Opening This Weekend: Stoners, Surrogates, and Sex Clubs

Ah, the weeks just seem to fly by and the summer movie season is almost upon us like a pack of wild, rabid, ravening wolves on steroids.  I'm positive Tarantino made a flick about that....hmmm.  Oh well, here we go.

Baby Mama - A 37-year-old, career-minded Kate - Tina Fey - decides she wants a baby but can't seem to get her own eggs to stick.  She hires former SNL pal, Amy Poehler, as a surrogate and the jocularity flows like breast milk.  After Poehler's character, Angie, gets pregnant she ends up homeless and on Kate's doorstep.  Kate has already been 'nesting' like mad in preparation for the new arrival but finds living with Angie a difficult, unorganized, and eye-opening experience.  It's the 'Odd Couple' meets Le Mas class as these two disparate personalities both try to figure out how to be mothers - and not kill each other.  It's been done before, but Fey and Poehler are pretty good at what they do so let's give it a chance.  The film's rated PG-13.

Then She Found Me - Colin Firth and Helen Hunt are two relatively neurotic, middle-agers who fall in love.  Good date movie, I'll bet.  Okay, Helen Hunt also plays a schoolteacher who's husband recently left her and who's adoptive mother died; she's a bit of a mess.  Firth appears to be playing his normal, quirky self so the chemistry should be good but, honestly, who the hell knows.  See it and find out, but definitely take someone with whom you're planning - or hoping - to have sex.  Anything else could be a waste of $10.  This film also stars Matthew Broderick and is rated R.

Deception - There are probably a half a dozen movies by this title but this one is lucky enough to star Hugh Jackman, Ewan McGregor, and the amazing 'where has she been lately' Michelle Williams.  Of course, Michelle has been taking care of her daughter in the wake of Heath Ledger's passing but that doesn't explain her film obscurity over the past few years.  In this flick she plays the object of McGregor's affliction as he finds himself 'sucked' into the hot sex club lifestyle after picking up and answering Jackman's cell phone.  Jackman plays a powerful attorney who introduces the nerdy McGregor to the new life.  All too soon, however, the fun turns into disappearing girls and $20 million in missing cash for which our new boy toy gets blamed.  This flick has been described as 'sexually charged'.  Personally, it sounds like a lot of heavy breathing but not much real action.  You'll have to see it to find out.  Deception is rated R.

Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay - Pot smoking anti-heroes Harold and Kumar are back.  After trying to smuggle a bong on board an airplane, the boys are busted and immediately sent to Guantanamo Bay for processing.  Sadly, the ridiculous premise that two 'foreign looking' men would be shanghai-ed by the feds and shipped off for a little 'extradition' isn't as ridiculous as it once was, but the idea of the Ku Klux Klan mistaking the two for 'Mexicans' is bizarrely funny.  Throw in Neil Patrick Harris as, well, himself and you've got a great recipe for foul-mouthed, over-sexed drug humor.  Harris was such a hit in the first movie that they had to call him back to reprise his role as a thirty-something 'Doogie Howser' gone horribly awry.  Well, it looks like more of the same so if you liked 'Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle', take a chance.  You'll probably have fun.  This film is, at the very least, rated R.

Well, it's not the most high powered weekend for movies, but that's probably because 'Iron Man' opens next week and this is just the deep breath before the plunge into record-breaking box office madness!

See you next Friday.

Comments

[Jebbica]

I can't wait to see Harold & Kumar! I usually hate comedies that are supposed to be funny b/c they're so stupid, but I laughed my ass off during the first one! Which means the second one is probably going to suck, but the preview looks funny, especially when those KKK people are like "Mexicans!" That's just how people are where I live! :)

[anoldiebutagoodie]

I'm finding less and less that inspires me to purchase a movie ticket