Report: Pitt Pulls Out of Universal Film

Brad Pitt has backed out of a Universal Pictures movie set to begin filming this year, a newspaper reported.

“State of Play” was to star Pitt as a political consultant-turned-journalist who helps investigate the death of a congressman’s mistress.

The actor left the production Wednesday, Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety reported on its Web site.

“Brad Pitt has left the Universal Pictures production of ‘State of Play,’” the studio said in a statement. “We remain committed to this project and to the filmmakers, cast members, crew and others who are also involved in making the movie. We reserve all rights in this matter.”

A message left early Friday for Pitt’s publicist, Cindy Guagenti, was not immediately returned.

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Rowling Named Entertainer of the Year

J.K. Rowling’s magical, Midas touch has landed her on the cover of Entertainment Weekly as the magazine’s entertainer of the year.

The magazine said the “Harry Potter” author, who has sold nearly 400 million copies of her boy-wizard series that’s been adapted into a megasuccessful movie franchise, deserved props for getting “people to tote around her big, old-fashioned printed-on-paper books as if they were the hottest new entertainment devices on the planet.”

Rowling was in a class by herself on the magazine’s list of the year’s top entertainers, which was separated by editors into five other categories that evoke school cliques: prodigies, class clowns, most popular, most buzzed-about and valedictorians.

The magazine named George Clooney actor, director, activist a valedictorian because he has “deftly balanced box-office viability with personal responsibility.” Will Smith, Angelina Jolie and the cast of “The Sopranos” also made the grade, among others.

Matt Damon made the list of most popular, as did Carrie Underwood, Katherine Heigl, Johnny Depp and Kanye West.

The prodigies: Zac Efron, Shia LaBeouf, Rihanna and Miley Cyrus.

Tina Fey, creator and co-star of “30 Rock,” was recognized as a class clown for her hilariously cringe-inducing portrayal of comedy-show producer Liz Lemon on the NBC sitcom.

“I love going to those uncomfortable places,” she tells the magazine. “I’ll go down any weird avenue.”

Other clowns: Vanessa Williams, “The Simpsons” and director Judd Apatow and his gang of actor buddies including Seth Rogen and Paul Rudd. Apatow cast his pals in the acclaimed comedies “The 40 Year Old Virgin” and this year’s “Knocked Up,” which cracked people up with a winning combination of heart and R-rated raunch.

Amy Winehouse, Gerard Butler, Tyler Perry and the A&E series “Mad Men” were named the most buzz-worthy.

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‘Girls Gone Wild’ Founder Claims Abuse

The millionaire producer of the “Girls Gone Wild” video series has accused guards of abusing him during his brief stay at an Oklahoma jail, a newspaper reported Friday.

Guards at the Grady County Law Enforcement Center denied Joe Francis food and blankets and threatened to strap him naked to a chair for 48 hours, Francis’ attorneys alleged last month in court papers seeking his release on bail in a Florida case, The Oklahoman reported.

Francis, 34, was held at the jail from May 17 to June 4 while being moved from a Florida jail to a federal facility in Reno, Nev., where he is awaiting trial next year on a tax evasion charge.

Grady County officials denied the accusations, telling the newspaper that guards never threatened to strap Francis to a chair, that Francis had an extra blanket he shouldn’t have had confiscated and that his transfer was delayed because his family had somehow found out when he was to have been moved, creating a potential security risk.

“Mr. Francis was treated like every inmate that comes through the Grady County Law Enforcement Center,” jail administrator Shane Wyatt told the newspaper.

Francis’ attorneys declined a request from the newspaper to discuss the allegations.

Francis has made millions of dollars with the “Girls Gone Wild” videos, which feature young women in sexually provocative situations.

He has been in jail since April, when he was cited for contempt after yelling at attorneys during mediation in a federal lawsuit brought by women who were underage when his production company filmed them in 2003.

That lawsuit has since been settled, but Francis’ bond was revoked on criminal charges related to the 2003 filming when he was charged with having contraband $700 and prescription anti-anxiety medication in the Bay County jail.

Federal officials then extradited him to Nevada to face tax evasion charges.

