| Lottery Ticket | Nanny McPhee Returns | Piranha 3D | The Switch | Vampires Suck | WINNER
(1 point per category)
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| Clearest Title | There's a 99% chance a movie with this title is about the ramifications of someone having a winning lotto ticket | There's a 99% chance that a movie with this title is a sequel to the kids' film Nanny McPhee. | There's a 60% chance that this is a horror film and 40% chance that this is a nature documentary | There's a 10% chance that this is a kids' film about a magical lightswitch in a bedroom. | Hahahah. This title is awesome since suck has two meanings! 75% chance it is a horror comedy. | Lottery Ticket and Nanny McPhee Returns split the point for having the clearest title. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Comedy
Rated PG-13 for sexual content, language including a drug reference, some violence, and brief underage drinking.
| Family/Fantasy
Rated PG for rude humor, some language, and thematic elements.
| Horror
Rated R for sequences of strong bloody horror violence and gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, some language, and drug use.
| Romantic Comedy
Rated PG-13 for mature thematic content, sexual material including dialogue, some nudity, drug use, and language.
| Comedy
Rated PG-13 for crude sexual content, comic violence, language, and teen partying.
| Assuming I know what goes on at "teen partying," then Nanny McPhee will win this point for not having any alcohol/drugs in the movie. |
Cleverest Tagline
(out of 5 stars) | "Winning is just the beginning. Surviving is another story"
I expected this tagline.
1/5 stars
| "You'll believe that pigs can fly!"
Cute. It nicely incorporates that figure of speech.
3/5 stars
| "This summer 3D shows its teeth"
Classic tagline. Shows the date, references the plot, and has a play on words.
4/5
| "The most unexpected comedy ever conceived"
I get it. Jennifer Aniston uses the wrong sperm, and hilarity ensues.
3/5
| "Some sagas just won't die"
Ha. Either referring to the Twilight Saga or referring to spoof movies.
3/5
| Piranha 3D will split the point for the best tagline with Vampires Suck, which has the cleverest title of the year.
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| Best Part of Trailer | I didn't laugh, but I was intrigued, and "I want to have your baby." | Looks cute. Laughed once. Almost shed a tear. | I think I saw some scientific inaccuracies, but looks good for horror fans | It didn't look bad. I sort of want to see it. | Perhaps the only funny moments were in the trailer, but I actually laughed a lot. | I probably won't see any of these movies. If I had to, based on the trailers, I would see The Switch, hence the point. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Bow Wow, formerly rapper Lil' Bow Wow, was in Like Mike and Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift. | Two-time Academy- Award winner Emma Thompson was in Sense and Sensibility, Love Actually, and the Harry Potters. | Academy-Award winner Richard Dreyfuss was in Jaws, Close Encounters, What About Bob, and Mr. Holland's Opus. | Jennifer Aniston was in Friends, Office Space, Bruce Almighty, and Marley & Me. | Matt Lanter from the new 90210, Disaster Movie, and Anakin's voice in The Clone Wars. | Richard Dreyfuss and Emma Thompson will split the point for their impressive resumes. |
| Best Cast Member | Loretta Devine (Boston Public, Eli Stone) and Ice Cube (Boyz in the Hood, Are We There Yet?) | Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Dark Knight) and Dame Maggie Smith (Sister Act, Harry Potter) | Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible, Pulp Fiction) and Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future) | Jason Bateman (Arrested Development, Juno) and Jeff Goldblum (Jurassic Park) | Ken Jeong (Community, The Hangover) and Arielle Kebbel (Gilmore Girls, Grudge 2) | The Switch and Nanny McPhee Returns are going to split the point for the best cast. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Writer and Director Erik White has also directed music videos. | Director Susanna White has also directed several TV shows. | Director Alexandre Aja has also directed The Hills Have Eyes. | Directors Will Speck and Josh Gordon have also directed Blades of Glory. | Aaron Seltzer and Jason Friedberg have also written and directed Meet the Spartans and Epic, Disaster, and Date Movie. | I don't see any street cred sticking out compared to the others. So 1/5th of a point all around. |
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