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There’s a Nickelodeon animated series based on Eastern oriental lore created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko. It’s called Avatar: The Legend of Aang and is a fantasy revolving around Aang, a bald (shaved, actually) boy who can do wonders with the elements. He's played by young Noah Ringer. Aang’s head has a tattooed arrow that points down, similar to what you see in boxes that say “This side up.” The setting is a world where people called benders (no relation to Bender the robot in Futurama) can control the elements. In a battle for dominance, our bald airbender kid must go out of his way to save his world for the evil that plagues it coming from the Fire Nation.

Avatar: The Legend of Aang is now a major motion picture called The Last Airbender. The “Avatar” was dropped from the title due to conflict with James Cameron’s Avatar movie. Directed by no less than M. Night Shyamalan. Yes, you guessed it; he’s the guy behind sleeper hits like The Sixth Sense which was released in 1999. After more movies with the same dragging feeling such as Unbreakable and The Happening, you’d expect more of this from Shyamalan. But no, now we have what looks like a departure from slow creepiness to fast fantasy action. It’s a different Shyamalan working on The Last Airbender. The pervasive atmosphere of unease we’ve all come to expect from his movies is not here.

More mainstream and surely will capture a broader and younger audience, The Last Airbender is really a trilogy. The events of the first season will be used in the first film. Perhaps Shyamalan is taking a cue from all the other trilogies out there that have proven to be moneymakers. It’s not surprising that trilogies tend to make money. If there’s already a good fanbase, success is more or less ensured, especially if the story or characters are already familiar to a lot people already following a different rendition of the story.

Shyamalan was introduced to the cartoon series when his daughter asked that she play the water bender character, Katara (left), for Halloween. Curious, he watched the series and found good material for a feature film. In an interview, Shyamalan said the martial arts and spiritual elements of the series appealed to him. With Frank Marshall as producer, we can only expect that this film will be big. The characters’ growing base of young fans will be more than enough to ensure a blockbuster. And if they have parents and friends in tow, the ticket sales will surely grow.

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Ever heard of MacGruber? No? Well, it’s really a character from a Saturday Night Live (SNL) series played by Will Forte. It’s supposed to be a spoof of the eighties MacGyver, which is why Forte sports mullet hair and classic Ray-Ban shades. Now, coming from the small screen at home, MacGruber, multi-awarded a Navy Seal, Green Beret, and Army Ranger all rolled into one, has now taken off to conquer the big screen! And as you may already have surmised, the story of the movie is about a seemingly misfit soldier leading other misfit heroes in a mission that could save the world.

In the movie, MacGruber is portrayed as the government’s only option and hope. Only he possesses the skills needed to complete the mission involving a stolen Russian weapon of mass destruction. Of course, when we see MacGruber in action, we’d expect audiences to say, “What the…?” That’s where the comedy comes in. Here we have a soldier that everyone believes can do the job but blunders his way through it together with his group of merry men who appear to be more capable than him.

At first glance, this comedy movie may not appear to hold much weight, but Val Kilmer seems to think it has promise as he’s part of the cast as the evil bad guy. Yes, he’s evil-bad and has a bad name too—Dieter Von Cunth—and that’s just one of the bonuses that make him funny here. Let’s not forget that Kilmer’s career went through a stage where he appeared in low-budget and comedy and spoof films like Top Secret! In which he plays spy with Lucy Gutteridge. It was an unexpected hit that left audiences laughing until they dropped. Even today, this movie still holds its own as a classic. Perhaps the producers of MacGruber is hoping for a repeat of history? Add Ryan Philippe to the mix and you could have a recipe for success.

The film isn’t exactly for kids even if it’s a comedy. It does have a lot of adult humor and most of them aren’t exactly tasteful, but still, they can extract a few guffaws from viewers even if they don’t want that to happen. The movie can and will remind you of the Austin Powers movies. But it’s really all about SNL with director Jorma Taccone, an SNL veteran content provider. Since Forte co-wrote the script for MacGruber, it will most certainly show how effective the team is in making a movie. If it’s shallow entertainment you want, then you can watch MacGruber with your friends and still have a blast.

X-5 missile in MacGruber patterned after Saturn 5 rocket

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We all have gotten used to Bruce Willis being the action guy since his appearance in the first Die Hard film. Its hard-hitting action was a surprise complement to Willis’s portrayal of character—policeman John McClane. The story of Die Hard is serious but McClane wasn’t your typical stereotypical brooding action star. Willis made him someone who had attitude and with a bit of a swashbuckling and recklessly amusing disposition. In other words, he made the audience’s hearts leap while making them chuckle or even laugh at times. But that's old Hollywood celebrity news.

