'The End of Oak Street' Review: Anne Hathaway, Ewan McGregor fight dinosaurs in surprisingly fun movie

The twelvemonth of Anne Hathaway is kicked into hyperdrive. Following the merchandise of the bequest sequel "The Devil Wears Prada 2," the indie creation location movie "Mother Mary" and connected the heels of Christopher Nolan's epic "The Odyssey," the Oscar victor present stars successful the caller movie "The End of Oak Street" (and she inactive has different movie slated for this fall!). 

She and Ewan McGregor are Denise and Greg Platt, a not-so-happy mates who enactment connected a blessed look for their 2 teenage children, Audrey and Brian (Maisy Stella and Christian Convery) successful their idyllic vicinity connected — you guessed it — Oak Street successful Summer 1982. 

One night, a mysterious airy floods the extracurricular of their home, and they aftermath up without immoderate power, moving water, and are not adjacent picking up immoderate vigor stations. It doesn't instrumentality agelong aft Denise and Greg permission the location to fig retired thing isn't close — determination are dinosaurs everywhere. 

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Anne Hathaway arsenic Denise Platt successful "The End of Oak Street," a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Daniel McFadden/Warner Bros. Pictures)

The entirety of their vicinity was someway transported backmost to a prehistoric epoch wherever the extremity of the thoroughfare is virtually chopped disconnected by a elephantine cliff with jungles taking implicit people's backyards. The Platts indispensable combat to past and find a mode backmost location — if there's adjacent a mode backmost home. 

Someone successful Hollywood — perchance writer-director David Robert Mitchell — must've pitched, "What if it's 'Jurassic Park' but acceptable successful suburbia?" The premise is wholly inexplicable, and that's wholly OK, arsenic agelong arsenic the assemblage tin bargain into the premise, adjacent 1 this absurd. Mitchell's beardown execution connected a axenic amusement level supersedes the request for a logical explanation. 

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Christian Convery arsenic Brian Platt, Maisy Stella arsenic Audrey Platt successful "The End of Oak Street," a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)

Mitchell, champion known for his 2014 breakout fearfulness flick "It Follows," knows however to physique up suspense and enactment unneurotic amusive enactment sequences. He's aided by cinematographer Mike Gioulakis, exertion John Axelrad and Oscar-winning composer Michael Giacchino, who delivers yet different magnificent score. 

It's nary astonishment that J.J. Abrams, the shaper down "LOST," the "Cloverfield" trilogy and the caller "Star Trek" and "Star Wars" films, besides produced this sci-fi enactment thriller. 

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Ewan McGregor arsenic Greg Platt and Anne Hathaway arsenic Denise Platt successful "The End of Oak Street," a Warner Bros. Pictures release. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Picturess)

Hathaway hits her stride here, arguably much truthful than immoderate of her different relation this year, playing the no-nonsense matriarch of the household, portion McGregor brings levity arsenic the possibly Pollyannaish father. But each of them, including Stella and Convery, instrumentality turns kicking dinosaur butt. And immoderate of the dinosaurs are rather terrifying! 

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Ewan McGregor arsenic Greg Platt, Christian Convery arsenic Brian Platt, Maisy Stella arsenic Audrey Platt and Anne Hathaway arsenic Denise Platt successful "The End of Oak Street," a Warner Bros. Pictures Release. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)

The Verdict

"The End of Oak Street" is simply a fun, crowd-pleasing chaotic thrust that is afloat of laughs and suspense that feels similar a throwback to the kinds of movies that Hollywood utilized to make. If you're going to compression successful 1 much movie with the household earlier the kids spell backmost to school, see this one. 

★★★ ½ — SEE IT NOW

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"The End of Oak Street" is rated PG-13 for immoderate beardown convulsive content, bloody images, immoderate beardown connection and suggestive material. Running time: 1 hour, 39 minutes. In theaters now.