Most Anticipated Summer Movies of ’08: #7 and #8

#7. Get Smart (June 20th)
The answer to your question is that no, we do not need yet another film based on a TV show. Then again, is there any more perfect casting then tapping Steve Carrell to fill Don Adams’ phone shoes. I loved Get Smart as a kid and this film has a lot to live up to. On the downside, the director is a no name whose biggest credit is the Sandler stinker Anger Management and its got the frakking Rock on the plus side it looks pretty damn funny. Let’s roll the dice and hope that this film hits the mark…by that much.



#8. Wall-E (June 2nd)
Pixar has a near perfect track record with me except for the sub par Finding Nemo. Unfortunately this year’s Pix-of-the-year comes from the director of that unfunny snoozer. If not for that this could be my number one film of the summer because the premise is just so damn intriguing. A mostly word free movie focused on a trash robot in the future who makes friends and falls in love…with other robots (and a cockroach). As always the Pixar production looks like its raising the animation bar which makes this a sure fire top 10 as long as the director holds this high browed premise to its full promise.