Ranking This Summer’s Movies (Revised)

Well, the kids are back in school and the weather is beginning to cool; that means just one thing: the summer movie season is over. The summer of 2008 gave us some enormous hits (The Dark Knight and Iron Man) and some huge flops (Speed Racer and The Love Guru). Below is my listing of the best and worst of Summer 2008.

1. The Dark Knight
2. Iron Man
3. Sex and the City: The Movie
4. Hancock
5. Tropic Thunder
6. Pineapple Express
7. Wanted
8. The Strangers
9. Get Smart
10. What Happens in Vegas
11. WALL-E
12. Step Brothers
13. The Incredible Hulk
14. You Don’t Mess with the Zohan

Here are a few surprises I came across this summer. Surprise #1: Robert Downey Jr starred in two of the biggest movies this summer (Iron Man and Tropic Thunder). Surprise #2: Comedic veterans Will Farrell and Adam Sandler find themselves low on the list, while up-and-comers Steve Carrel and Seth Rogan find themselves high on the list. Surprise #3: A Pixar film (WALL-E), while generating high revenue, did not turn into the cartoon hit of the summer; that honor was left for Jack Black’s Kung-Fu Panda (I did not see this movie, but am looking forward to it).

And here are some non-surprises. Non-surprise #1: Sex and the City: The Movie was just as good as the tv show. Non-surprise #2: Comic book franchises ruled the box office. Non-surprise #3: Will Smith had a blockbuster action movie that premiered on Fourth of July weekend.