It’s less than ten days left till summer officially begins, so does the new movie season. You should forget about beach fun and sunbathing and better focus on movie premieres. And surely there’re all kinds of flicks you can enjoy this summer. As some experts say, this is the season for action and movie budgets greater than the gross national product of small island nations.
Love it or hate it, but this is my June movie billboard:
June 6
Dreamworks releases animated Kung Fu Panda featuring the voices of Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie and Jackie Chan. The cartoon is about martial arts and the creatures who inspire those particular styles of martial arts like “crouching tiger.” This cartoon is said to be perfect for family viewing. Sure your kids will love it. At least, Angelina Jolie said she did this movie just because of her kids.
You Don’t Mess With the Zohan starring Adam Sandler will compete with the Panda to win your movie choice this day. The comedy tells about an Israeli commando who fakes his own death to become a hairdresser in New York City.
Also on June, 6th enjoy Mena Suvari in Stuck, a story about the drunk driver who hits a homeless man (Stephen Rea) and leaves him bleeding, in her windshield rather than risk arrest for the accident. This darkly comic thriller is based on a real case. Don’t drink when drive.
It’s not often that we watch Russian films in cinema. Russian director Sergei Bodrov’s (Nomad) Mongol is Genghis Khan bio-pic telling us about his early life as a slave before going on to conquer half the world including Russia in 1206.
June 13
The Happening is a social-environmental meltdown thriller featuring Mark Walberg as a high school science teacher Elliot Moore who along with other people begins encountering breakdowns in human behavior in major American cities. Moore discovers the true nature of the breakdowns, it’s a mysterious virus sweeping the planet and making people kill themselves.
The Promotion brings us Seann William Scott back. He’s accompanied by John C. Reilly to show us two assistant managers of a corporate grocery store vie for a coveted promotion.
You wanted, you got it. The Incredible Hulk will be released June, 13. Edward Norton takes on the green man with Tim Roth as his nemesis, The Abomination, in this latest digitally-improved Hulk incarnation. According to the source, this flick promises “more action than the last Hulk movie and a less convoluted backstory about the big green guy’s origins”.
June 20
No summer without a remake. In the all-new action comedy Get Smart remake of the 1960s TV series, Maxwell Smart (Steve Carell) is on a mission to trawl the latest plot for world domination by the evil crime syndicate known as KAOS. As Smart and agent 99 (Anne Hathaway) have little field experience and even less time, they’re armed with nothing but a few spy-tech gadgets and Smart’s unbridled enthusiasm to defeat KAOS.
Mike Myers, Jessica Alba, and Justin Timberlake star in The Love Guru, a fresh summer flick. Pitka (Mike Myers) is an American who was raised by gurus. He moves back to the US to seek fame and fortune in the world of self-help and spirituality.
June 27
The creators of Finding Nemo present Wall-E, a story about the last robot on earth, that is tasked with cleaning up the planet after humanity has trashed and abandoned it. So it gets lonely and looks for its people.
And, finally, Wanted. The long anticipated Angelina Jolie starring flick is based on the Mark Millar/J.G. Jones graphic novels and helmed by stunning Kazakh visualist director Timur Bekmambetov — creator of the most successful Russian film franchise in history, the Night Watch series.
Wanted tells tale of one apathetic nobody’s transformation into an unparalleled enforcer of justice. This thriller stars James McAvoy as a new recruit to the Fraternity, a secret society of assassins that includes Angelina Jolie and Morgan Freeman.
While it’s still May don’t forget to go to the movie on May, 30th and watch Sex And The City. Guess, no additional introduction necessary.
In case you don’t like romantic or sweety-pretty stuff, enjoy The Strangers, a horror film with Liv Tyler and Scott Speedman about a couple terrorized by three masked assailants. In theatres on May, 30th.
