A Decade in Cinema: 2007

And they are:


Catch and Release
Epic Movie
Norbit
Music and Lyrics
The Number 23
Reno 911!: Miami
Wild Hogs
300
Reign Over Me
Blades of Glory
Grindhouse
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters
Waitress
Spider-Man 3
Georgia Rule
Shrek the Third
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
Knocked Up
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
Evan Almighty
Ratatouille
License to Wed
Transformers
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Hairspray
I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry
The Simpsons Movie
Bratz: The Movie
Hot Rod
Rush Hour 3
Superbad
Balls of Fury
Shoot 'Em Up
Across the Universe
The Darjeeling Limited
The Comebacks
Dan in Real Life
American Gangster
Bee Movie
Fred Claus
No Country For Old Men
P2
August Rush
Enchanted
Juno
Alvin and the Chipmunks
I Am Legend
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story
The Great Debaters
The Bucket List

And the standouts are:
1. Blades of Glory - One of Will Ferrell's last solid comedies that ranks alongside "Dodgeball" as one of the best lowbrow slapstick movies of the decade and also features some of the funniest ice skating choreography to be put into a film.
2. Knocked Up - Helped launch Seth Rogen's career and showed that slackers with pop culture references to spare could be hilarious and useful members of society.
3. The Simpsons Movie - Because it's hard for me to really hate a movie based on the show I've been watching for majority of my life. Thankfully, it is a quality, solid effort.
4. Hot Rod - With "Blades of Glory", sets slapstick and lowbrow at new highs for the decade and is easily the most entertaining of the two.
5. Superbad - Launched Michael Cera to hunk status and helped to redefine yet again the cliche teenage gross-out comedy with a tale that shows what teens truly love in a way that is simultaneously complex and believable.
6. Bee Movie - Another awesome animated movie from Dreamworks that I felt was very good and entertaining despite a cameo by John Goodman that almost trashed all the credibility.
7. No Country For Old Men - I don't know why, but the memory of this film resonates and I feel that it's got many moments that should be iconic in decades to come.
8. Enchanted - One of Disney's best for the decade, but only simply because Amy Adams gave the movie charm. Next time, just put her in front of a green screen and you have a guaranteed classic.
9. Juno - One of my top ten for the decade. It took Kevin Smith's pop culture lingo and made it more teen worthy. The characters were very hip and came across as animated and by doing that because too hard to resist, making Ellen Page one of the latest young actresses worth talking about.
10. Sweeney Todd - Probably the best Johnny Depp/Tim Burton movie this decade and also one of my favorite musicals at the same time.
11. Walk Hard - The movie's strengths were not in the accuracy of story, but more in the songs and John C. Reiley's performance that helped kept the movie solid from beginning to end.

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