Dan's Papers - July 11, 2008 - Tiffany Razzano's Quick Takes

A remake of the classic '60s TV show Get Smart, starring Steve Carrell as the bumbling secret agent Maxwell Smart and Anne Hathaway as his partner and love interest.

When his father gets sick, Antoine returns home to the small country village he grew up in after living in Paris for 10 years to help run his family's grocery cart.

Will Smith portrays Hancock, an alcoholic superhero who's hated by the public. When he saves the life of a PR executive, Ray Embry (Jason Bateman), Ray starts a PR campaign to improve the public image of Hancock, who winds up having an affair with his wife (Charlize Theron).

Hellboy and his team must save humanity when the mythical world rebels against the human race in an attempt to rule Earth. Starring Ron Perlman and Selma Blair.

Based on the classic Jules Verne novel. On a quest to find his missing brother, a science professor Trevor Anderson (Brendan Fraser), his teenage nephew and their local guide discover the lost world in the center of the earth.

An American left at the gates of an ashram in India as a child, Maurice Pitka (Mike Myers) returns to America as a self-help guru seeking fame and fortune. He takes on the job of trying to reunite a star hockey player from the Toronto Maple Leafs and his estranged wife so that the team can win the Stanley Cup. Also starring Jessica Alba and Justin Timberlake.

Like all Americans at the time, nine-year-old Kit Kitteredge's (Abigail Breslin) parents (Chris O'Donnell, Julia Ormond) are hit hard by the Great Depression. While they rent rooms to a quirky group of tenants to make some extra money, Kitteredge solves a mystery that saves her parents' home.

A crew of miniature aliens operates a spaceship that has a human form. The crew encounters problems when the ship, or Dave Ming Chang (Eddie Murphy), as he's called, becomes smitten with an earth woman (Elizabeth Banks).

Charlie Kohler, once a virtuoso, now plays piano in a dive bar and has given up on life since his wife's suicide. Then, one night, his brother, Chico, a crook, takes refuge in the bar while hiding from two gangsters. And as Charlie finds love again, he inadvertently gets drawn back into the chaotic lifestyle of his crook brothers when he helps Chico escape.

Set in Israel in 1951, 10-year-old Aviya is being raised by her mother, Henya, a holocaust survivor who is haunted by her past. Aviya becomes obsessed with finding her missing father, but only Henya knows what really happened to him.

Pixar is back with the story of Wall-E, the lonely, last robot on Earth, left on the planet after it was evacuated because it was covered in trash. When he's discovered by EVE, a search robot, she realizes Wall-E might have accidentally found the key to making Earth liveable again. When she rushes back to tell the humans, WALL-E follows her across the galaxy.

A twenty-something slacker, Wesley Gibson discovers that his long-lost father was an assassin and has been murdered. Wesley is then recruited by the secret organization his father worked for to follow in his footsteps. And with the help of a fellow assassin, Fox (Angelina Jolie), and the group's leader, Sloan (Morgan Freeman), he's able to transform his life.

Adam Sandler stars as Zohan Dvir, a Mossad agent who fakes his own death in order to move to New York City and pursue his dream of becoming a hairdresser. Eventually he's recognized, risking his new life and career.