Sidekicks

"Sidekicks" is amiable enough, even if cinematically, it makes "Cop and a Half" look like "8 1/2."

Couched playfully amid all the hambone hokum and Rocky- style heroic flourishes of Sidekicks, there hides an undeniable sense of dignity and emotional uplift.

Sidekicks is so predictable that you could leave the theater, break a few bricks of your own and not miss anything.

It's soulful and funny and more than a few notches in quality above the films of those martial arts phenoms the Teen-age Mutant Ninja Turtles.