'Taken 2' breaks necks, not new ground, critics say

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This week at the multiplex, we've got a kidnapping plot (“Taken 2,” starring Liam Neeson and Famke Janssen), a reanimated pooch (Tim Burton's “Frankenweenie,” with voice work from Winona Ryder and Martin Landau), and a cappella all-stars (“Pitch'Taken 2' is a single-minded, tenacious, focused, and unwavering thing. It sees no distractions, entertains no pretensions of self-awareness, has no aspirations toward larger meanings or metaphors. All that it wants to do

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