I have seen none of those movies, but I've heard good things about Mean Girls, and Nova likes Ella Enchanted (but mostly for the Anne Hathaway), and I think ita saw The Punisher. I don't recall hearing much good about it.

Have you seen the Lindsay Lohan Freaky Friday and Parent Trap movies? They're both really good, far better than I'd expected.

The first three quarters of "Mean Girls" is really good. I can vouch for that much. I like Anne Hathaway, though I thought that "Princess Diaries 2" was vastly superior to the first one, which I believe puts me in the minority.

I did see "Parent Trap," and it was better than I expected. I did not watch "Freaky Friday" because the promos drove me crazy, and I don't much like that story anyway. From the trailers I saw, Lindsay did seem to be better at playing an adult than Jamie Lee was at playing a teen, which was kind of interesting.

And I don't really expect "The Punisher" to be good. But it's a free rental, so it's ok.

Just turn the sound off and look at Thomas Jane in it.

Lindsay did seem to be better at playing an adult than Jamie Lee was at playing a teen

I haven't seen the movie (yet), but the one thing that every review I read of it agreed upon was that Jamie Lee Curtis was fantastic in it. Some people were talking about "Oscar nods that will never happen" and other such things. So, apparently, most of the critics disagree.

Ella Enchanted was mostly good because of Anne Hathaway, yes, but not because of the pretty exclusively - she has a presence. But the movie IS good outside of her. Incredibly cute. Which isn't to say that Hilary Duff couldn't have ruined it, I doubt there's anything she couldn't ruin, but the movie was still good on its own.

I think I may have liked PD2 more than PD1, but my perception of PD1 is colored by the books (because it actually sort of has something to do with them, which the second movie certainly did not. So I'm not really sure. I know I liked the first movie well enough to READ the books, but I remember thinking how much better the books were than the movie.

I enjoyed Freaky Friday, but there's a good reason Jamie Lee wouldn't get an Emmy for it. It wasn't that good. Depp deserved his for a comic turn -- she wasn't that much of a standout.

I enjoyed Parent Trap, but there's a good reason Jamie Lee wouldn't get an Emmy for it.

I was speaking of Freaky Friday, not Parent Trap.

Also, Emmy's go to television actors.

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Also, like I said, haven't seen it. The critics may have been smoking crack.

I saw it and was impressed with both Lohan and Curtis, although Curtis had a bigger share of the comedy.

Lindsay did seem to be better at playing an adult than Jamie Lee was at playing a teen

While this is true, the disturbing thing is that Lindsay was better at playing a matronly 40-something than Lindsay was at playing a teen. Very odd.

I did see "Parent Trap," and it was better than I expected.

I liked this movie a lot more before time passed, and suddenly the possibility that Dennis Quaid might someday be starring opposite Lindsey Lohan as his love interest became real. I mean, I like to think everyone involved would say "ew" and back away slowly, but that sort of thing isn't exactly unheard-of.

I hope Tom Hanks wins:

Hollywood hunks Russell Crowe, George Clooney, Tom Hanks and Hugh Jackman are battling for the lead role in movie adaptation of best-seller The Da Vinci Code. The film's director, Ron Howard will choose which actor would best suit the role of Robert Langdon, who discovers clues in Leonardo Da Vinci's paintings, which lead to the discovery of a religious mystery protected by a secret society for 2000 years. The novel's author, Dan Brown is currently suing Lewis Perdue, who claims his work has been plagiarized and is planning a rival Da Vinci film with reality TV king Mark Burnett.