Weekend Movie Preview: Fri, May 29

By Amanda Pendolino on May 29th, 2009

It’s a quiet weekend for newbies at the box office. Many moviegoers will likely be showing up to see the holdovers: we’ve got recycled museum misadventures (at least Hank Azaria was funny!), big machiney terminator stuff (I don’t get it) and the historically inaccurate quest of Tom Hanks and that alarmed-looking foreign lady. The two new options this weekend both involve a sort of unorthodox traveling:

UP

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The first animated film ever to open the Cannes film festival, UP is Disney/Pixar’s latest masterpiece colorfully designed to entertain both adults and kids alike. It tells the story of Carl Fredericksen, an elderly balloon salesman who ties thousands of balloons to his house and flies away. When he discovers that 8 year-old Russell has also
come along for the ride, odd-couple hilarity ensues. My heart still belongs to Wall-E, but there may be room for a few balloons.

DRAG ME TO HELL

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I’m not gonna lie – you would have to drag me to this movie…but I know plenty of perfectly intelligent, sane people all fired up about the latest horror flick from director Sam Raimi. Allison Lohman stars as a bank manager who refuses to give an old lady a loan – and soon regrets it, because… the lady drags her to hell by her hair? I don’t know. I’m just looking at the poster. This stuff is too scary for me. I do enjoy Justin Long (who plays Lohman’s boyfriend)…just in something less hellish.