Here
is the list for the “Top 5” movies this weekend.
Despicable Me (Universal)
While Gru, the ex-supervillain is adjusting to family life
and an attempted honest living in the jam business, a secret Arctic laboratory
is stolen. The Anti-Villain League decides it needs an insider's help and
recruits Gru in the investigation. Together with the eccentric AVL agent, Lucy
Wilde, Gru concludes that his prime suspect is the presumed dead supervillain,
El Macho, whose his teenage son is also making the moves on his eldest
daughter, Margo. Seemingly blinded by his overprotectiveness of his children
and his growing mutual attraction to Lucy, Gru seems on the wrong track even as
his minions are being quietly kidnapped en masse for some malevolent purpose.
Grownups 2 (Sony)
After moving his family back to his hometown to be with his
friends and their kids, Lenny finds out that between old bullies, new bullies,
schizo bus drivers, drunk cops on skis, and 400 costumed party crashers
sometimes crazy follows you.
Pacific Rim (Warner)
As a war between humankind and monstrous sea creatures wages
on, a former pilot and a trainee are paired up to drive a seemingly obsolete
special weapon in a desperate effort to save the world from the apocalypse.
The Heat (Fox)
Sarah Ashburn, an FBI agent, is extremely ambitious and has
her eye on a promotion, but she doesn't get along with her co-workers. She is
sent to Boston to uncover the identity of an elusive drug lord, Mr. Lassen, by
tracking down his proxy, Rojas, and is told that she'll have a good shot at the
promotion if she finds Lassen. When she arrives in Boston, she learns that
Lassen has been eliminating his competition and taking over their operations.
She learns that Rojas is in Boston PD custody and goes to see him to ask him
what he knows about Lassen, but is warned that the cop who arrested Rojas,
Shannon Mullins, is very territorial, and she is not exactly sociable. When the
two meet they don't get along. When Mullins learns why Ashburn is in Boston,
she decides to find Lassen herself. Ahsburn is told by her boss to work with
Mullins, but it won't be easy because Ashburn does things by the book while Mullins
does things her way.
The Lone Ranger (Disney)
In the 1930s, an elderly Tonto tells a young boy the tale of
John Reid, the Lone Ranger. An idealistic lawyer, he rides with his brother and
fellow Texas Rangers in pursuit of the notorious Butch Cavendish. Ambushed by
the outlaw and left for dead, John Reid is rescued by the renegade Comanche,
Tonto, at the insistence of a mysterious white horse and offers to help him to
bring Cavendish to justice. Becoming a reluctant masked rider with a seemingly
incomprehensible partner, Reid pursues the criminal against all obstacles.
However, John and Tonto learn that Cavendish is only part of a far greater
injustice and the pair must fight it in an adventure that would make them a
legend.
If
you have seen any or all of them, write back and tell me what you thought.
Cheers!