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Moretti Opens Film Fest in Turin

The Turin Film Festival, traditionally focusing on art-house cinema and indie movies, opened its 25th edition Friday the first under the direction of award-winning filmmaker Nanni Moretti.

Moretti said he wants his festival to be “joyful but serious.”

“It should not only address the more radical cinephiles, but all those who have a passion,” he said.

The 54-year-old Moretti was brought in last year, but his appointment caused some controversy even leading him to briefly resign as some of the festival’s organizers reportedly opposed the choice.

He said he eventually decided to return because of a “sense of responsibility.”

“With my commitment and my face, I hope I can bring on the festival the attention if deserves,” Moretti said.

The festival in the northern Italian city that hosts the Fiat automaker has launched some Italian directors and is well-respected in the Italian industry. But it lacks glitz and has never grabbed the attention of Venice or even the 2-year-old Rome film festival.

The festival runs through Dec. 1. Among those attending is Wim Wenders, whose work will be seen in a retrospective.

Moretti is a leading leftist intellectual in Italy. As a director, he won top honors at Cannes in 2001 with his film “The Son’s Room” the story of a family dealing with the loss of a son.

His latest movie, “Il Caimano” (The Caiman), is a fierce critique on former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi and modern-day Italy, and was released last year shortly before general elections.

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A Heroes/Cloverfield Crossover?

So now we know that the J.J. Abrams-produced “untitled monster movie project” will be called Cloverfield when it hits theaters on January 18. We’ve even seen the trailer. But if you thought all the mysteries surrounding the project had been solved, guess again.

Heroes director/co-executive producer Greg Beeman, in his Beaming Beeman blog entry recapping the show’s just-aired “Cautionary Tales” episode, teased the possibility of some sort of Cloverfield/Heroes crossover, posting pictures of various castmembers posing with cups of delicious frozen Slusho! drinks. Dig it:

Images courtesy of Greg Beeman
As other sites have already pointed out, Heroes‘ Greg Grunberg is an old friend of Abrams, and has appeared in pretty much everything he’s done, so this could just be a case of buddies having a behind-the-scenes goof — but Beeman does say these shots are in the “don’t ask/don’t tell” category. And just imagine the fanboy insanity that would erupt if this does turn out to be a crossover. Savvy guy, that Abrams.

Oh, and speaking of the Cloverfield trailer, you no longer need to content yourself with a patched-together cellphone camera edit — the HD version is now up. Click on the Apple link to see it!

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The Forced March of a Terminator

The geek sites are on red alert.There has been a “rumored-confirmation” that the next Terminator film has officially signed a director. This will mark the fourth Terminator feature and the second not helmed by James Cameron.

The original Terminator propelled Cameron, one of today’s most successful Hollywood filmmakers, into superstardom. The film then became a legal weight around his neck when science fiction writer Harlan Ellison sued the production for plagiarism, citing The Outer Limits episode “Soldier” as being the kernel from which Cameron based the film. Cameron was said to be willing to fight the case but the production company settled. So this announcement, a new Terminator movie, is good news for one person other than the production company and that is Harlan Ellis.

I can easily believe, much the same way John Carpenter gets royalty payments for all sequels and remakes of the classic Halloween, dollars to doughnuts, an armored car pulls up and delivers a few sacks of cash to Harlan Ellis every time this project is rekindled. It’s unclear whether the same can be said for James Cameron.

So it was a disappointment when Terminator 3 rolled out and Cameron’s fingerprints were nowhere to be found. As for the ending of the film, I do not dare speak for Cameron, but I was saddened that it spiraled into the nuclear holocaust that the characters from Cameron’s first two Terminator films fought so hard to prevent. Now the series is stuck with that decision and will more than likely portray the war between Cyberdyne and the surviving population, led by John Connor.

At the same time as the new feature is ramping up, there is also a new television show set to premiere on Fox: Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles.

The official Fox website states:
THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICLES represents an exciting reinvention of the “Terminator” franchise, in which the strong and intrepid Sarah discovers that protecting her son and stopping the rise of the machines is more difficult than she had ever imagined.

Okay, so the series is not officially part of the film continuity but is set after Cameron’s T2 and before Terminator 3.

