2011 Summer Movie Season - Month 2 Preview (June 2011)

 Unlikely Heroes: Heroric Group of Youngsters ready to take Summer Box Office By Storm

          By: Brandon Porter  

  Hey there followers!!! Well, month one of the summer movie season is in the books. Now, we start getting into the full swing of things. A plethora of summer blockbusters headline the  month of June. In this post, we'll preview the biggest films to hit theaters this month. Witness the beginning of one of the greatest superhero teams ever created, follow six kids in their action packed journey to find an unknown anomaly, and start your engines as America's two most beloved automobiles make their long awaited return to the big screen.



Actors James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender potray young
Charles Xaviar and Erik Lehnsherr, future
leaders of the X-Men and the Brotherhood of Mutants. 

X-Men: First Class (20th Century Fox, June 3rd)   

   

   When you're about to build a team of superheroes, it's pretty clear you need members that have superabilities...or members who have these abilities but don't know how to control them or use them properly. X-Men: First Class is the much anticipated prequel to the original X-Men film trilogy. The film follows the lives of Charles Xaviar (who we know today as Professor X) and Erik Lehnsherr (Who we know today as Magneto) in the early stages of the mutant prowess. X-Men First Class serves as the origin stories for the antagonistic Brotherhood of Mutants and the heroric mutant black ops team, the X-Men. There will be dozens of mutants in the movie, some familiar such as Mystique and Beast played by Jennifer Stone and Nicholas Hoult and some mostly new including Havok (Jason Till), Banshee (Caleb Landry Jones), and Angel ( Zoë Kravitz). Cleverly set in the early 60s around the Civil Right Movement, the film serves as an alternate backstory to the cuban missle crisis as Erik and Charles try to stop a nuclear war fueled by the evil Hell Fire Club, a mutant terrorist orginization bent on world domination led by Sabatian Shaw (Kevin Bacon). The stakes will be high as well as the intensity when X-Men First Class opens in theaters nationwide on June 3rd.



Joel Courtney and Riley Griffiths make their big screen
 debuts in J.J. Abrams' Sci-Fi suspense thriller.



  Super 8 (Paramount Pictures, June 10th)  

     

    When was the last time you saw something that just stopped you in your tracks and had your mouth open for hours? Was it a supernatural happening or a terrifying enconter with an object of unknown origin? That's what Joe Lamb and his friends will soon find out in the suspenseful sci-fi thriller Super 8 directed by J.J. Abrams. After J.J. Abrams outstanding revival of the Star Trek series, he is teaming up with film legend Steven Speilberg to create an original blockbuster masterpiece. Set in a small town in Ohio in the summer of 1979, Joe Lamb, played by Joel Courtney, is filming a movie with his friends using a super 8 camera when they witness a horrific train crash. On top of that, there is something that has broken out and escaped one of the cars. Soon after, supernatural events as well as disappearances take place causing confusion and city wide panic. With military and local law enforcement on the scene but not able to find any anwsers, It's up to Joe and the others to find the mysterious being and find out what it wants and what it's doing here. And their discovery..will presumably be the most terriffying thing they have ever witnessed. For the cast, Joel isn't the only one making his first stint in film. Riley Griffiths, who plays Joe's best friend Charles, will make his movie debut as well. Accompanied by a group of acting veterans, these two will take the first step into being hollywood's next big stars. Another big factor is the fact that J.J. has been hush hush on the film since the release of the teaser trailer. Leaving people wondering what the mysterious being that busted out of the train really is. Is it an alien? A robot? A superhuman experiment gone wrong? This method Abrams is using will be hit or miss when audiences actually head into the theaters to see the actual film. One thing for sure, all of our questions will be anwsered when Super 8 arrives in theaters June 10th.



 



After a five year absence, Lightning McQueen and Mater
are back in their latest road rippin adventure.



 Cars 2 (Walt Disney Pictures, June 24th)

   Let me take you back a few years, say around 2006. You entered a world with endless possibilities and met characters you only dreamed of. A race car that got a lesson in life and an oppurtunity to show he had the heart of a true champion win or lose. Now, fast forward to now, you are about to return to that world with old friends returning and new ones waiting for you. Welcome to Cars 2. Disney & Pixar prepare to put the pedal to the metal as Lightning McQueen, now a global superstar, gets ready to partake in the inaugural world grand prix with Mater and the rest of his radiator springs pals as his pit crew. But Mater soon finds himself in an adventure of his own when he is mistaken as an international spy by british secret agents Finn McMissile and Holly Shiftwell. Mater is now pressed with the biggest descion of his life: Help Lightning win the biggest race of the year or assist in a top secret spy mission. My intial thoughs on Cars 2 were hopeful and confident, but partly sceptical. Watching the trailers and story set up, it was an approch that kind of had me feeling iffy on weather the film would sit well with critics. But on the other hand,  Pixar has had a remarkable track record of every single one of their films being critical box office bahemeths, so part of me is saying I'm worried over nothing and this film will continue the streak. We'll see if the race will be worth the price of addmission when Cars 2 reves into theaters on June 24th.


   It's shaping up to be an amazing month of June. Be on the look out for the reviews and anaylysis of these films as well as the others for this month. Until then, See ya later :-)