ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movie Opening This Week

ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies Opening This Week

There are four films in wide distribution this week:

Rango, the animated pseudo-Western starring the voice of Johnny Depp, will be in every theater in the known universe, and has thus far garnered a sterling total of 88% positive reviews. It was directed by the same guy who directed Depp in Pirates of the Caribbean, and it sounds pretty cool. One reviewer called it "What a Coen Brothers animated flick might look like and sound like if they got an assist from Terry Gilliam. This is a deeply weird and deeply demented movie, and thrillingly so."

The Adjustment Bureau, a sci-fi thriller starring Matt Damon, will also make it into a lot of theaters (2750+) and is running right on the borderline between "fresh" and "rotten" at 60% positive reviews. Given its Phillip K. Dick provenance, you can bet it will be about how the powerful manipulate our minds and our fate.

Take Me Home Tonight (2000 theaters) is rated R. The official blurb calls it "a raunchy, romantic and ultimately touching blast from the past set to an awesome soundtrack of timeless rock and hip-hop." Variety said, "Take Me Home Tonight is a pleasant-enough all-in-one-night comedy, featuring a protagonist facing the classic Graduate-like existential dilemma of post-college paralysis." Chances are it's not too bad because the Village Voice gave it a thumb down, and they are wrong nearly 100% of the time.

Beastly (1900 theaters) is "an edgy teen romance about learning how to see past false surfaces to discover true inner beauty." It's rated PG-13 and targets a teen demographic with stars like Alex Pettyfer, Vanessa Hudgens, one of the Olsen twins, and the ubiquitous Neil Patrick Harris." It has not been pre-screened for critics, and not a single review is available.