Movies Daily by Zach Cannon

Seeing as it’s the Fourth of July and all, I’m celebrating by doing as little work as possible. So I’ll take the easy way out for a Friday and sum up this weekend’s big releases.

First up is Hancock. As far as I understand, Hancock is one of the best cases of false advertisement this summer. It looks like a post-modern, hilarious take on the superhero genre. What I’ve read is that it’s actually about a fallen god who doesn’t remember his past and acts like a crappy superhero, until he meets a PR agent who tries to turn around his reputation, right around the god has sex with an underage girl and goes to jail. Strange? Yup, made even stranger by the fact that the PR agents wife is also a fallen god and is also Hancock’s true soul mate, or something along those lines. I haven’t seen the movie and I won’t this weekend based on everything I’ve heard so far: the movie is supposed to be uneven and bland. Over on Rotten Tomatoes, it got just a 38% Tomatometer ranking, not very good for recent Will Smith movies.

The other movie, which I also won’t see because I’m not a 12-year-old girl, is Kit Kittredge: An American Girl, which is based on the American Girl series. It has a 78% on Rotten Tomatoes and the general critical consensus says “Refreshingly sweet and sincere, Kit’s doll-and-book-inspired do-good mystery may be geared towards the tween girl but will please audiences of all ages.” May be a good choice if your kids haven’t already seen Wall-E.

Anyways, that’s all from me for today. Enjoy your BBQs and fireworks and happy 232nd birthday to the U.S.A.

Trackback URI | Comments RSS