What a wasted opportunity. Today is 4\/20 and not a single studio thought to release a stoner comedy. I’m more shocked about that than I am about the weak movies that actually open today.
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The widest opener this weekend is ‘The Lucky One<\/strong>‘. Considering that it’s based on a Nicholas Sparks book and stars Zac Efron, I deem myself “the lucky one” for not being able to attend my local press screening. Efron plays a Marine who has safely served three tours in Iraq. (I already don’t believe this story.) He finds a picture of a cute girl and believes that she is his good luck charm, so he hunts her down, and romance ensues. Like every other Sparks movie, two people fall in love and death plays a role somewhere in there. I asked a critic friend to spoil the death details and, from what I’ve been told, Sparks has written a story even more contrived and laughable than ever. I suspect that the female audiences who’ve been flocking to ‘The Hunger Games’ for the last four weeks will finally want to see something else this weekend, and that may be ‘The Lucky One’.<\/p>\n The second wide opener is ‘Think Like a Man<\/strong>‘, an ensemble comedy about a group of guys who discover that their wives have been reading Steve Harvey’s book about relationship advice. How can you tell that this is a work of fiction? Because the people in it are actually reading and heeding the advice in Steve Harvey’s book. Not screened for press, I haven’t heard a single thing about ‘Think Like a Man’.<\/p>\n DisneyNature’s latest documentary is ‘Chimpanzee<\/strong>‘, which follows a baby chimp in a Uganda rainforest as his group is confronted with hunger and an opposing gang of antagonistic chimps. Tim Allen gives a bland narration.<\/p>\n