Snap Judgment: The Tale of Two Nannies

Less than twelve hours after your Pop Whore editors kicked righteous ass in our favorite sport, we're back in the lab to smear some more new releases. So let's click away to IMDB and see what's polluting the cinemas tonight...


Imagine Me & You (romantic comedy, rated R, written and directed by Ol Parker)

Okay, fine, we might as well admit that we're planning on seeing this one. It looks cute, it's British, and Piper Perabo falls in love with the even cuter Lena Headey in what may be a successful attempt to redeem herself for past cinematic sins.

Don't judge us. We have a heart sometimes. Moving on...

Big Momma's House 2 (because the first one made money, rated PG-13, directed by John Whitesell, written by Don Rhymer)

Yeah, it happened. What could we do about it? The realities of the modern world are such that every few years, Martin Lawrence gets 8 figures to humiliate himself. If he can at least do it without waving a gun around in the street, then I can [drink myself to] sleep a little easier.

Annapolis (drama, rated PG-13, directed by Justin Lin, written by David Collard)

Oddly enough, that's not a recruiting poster for either the Navy or the Village People. It is, however, a promo for a movie that I'm guessing was pitched as "Million Dollar Baby meets A Few Good Men" or "just like Antwone Fisher except with the characters hitting each other in the face with boxing gloves rather than the movie hitting the audience in the face with life lessons." Or something like that. Anyway, James Franco probably wins, but not before getting a lot of grotesquely pretty bruises.


Nanny McPhee (whimsical thingy, rated PG, directed by Kirk Jones, screenplay by Emma Thompson based on books by Christianna Brand)

Hmmm. I actually think Emma Thompson is pretty cool, and I liked her acting/writing job for Sense and Sensibility, and Kirk Jones wrote and directed Waking Ned Devine. But holy crap did they lose me with the title and the Lemony Snicket knock-off poster and tagline.

One last thing...

Manderlay (punishment, rated R, written and directed by Lars von Trier)

This just in: After almost driving Bjork to suicide with his direction, Lars von Trier decided he hated America even more and decided to make three movies about it. This is the second one. If you're still around for the third one, I'm guessing you forgot the safety word.