One of the main characters in The Sarah Connor Chronicles is rumored to be a Terminator, who interacts with Sarah and her son, John. Only after a few episodes is the cat let out of the bag and the Terminator revealed. The problem the series must contend with is how to explain away the idea of a Terminator hanging out with its prey. This isn’t a cat toying with a wounded sparrow before the inevitable chomp; this is a machine with only one function programmed into its circuitry and that is to find and kill its prey, immediately. No hesitation. No swapping brownie recipes.

So this is no longer a boutique series like Star Wars, created and brought to screen directly from the mind of one individual. Due to the fact that Cameron doesn’t (and never did) own the rights to the Terminator property, it has become, singly, a financial cash cow. There is much less thought, if any, given to continuity or quality than there is for how to find more ways to sell the franchise to the public.

As with the Alien franchise, eventually the cost will outweigh the returns, or possibly they’ll find the next James Cameron, young, hungry, driven, genius, and that person will reignite the series and spin it into an amazing new direction. But that new genius won’t own the creation and the studios will move right on to another sequel.

Coming to you in five years: 2012: Terminator v. Alien v. Predator, directed by Uwe Boll – the year the Mayan calendar ends and the year which Nostradamus predicted will be the end of the world.

I’ll see you in line.

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Keri Russell vs. Amy Adams: Who Ya Got?

Once again, it’s a weekend battle of head-to-head stars. In this corner, we have onetime television star turned blink-and-you’ll-miss-her actress, Keri Russell. And in this corner we have a solid actress who hit just a few years too late to become as big as I believe she could have been, Amy Adams. You know the rules. Let’s drop the cage. Two men enter! One man leaves!In the box office this weekend: Winner = Adams
Personally I think both of these films are going to be long running juggernauts that through force of word of mouth will have legs for a few weeks. But when betting on a battle between a mom-centric film and a daughter-centric film, I always bet on the daughter. Enchanted is going to run circles around August Rush over the holiday weekend. But I’m not yet convinced which will win the long haul.

In the critical arena: Winner = Adams
She’s adorable and so is her movie. Even the hardest nosed critics are softening to this one. August Rush , on the other hand, has a number of problems that critics will take issue with, but most mothers are going to readily ignore. But it is the film and not Russell that stands out.

In their careers: Winner = Adams
She’s on her way up, and while I strongly feel that she missed the mark by a few years, keeping her from ever reaching Juila/Angelina/Reese status, she still is on the up. Russell on the other hand is fighting for every role she can get and her television show ended what, five years ago? And no lead role in a hit film since then except for in Waitress? Not a good sign. This role might be the one she needs to transition into more dramatic, mature roles. Despite the fact that Adams is actually two years older than her.

In my heart of hearts: Winner = Russell
I might be knocking her around a bit here, but I still get all gooey on the inside when she smiles. She’s adorable and translates that to film quite well. I like Adams, but she’s never truly won me over.

Winner = Adams
If there’s one actress everyone will be raving about this week, it will be her. Her movie is going to be a big hit and so is she.

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New on DVD: Live Free or Hairspray This Thanksgiving

Good news, blockbuster fans: this week in home entertainment features a crowd-pleasing toe-tapper (Hairspray), the return of John McClane (Live Free or Die Hard), another harrowing star turn by Christian Bale (Rescue Dawn), and plenty more (Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse, Ghosts of Cite Soleil, Chappelle’s Show Collection). Just watch out for that one early holiday dud (The Santa Clause 3: Escape Clause) — unless 14 percent Tomatometers are your cup of eggnog.

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Hairspray

The movie musical is officially back, as evinced by this year’s Hairspray — a big screen version of a Broadway remake of the John Waters cult film, of all things. Newcomer Nikki Blonsky shines as the chubby yet effervescent teenager who teaches all of 1960s Baltimore about acceptance, equality, the mashed potato and the pony. If only impossibly teased hair and a megawatt smile were all it took to land a heartthrob like Zac Efron! Pick up the two-disc DVD release for an added behind-the-scenes documentary that charts the film’s journey from film to stage to film, song sing-along tracks, dance routine tutorials, and more. Then, go rent Waters’ original Hairspray to see what a real man (Divine) looks like in drag. (Take that, Travolta-in-a-fat-suit!)

