ROTTEN TOMATOES: Opening This Week

ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies Opening This Week

From the reviews, it appears that these films range from tepid to crappy.

Due Date is the Downey/Galfianakis mismatched buddy film. The trailer makes it seem as if they are trying to channel Steve Martin and John Candy in Planes, Trains & Automobiles. Only 43% positive reviews. One critic called it "The year's least amusing comedy," which is really saying something in a year which included Sex and the City 2.

Megamind is yet another super-villain spoof. If Due Date seems like a rip-off of Planes, Trains and Automobiles, this one seems to be a rip-off of Despicable Me. Reviews are so-so: 56% positive. Based on the reviews I read, my guess is that your kids will probably enjoy it and you will not find it unpleasant to sit through.

For Colored Girls is Tyler Perry's 312th project this year. What a slacker! Oh, well, he still has two more months to reach the magic 400 mark. Or maybe it just seems like that many. At least he doesn't play any of the titular girls. 22% positive reviews. Sample: "For Colored Girls's undiluted hysteria would be completely obscene if it weren't so unintentionally hilarious."

If you live in a big city, you can probably catch Fair Game, Doug Liman's film about the Valerie Plame affair. (She's the CIA agent who was outed, allegedly as part of a plot to discredit her husband, who had criticized the Bush administration for lying about WMD.) It has pulled 79% positive reviews, but it will only be in 35 theaters this week, and you should beware of that score. Liberal sermon movies tend to score high, no matter how bad they are. The hilariously awful The Interpreter scored 58%, so that's probably the lowest score you'll ever see for such a film. Given that the scores can really only range from 58 to 100, Fair Game has scored 21 points out of the 42 within that range of possibility, which would be like scoring 50% in a genre where the full range from 0 to 100 is possible.