1/09/2004

This is the Spring Movie Preview. Technically, most of it is not spring. It includes winter too. But I'm sure you don't care. So here are the movies I'll probably be watching the next 4 months and others that will be making headlines.

Chasing Liberty - See that? The title means something. Liberty is like freedom. With Mandy Moore playing a president's daughter who suddenly runs away, she's trying to become free and independent, like she's chasing liberty. (January 9)

My Baby's Daddy - It's a Three Men and a Baby redux except that instead of one baby, now there's three! (January 9)

Along Came Polly - Ben Stiller gets the urge to start dating his childhood friend, Jennifer Aniston. (January 16)

Teacher's Pet - An animated feature based on the Saturday morning cartoon. Man, don't we yearn for how Saturday mornings used to be? (January 16)

Torque - One gang of motorcycle bikers chases another gang of motorcycle bikers. Lemme guess: with SUV's? (January 16)

The Butterfly Effect - Ashton Kutcher tries his hand at drama involving the mind. Once we see it, it could be his greatest movie ever or his greatest comedy ever. (January 23)

Mindhunters - The first big-star action pic of the year finds a group of FBI agents trying to figure out which one of them is a serial killer. (January 23)

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! - An actor (Josh Duhamel) unexpectedly falls in love with a hometown girl (Kate Bosworth). (January 23)

The Perfect Score - A group of students can't copy answers from the person next to them on the SAT's so they instead break in and get the answers ahead of time. (January 30)

The Big Bounce - A simple job for caretaker Owen Wilson leads into something much, much more. (January 30)

You Got Served - Courtroom drama? No, no. Hip-hop dance comedy. (January 30)

Barbershop 2: Back in Business - The barbershop is threatened by corporate types who want to provide some competition. (February 6)

Catch That Kid - Kids rob a bank to get money for a surgical operation. Yeah, you know, makes sense. (February 6)

Miracle - Kurt Russell plays Coach Herb Brooks in this film documenting the 1980 USA Hockey team. (February 6)

50 First Dates - Drew Barrymore can't remember that she dates Adam Sandler. I guess she'll need to watch The Wedding Singer. (February 13)

Against the Ropes - Meg Ryan plays a boxing manager in a true story. (February 20)

Eurotrip - 4 teens embark on a trip to Europe filled with sex and alcohol. (February 20)

Welcome to Mooseport - The former President of the United States decides to run for mayor in the town where he has retired, making things very competitive. (February 20)

The Passion of the Christ - Director Mel Gibson lets us see his vision of how things were when Jesus was killed. (February 25)

Club Dread - A superstar cast (okay, just Bill Paxton and a few other people) must stop a guy from killing everyone with a machete at a swank resort. (February 27)

Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights - Well, its dirty dancing, only set in Havana. (February 27)

Twisted - Ashley Judd gets to investigate murders. What's so twisted? All of the victims are her former lovers. (February 27)

Hidalgo - Fresh off Lord of the Rings, Viggo Mortensen embarks on a journey of his own, this one with his horse in a race. (March 5)

Starsky and Hutch - A remake of the '70's series starring Ben Stiller as Starsky and Owen Wilson as Hutch. (March 5)

Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London - This tale of Frankie Muniz as a young spy may not be as successful as its first go-around without his co-stars Hilary Duff and Angie Harmon. (March 12)

The Girl Next Door - How can you not fall in love with the beautiful girl next door, especially when she's a porn star? (March 12)

The Prince and Me - Are they raiding '80s comedies? After My Baby's Daddy, we get this pic evoking memories of the hilarious Coming to America starring Eddie Murphy. Here, Julia Stiles gets wooed by a prince. (March 12)

Spartan - Val Kilmer tries to find the president's daughter after she's kidnapped but soon discovers something far more sinister. (March 12)

Dawn of the Dead - Sarah Polley, Ving Rhames, Mekhi Phifer, and others must flee zombies in a mall. (March 19)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - Jim Carrey undergoes a procedure to forget about Kate Winslet, but soon he figures that's gonna be a tough task to undertake. (March 19)

Jersey Girl - Starring Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, hopefully, it's not Gigli 2. (March 19)

Never Die Alone - YAY! That's all we needed! Another DMX film. Here he's dead and David Arquette gets to read his diary for a hour and a half. (March 19)

Taking Lives - Angelina Jolie is on the hunt for a serial killer who takes the identities of the people he kills. (March 19)

The Ladykillers - Tom Hanks' triumphant return to cinema is through a Coen Bros. film involving a heist. (March 26)

Scooby Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed - Remember how bad the first one was? (My review was three sentences long.) Well, they wanted to make my life miserable by making a second one. I know, just don't watch it...but I'll have to suffer through the commercials. (March 26)

Envy - In this long-delayed flick, Ben Stiller is envious of Jack Black's fortune. (April 2)

Hellboy - Comic books continues its revival with this film about a demon who leads his agents to investigate the paranormal. (April 2)

Home on the Range - Another Disney animated feature involving animals, this time, cows. (April 2)

Mean Girls - Lindsay Lohan gives mean girls at her new high school a taste of their own medicine. (April 2)

Johnson Family Vacation - Raiding '80s comedies continues as Cedric the Entertainer leads his family across the country with hilarious results. (April 7)

The Alamo - Hopefully, they're not looking for Pee Wee's bicycle 'cuz there's no basement at the Alamo. (April 9)

Ella Enchanted - Anne Hathaway only wants Prince Charmont but obedience seems to be getting in her way. (April 9)

Walking Tall - The Rock gets to break some skulls when he becomes sheriff of a corrupt county. (April 9)

The Whole Ten Yards - It's a sequel to the original film about a crazy hit-man and a dentist. (April 9)

Connie and Carla - Nia Vardalos and Toni Collette become drag queens after witnessing a mob hit. (April 16)

Kill Bill Volume 2 - Uma Thurman has two down, three to go. (April 16)

The Punisher - Thomas Jane takes matters into his own hands when the law can't. Yes, based on the comic book. (April 16)

Man on Fire - When a bodyguard (Denzel Washington) fails at his job, it's his mission to take vengeance on those responsible. (April 23)

Secret Window - Johnny Depp gets threatened by a psycho who believes Depp stole his idea for a book. (April 23)

Without a Paddle - 3 friends go out looking for the money their lost friend was obsessed to find only to find themselves in comedic situations. (April 23)

Breakin' All the Rules - Here's a twist. A man (Jamie Foxx) writes a book about how breaking up is hard to do. (April 30)

Godsend - Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos find that cloning done by Robert DeNiro isn't so perfect. (April 30)

Laws of Attraction - Pierce Brosnan and Julianne Moore are both divorce attorneys who get married to each other, hoping to avoid the same problems they see at work. (April 30)

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