Attack of the Summer Movies!

So what movies have we seen thus far?

Stealth
I loved it. Lots of action and suspense. The critics hated it. I don't care, it was lots of fun to me. There is no moral
or lessons or anything. Just some really neat fast jet scenes. That's all I need.

Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

This was "pretty ok". I think the whole thing was a way to poke fun at Michael Jackson, but Tim Burton says "no". Besides the fact that Johnny Depp looks like Michael,
the part of the story that was added on and not taken from the book was that poor Willy Wonka lost much of his candy eating childhood to his ambitious dentist father.

I liked the movie better than I thought I would. Tim Burton usually gives me the heebie jeebies. Speaking of which he is coming out with a new movie called "Corpse Bride"...see what I mean? By the way, does he do those creepy Wal-greens "in a town called Perfect" commercials?

That new Herbie the Love Bug movie with Lindsay Lohan.
Um, how could a car that seems to be "alive" just fall out of everyone's memory-yet Matt Dillon doesn't? Strange world. I dunno, it was the second feature after Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Otherwise I would have really been annoyed.

War of The Worlds
Miranda Otto is supposed to be weirdling Tom Cruise's ex wife? How old is she?

What I didn't get about this movie is they spend much of the movie running for their lives, yet the kids manage to find lots of time to whine about how their father pays no attention to them. This may be a valid argument, but if robots are vaporising people to the left and right of me, it would be the last thing on my mind!
The flip side-big robots, lasers, aliens and special effects (am I a shallow push over or what?)

Fantastic Four

All the good action scenes are in the previews. Great comic book, boring movie even with as neat a cast as Jessica Alban, Julian McMahon, Michael Chicklis and that girl from Save the Last Dance. Too much talking, not enough action. Even the final fight scene was pretty lame.

Mr. and Mrs. Smith

I could barely stay awake.

The Island

An interesting message about the consequences of creating people simply to be used by others. I actually thought the message was so appropriate to many of todays ethical issues, I was surprised they made the movie. They countered the message by making it drag on a bit.

Madagascar

I really liked this. This was like the best of Ben Stiller without the sex or bathroom humor.

Batman Begins
This was so good. Christian Bale is so cute. This movie explains how Batman got his start, how he got his really cool stuff and it is not creepy and Tim Burtony.
There is a really nifty car in it too.