| Larry Crowne | Monte Carlo | Transformers: Dark of the Moon | WINNER
(1 point per category)
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| Clearest Title | Never heard of this guy. | Have heard of this place. | The third Transformers movie! | Easy enough- Transformers wins the point for best title. |
Best Genre
and Rating | Dramedy:
Rated PG-13 for brief strong language and some sexual content.
| Romantic Comedy:
Rated PG for brief mild language.
| Action:
Rated PG-13 for intense prolonged sequences of sci-fi action violence, mayhem and destruction, language, some sexuality, and innuendo.
| Another no-brainer round, Action always trumps dramedies and romantic comedies. Another point for Transformers. |
Cleverest Tagline
(out of 5 stars) | N/A
This movie doesn't need a tagline to get people to see it, because it stars Hanks and Roberts.
0/5
| "She's having the time of someone else's life."
Kind of clever and intriguing.
2/5
| N/A
This movie also doesn't need a tagline. The title says if you liked the first two films, you'll like this one.
| Even easier than the first two rounds, Monte Carlo wins the point for this category. |
| Best Part of Trailer | The charm of Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts could literally intoxicate someone. | If you liked The Princess Diaries, you'll love this film. | If you like excessive and prolonged sequences of mayhem and destruction, you'll love this film. | I'm starting to experience a Hanks/Robert hangover right now. That trailer wins hands down. |
| Coolest Lead Actor | Tom Hanks for Forrest Gump, Saving Private Ryan, and The Da Vinci Code. | Selena Gomez from Wizards of Waverly Place. | Shia LaBeouf from Disturbia, Eagle Eye, and Holes. | The fifth easy point in a row. Tom Hanks takes it all. |
| Best Cast | Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman) and Wilmer Valderamma (That 70s Show), and George Takei (Star Trek)
| Katie Cassidy (Click), Leighton Meester (Gossip Girl), Cory Monteith (Glee). | Josh Duhamel (Life as We Know It), John Malkovich (Con Air), and Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy). | This round is unfair as Julia Roberts is also a lead actor, but she'll give her film another quick point. |
Best Street Cred
For the Production | Director Tom Hanks ?!?! and writers Tom Hanks and Nia Vardalos (My Big Fat Greek Wedding). | Director and writer Thomas Bezucha also wrote and directed The Family Stone. | Director Michael Bay has also directed Bad Boys, The Rock, Armageddon, Pearl Harbor, and the other Transformers. | The first tough round because Michael Bay definitely has street cred for explosions, but I have to give the point to Hanks and Vardalos, who is also so charming! |
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