Mission Impossible III
The best movie of the summer was the first one I saw. Tom Cruise is a nut, but he’s awesome in movies. I saw the first Mission Impossible movie when I was in 5th or 6th grade. I remember having absolutely no idea what was going on and was really board. However, if someone asked me if I liked the movie, I said “It was awesome!”
I assumed it was awesome and I was just too dumb to understand. A few years later, MI2 came out and I assumed I was much wiser since I understood the plot (Cruise runs around and either blows up or makes out with anyone that comes near him… for 2 hours… awesome movie). When I saw MI3, I noticed they took the great action of the second one and put in a cool story line from the first. However, after seeing MI3, I rented MI:1 and it turns out MI:1 was a stupid movie with a stupid plot (either that or I’m still too stupid to understand). Still, Mission Impossible III was awesome… see it when it comes out on DVD if you didn’t catch it in the theaters.

Anchorman 2: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Will Ferrell movies aren’t following the trend set by previous Saturday Night Live actors. From what I can tell, guys like Bill Murray, Eddie Murphy, Adam Sandler and Chris Farley all left SNL and made hilarious movies; however, each movie was less funny than the previous one. Look at this Sandler chart:

Now look at the Ferrell chart:

There’s significant improvement over the years! It’s not even taking into account the boring Night at the Roxbury back in 1998. However, his act is bound to eventually get old, but it’ll take a few more years before it happens.

Snakes on a Plane
The critical consensus to this movie seems to be “it doesn’t live up to the hype”, which is confusing considering they mean that in a bad way. The truth is the hype to ‘Snakes’ was “Wow, this movie is going to be absolutely horrible”. The movie is actually really good, so it didn’t live up to the hype, but in this case - it’s a good thing. I'm going to add more to this part of the review later, you may want to check back.

My Super Ex-Girlfriend
It’s better than you’d think. It was directed by the guy that did Ghostbusters and it had the same type of humor/action blend. Lifetime (the women TV network) has always made movies using this equation;

Boyfriend beating up a girlfriend = horrible

Super Ex-Girlfriend uses this equation;

Girlfriend beating up a boyfriend = comedic gold

The movie works. It’s more of a rental though.

X-Men 3
I liked it more than X Men 2 and I don’t think I saw the first one. Wolverine is a great character and Jean Gray is hot. That’s all I really remember from the movie.

Cars
I actually saw two NASCAR based movies this summer? And BOTH were actually good? Why do most sport movies focus on ridiculously boring sports like baseball, golf and bowling?

Anyways, Cars is just like any other Pixar movie… pretty good. I liked it.

Superman Returns
The opening title sequence might be the best I’ve ever seen. Other than that – the movie’s boring. I don’t know whose idea it was to make Superman a whiney, stalker, dead-beat dad… it wasn’t a good one to go with. Read Ryan’s review – I agree with it, except I liked Kevin Spacey as Lex Luthor. However, he kept reminding me of Dr. Evil from Austin Powers and then I realized that Spacey actually played Dr. Evil for a few seconds in Goldmember.

Miami Vice
This was one of the worst movies I’ve ever seen. I’ve watched probably one entire episode of the 1980s TV show; however I did dress up as Crockett for Halloween a few years ago. Auburn, like most cities in America, has a law which states if two guys are roommates, and one is white, and the other is black and has a jerry curl, it’s a misdemeanor if they go to a Halloween party not dressed like the Miami Vice guys. Ronald and I were forced to comply.