Takers is a popcorn movie that might make you feel guilty about eating movie popcorn. Or at least motivate men to pump up their paunch or get a GQ makeover. Ladies, you'll wish your guy would do both.

The "Takers" in this high-octane heist film are suave, sexy, young, smooth criminals who strut down L.A. streets in expensive suits and screech away from robberies in their shiny silver sports car, black Range Rover, or flame-red motorcycle. That's refreshing for women who tire of Jason Statham's bald bad-assery, or for whom one hunk of eye candy isn't enough to ogle. (Or long for a close-up of an ample er … package in briefs. The gals in my screening certainly approved/applauded.) Their pretty-boy posse includes: G/Gordon (Idris Elba), brothers Jesse (hip-hop hottie Chris Brown) and Jake (Michael Ealy), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and John (Fast & Furious' Paul Walker). A.J. plays the piano and always wears a black-and-white fedora. Could Jason Mraz have been a better choice? He could steal and write a song about it. But this crew doesn't just look good, they're good at what they do, taking whatever they want. Even cop Jack (Matt Dillon) admits they're "hot sh*t." Your typical burnout, Dillon is separated from his wife and won't win any father of the year awards for dragging his daughter on a high-speed chase. He and his partner, Hatch (Jay Hernandez), are investigating the Takers' latest bank bust.

Hot-tubbing with naked beauties on their penthouse deck, they seem invincible, cockily finger-shooting the moon until Ghost (rapper T.I.), a former accomplice who just got paroled, appears. He's obviously too gangsta to fit in with the rest of the group, even in a slick suit. The Takers aren't too thrilled to see him or hear about his plan for an armored-truck heist. But they go for it even though they sense he hates their guts. And Jake stole his girl Lily (Thandie Newton). Oh, and G has a sister, Naomi (Marianne Jean-Baptiste), who causes trouble.

So what does Takers the film excel at? Snappy one-liners? Not really, unless you count Ghost telling a thug he's going to shoot him full of holes like a bowling ball. Unique characters? A.J. is the only one with a hat. Dillon isn't put to much use in an utterly forgettable part they could have filled with any unknown. Original plot? It's pretty much by the book as far as heist films go. Did we mention it's super stylish? With the trendy electronic-groove soundtrack it's like watching a music video, a perfume commercial, or a magazine cover shoot.

Takers does deliver some riveting action scenes that make you want to nominate the stuntmen for an award, like Jesse leaping and flipping from buildings and over cars to escape Hatch and Jack, who miraculously keep pace with his acrobatics. Or John truck-diving into a sewer. Ghost's play-by-play of the gang at work is also far more fun than any sportscast. "He just jacked a guard!"

In the end it's hardly high-caliber for a heist film, but if chic criminals are enough to satisfy your cinema craving, it might be worth a bucket of movie popcorn.

Grade: C-