In Theaters Tomorrow

As you will soon learn I'm a huge movie buff. So much so that I spend portions of my free time writing scripts that I'll never finish. "In Theaters Tomorrow" is a weekly post where I'll attempt to give you a little insight into which movies I think will be good and which will be bad and descriptions of each movie. I have not seen any of these movies prior to release and these previews should be taken with a grain of salt... I just spend a lot of time looking at little bits of news about movies that may have slipped past you and given me better insight into the quality of the film.

For Friday June 20th

Get Smart is a movie that both scares and delights me. I'm excited about this film because I spent a good portion of my childhood watching reruns of this show on nick at night with my grandma. Grandma and I watched Maxwell Smart, agent 99 and the chief religiously when I was down visiting. I'm also a huge Mel Brooks fan. I'm also a huge fan of whoever cast this film... Steve Carrell is one of the funniest men in the business and a perfect fit for the buffoonish Smart, Alan Arkin is fantastic and Anne Hathaway is not only extremely beautiful but also a great actress others I like who have been cast in the film include a personal favorite in Bill Murray, Patrick Warburton, Masi Oka, Terry Crews, James Caan and David Koechner. My problem is that I'm not sure this film can live up to the greatness of the original show. Peter Segal is the director and the only other film he's directed that I liked was Tommy Boy. I don't like "The Rock" in this film for 2 reasons...1) because he is an added character that didn't exist in the original and 2) I just don't like the rock. Did I mention that the writers have only written Failure To Launch and a few television shows that didn't stick out? I'm not sure if this film is about KAOS or will be chaos.

The other big film out this week is The Love Guru. This is Mike Myers first original character since Austin Powers, but I'm afraid its way off target. The trailer doesn't bother to set up any type of plot or explain how Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake fit into the film. Apparently Myer's character is an American who has been raised in India by gurus. He has now returned to the states to break into the self-help and spiritual business. His first big task is to get a star hockey player's (Romany Malco of Weeds fame) estranged wife back from a rival hockey player (Timberlake, whom I think is actually a good actor) before the Stanley Cup. If you're wondering Alba is the owner of the hockey team that Malco plays for and Verne Troyer is the coach. Also in the cast is Jim Gaffigan, Stephen Colbert, Ben Kingsley (?) and cameos from Kanye West, Jessica Simpson and Depock Chopra.

Maybe around Christmas I'll rent You don't Mess with the Zohan and these two that came out this week and have a marathon of summer movies that missed the mark (even though Zohan has done well at the theater I'm just not that interested in it.

The other two films opening this week are opening in limited release and don't interest me enough to deserve words. They are Kit Kitterage: and American Girl and Brick Lane.