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Summer Movie Season is upon us. The DaVinci Code and X3 have already been released, and there’s plenty more on the way.

• Today while viewing X3, I saw a preview for the new Superman Returns (Official Site) movie. I have been waiting for some “reasonable” trailers to appear, showing some of what was going to happen in the movie, and today I finally saw one. Evidently this time Lex Luthor has discovered the Fortress of Solitude and the crystals that “grow” it, and uses them to reshape the earth in his image. Not really sure how well Kevin Spacey will do as a Bad Guy, but he did ok in A Bug’s Life, so I guess we’ll just wait and see.
• Pixar’s Cars opens
  soon. It’s a kid’s movie, sure, but with George Carlin & Larry “The
  Cable Guy” voicing parts, one has to believe there’s plenty of adult
  humor as well.
• “The Lady In The Water” (Official Site) is M. Night Shyagmalan’s latest bigscreen feature. I loved his previous work, although The Village was pretty much a flop. This one looks like it could go either way.
• The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Official Site) Now, didn’t the last one of these flop? 
• Click (Official Site) – The return of Adam Sandler, although the “Universal Remote” gag is a bit old.   I have a feeling the “Hulk ANGRY” gag from the preview is the best part of the movie.
• Pirates of the Carribbean II – Did we really need a sequel?  Granted, the first one was much better than I had expected, but getting one movie from the ride was impressive enough.  Is there really enough material to warrant a second, or even a third?
• Clerks II (Official Site) – Now here’s one to look forward to.  Kevin Smith brings Dante & Randall back for another adventure… I doubt I can get Laura to see this, but I hope to catch it one way or another.
• Snakes on a Plane – And who can possibly forget this hot topic of Hollywood?  A movie so ridiculous, it has it’s own Wikipedia Entry.  More proof that Hollywood doesn’t  understand that the falling box office isn’t due to piracy, but too many drugs in the writing department.
• Along the same lines, there’s “My Super Ex-Girlfriend“, where Luke Wilson dumps a superhero Uma Thurman, and she goes on a psycho-girlfriend revenge streak to win him back.  Just what we need, Wonder Woman meets American Psycho.
• Also saw a preview for “Ghost Rider” (Official Site)
  starring Nicholas Cage as the Ghost Rider himself. While not
  technically part of the “Summer Movie Season” (Release date is Feb 07),
  looks like we’re gonna be deluged with previews all summer long. The
  way previews are nowadays, we’ll pretty much know the entire movie by
  August.

I’ll probably only get to see 2 or 3 of these in the theatre, the rest will be Rentals or HBO.  Snakes on a Plane, that’s definately a rental.  While there are a few gems, it seems that Hollywood is still cranking out alot of the same ole crap over and over again.

For alot more movies, you can check out the Yahoo Summer Movie Guide .
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