New movies this weekend!

[thewayne]

This is a great weekend for movies.

Kung Fu Panda: Jack Black, Jackie Chan, the female half of Bradjelina, Dustin Hoffman, Lucy Liu, James Hong: what a cast! They're also showing it in Imax, which we don't have in the area. Looks like it's going to be lots of fun. Granted, you don't get to see Jackie Chan acting, but it should still be good. Trailer


You Don't Mess With The Zohan: Adam Sandler as an Israeli Commando who fakes his own death to become a hair stylist in NYC. What's not to love?! Apparently he trained with a Navy SEAL for four months to prep for this film. Trailer


CJ7: Stephen Chow's new film (Kung Fu Hustle, Shaolin Soccer). It released in Hong Kong back in January, and apparently opened here in March. It opens in one tiny little theater here tomorrow, I'm hoping to see it. It's his version of ET or Lilo & Stitch. The trailer that I saw for it was great! Trailer

Oh, and Chow is working on Kung Fu Hustle 2. Though I am normally very apprehensive when people start doing sequels, I have great faith that Chow can make one as good as, if not better than, the original.


Russ has an Apollo run Friday evening, maybe we can catch one of the first two Friday late and CJ7 on a weekend afternoon.

Comments

[deborak]

KFP: No. (Jack Black)
Zohan: Absolutely NOT (Sandler)
CJ7: looks cute, but I'll wait and see it cheap On Demand.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

There aren't many actors on my "will not see" list, I think it mainly consists of Tom Cruise, Jim Carrey (I don't like his 'rubber face' comedies), Chris Farley (don't have to worry about new flics from him), David Spade, Hugh Grant (though I love Love Actually), Paris Hilton is on it, not that she's likely to make anything that I'll be interested in seeing. I'm pretty flexible, or easy, when it comes to movies. I can't say I'm a huge fan of Jack Black, as I don't think I can name anything of his that I've seen aside from KFP and King Kong, but he's growing on me. Sandler? He was on my WNS list as he was constantly rehashing his angry hick character, or so it seemed to me. I still haven't seen Zohan yet, but he seems to be moving away from that, and the idea intrigues me.