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Live Free or Die Hard

Bruce Willis has long had difficulty dying (not so his career – zing!) when it comes to this franchise, and the twelve years since Die Hard With a Vengeance have not taught him any better to let loose his mortal coil at the hands of evil thieves, terrorists, and the like. Enter Live Free or Die Hard, a John McClane joint for the 21st century, featuring the most terrifying of 21st century foes: Internet hackers! In line with this progressive techno-thinking, the 20th Century Fox release includes a digital copy of the film that you can download onto your computer or portable DVD player, or whatever other newfangled gadgets the kids are using these days. (Bonus for grown-ups: an unrated version of the film in addition to the theatrical PG-13 cut. Yippee-ki-yay!)

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Rescue Dawn

In 1997, Werner Herzog documented the real-life prisoner of war experience of a German-born American pilot named Dieter Dengler in his acclaimed Little Dieter Needs to Fly; ten years later, Herzog reviss the inherently dramatic tale as a feature film starring Christian Bale. The result is not only another critically lauded film, but the director’s most commercial and accessible work to date. Watch it for a harrowing Vietnam War survival tale — and so you can finally drop some Herzog knowledge on even the snootiest of cinephiles at this year’s holiday party!

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Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse
Much more than your average making-of feature, Hearts of Darkness — on DVD for the first time this week — gets up close and personal with director Francis Ford Coppola during the production of his 1979 Vietnam epic, Apocalypse Now. While Coppola was shooting the modern classic, about men going mad in the midst of war, his wife Eleanor took notes and shot on-set footage of the cast and crew; her documentation of how the overstuffed project, skyrocketing budgets, and production delays threatened the film and the sanity of Coppola himself became this award-winning 1991 documentary. Co-directors Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper (who would go on to direct 2003’s Mayor of the Sunset Strip and last year’s Factory Girl) contributed extensive interviews, and the film went on to earn praise at Cannes. The DVD includes a new commentary track by Coppola as well as an hour-long accompaniment on his new film, Youth Without Youth.

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A Bounty of Seasonal OfferingsAngel-A

Luc Besson (The Professional, The Fifth Element) takes his penchant for action down a notch in this light charmer about a down-on-his-luck con man saved from suicide by a chain-smoking statuesque blonde. Although critics were split, this Paris-set Wings of Desire-meets-It’s a Wonderful Life is worth a view, if only for the breathtaking experience of seeing the City of Lights shot in beautiful monochrome.

Manufactured Landscapes

Director Jennifer Baichwal filmed acclaimed photographer Edward Burtynsky as he traversed Asia shooting various industrial landscapes; her award-winning documentary captures not only the striking imprint of global progress on the earth, but provokes thought by using beautiful images composed, ironically, of industrial wastelands.

Ghosts of Cite Soleil

A few months before the 2004 military coup that deposed Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, filmmaker Asger Leth (son of Danish director Jorgen Leth) embedded himself and a small crew deep within the slums of Cite Soleil, filming the complicated relationship between two fatefully charismatic gang leader brothers. The result — a powerful and terrifying glimpse into lives dictated by violence, guided by American gangsta rap — is an incredibly intimate and surprisingly humanizing portrait of brotherhood, poverty, and the quagmire that is modern Haiti.

Chappelle’s Show Series Collection

Combining Season One, Season Two, and the “Lost Episodes” of Dave Chappelle’s masterfully amusing sketch comedy show, this six-disc box set is an arguable necessity for Chappelle enthusiasts. But while the Comedy Central release offers up all 28 episodes, audio commentaries, bloopers, unaired sketches, stand-up, and even two new True Hollywood Stories by Charlie Murphy, one wonders if any true Chappelle fan should put more profits in the pockets of a network that effectively cancelled all possibility of Chappelle’s return to the show by running the unfinished third season to begin with.

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Enjoy The Thanksgiving Turkey The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

“Escape from this Clause.” “Ho Ho Hum.” The reviews write themselves, but just for added measure, here’s what else is in store should you pick up this new release: Jack Frost played with nuance by Martin Short as if the love child of Liberace and Liza Minnelli, Tim Allen phoning in his third performance as a reluctant Santa, and a plot shamefully derivative of such holiday classics as It’s a Wonderful Life and even The Nightmare Before Christmas.

