All of the new DVD releases hit stores (and
Netflix) on Tuesdays. So each week in
What to Netflix: New DVD Tuesday, I sort through the best of the batch and tell you what to add to your queue. In addition to my selections below, you can also check out Jackie Chan and Jet Li in
The Forbidden Kingdom and Lee Pace in
The Fall.
First things first, Baby Mama ain't rocket science. And why should it be? It's a likeable, smile-inducing comedy with a couple of super-talented ladies at the helm: Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
Traditionally,
Memorial Day weekend is very kind to Summer blockbusters, and this year was no exception for
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. According to Variety, the return of the Steven Spielberg franchise
was his biggest movie opening ever, hauling in an estimated $126 million over the four-day holiday.
While these results are a career high for Spielberg, the film itself
did not break any box office records related to this holiday weekend or any other long weekend openings.
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian handily won the top stop at the box office over the weekend, though it failed to bring in as much as
the first Narnia film did in 2005.
In the "yikes" department,
Speed Racer (already struggling at the box office) dropped from third place to fourth, only earning an estimated $7.6 million this weekend.
Iron Man continued to set records, holding strong at second place while
What Happens in Vegas took third.
Update: As of this afternoon,
What Happens in Vegas beat out Speed Racer for the No. 2 spot at the box office, Variety reports.
It will come as no surprise to the majority of
movie critics who screened
Speed Racer that the highly anticipated Wachowski brothers' flick had a disappointing opening weekend.
The world has gone gaga for comedian Amy Poehler. The 36-year-old and her husband Will Arnett are starting a family, with their first baby due this Fall.
According to
People, the mama-to-be has been busy.
It's always exciting when a comedy that's genuinely funny does well with audiences, and that was the case this weekend with the female buddy comedy
Baby Mama starring Tina Fey and Amy Poehler.
The ladies won the top spot with an estimated $18.3 million, handily beating out the other comedy opening over the weekend,
Harold and Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay. EW reports that while
this wasn't the best movie opening for either Fey or Poehler, their film did much better than many box office watchers predicted.
I managed to sneak in a screening of
Baby Mama this weekend and was reminded that
Karaoke Revolution is a universal crowd pleaser. Without giving away any pivotal plot points of the movie I can reveal that Amy Poehler's character, the not-so-worldly Angie who Tina Fey's character Kate hires to carry her baby, spends ample time in Kate's apartment sharpening her Karaoke Revolution skills. The habit annoys Kate at first but eventually brings the two together when they join forces for a wicked "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" performance.
