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Enchanted (2007) â€“ vs â€“ Penelope (2006)

August 3, 2008 Lauren Zabel 3

You gotta love a good ole’ fashioned fairy tale!

Despite centuries of far-fetched stories involving glass shoes that don’t shatter when you run down a flight of stairs and women who can sleep for a hundred years and not age a day (if only!), audiences still love to be swept off their feet with tales of romance, villainy, and happily ever after.

Today’s fairy tales are a twisted version of these Grimm stories, complete with cynicism, satire, sarcasm, and tongue-in-cheek delivery — like the Shrek films but with real actors. Penelope (2006) and Enchanted (2007) duke it out one fairy-tale stereotype at a time. […]

Superheroes, Spies, Sci-Fi and Other Tasty Summer Smacks!

July 29, 2008 Bryce Zabel 0

Seems like summer is the time for super-hero sequels. That was true last summer, of course, but this summer has shown that when they work, they really work! Spring fizzled with the often-dismissed fourth "Indiana […]

The Wackness (2008) -vs- Running with Scissors (2006)

July 28, 2008 Lauren Zabel 3

The Smackdown Hollywood loves to write about therapists who are more screwed up than their patients. Maybe that’s because most Hollywood writers and directors are in therapy and want to feel better about themselves, I […]

Encounters at the End of the World (2008) -vs- March of the Penguins (2005)

July 27, 2008 Bryce Zabel 1

The Smackdown In the last few years, the documentary world has given us a couple of projects about living in Antarctica that play out against a backdrop of global warming.Â “Encounters at the End of […]

The Dark Knight (2008) -vs- Batman Begins (2005)

July 24, 2008 Stephen Bell 7

The Smackdown Batman’s back.Â Unless you live in an isolated third world village, you knew this already and, frankly, even if that’s where you live you probably know it anyway.Â In 2005, Christopher Nolan reintroduced […]

Something New from the Smack!

July 21, 2008 Bryce Zabel 0

We get mail.Â And some of you seem to really like the less-than-reverent way we treat the publicity stills that the studios put out to promote their films.Â Armed only with an iMac, some Comic […]

The Dark Knight (2008) -vs- Batman (1989)

July 20, 2008 Beau DeMayo 24

The Smackdown This is a championship match, sure to incite and divide. It’s Gotham’s defender’s revered cinematic debut in Tim Burton and Sam Hamm’s Batman versus the sequel to Christopher Nolan’s & David Goyer’s Batman […]

The Dark Knight (2008) -vs- Spider-Man 2 (2004)

July 14, 2008 Bryce Zabel 6

The Smackdown This may turn out to be our All-Time Heavyweight Smackdown — the equivalent of Ali versus Frasier — where both of the fighters are at the top of their games and both deserve […]

Hellboy II (2008) -vs- Hancock (2008)

July 11, 2008 Mark Sanchez 0

It really is the height of narcissism. Give a guy powers and abilities beyond those of mortal men and he can still manage to cop a bad attitude. And while neither Hulk nor Iron Man can really be accused of harboring sunny dispositions, the leading men of ‘tude in the summer of 2008 were a couple of anti-heroes on the extreme grouchy side: Hellboy and Hancock.

Which one of these charm school drop-outs made bad look good? That’s the Smack and, believe me, this battle is not for the thin-skinned. […]

Hancock (2008) -vs- I am Legend (2007)

July 2, 2008 Mark Sanchez 2

The Smackdown It’s summer and if Will Smith keeps to form, he’ll surely add a few more zeroes to his bank balance. It is beyond dispute: The last 14 movies featuring the Fresh Prince grossed […]