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Critical Consensus: Enchanted Bewitches, Hitman Misses, No Country is Certified Fresh

Every year, movie studios get a jump start on turkey Thursday and black Friday by giving audiences a taste of the good stuff two days earlier than usual. This week, we’ve got real-life fairy tales (Enchanted, starring Amy Adams and Patrick Dempsey), a deadly fog (The Mist, starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden), loads of gunplay (Hitman, starring Timothy Olyphant), musical families (August Rush, starring Freddie Highmore and Keri Russell), yuletide conflict (This Christmas, starring Delroy Lindo), and the latest from the Coen Brothers (No Country for Old Men, starring Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin). What do the critics have to say?Sort of a Wizard of Oz in reverse, Enchanted is the story of Giselle (Amy Adams), a princess in an animated magical kingdom who’s transported to the streets of Manhattan by an evil queen (Susan Sarandon). There, she meets a kindly lawyer (Patrick Dempsey) and attempts to negotiate the line between fantasy and reality. The pundits say Enchanted lives up to its title, featuring sharp gags, excellent animation, and a smart re-imagining of fairy-tale tropes. But they hold out the highest praise for Adams, a sharp scene stealer who makes the most of her top billing here. At 89 percent on the Tomatometer, Enchanted is bewitching.

 

Scott Marsden challenges Dempsey for Sexiest Man Alive Runner-Up title.

The Mist springs forth from the collective minds of author Stephen King and director Frank Darabont, the winning combination that’s previously brought us The Shawshank Redemption and The Green Mile. But in their latest collaboration the two take a decidedly horrific bent: A small town is terrorized by a group of deadly creatures lurking in a particularly thick fog. Could a top-secret experiment at a nearby military base have anything to do with it? Critics are less ecstatic with The Mist than previous King/Darabont joints: they say the chills and thrills are there, and Darabont valiantly attempts for a psychological depth rarely seen in horror, but he frequently comes off as didactic and heavy-handed. At 69 percent Tomatometer, the gold shines through in The Mist. (Read our interview with the Mist cast and crew here.)

 

“That’s no moon, that’s a giant bug monster with pseudo-Biblical overtones.”

Hitman stars Timothy Olyphant as an accomplished assassin named 47 who stumbles into the midst of some political intrigue and goes on the run. Considering the well-publicized news of Hitman’s reshoots and its origin as a video game, it’s no surprise that the movie isn’t sitting well with the critics. They call it vulgar, gratuitously violent, too reliant on CG to propel the action, and just an overall dizzying blur of explosions and bullets — the usual barbs critics reserve for video game adaptations, and exactly the stuff that gets gamers off the couch and into the theaters. At 14 percent on the Tomatometer, looks like it’s game over, Hitman.

 

“Don’t worry. I did the Konami Code before this mission.”

In August Rush, an orphan (Freddie Highmore) runs away to New York, where an overseer of young musicians (Robin Williams) recognizes his guitar skills. As it turns out, the orphan was the product of a one-night stand between a cellist (Keri Russell) and a singer-songwriter (Jonathan Rhys Meyers), whom he now hopes to reunite. It’s a fairly absurd premise but the performers give it their all, and goes a long way to overcome Kristen Sheridan’s sentimental and cloying direction. At 58 percent on the Tomatometer, August Rush hits a sickly sweet note. (Read our interview with Freddie Highmore here.)

 

“It’s agreed. No ‘Stairway.’”

It’s time for another Christmas movie in which each member of a dysfunctional family brings plenty of baggage with them to the yuletide festivities. Bah, humbug, right? Not so fast. Critics say This Christmas is a delightful surprise, a solid dramedy that, in lesser hands, could have been chaotic and mawkish. In Christmas the members of the Whitfield clan returns home, setting off a maelstrom of unresolved tensions and revelations. The pundits say director Preston A. Whitmore II takes a variety of contrived plotines and deftly weaves them together with wit and finesse, and the cast, which features such excellent thespians as Delroy Lindo, Regina King, Idris Elba, and Mekhi Phifer, is never less than stellar. At 65 percent on the Tomatometer, This Christmas is a pleasant gift.

