Weekend Openings Report - March 23

March 22, 2007

A quick look at what's opening and what to choose this weekend at the theaters.

Opening on March 23rd is: The Hills Have Eyes 2, The Last Mimzy, Pride, Reign Over Me, Shooter, and TMNT.

The Hills Have Eyes 2

Directed by: Martin Weisz
Starring: Jessica Stroup, Daniella Alonso, Lee Thompson Young, Ben Crowley
Rated: R
Story: A group of National Guard trainees are attacked by mutants during a training mission in the New Mexico desert.
Rotten Tomatoes: 8%

The Last Mimzy

Directed by: Robert Shaye
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Joely Richardson, Rainn Wilson, Michael Clarke Duncan
Rated: PG
Story: A box of toys sent from the future is found by two siblings who develop special and terrifying new abilities soon after their discovery. Together, along with their parents and one of their teachers, they are drawn into a strange new world.
Rotten Tomatoes: 55%

Pride

Directed by: Sunu Gonera
Starring: Terrence Howard, Bernie Mac, Tom Arnold, Regine Nehy
Rated: PG
Story: At the Philadelphia Department of Recreation, coach Jim Ellis (Howard) turns a group of troubled teens into one of the best swim teams in the country.
Rotten Tomatoes: 46%

Reign Over Me

Directed by: Mike Binder
Starring: Adam Sandler, Don Cheadle, Jada Pinkett Smith, Liv Tyler
Rated: R
Story: Emotionally shut off after losing his wife and daughters in an accident, Charlie Fineman (Sandler) runs into his old college buddy, Alan Johnson (Cheadle). Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help Charlie begin to wrestle with his grief.
Rotten Tomatoes: 65%

Shooter

Directed by: Antoine Fuqua
Starring: Mark Wahlberg, Michael PeÃ±a, Danny Glover, Kate Mara
Rated: R
Story: A marksman (Wahlberg) living in exile is coaxed back into action after learning of a plot to kill the president. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, he goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why.
Rotten Tomatoes: 48%

TMNT

Directed by: Kevin Munroe
Starring: Patrick Stewart, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Chris Evans, Ziyi Zhang
Rated: PG
Story: Humankind's only hope against a disgruntled tech-industrialist's plan for world domination rests with a team of ninja-trained turtles who live in the sewers: Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello and Raphael. But first they have to get over the humiliation they suffered at the hands of their arch-nemesis - a defeat which caused the Turtles to grow apart.
Rotten Tomatoes: 29%