If someone would’ve told me that rapper Ice Cube and Limp Bizkit front man Fred Durst would one day team up for an inspirational, family-friendly movie such as The Longshots, I wouldn’t have believed them.
As the third space-themed, family-friendly film this summer, Fly Me to the Moon falls somewhere in between the far superior Wall·E and the lackluster Space Chimps in terms of sheer quality.
Tropic Thunder, a new comedy from director and star Ben Stiller, is profane, crude and politically incorrect. It’s also uproariously funny—the year’s best comedy—and has a winning performance from Robert Downey Jr.
Proving that popular books can be beautifully adapted for the big screen, The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 has all the verve and spunk of the original as the four friends are now wrestling with being college-age girls.
Pineapple Express serves as a stark contrast to (and improvement over) the recent Will Ferrell misfire, Step Brothers. While both push the limits of R-rated humor, Step Brothers is wholly reliant on its crudity in a way that Pineapple Express is not.
For the Mummy series, the third time offers no charm. Neither darkly compelling like The Dark Knight nor thoughtfully entertaining like Wall-E, The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor is an also-ran in the summer sweepstakes.