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New to Home Video: 'Hancock,' 'Space Chimps,' and 'Meet Dave'

25 November 2008 5:02 AM, PST | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

I'm slightly surprised that we don't have more DVD options this week. After all, isn't it Black Frickin' Friday this week? Nothing against what we do have...Ok, that's not true; this is a really lousy week of new releases, at least as far as the recent theatrical fare is concerned.

If there's good news out of all of that, I guess it's that the next month is predictably stockpiled with big, big movies. And there is one legit heavy hitter this week, so perhaps we should stop complaining. (But really, it's the everything but the new movies that have my interest.)

Hancock

Will Smith as a superhero. I mean, that's all you need for a summer movie, right? Trouble is, Hancock just isn't as good as it could be. I loved the surly superhero approach, but if there was a blockbuster this year that really lost it in the third act. »

- Colin Boyd

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New Poster and Trailer for Long-Delayed 'Inkheart'

19 September 2008 3:19 AM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

We've finally got some news on Inkheart, the young adult action-adventure fantasy starring Brendan Fraser that was plucked off the 2008 schedule back at the beginning of the year.

Now, the only thing worse than being pulled of the release schedule a couple months before hitting theaters is being pushed back nine months to the dead zone of early January. Welcome to the suck, Inkheart.

This past January, New Line announced that the movie would not open in 2008, but at some point indeterminate in '09. The move was partially because of all the changes at New Line this year, aftershocks of silly things like lawsuits from Lord of the Rings and expensive moves that didn't pay off as handsomely as the company would've liked (The Golden Compass). But moving it to the second weekend in January? Well, that generally means the movie's not very good.

Don't believe me? Here are the »

- Colin Boyd

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I've Got a Hunch You Might Like These New 'Igor' Pictures

23 August 2008 9:13 PM, PDT | GetTheBigPicture.net | See recent Get The Big Picture news »

On September 19th, we'll get our next animated family movie when Igor hits theaters. It's been an up and down couple of months for animated film, with Wall-e and Kung Fu Panda soaring to great heights and Space Chimps and Fly Me to the Moon never exactly taking off (pun intended).

Igor (John Cusack) is an assistant to a mad scientist who has his own aspirations of winning the annual Evil Science Fair, only Igor's not really evil at all. These new computer animated spins on classic genres can work or they can backfire. For example, Hoodwinked was good fun, but Happily N'Ever After is one of the worst cartoons I've ever endured.

Based on the trailers, Igor looks fun, and it's written by Chris McKenna, who previously gained some experience writing for American Dad, so we'll continue to hold out hope for it. And based on a series »

- Colin Boyd

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Space Chimps

17 July 2008 1:05 PM, PDT | avclub.com | See recent The AV Club news »

The CGI kids' film Space Chimps hits theaters days after the videogame hits every major platform, but that isn't as revealing as it once was; a lot of modern franchises go the same route. Still, with Space Chimps, it's hard to avoid noticing how much the actual movie feels like a middling-okay videogame, raising the question "Which is the actual product, and which is the peripheral spin-off?" Nothing about Space Chimps suggests a strong cinematic or artistic drive; it's fairly videogame-y itself, with characters bouncing around visually repetitive environments, having goal-focused encounters, and fighting a literal boss monster. The latest from Vanguard Animation looks a little better than the studio's previous films (the wretched Valiant and the shrug-worthy Happily N'Ever After) but story remains Vanguard's weak point. Andy Samberg voices Ham, a glib circus chimp who winds up in space through an eye-rolling contrivance: When a V'Ger-like space cloud... »

- Tasha Robinson

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2008 | 2007

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