Fantastic Four: Return of the Silver Surfer made about the same amount at the box office that they did with the first film, $57 mil, making it to #1. Nancy Drew settled into the #7 spot with a measly $7 mil. Rotten tomatoes noted that only half of the critics were amused and intrigued by Emma Roberts's acting, the plot, and the dialogue. I thought it was trying too hard to mix the style and the morality of the 30s with the formula of this generation's teen comedy. Nancy Drew would never throw a house party, and girls of today would never let two stuck up brats belittle them. Nancy needed an update, a recharge, a reboot if you will. She needed to be "Veronica Mars," but with just a smidge of sass. The problem with the script might have something to do with the fact that Andrew Fleming hasn't written teen content since The Craft (1996)--which was obviously Oscar worthy--and Tiffany Paulsen has never written before. Roberts just needed better material to work with. And her romantic interest, Max Thieriot (The Pacifier), needs to stop settling for crap parts. I get that it's a teen romance, but I've seen more sexual tension between siblings.
DOA, released in over 500 theaters, made a pathetic $232,000, while Eagle vs. Shark, released in only 3 theaters, made $21,000. All the blockbusters are still hanging on in the Top 10--Spider-Man 3 is teetering on the edge.
Next week the competition will be between the Steve Carrell comedy Evan Almighty, the John Cusack horror flick 1408, the Angelina Jolie drama A Mighty Heart, and the Parker Posey romantic comedic indie Broken English.
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