Made in Manhattan at My Best Friend's Wedding

Allow myself to introduce...... myself. I am Herr Dr Merkwürdigliebe, or Dr Strangelove here in my new country of Amerika. You may have seen the movie that stared me playing me. After having spent all that time with Stanley Kubrick, I said to myself I'm a smart guy, I'm a doctor - I can do what Stanley does! So now I've shifted my career focus from building doomsday devices to Hollywood. In between my lunches and dinners at Spago, I produce movies. Slaughtering livestock didn't work out as hoped.

I must confess, I'm continuously surprised by the regular decline in movie quality. Let's look at a new release, "Made of Honor". Besides the question that likely came to you as it did to me - will they spell "honor" with a "u" for British release? - is the realization that we've seen this before. Yet another take on My Best Friend's Wedding blended with the title from Maid in Manhattan (I think they found a title first and wrote the movie around it). So let me guess, instead of Julia Roberts pursuing the guy about to get married, it's the guy pursuing the girl about to marry. But how are you going to get a bunch of guys to dance around in a circle like the women do in every chick flick?!? Blahh..... Half a star out of five.

You may say it's far too easy to make fun of chick flicks.  How true!  But that doesn't make it any less fun. To be fair though, let's look at the newest Marvel picture: Iron Man with Robert Downey, Jr. First of all, kudos to Robert for making films between different periods of incarceration. We raise our martini glasses to you, Bobby, nearly every day over lunch at Spago. Back to pre-reviewing trailers, slurp. Since this is a Marvel comic and not a hokey DC Comic, we give you a star. Let's face it, Marvel can at least create a character that isn't flat (Superman anyone?), but after the X-Men trilogy, they degraded with Fantastic Four and ended miserably with Spiderman 3.  I've lost faith, and I'm sure Iron Man will not be a bomb I learn to love. Two stars out of five.