Summer 2009 movies

The summer always brings the big blockbuster movies, usually superheroes and sequels. But this year is a little different.

THE big movie of the summer will be Star Trek. Rather than being the next in the series, following on from the events of Nemesis, this new film goes back to the very beginning to see how Kirk and the crew got their first mission. SO it isn't a sequel to the series. Yet in a way it is. Romuluns have travelled back in time to dstroy the Earth so it's up to the Kirk of that time to stop them.

Hopefully future episodes with the new crew will continue after this film finishes. Sylar from Heroes plays Spock, Simon Pegg plays a comedy Scotty, while Kirk is played by an unknown. (Matt Damon contacted the studio offering to play Kirk, but was told he was too old.)

Wolverine is the only superhero movie out this year.
No sign of the Captain America and Thor movies yet, and not a sniff of The Avengers.

Wolverine is headed as being "X Men origins" which leads us to believe there will be more such "Origins" movies. It is a prequel to the events of the X Men trilogy, showing us what happened to Wolvie before Rogue discovered him in Canada.

Angels and Demons is the sequel to Da Vinci Code, and second part of what will be the Robert Langdon trilogy, based on the Dan Brown novels.

There is also a sequel to Night At The Museum. Which we will avoid.

Terminator Salvation is the 4th movie in the series, with Christian Bale playing a grown up, post war John Connor. The writer for the screenplay is Jonah Nolan, who wrote Dark Knight. Arnie even makes a cameo.

Transformers gets a sequel, again piloted by Michael Bay with a $200 million budget. Megan Fox apparently looks sexier than ever.

Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince is the next in the book-to-movie series.
Emma Watson as Hermione looks sexier than ever.

Bruno is the third film based on a Sasha Baron Cohen character.
This is a spititual sequel to Ali G and Borat.

Inglourios Basterds (not a sp) is the new Tarantino. It's the WW2 movie he's been dying to make, about a bunch of Jewish Nazi-killers. Brad Pitt stars. This will be the coolest film of the summer.

Drag Me To Hell is an original horror film, not a sequel of remake of a Japanese film a la The Ring or The Grudge. Worth a watch.