Willis’s tilted half grin is now a signature look of his that can give any serious scene that light “Willis” acting touch. Fans may have noticed it first from his Moonlighting days, and combined with his acting abilities, it might have been what made him a screen idol in the first place. Willis’s comedic celebrity appeal apparently was not missed by producers and directors even when he was cast as a lead in one action film after another. In Ocean’s Twelve, he played himself in a scene where he calls up Julia Roberts over the phone. That sequence definitely almost always draws out a smile from whoever’s watching.

Bruce Willis is now the lead in the comedy-action movie called Cop Out. Tracy Morgan and Seann William Scott star with him. Willis displays his usual matter-of-fact and easy-going attitude that we’ve come to expect from him. Morgan and Seann’s job is to complement that character and provide the exaggerated comedy acting that will excite more than just chuckles. In a way, it’s like having The Three Stooges in a serious movie—Willis is akin to Moe, Scott is akin to Larry, and Morgan is akin to Curly. Hollywood likes to rehash what's been proven to work, you know.

But we all know that the cast of Cop Out isn’t there for slapstick comedy. It’s how they deal with the situations they get into and how they relate with one another that’s what’s made funny in Cop Out. Director Kevin Smith made sure that the comedy is never out of place and only seems natural to the characters. As a matter of fact, if you watch Bruce Willis here, you’d think that he’s not really acting at all but still playing himself like what he did in Ocean’s Twelve. The same goes for Seann William Scott’s and Tracy Morgan’s acting. Audiences will see them as they usually portray themselves in other shows that they’ve come to know like Saturday Night Live and American Pie. And that’s not at all bad. If you think it is, then you can always “cop out” from watching this one.

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The A-Team is back in a movie, but it’s not the same old team from the 1980s Stephen J. Cannell and Frank Lupo television series. When there used to be George Peppard for leader, Hannibal Smith, now there’s Liam Neeson, and he’s leading a bunch of new faces that look like the actors who played the characters originally. For Bosco B.A. Baracus, there’s now Quinton “Rampage” Jackson; for Templeton Peck, there’s now Bradley Cooper; for Howling Mad Murdock, there’s now Sharlto Copley.

There’s a second Sex and the City movie and this time, the story will move around Carrie played by Sarah Jessica Parker. It’s all about girls, glam, glitz, and of course, guys. Sex and the City 2 is a movie for the girls, what they do, or like to do, and the problems they have to deal with as they go about their business of getting fulfillment in life.

In the near future, supposedly, there's a company that sells artificial organs on credit. These organs are so expensive that recipients, except those who are rich enough, are unable to pay. If this is the case, the recipients are as good as dead because they become targets of the Repo Men, whose job is to repossess the organ for the company, leaving the implantee dead.

How does one turn a serious topic about spies and international intrigue into a comedy? Add a crazy, no-nonsense agent and an ordinary woman who just wants to get through the day together and you have the formula for laughs. Put Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz in the picture and you have a movie that's a potential long-term money maker. The movie's title? Knight and Day.

Good movies never fail to leave an impression on generations of movie viewers. The Karate Kid is one of them. Almost thirty years later, producers decided to make a new one for a new audience. The new The Karate Kid movie stars Will Smith's son, Jaden as the Karate Kid and Jackie Chan as his mentor. Strangely, the setting is China, where Jaden, akid who knows some karate, gets bullied by some Chinese kung fu kids. Chan comes to his rescue by teaching Smith some kung fu moves that lead to a karate or kung-fu moment of truth tournament where the bad kid gets what's coming.

The Ridley Ridley Scott blockbuster, Gladiator, changed the way we look at those ancient Roman warriors who battled animals and each other for entertainment. The movie gave them a human face and that's the face of actor Russell Crowe who's line in the movie, "Are you not entertained?!" added to his fame like what "Show me the money!" did for Tom Cruise.

Remember Bulletproof Monk starring Chow Yun-Fat and Seann William Scott? It's about a magical Tibetan monk who takes in a troubled young man under his wing to train to protect a sacred scroll. The movie follows in the footsteps of the classic master-apprentice genre that used to be popular in the 1970s and 1980s in kung-fu movies. It's even used in the Star Wars series in the story of Luke Skywalker' s growth as a Jedi knight.