Shawn's Long Overdue April Preview and Predictions

Well the month is more than half over and I've already seen a few of the movies that have come out, but I can't break tradition and just not have one of these so I'm going to write it now. Better late than never right? Fuck you.

April aka When Things Finally Start To Get Good

4th
Leatherheads
Nim's Island
The Ruins

11th
Prom Night
Street Kings
Smart People

18th
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Forbidden Kingdom
88 Minutes
Expelled

25th
Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Baby Mama
Deception

I think that about sums it all up. Of course there are the lesser movies that I don't have to see but will try to see at some point, including Pathology and Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden? In the meantime, let's look at what we have.

Leatherheads, Nim's Island and The Ruins I have already watched and reviewed so you pretty much know my thoughts on those. Good start to the month overall.

Street Kings is apparently so ridiculous that it's entertaining and with Neo and House in the same cast, I am fucking in for this one. Will be watching this one this weekend sometime.

Prom Night you already know my feelings on if you read my review of The Ruins. Sure I haven't seen it yet but come on, we all know it's going to be terrible. I've now had two seperate opportunities to watch this movie but just can't bring myself to actually do it.

Smart People was one that kind of came out of nowhere for me but it's playing on more than 1000 screens and therefore has to be watched. I like Ellen Page and I like Dennis Quaid (at least I think he's in this movie) so hopefully this one turns out to be a pleasant surprise.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall I am going to see tonight so there will hopefully be a review up of that one before the night is through. I am fucking excited about this one.

Forbidden Kingdom has a lot of potential but the word of mouth I'm hearing for this one isn't so great. With Jet Li and Jackie Chan in the same movie you would think you can do no wrong, but when you look at their recent film choices (War and Rush Hour 3 being just awful), it starts to become clearer how things could very well go wrong. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for this one.

Expelled I learned about literally 5 seconds before I started typing this. I had sort of heard of it but assumed it would be released on like 10 screens. Well times that by a hundred and you get the number of screens it's actually on and therefore has to be seen by me. It doesn't sound that interesting and I can't really imagine listening to Ben Stein's voice for a full length movie. Not looking forward to having to watch this one.

88 Minutes I saw months ago and it's nice to not have to worry about watching that one now. It's fun to watch people discovering how bad this is now when I made that same discovery weeks and weeks ago.

Baby Mama I think will be good. The advance word is good and I'm a huge Tina Fey fan. It will be really cool to see her and Amy Poehler together again. Throw in a great supporting cast and this one will hopefully be a winner.

Harold and Kumar is officially when I start to get really fucking excited about movies. The first one is one of my all time favourite comedies and I've seen it a ridiculous amount of times. I don't expect this one to be as good but I'm pretty damn positive I will get some good laughs out of it.

Deception is pretty much the definition of generic cookie cutter movie. From it's painfully unoriginal title, poster and plot, this looks like something you will watch, not hate but not really enjoy, and then forget about it on the way home from the theatre.

Best Movie - Since I'm such a huge fan of the first one I'm going to have to say Harold and Kumar for this one.

Worst Movie - Prom Night without a doubt.

That brings this months preview to a close, despite there only being 12 days left in the actual month. The goal is to be completely caught up on movies by the end of the month so I can go right into the summer movie season without any movies in the backlog. I can't wait to wait to write my May predictions because that is going to be an absolutely amazing month for movies.