Charlie-St-cloud-ratner-crotchOPENING THIS WEEKEND (trailers after the jump)

  • Cats & Dogs 2: The Revenge of Kitty Galore
    “Kitty Galore?”  Really?  Didn’t “pussy” used to be an inoffensive way to say “cat?”  Anyway, it looks like a great movie to take your pussy kids to.
  • Charlie St. Cloud
    It may be tracking just below 20% among top critics at Rotten Tomatoes and star Zac Efron as a sailing champion who plays baseball with his dead brother, but if you read my recreation of the plot using quotes from expository reviews and you aren’t at least a little bit curious, I don’t know what to tell you.  It sounds like the sailingest, most dead-brother-baseball film of the summer.  FAH GET YA SCHAWLASHIP TA STAN FUHD, CHAHLIE! THAT GOIL NEEDS YA HELP! LISTEN TO ME, CHAHLIE, I’M YA DEAD BROTHAH!
  • Dinner for Schmucks
    The premise sounds terrible, it’s a remake, and the director has movies like Goldmember and Meet the Fockers on his resume (but also Meet the Parents and Recount).  But I don’t know how you go wrong with this solid a cast.  Steve Carell, Zach Galifianakis, Jemaine from Flight of the Conchords, Paul Rudd, Ron Livingston, BRUCE F*CKING GREENWOOD; hell, I’d watch these guys re-enact one of Gwyneth Paltrow’s salsa recipes.

Finally, if you see one movie this weekend, make it this week’s FilmDrunk Frotcast, with our interview of Rob Huebel and review of Olivia Munn’s book. …Okay, so maybe it’s not a movie.  But riddle me this: can you watch a movie while riding a unicycle, or doing squat thrusts?  I thought not.  Advantage: Frotcast.