Out today several new friday releases including Rush Hour 3 with Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker. This has been one of the most uniformly panned sequels of the summer. Brett Ratner does for his own trilogy what he did for the X-men(i.e. leave fans with a bad taste in their mouths).

Also opening wide, Stardust, with Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer and Robert De Niro, hopes to be the family movie that is magical enough for kids but with enough edge to keep adults interested. Neil Gaiman(author of the source material) possesses and utilizes enough dark wit to fill the bill in a plot the includes a band of fratricidal princes bent on acquiring power and ridding themselves of each other.

A crowded weekend also includes the debut weeks for Daddy Day Camp,the sequel to the Eddie Murphy hit Daddy Day care. This time round, we are minus most of the key players including Murphy(take a cue from thier defections). Also bowing this weekend another in an endless line of werewolf movies that never seem to do very well, Skinwalkers.

Labels: New releases, Rush Hour 3, Stardust