2008 Woodie Awards
Movies for the attached and detached
Mimi Jansen
Issue date: 2/14/08 Section: Arts & Entertainment
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These movies open on Valentine's Day:
"Definitely, Maybe" - A Ryan Reynolds comedy that is a quasi-takeoff of the TV show "How I Met Your Mother," with a curious young daughter questioning her parents' divorce, a father who tells her stories about his three former girlfriends and a mystery as to which one is her mother. I have a feeling the answer will not be in the form of a DNA test either, if you know what I mean.
"Jumper" - A sci-fi adventure about a young man (a delectably dark Hayden Christensen) who can teleport himself anywhere. He finds out that there are other "jumpers" and that they are at war… somewhere in the movie is a white-haired Samuel L. Jackson, which is how you
know it is sci-fi.
The sequel to the wildly popular "Step Up," "Step Up 2 the Streets" is just like the name says -you take a smattering of street moves, mix it with hardbodies and Flo Rida's thumpin' "Low" and you have yourself a movie. Or you can just stare at the movie poster and it's as though you've
watched the whole movie.
Seriously. And finally, "The Spiderwick Chronicles" one of those kids' films that are adapted
from fantasy/adventure book series, which is so in vogue these days (see "Chronicles of Narnia," "Golden Compass," or "A Series of Unfortunate Events"). Although why it is coming out on Valentine's Day is anybody's guess, of which mine is that the kids have a movie to go to so that their parent sweeties can go their movies, or it is aimed at the child in all of us-all together now, awwww. (Wipe that smirk off your face!)
In theaters now:
"Fool's Gold" just opened this past weekend with two fetching co-stars-they of the toothsome smiles and golden manes Kate Hudson and Matthew McConaughey. Billed as an action/adventure romance- not a toothpaste commercial. Bottom line: Could be fun and light-hearted, if you like a dose of abs and blinding smiles.
"27 Dresses" A play on the "once a bridesmaid always a bridesmaid" cliché, Katherine Heigl's character doesn't quite find herself "knocked up" like her other movie, but she does find herself rethinking her seemingly perpetual sidekick role of bridesmaid. Frothy and light…dresses included.
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