8. Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (June 24)
Not sure how this managed to make my top 10. I mean we all know this is going to be a train wreck featuring over the top acting, special effects that are so kinetic you can’t even see the action, enough editing cuts to make 10 Kevin Smith films, and a plot so full of holes you’ll be longing for The Phantom Menace. Yet I’m strangely intrigued. The first Transformers was Michael Bay on 8 as the director threw almost everything in his tired bag at the audience and it actually kind of worked. While I only saw the film once I have to admit it wasn’t terrible. Sure I laughed at many of the inadequacies but I was also pretty damn well entertained. I expect Bay to unleash a whole new batch of crazy and excess on this film so I’m hoping that the level of entertainment will rise although I’m not sure if I can draw that corollary.
7. Land of the Lost (June 5)
There is no reason this movie should have been made. The classic 70’s Saturday morning show about a family who falls down a waterfall into a pseudo-prehistoric word was kitsch at its finest. Who didn’t love the slow as molasses yet somehow scary Sleestaks or the idiotic yet lovable hairy ape boy Chaka? This new big screen version has updated some of the details of the journey but has kept many of the set pieces the same which is encouraging. Plus the cast of Will Ferrell, Danny McBride and Pushing Daisies ingénue Anna Friel also peaks my interest. While I don’t understand why the pic got made it speaks to my childhood in the same way Transformers does.
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