Summer Movies part 1...

Well, I've had a chance to finally catch up on some of the big movie releases this summer season, with more to come in the next few days. Beware, I'm not the usual type that falls to the thumbs down side of things by default.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Highly enjoyable popcorn movie with lots of explosions, gunfire and tons of charisma between the major players in the movie (and I include Vince Vaughn there).

Fantastic Four: Didn't have high hopes after all the negative criticism on this movie, but I actually did enjoy it quite a bit. Jessica Alba's always a plus in my books, the Thing was portrayed better than I expected (not being familiar with the comic book I probably missed a few creative licenses with the character though), only had a couple of problems with the movie. 1) The guy playing Mr. Fantastic had ZERO charisma with anyone in the film, 2) how exactly did the Thing's transformation at the end of the movie happen, considering the circumstances they established it needed.

Return of the Sith: Not a lot needs to be said here, as I've agreed with just about everyone's basic thoughts of the movie... leaps and bounds better than the first two movies in the New Trilogy, still a little wooden acting from Hayden Christiansen although I found "NOOOOOOOO!" more in character than most. He did afterall JUST become Vader not long before that, I tend to believe that's the catalyst for Vader becoming the Uber Bastard we all know and love from the Classic Trilogy.

Bewitched: Meh, where to begin with this one? Outside of some decent acting by Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell (and good side roles by Kristen Chenoweth and Steve Carrell), this one left me cold for the major reason of a terrible plot. The premise sounded interesting, the tv remake within the movie remake, but it was totally all over the place and lost me several times. Taking liberties like Aunt Clara actually being Nicole Kidman's aunt rather than a character on the TV show really, and Uncle Arthur appearing to the Jack character against instead of being something on the show really dragged this one down. I tried to like it, I really did... that said, I wouldn't be opposed to Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman being paired up in a better movie.

That's it for now, more thoughts to come. And YeeHaw, Dukes of Hazzard out in less than a week.