Quick reviews of the movies I’ve seen this summer so far:

• Iron Man: Great Superhero movie, and I’m looking forward to the sequel. 8/10
• Kung Fu Panda: This one was very funny. I enjoyed it a lot, though it my have benefitted from the fact that it was the very first movie I ever saw at a Drive In Theater. 7/10
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Entertaining, but not as good as the previous movies in the series. Well, not as good as Raiders of the Lost Ark and Last Crusade, anyway. I think it was better than Temple of Doom. 7/10
• The Incredible Hulk: Much better than the first Hulk movie, and I think I even liked it slightly more than I did Iron Man. 8.5/10
• Get Smart: Steve Carell is no Don Adams, but, then, who is? I really loved this one. To be fair, I found myself laughing at quite a few things not so much because they were funny but because they were references to the old show, which I loved. 9/10

Later this summer, I plan to see Wall-E, Hancock, Hellboy II, The Dark Knight^[a], and The X-Files: I Want To Believe. There are a few others that we may go see, depending on our schedules (and funds — movies are expensive!).

1. Though, unlike Hellboy II, I get less excited with every Dark Knight preview I see. What I’ve seen of Ledger’s Joker hasn’t filled me with a lot of confidence, sadly. [↩]