Opening This Weekend - 7/15/11

So this week we have two movies opening making it easy on me.  One is a goliath and the other is a kid's movie.  Originally you might have ranked Harry Potter into a kid's movie category but not anymore.  It is very dark, with this one promising to be the most bloody and sorrowful of them all.  The kid's movie I refer to is Winnie the Pooh.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part II
Harry Potter and crew are back for the 8th and final installment of the Harry Potter series.  Harry will finally confront the Dark Lord once and for all.  There will be the forces of good, fighting out of Hogwartz which is the last stronghold that has not fallen to the Dark Lord, against Lord Voldemort and his Death Eaters.  The wizards and witches will have to fend for themselves while their champion continues his search for the horcrux's that sustain Voldemort's evil life.  There will be a showdown but what will happen?  Will Harry have to make the ultimate sacrifice to rid the world of the most vile and evil wizard to ever walk the earth?  You'll just have to hit the theaters to see.  Being that I read the books I know what happens but that doesn't diminish the amount of excitement I have to see this movie.  If it is even remotely well done, the storyline will propel it to a solid level of awesomeness.  If they try to spice it up in their own fashion then they may in-turn ruin a no brainer of a great movie.  That has happened before folks, just ask Brett Ratner... So this movie is getting 9 Ninja Stars out of 10 on the Viewability Scale.
Check out the trailer at:

http://harrypotter.warnerbros.com/harrypotterandthedeathlyhallows/mainsite/index.html

Winnie the Pooh
Pooh and the gang set out to save Christopher Robins from an imaginary culprit.  They have an adventure along the way.  Not much else to say about this movie.  It is only 70 minutes long and seems like the typical Winnie the Pooh TV show just extended another 40 minutes and without commercials.  I use to enjoy this cartoon but I have kind of grown out of its age bracket.  On the Viewability Scale it would get 3 Ninja Stars out of 10.
Check the trailer out at:

http://disney.go.com/pooh/

So to recap we have:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part II         9 Ninja Stars
Winnie the Pooh     3 Ninja Stars

Check back next week for previews on Captain America: The First Avenger and Friends With Benefits.  I'm excited for Captain America so we could have another good weekend coming up.  If you see any of the movies above please comment in a way that won't ruin the movie for others (especially if you comment on Winnie the Pooh...).

-Diomedes