| Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole | Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps | You Again | WINNER
(1 point per category)
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| Clearest Title | Trippiest title ever if you didn't know it was based on a book. | An unnecessarily long title if you didn't know this was a sequel to a 1987 movie (i.e. if you are young). | A short title. It has a nice ring to it. | LOTGTOOG'H and WSMNS will split the point for the clearest, and longest, titles. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Animation
Rated PG for some sequences of scary action.
| Drama
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and thematic elements.
| Rom/Com
Rated PG for brief mild language and rude behavior.
| I think this is the first week I never typed "sexuality" or "drugs" in this column, well until I just did right now. All movies split the point for decency. |
Cleverest Tagline
(out of 5 stars) | "On his way to finding a legend...he will become one"
This sounds epic.
2/5 stars
| N/A
I mean it has a subtitle, but I don't think that should count as a tagline.
0/5stars
| "What doesn't kill you...is going to marry your brother"
A great tagline. You think it's going to say "make you stronger," and then it pulls out the plot of the movie!
5/5 stars
| The grass is always greener....when you win a point for the best tagline. (No? doesn't work? okay.) Point for You Again.
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| Best Part of Trailer | I always enjoy a good ol' epic fantasy adventure starring talking animals and no people. | I don't even care about the first Wall Street, but the trailer made me interested in the sequel. | Plot is average, but it has Betty White in it and looks half decent. | Usually I really love one trailer, this week- meh. All are okay, all will split the point. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Jim Sturgess, from Across the Universe and 21, voices an owl. | Michael Douglas, from Basic Instinct and Fatal Attraction and married to CZJ, reprises his Oscar-winning role. | Betty White, from Mary Tyler Moore, Golden Girls, and The Proposal, and this year's best Superbowl commercial and host of SNL! | Betty White isn't even the lead actor in the movie, but she's the reason people will watch it. Automatic point for her. |
| Best Cast Member | Other voices include Helen Mirron (The Queen), Geoffrey Rush (Pirates), Sam Neill (Jurassic Park), and Hugo Weaving (The Matrix). | Shia LaBeouf (Transformers), Josh Brolin (No Country for Old Men), Carey Mulligan (An Education), and Susan Sarandon (Rocky Horror Picture Show) | Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars), Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween), Sigourney Weaver (Avatar), Kristen Chenoweth (Glee), and Victor Garber (Alias!!) | It's a close race for best cast, but You Again again gets a point. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Director Zack Snyder has also directed Watchmen, 300, and Dawn of the Dead. | Director Oliver Stone has also directed World Trade Center, JFK, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July | Director Andy Fickman has also directed Race to Witch Mountain, The Game Plan, and She's the Man. | Oliver Stone has the best street cred. Who knew he also wrote the screenplay for Evita? |
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