We're Back!!

Yes, it's true! We are indeed back in action! I would like to take this time to apologize for the extremely long delay between posts! Hopefully that is a thing of the past now and I can get back into posting often and always!!

Now that that is out of the way, did you have a good new year? Seen anything good? Let me know, TheMovieFridge@gmail.com.

Over the month long hiatus I have had a chance to watch and re-watch alot of movies! Expect to see reviews for Black Swan, 127 hours, True Grit, The Fighter and alot more coming real soon.

I would like to kick off with some very recent news that I came across (and posted on the Twitter TheMovieFridge), there are 27, yes 27 movie sequels being released in 2011! and this is not including remakes, prequals or new movies based on other things, toys, comics!!!
I for one find this insane!, a quick bit of research confirmed that this is the most sequels to be released in a single year ever!!!!

So, are all these sequels needed or even wanted? Is Hollywood running out of ideas or are they just getting lazy? or is it a simple case of money money money?

Lets run through the list and find out.

• Cars 2
• Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules
• The Hangover Part II
• Happy Feet 2
• Hoodwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil
• Johnny English Reborn
• Kung Fu Panda 2
• Piranha 3DD
• Sherlock Holmes: The Book of Shadows
• Alvin and the Chipmunks: Chipwrecked
• Big Mommas House 2: Like Father, Like Son
• Madea’s Big Happy Family
• Paranormal Activity 3
• Transformers: Dark of the Moon
• Mission: Impossible Ghost Protocol
• Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
• Scream 4
• Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World
• The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn (Part One)
• Fast Five
• Final Destination 5
• Puss in Boots (Shrek 5)
• X-Men: First Class
• Winnie the Pooh 5
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two

Hmmm, seems a serious case of laziness and money money money!!

Lets break it down;

We are told that POTC and Transformers will be the last in the series, Bay and Bruckheimer knowing when to quit while he is ahead!

On fear of mass teen uprising, Harry Potter 5 and Twilight 4 were always set to make an appearence and are destined to continue!

Scream 4, Fast5 and Mission Impossible 4, all trying to re-ignite a dying franchise! Here's hoping they can can bring the films back to the glory days of the first releases!

Hangover 2, Sherlock Holmes 2 and Piranha 3DD are all first sequels so I am quite happy to leave these be and see what happens.

And lastely, do we honestly really need Happy Feet 2, Big Mommas House 3, Another Paranormal Activity, and Alvin and the Chipmunks! Come On!!!
They are all almost guarenteed to barely break even at the box office so whats the point! Good money being pumped into crap!!

Anyway, I hope looking through this list gives you something to think about about the upcoming releases and how they will affect your cinema going experience this year.

Darragh