Opening This Weekend: 5/9/08

Hoyeah!  Speed Racer is finally here - what a Mother's Day present!   Though you'd hardly know it from talking to me, there are a few other movies releasing today as well.  Check it out!

Speed Racer - Yahoo! Movies says: With the support of his family and his loyal girlfriend, Trixie, Speed Racer teams with his one-time rival - the mysterious Racer X - to win the race that had taken his brother's life: the death-defying, cross-country rally known as The Crucible.  (Sorry, I can't say it any better than that, so they get all the credit!)   Starring Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, Matthew Fox, Susan Sarandon, John Goodman, and an actual chimpanzee as Chim Chim.

What Happens In Vegas - Cameron Diaz and Ashton Kutcher learn to love each other after waking up after a hard night of partying in Vegas to find they are married to each other.  Critics are giving this movie mediocre reviews.

Surfwise - A documentary about the Paskowitz family.  Patriarch Dorian decides to give up his medical practice and take up the nomadic life of a back-to-nature surfer, living in a 24 foot camper.  Which is great when you're alone, but maybe not so great when you have a wife and nine children.   This movie is being painted as the story of a man innocently seeking his version of utopia, but I heard him and his family interviewed yesterday and it was really pretty disturbing.

The Fall - Set in the 1920s, this is the story of an immigrant girl and a bedridden man become unlikely friends when they are both patients in a Los Angeles hospital. 

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