You, Me and Dupree

Both Doris and I liked You, Me and Dupree. It had a number of great Owen Wilson moments, one of which you can see in this short clip here. The movie follows the "annoying guy you can't get rid of" storyline used in other great films like What About Bob? and Planes, Trains and Automobiles. The difference is that Owen Wilson is too goofy and lovable to ever really ingratiate. It's just a fun film and a nice shot-in-the-arm after the recent Superman Returns debacle.

Superman Returns

"Superman Returns" is up there as perhaps the worst superhero movie I've ever seen.
- Almost everyone is miscast, with the possible exception of Jimmy Olsen. Brandon Routh as Superman is especially uninteresting to watch.
- 98% of the humor in the previous movies is gone.
- It needed to be edited down to 90 minutes or so. Superman doesn't even show up for the first 40 minutes. I think we understand the origin story by this point. Krypton is gone. We get it.
- At least 10 minutes of the movie is devoted to the wreck of a giant train set. Don't ask.
- By all rights, Lois should have saved the planet instead of Superman since she is more indestructible. During the course of the movie, she gets tossed around inside a plane like a pinball without a scratch, her leg gets broken by a bad guy then spontaneously regenerated, and then she's hit on the head by a giant steel door with full force and only knocked out briefly (again, no blood).
- The much-touted "human side" of the script seems to be nothing but a recycling of tired lines & props from the first movie.
- Finally, Superman has learned the accumulated knowledge of 20 galaxies but somehow missed the part in superhero school where you don't try to save a falling plane by holding onto its wingtip.

Gosh this movie is dumb. Watch at your own risk.