{"id":14576,"date":"2011-06-23T23:46:27","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T04:46:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=14576"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:36:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:36:23","slug":"new-releases-june-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/06\/23\/new-releases-june-24\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: June 24"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>1. Cars 2 (Disney, 3,900 Theaters, 113 Minutes, Rated G):<\/strong> FBOL Editor-in-Chief Rich Drees started a conversation on\u00a0Facebook about this film concerning his sense of malaise about it. I have to say that I share the same feeling for the same reason.<\/p>\n

Any regular readers of my writing on this site will know how much enthusiastic a fan of Pixar I am. I trust them that any movie they come out with will entertain the heck out of me, and, as of yet, I have not been wrong.<\/p>\n

However, if I had to pick the worst of all the Pixar films, it would be the first Cars <\/strong>film. It wasn’t terribly original (it was basically Doc Hollywood<\/strong> with Michael J. Fox replaced by an anthropomorphic cartoon race car voiced by Owen Wilson) and it didn’t have as much charm as the rest of the Pixar offerings.<\/p>\n

So, it being the second Pixar flick to get a sequel, and one where they throw out the original concept in lieu of a cloak and dagger international adventure, doesn’t really excite me.<\/p>\n

The way I see it, it could go several ways. Pixar is long overdue for a misstep, and this could be it. But this summer is looking for it’s first unabashed blockbuster, and this could be it. And, of course, the two might not be mutually exclusive.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>2. Bad Teacher (Sony\/Columbia, 3,000 Theaters, 92 Minutes): <\/strong>When I see ads for this film, I think of Billy Bob Thornton. Because if he had a vagina, I’m pretty sure he’d be in this film.<\/p>\n

The reason I think that isn’t because I have some sick fascination with Mr. Thornton, but because Cameron Diaz’s role in this film seems like a hybrid of the roles Thornton played in Bad Santa <\/strong>and School for Scoundels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Diaz plays a, well, bad teacher whose sugar daddy boyfriend dumps her. She is looking for some way to supplement her income when two opportunities present themselves to her: an academic contest which gives a cash reward to the best teacher in a district–a contest she is ill-suited to win, and a new substitute teacher who comes from a moneyed family (Justin Timberlake). Her attempts to snatch that potential sugar daddy is challenged by another hopeful paramour, the popular, yet completely broke, gym teacher (Jason Segel).<\/p>\n

This could be savvy counter-programming–a hard R-rated bawdy comedy to counter act the kid-friendly animated fare–or it could fall flat. Odds are on the latter.<\/p>\n

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