Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
No great return to the action serial, this, or even to the Indiana Jones of old. The story is by no means great literature, characters have dubious motivations at best, and the dialogue is both badly written and badly delivered. That said, there are fun spots, mainly the action sequences. Still, the big reveal at the end of the film just doesn't have the bite that Spielberg and Lucas seems to have intended, largely due to some incredibly trite and heavy-handed scripting. In fact, there's no bite to the end revelations.

Indeed, no...no bite at all.

Iron Man
Robert Downey Jr. is undeniably delicious in his role, and this actioner shows off his assets well. Some decent chemistry between him and the usually limp Gwyneth Paltrow. The main downside was that the action was a little too cartoony. It almost seems as though Jon Favreau, who starred the undeniably funny "Swingers," was afraid to show very much blood, balking on violence if favor of big booms and metal suits. A style choice I would not have done when there was such great opportunity for both blood and flesh to be shown with less talking and machines.

The Dark Knight
Pink, living human Christian Bale does a good job playing rich guy Bruce Wayne, but his Batman voice sounds too raspy and Maggie Gyllenhaal, while full of blood, isn't so given much to work with. Ledger's Joker intense, good. Director Christopher Nolan makes Batman movie that is best in series. It is a lot to fit into movie, but he pulls it off like arm from shoulder of living man. More than anything, Nolan makes Batman movie with brains. Human...brains. Good brains.

The Incredible Hulk
Big monsters beat each other up and hit humans, destorying perfectly good flesh. Bad movie. Needs more brains. Braaaaaains. End is stupid, but lots of humans still around with brains, being good. Braaaaaaains.

Wall-E
Ending is overly sentimental, though movie is cute and fun! But needs more flesh and braaaaaains. No robots, braaaaaaaaains! Young braaaaaains!

Sex and the City
Haaargh! Get these zombies away! Save brains for me! Graagh!

Hancock
Hunnnh! Uhhnnh! No braaaaaaaains! Need braaaaaaaains. Hunnnhgh.

Mamma Mia!
Hmmmmnh.

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