 

“I hope it’s the Little Golden Book adaptation of Bioshock.”

With No Country for Old Men, the Coen Brothers return to the moral ambiguity, black humor, and horrifying violence that reverberated throughout some of their best work, movies like Blood Simple and Fargo. And critics say that’s a very, very good thing. Javier Bardem stars as a psychopathic killer on the trail of an average Joe (Josh Brolin) who stumbles across a huge sum of money. The pundits say No Country is a triumph: grim, suspenseful, frightening, and loaded with pitch-perfect performances. At 96 percent on the No Country for Old Men is not only Certified Fresh, it’s one of the best-reviewed films of the year and trails only Blood Simple within the brothers’ filmography. (Check out our Total Recall feature on the Coens’ filmography here.)

“You don’t want to know what I’ll do if that Tomatometer drops below 90.”

Also opening this week in limited release: The Red Balloon, Albert Lamorisse’s French children’s classic, is at 100 percent on the Tomatometer; Starting Out in the Evening, about a relationship between a solitary novelist and a grad student starring Frank Langella and Lauren Ambrose, is at 93 percent; Todd Haynes’ I’m Not There, an unconventional biopic of Bob Dylan starring Cate Blanchett, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, and Richard Gere, is at 76 percent; Everything’s Cool, a personal documentary about global warming, is at 60 percent; and Nina’s Heavenly Delights, a culture-clash rom-com, is at zero percent.

 

“I also think Robbe-Grillet is vastly overrated. Want to make out?”

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This Year’s Five Biggest Directorial Turkeys

Tis the season for turkey. Big turkeys. Sometimes 25 pounds or more. But it’s not the time for turkeys in the cinema, no no. Tis the season for good movies. For some true time with turkeys we have to wind back the clock. Let’s examine the very worst of the year so far and the turkey directors that gave them to us.

5.) Roland Joffe for Captivity
Okay, so this isn’t the worst movie of the year. I can think of four worse than this, but this gets special points for audaciousness in its advertising. Pushing the envelope with the MPAA was one thing, but putting an explicit, violent billboard across the street from a Los Angeles elementary school was something entirely different. Being this audacious requires you to back it up with a genre bending film. Or at least a halfway decent one. Captivity was neither.

4.) Les Mayfield for Code Name: The Cleaner
Hey, how awesome would it be if we took the story of The Bourne Identity, made the character black and, instead of actually being a secret agent who has lost his memory, he is actually a janitor who has lost his memory and believes he is a secret agent? As it turns out, it isn’t awesome at all. In fact, it’s a mildly offensive, complete waste of time that is never even remotely funny. Can we just start calling him Cedric now? Because I’ve yet to find him entertaining.
3.) Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer for Epic Movie
Oh lord, where does one even begin? If the Zucker Brothers and Jim Abrams were dead, they would be spinning in their graves fast enough to power a small city. Of course, they’re not dead, but these two knucklehead’s careers should be. Except that they’re not. They’re moving on to continue the trend of simply badly rewriting every movie that came out this year with Meet the Spartans.

If there is any god at all he’s set aside a special circle of hell for these two. One filled with air-conditioned movie theaters playing only their movies. Tough choice. The fires of hell, or watching these movies for all eternity. Personally, I’d take the fire.
2.) Sean McNamara for Bratz: the Movie
Vapid, empty and almost entirely nonsensical, this film’s worst crime is that it might convince even a single girl out there that this is what you are supposed to act like. If you desire a materialistic daughter that worships a number of poorly derived stereotypes, then I highly recommend you put this painful piece of drivel in her stocking this Christmas. Just don’t blame me when she maxes out your MasterCard on her quest to quench her Passion for Fashion (TM).
1.) Fred Savage for Daddy Day Camp
You know, there was a time when I thought Bratz would be the worst thing I would see all year. That lasted six days until I saw this movie. And it makes everything else look like a masterpiece. If I could offer Mr. Savage (yes, it is THAT Fred Savage) one piece of advice, it would be this: learn about the use of the name Alan Smithee and consider using it from here on out. You have nothing to be proud of. Not anymore.
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