Categories: Entertainment

Summer. You used to be able to tell that time of year by the intolerable heat and the sudden desire to go to the beach. Not anymore. Nowadays, the best indicator of summer’s arrival is the massive influx of big budget movies, and this summer is proving to be one of the biggest ever, with over two dozen movies to be released, most of them sequels. it used to be that the major blockbusters were released near year’s, such as was the case with King Kong and Narnia. But the recent trend has been to release them in the summer. All these movies have the potential to be monster hits, as most of them are follow-ups to proven favourites. The harbinger of this box office blitz is Spiderman 3, which opened 12 days ago and has already amassed $632 million worldwide. Not surprising, as it is the most anticipated movie for the summer, according to Yahoo! Here’s their list for the top 20 anticipated movies of the summer.
1. Spiderman 3
2. Transformers
3. Shrek the Third
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End
5. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
6. The Bourne Ultimatum
7. 28 Weeks Later
8. Rush Hour 3
9. Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
10. DOA: Dead or Alive
11. Hairspray
12. Nancy Drew
13. The Simpsons Movie
14. Evan Almighty
15. Ocean’s Thirteen
16. Live Free or Die Hard
17. Underdog
18. Hostel: Part II
19. Ratatouille
20. Knocked Up

Here are my thoughts on these 20 (the ones I care about anyway). Spiderman 3 is a must see. I plan to post about it during the summer. Transformers. Hell yeah! Besides, the battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons was too big for the small screen anyway. Shrek the Third should be a laugh fest as always. But the whole twisted fairy tale thing is getting kinda old. Happily Never After ruined it for me. Looking forward to Pirates 3, though as far as I’m concerned, Keira Knightley’s booty is the only one worth plundering. Order of the Phoenix will change the Harry Potter universe as we know it. How do it know this? Bootleg copy? Yes, but an analog version - called a book. You might wanna try one. The Bourne series is good, but it never quite grabbed me. Ultimatum should be a decent movie and a box office success. Never saw 28 Days Later, so I’m not too interested in the sequel. But the hype makes me wanna see the original. Plus summer is the time for romantic flings, and nothing gets a girl in your lap faster (besides money) than watching a scary movie.

Rush Hour 3. Hmm. Wondered what happened to those two? Fantastic Four 2. Besides Jessica Alba in spandex, the second biggest draw of this movie will be the Silver Surfer, who loooks unbeliveably cool. Wonder if Galactus will make an appearance? DOA won’t be as big a hit with the fanboys as movie execs would expect, as the movie features real girls, and we all know that fanboys are afraid of real girls. The Simpsons Movie would’ve been more welcome five or so years ago. But the series is feeling stale nowadays. Now if it were a Family Guy movie… Evan Almighty? Does that jerk from Bruce Almighty get God’s powers? And does God go on vacation again? Maybe it’s not that God doesn’t exist, maybe he’s just lazy. Ocean’s Thirteen. A star-studded revenge movie. Nice! Live Free or Die Hard. More of Detective McLain simultaneously punching terrorists and the Grim Reaper in their balls.

Ratatouille. For a Pixar movie, this one is woefully underadvertised. But that’s ok. Pixar could make an autobiography about their table lamp mascot and still rake in hundreds of millions, despite the fact that their last movie Cars, performed below expectations. But don’t worry. Despite the immense competition this summer and the hard to pronounce title, that will hinder spoiled brats from continously nagging their parents about watching it without biting their tongues, as long as Pixar creates cute, colourful and silly characters, the money well will never dry. Right? And on that subject of competition, why are so many movies being released this summer? This is the biggest summer release as far as I remember. Won’t the stiff competition mean less returns, especially with juggernauts like Spidey 3 and Transformers about? But let the movie studios worry about that. I can barely find money to buy popcorn and drinks to watch one of these movies, much less the ticket itself.