THE AWL // AT THE MULTIPLEX

More Than They Could Chew: Nope. Not a vampire movie. Unless you want a vampire in there. Wouldn’t be too hard. No, this is like The Social Network, II. Only it’s about the fast-paced, volatile, tech-y world of URL-shortening companies, like Bit.ly. It is the Bit.ly story, actually. I’m pretty sure. Lots of hot 20-something men with short tempers, eating Quiznos at picnic tables outside their offices and chasing millions and also billions of dollars around Silicon Valley as they attempt to come up with the world’s shortest URL shortener. There’d be a lot of verbal sparring and pressure-filled situations with saucy dialogue like: “Screw TinyURL!” and “We’ve got to make it shorter!” and “That’s not good enough, Tony!” and “That URL and 50 cents wouldn’t get you on the bus, Phillips.” Bradley Cooper and Donnie Wahlberg star, and Kevin Bacon (or Kevin Costner) has a cameo (subplot alert) as an alcoholic who invented a search engine that was popular in the 1990s, except someone used it to find and kidnap his daughter. He advises these guys when he is not totally wasted. Tagline: Short URL, even shorter fuse.