The review in Slate mentions that even though the marketing campaign is atrocious the movie was charming enough to make up for it. I don't always agree with David Edelstein but the review is persuasive.

Ooh, just got this emailed to me:

Superhero Hype got official word from Warner Brothers that the Superman Returns trailer will indeed be playing with Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. The confirmed earlier reports that the trailer will run one minute thirty three seconds, and that it will be attached to Potter.

Dammit. Now I have to go see that.

I am deeply skeptical of GoF.

That Salon review is a rave indeed. She states that she didn't like the BBC mini though, which makes me go, hmmm. Can't quite imagine how Keira Knightley (whom I find to be a fairly limited actress, although with a pleasant-enough screen presence) would be a better Elizabeth than Jennifer Ehle, but I guess I'll have to see for myself. Of course, it won't open here for another couple of weeks and I seemed to have agreed to being dragged to see "Jarhead" tonight. Bah.

Stan Lee is doing a cameo in XMen 3.

I see... I was thinking someone was saying it was the band Collide... never heard of Howie.

Someone not liking the BBC production? Does this mean I can have Colin Firth?

Stephen Holden in the Times liked it, although he also seems to think Keira Knightley is the bee's knees. Which I doubt massively.

Nobody has yet topped Anthony Lane's hilarious disdain in the New Yorker. It was the sort of review that makes you want to watch the movie for a good laugh, and allows you to forgive yourself for liking a bit of claptrap. Everybody wins! Except keira Knightley, whose underbite he compares to the queen's from Aliens.

In other Times review news, Manohla Dargis has got it bad for Clive Owen. She dully recites how much she hated Derailed, and Jennifer Aniston, and the rest of the cast, and then has a whole paragraph about how wonderful Clive Owen is and how he could wipe the floor (and his nose) with Vincent Cassel. It was pretty funny.

So she's never seen the nazi kickboxing scene in Crimson Rivers then.

Just went and read Holden's review of the new P&P, and... OK.

When this 20-year-old star is on the screen, which is much of the time, you can barely take your eyes off her. Her radiance so suffuses the film that it's foolish to imagine Elizabeth would be anyone's second choice.

That's almost in the Roger Ebert-drooling over-Angelina Jolie territory. Favorable and fair review in other ways though, so that's cautiously encouraging.

Terry Gilliam may be able to to get his Don Quixote movie back in production.