didn’t warn them. ”\u00a0I don’t know who you are. I don’t know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don’t have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now, that’ll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don’t, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.”<\/p>\n

They took his daughter anyway and, well, Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) looked for them, found them and killed them (in\u00a0Taken<\/strong>). But the parents of the original kidnappers Mills killed don’t really care that their son was warned, they’re out for\u00a0vengeance. When the Mills’ take a family vacation in Istanbul (Really? Who vacations in Istanbul? And why would you go back to Europe after what happened in the first film?), it Mills and his ex-wife who are taken. Big Mistake.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>2. Frankenweenie (Disney, 3,005 Theaters, 87 Minutes, Rated PG):\u00a0<\/strong>It’s not often that I direct has the opportunity to go back and remake a film that got him fired. But that’s what is happening this week.<\/p>\n

Way back in 1984, Tim Burton made a live-action short about a boy who brings his dog back to life for Disney. In a classic case of a director’s style not meshing with a studio’s public image, Disney fired Burton for wasting their money and buried the film. Well, buried it until Burton made a name for himself with\u00a0Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Batman<\/strong>. Then Disney decided to release it on home video.<\/p>\n

Now, Burton and Disney have mended their fences and the director is is revisiting that short via stop motion animation.<\/p>\n

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An eye for an eye leaves one supremely irate Liam Neeson.<\/div>\n

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