The Film Fanatic Review of 2010
Part 2 - April-June

APRIL

Clash Of The Titans (Dir: Louis Leterrier) IMDB rating 5.9/10; opening weekend gross UK: £5,682,875 - Sam Worthington returns after Avatar to clash with titans.

How To Train Your Dragon (Dirs: Dean Deblois and Chris Sanders) IMDB rating 8.2/10; opening weekend gross UK: £4,846,532 - One of the highlights of 2010 - Dreamworks reaches near Pixar animation heights for the first time since the first Shrek film.

Kick-Ass (Dir: Matthew Vaughn) IMDB rating 8.1/10; opening weekend gross UK: £3,881,704 - The anti superhero film that everyone talked about in 2010 for its gratuitous violence, a campy Nicholas Cage and some of the best potty mouthed profanity since The Exorcist.

Remember Me (Dir: Allen Coulter) IMDB rating 7.0/10; opening weekend gross UK: £987,310 - Pierce Brosnan and Robert Pattinson are the unlikely father and son in this slow burning drama.

Whip It (Dir: Drew Barrymore) IMDB rating 7.0/10; opening weekend gross UK: £353,041 - Drew Barrymore's directorial debut starring Ellen Page.

Dear John (Dir: Lasse Hallstrom) IMDB rating 5.9/10; opening weekend gross UK: £1,995,301

The Ghost Writer (Dir: Roman Polanski) IMDB rating 7.5/10; opening weekend gross UK:
£853,679 - Pierce Brosnan and Ewan McGregor are excellent in Polanski's haunting political drama.
Cemetery Junction (Dirs: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant) IMDB rating 7.0/10; opening weekend gross UK: £641,218

Date Night (Dir: Shawn Levy) IMDB rating 6.5/10; opening weekend gross UK: £1,272,405

It's A Wonderful Afterlife (Dir: Gurinder Chadha) IMDB rating 5.2/10; opening weekend gross UK: £464,468

Iron Man 2 (Dir: Jon Favreau) IMDB rating 7.2/10; opening weekend gross UK: £7,664,732

The Last Song (Dir: Julie-Anne Robinson) IMDB rating 4.3/10; opening weekend gross UK: £679,698

Housefull (Dir: Sajid Khan) IMDB rating 4.5/10; opening weekend gross UK: £262,752

MAY

Furry Vengeance (Dir: Roger Kumble) IMDB rating 2.9/10; opening weekend gross UK: £1,778,050 - Oh Brendan Fraser, how the mighty have fallen!

A Nightmare on Elm Street (Dir: Samuel Bayer) IMDB rating 6/10; opening weekend gross UK: £1,342,837 - This Platinum Dunes/Michael Bay horror remake should have been the nail in the coffin for all horror remakes. Whilst it doesn't have anything on Roger Englund and Wes Craven's 1984 original it still holds its own and is a satisfying modernised version of the story.

Hot Tub Time Machine (Dir: Steve Pink) IMDB rating 6.7/10; opening weekend gross UK: £904,959

The Back-Up Plan (Dir: Alan Poul) IMDB rating 4.5/10; opening weekend gross UK: £710,201 - J Lo and Alex O'Loughlin in another trashy rom com.

Four Lions (Dir: Christopher Morris) IMDB rating 7.5/10; opening weekend gross UK: £608,608

Robin Hood (Dir: Ridley Scott) IMDB rating 6.9/10; opening weekend gross UK: £5,750,332 - Ridley Scott teams once again with Russell Crowe for a re imagining of the Robin Hood tale.

Streetdance 3D (Dirs: Max Giwa and Dania Pasquini) IMDB rating 5.6/10; opening weekend gross UK: £2,493,948 - A respectable weekend gross for another film casually jumping onto the gimmicky 3D bandwagon.

Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time (Dir: Mike Newell) IMDB rating 6.7/10; opening weekend gross UK: £1,371,066

Kites (Dir: Anurag Basu) IMDB rating 5.5/10; opening weekend gross UK: £273,958
Bad Lieutenant (Dir: Werner Herzog) IMDB rating 6.9/10; opening weekend gross UK: £178,953

Sex and the City 2 (Dir: Michael Patrick King) IMDB rating 4.0/10; opening weekend gross UK: £6,142,718

Tooth Fairy (Dir: Michael Lembeck) IMDB rating 4.8/10; opening weekend gross UK: £844,889

Space Chimps 2: Zartog Strikes Back (Dir: John H Williams) IMDB rating 2.3/10; opening weekend gross UK: £434,883

The Losers (Dir: Sylvain White) IMDB rating 6.4/10; opening weekend gross UK: £391,938

JUNE

4.3.2.1 (Dirs: Noel Clarke and Mark Davis) IMDB rating 6.0/10; opening weekend gross UK: £433,218

She's Out Of My League (Dir: Jim Field Smith) IMDB rating 6.6/10; opening weekend gross UK: £400,554

Letters to Juliet (Dir: Gary Winick) IMDB rating 6.3/10; opening weekend gross UK: £793,425

Brooklyn's Finest (Dir: Antoine Fuqua) IMDB rating 6.9/10; opening weekend gross UK: £468,279

Killers (Dir: Robert Luketic) IMDB rating 4.8/10; opening weekend gross UK: £1,053,074

Wild Target (Dir: Jonathan Lynn) IMDB rating 6.8/10; opening weekend gross UK: £282,498 - Bill Nighy, Rupert Grint and Emily Blunt star in hit man comedy.

Get Him To The Greek (Dir: Nicholas Stoller) IMDB rating 6.7/10; opening weekend gross UK: £1,569,556

The Collector (Dir: Marcus Dunstan) IMDB rating 6.1/10; opening weekend gross UK: £109,519


Part 3 will cover July - September 2010.