By Angela Yeager
from Salem Monthly, Section Screen
Posted on Sat May 31, 2008 at 08:28:04 PM PDT
Mike Myers, yet another "Hulk" movie and Adam Sandler. Hang on there film fans, it's going to be a bumpy ride in June.Here's what's in store.
June 6
"You Don't Mess with the Zohan"
- Is there any comedy these days that Judd Apatow isn't involved with? Apatow lends his considerable comedy cred to this Adam Sandler movie, which features the actor as a Mossad agent faking his own death so he can become a hair stylist. OK, the premise looks completely dumb, but this is an Adam Sandler movie after all.
June 13
"The Incredible Hulk"
- I'm having flashbacks to 2003, when I was forced to sit and watch a not-so-jolly green giant go through an existential crisis. I love Ang Lee, but giant green monsters and arthouse angst just don't mix that well. This new vision of the green man comes courtesy of French action director Louis Letterrier and actor Edward Norton. Advanced word is that there was a lot of problems with the script. The trailer didn't make me want to run to the theater for this one, so let's hope that Letterrier puts enough smashing in to satisfy the young male audience.
"The Happening"
- M.Night Shyamalan is back with yet another mysterious thriller about weird things happening that might lead to the end of the world. I loved Shyamalan's earlier movies but ever since "The Village" he has been backsliding big time. Here's hoping he can capture the magic once again.
June 20
"Love Guru"
I am going to put my bets down now that this will be the biggest stinker of the summer, if not the year. Mike Myers stars as a self-help mystic type (basically a parody of Deepak Chopra) who goes to the United States to help a hockey star with his love troubles. In the preview, Myers looks like he's doing a Dr. Evil mixed with New Age mysticism schtick. He even brings back Verne Troyer, who played Mini Me in the Austin Powers series. I saw the preview at a showing of "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" and even the stoners didn't laugh.
June 27
"Wanted"
The star of this movie is supposed to be James McAvoy, the suddenly hot star of "Atonement" and "The Last King of Scotland." All the posters, however, feature a tattooed Angelina Jolie holding a large gun. In any case, McAvoy plays an apathetic ordinary guy who is recruited by a sexy woman named Fox (Jolie, of course) to become a one-man butt-kicking machine.
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