Also opening today is Night Shyamalan’s
The Happening, starring Mark Whalberg. Critics
have already panned this B movie sci-fi
effort from Shyamalan as a “case of
crippling Shyamalania" that is goofy
and trite. “He still sees dead people”,
says the Washington Post, “only now
they're the best thing in the movie.”
The surprise hit last week was Kung Fu
Panda, an animated film with the voice of
Jack Black that overtook even Indiana Jones
and Sex and the City at the box office.
Critics have praised it for its quality
of animation and storytelling. It’s
probably the first animated kung fu movie
Hollywood has made.
Releasing next week will be Get Smart with
comedian Steve Carrel as the funny spy,
Maxwell Smart. In the weeks following, we’ll
see Angelina Jolie in an adaptation of a
cult graphic novel called Wanted, Hellboy
2: The Golden Army, and the eagerly awaited
sequel to Batman Begins, The Dark Knight.
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