Friday film roundup: Spider-Man 3, and… Oh, Yeah. Some Other Stuff
Time for another movie roundup from Past the Popcorn:
Yes, it’s the movie that kicks off the summer season–but didn’t we just get done with Spring Break? Nonetheless, films like Spider-Man 3 tells us that summer is upon us, and in a big, expensive, flashy way. From that perspective, Spidey delivers, says Greg Wright, and it offers “a boatload of mercy, redemption, and even forgiveness–qualities we seem to have forgotten these days in our global quest to become superheroes.” Still, Wright finds “four villains (including Spidey himself) about two too many, and Topher Grace, among others, is wildly miscast.” If Spidey is normally your thing, you probably won’t be disappointed.
In other releases, Mike Brunk finds Lucky You’s romance to two cards or so shy of a flush, and Jenn Wright finds Civic Duty to be “an unfortunate addition to the psycho-terrorist-FBI-thriller genre,” calling it “tedious and annoying.”
On the arthouse circuit, Greg Wright calls The Valet “a pretty chaste comedy even by American standards”–which might be saying something, considering it’s a French romantic comedy. Meanwhile, Mike Smith finds the R-rated humor in Everything’s Gone Green “quintessentially Canadian”–that is, “irony-laden” and “understated.”
Finally, Mike Gunn sits down for a talk with Kazi Rolle and Matt Ruskin, star and director of next week’s The Hip Hop Project.
