Dinner for Schmucks, Release Date 7/30, Diva Screen Date 7/31

What can I say about Dinner for Schmucks? It's 114 minutes of my life I will NEVER get back!

I am not a big Steve Carell fan, but I love Paul Rudd so I thought it would be a fun movie.

It took forever to get to the dinner, lots of fumblin' bumblin' antics had to be done first. Once it did finally get to the dinner, it was great! That is what I had come to see, unfortunately that was only about 20 minutes of the entire movie. It should have been at least 45 minutes!

Jemaine Clement was probably the funnies person in the movie, excluding the dinner scene, as the artist Kieran. Don't waste your time on this one, get it from your local Redbox a few months down the road and skip right to the dinner scene. You won't miss a thing!

The Sorcerer's Apprentice, Release Date 7/14, Diva Screen Date 7/25

I must admit that I was not expecting much from The Sorcerer's Apprentice, other than dancing mops (which it had). I was wrong, it was actually a good movie! Far-fetched, as a movie about a sorcerer's apprentice should be.
This movie was clever and funny, I would also imagine highly entertaining to kids as it was to me.
The movie kicks off with a LOT of background info on how Balthazar came to be in the 2010's and the drama that goes with it. Dave, the Jay Baruchel character, is a bit nerdy and without confidence due to an incident from a decade prior. Still aching for the same girl from when he was 10 years old, he is now a physics major in college who seems way beyond the normal college student capacity of learning...good thing since he is the Prime Merlin apprentice (or something like that) and is sort of the new "chosen one". Nicolas Cage is funny and interesting to watch in this film, which is a first in a long time!
Dave, my husband...not the character in the movie...is a big pooper and I kind of want to drop you off at a showing of those crazy assed Twilight flicks and leave you there right now!.
Anyway, this movie is a Diva's thumbs up and thoroughly enjoyed. A great escape into air conditioning for about 2 hours.

Despicable Me, Release Date 7/9, Diva Screen Date 7/18

For all of previews and teasers over the last year, I was expecting a lot from this movie. Based on my expectations, it was just OK. I chose not to see the 3D version and instead go to a quieter theater to catch this. The loud guy in the back of the room may not have helped my opinion...

This movie felt like a mixture of The Grinch, A Christmas Carol, and Annie rolled into one (minus the Christmas themes). Gru was interestingly voiced by Steve Carell and was a fun "bad guy" that you couldn't help but like, sort of an underdog in the villain world.

My favorite character(s) had to be the Minions, they are adorable Twinkies looking characters and although you couldn't understand a word they were speaking you could still get the gist of what they were saying.

Of course it's necessary to have a villainous villain, which was voiced by Jason Segel and is Gru's nemesis.

Overall Movie Diva opinion: unless you have small kids, wait until this one comes on the premium channel.

Knight and Day, Release Date 6/23, Diva Screen Date 7/5

This is Tom Cruise at his best since Mission Impossible 1 or Jerry McGuire (OK, except for his run as Les Grossman in Tropic Thunder!), this is what we USED to expect from Cruise, funny with some action adventure thrown in.

Cameron Diaz is always great and is her understated hysterical best in this. Sweet and innocent yet downright hilarious.

I thought this movie may be a case of the best parts being shown on the trailers on TV, I was wrong! This was a great flick. It was fast paced and funny and didn't feel the need to show every single trick in excruciating detail (thinking of the drugged up scenes)...sometimes less really IS more!

Action abound, this is a Diva and hubby must see!

Grown Ups, Release Date 6/25, Diva Screen Date 7/3

Grown Ups was one of those movies that makes you laugh from the beginning until the end. All of the fat-guy jokes with Kevin James were sadly-hilarious, along with the extremely whipped version of a normally mouthy Chris Rock.

It's amazing how Adam Sandler shamelessly gives himself the hottest of the female leads (in this case Salma Hayek Pinault) and yet we are supposed to believe his self-deprecating humor.

This was very funny from the big boys making a "sissy" in the pool to the inappropriate drooling over two of Rob Schneider's three daughters. Dave commented, "not sure where they found those bimbos..." Sure honey, I believe your distastes in mile-long legs!

This was a good one, great to see all of these SNL guys back together again. Thanks Sandler, for making it happen!