The 2003 Summer Movie Preview
be back to kick more butt in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle. Comedian Bernie Mac joins the series this go-round, and Demi Moore makes her first return to film in about 3 years to play a villain. It doesn't have Vin Diesel, but I'm sure the sequel to The Fast and the Furious will still do well. John Singleton, usually a more serious minded director, is deciding to have some fun with this sequel, directing 2 Fast 2 Furious. And we have a prequel coming out, and this one will probably do okay at the boxoffice, but I sure can't get excited about it. When Harry Met Lloyd: Dumb and Dumberer doesn't even have Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels. Instead, Eric Christian Olsen and Derek Richardson (the marquee is just bursting, isn't it?) play the two characters from Dumb and Dumber several years before that first film, and it will undoubtedly be an attempt to imitate Carrey and Daniels. Honestly, did we really need this sequel/prequel?
But June also has some promising original material coming out. Ron Shelton, well known for his ability in directing some of the best sports movies, tries his hand at the buddy cop comedy genre, directing Harrison Ford and Josh Hartnett in Hollywood Homicide ... just that pairing sounds promising. Rob Reiner returns to comedy as well, this time an unconventional romantic comedy with Alex & Emma, starring Luke Wilson, Kate Hudson, and Cloris Leachman. It's loosely based on the story of Fyodor Dostoyevsky and the woman he loves.
It was supposed to have been released a year ago, and supposedly we can plan on finally seeing Christina Ricci's film Prozac Nation this summer. Our recent Best Actor winner, Adrien Brody, will play a New York City con man in Love the Hard Way. We'll also get a bizarre futuristic horror film with 28 Days Later, and the World War II drama The Cuckoo. A promising independent film which may be worth finding will be Whale Rider, which was a favorite at the Toronto Film Festival. It's about the history and traditions of a fishing village in New Zealand.
And finally in June, the two stars of the first American Idol television experience, Justin Guarini and recent pop hit sensation Kelly Clarkson, will make their feature film debut in From Justin to Kelly, a spring break beach movie. It will undoubtedly be a hit with the teenage crowd.
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