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Springtime Double Feature: Super vs. Sucker Punch
Preface: This was supposed to be a review of Super, but I couldn’t help contrasting the craziness in Super with the craziness in Sucker Punch. Both James Gunn and Zack Snyder are swinging for the fences with these movies, but Gunn hits it out of the park while Snyder epically whiffs. Both movies have the distinction of being totally batshit insane, but only one of them resonates. READ MORE!
Review: Predators
![Predators [Photo - Twentieth Century Fox]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/predators_xlg-692x1024.jpg "Predators [Photo - Twentieth Century Fox]")
It’s been a rough couple of years for everyone’s favorite cloaky-snarly-stabby yakbak-utilizing alien hunter. The one-two punch of the overall horrendous Alien vs. Predator movies (AvP is watchable but terrible, and AvP: Requiem is like some sort of hate crime) while his xenomorph counterparts live it up in star-studded sequel after sequel (yes, I am kidding – no rational person feels anything positive for Alien: Resurrection).
Can Robert Rodriguez and relative newcomer Nimród Antal turn all of that around? READ MORE!
Review: Jonah Hex
![Jonah Hex [Photo - Warner Bros.]](http://www.woogmoog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/jonah_hex.jpg "Jonah Hex [Photo - Warner Bros.]")
Just about the only thing Jonah Hex has going for it is its running time: discounting the credits sequence, the movie’s really only about 75 minutes long. Please don’t take this as a recommendation. Standing outside in the sun’s harsh ultraviolet rays for the same amount of time is much more entertaining, and you save a few bucks to boot. Nothing in Jonah Hex works, from the characters to the action to the writing and the special effects: it’s all a boring, stilted mess. READ MORE!
Review: The Losers
The Losers is the first of a trio of similar mercenary team movies due this summer, along with the nostalgia-stroking A-Team and the all-star lineup of The Expendables. Compare this to the ménage à trois of Mr. and Mrs. Smith-style action comedies (to wit: Date Night, Killers and the atrociously-titled Knight and Day). It seems as though the old Armageddon/Deep Impact summer head-to-heads have evolved a third head.
Speaking of all-star lineups, READ MORE!
Review: Kick-Ass
Matthew Vaughn has crafted the best superhero movie this side of Watchmen in Kick-Ass. The movie’s tone is all-at-once hilarious, relentless and violent in all the right ways.
Dave Lizewski is your average comic-book nerd dreaming of something better. He spends the movie narrating for us in much the same way Jesse Eisenberg’s Columbus guides us through the rules and wackiness of the world of Zombieland, or the Fight Club-style lecturing and posturing of James McAvoy in Wanted. Dave is a mere socially inept nerd and nothing more. By his narrative’s admission, if you’re looking for clichéd tales of vengeance for the death of a loved one, you’ll have to look elsewhere. READ MORE!