So last week brought us the second installment of “Transformers”. In this one it starts two years after the first battle on earth between the Autobots and the Decepticons. Sam Witwickey (Shia LaBeouf) is starting college and is trying his best not to lose touch with his sexy girlfriend Mikaela (Megan Fox). The Decepticons are bent on revenge and they are searching for a secret weapon that was left on Earth many, many years ago by their ancestors. Leading them this time around is their original ruler “The Fallen”, who wants nothing less than the death of Optimus Prime. Meanwhile, the Autobots have joined forces with the humans in an attempt to keep the scattered Decepticons from causing anymore damage on the planet.

So I took my kids to see “Monsters vs. Aliens”. This animated movie is about a woman named Susan Murphy (Reese Witherspoon) who is hit by a giant meteor and grows 49 feet in height. The government captures her, renames her “Ginormica” and puts her at a secret location where they have hidden all monsters since the 50’s. In the facility she meets “Dr. Cockroach Ph.D” (Hugh Laurie), “The Missing Link” (Will Arnett), “B.O.B.” (Seth Rogen), and a 350 foot grub named “Insectosaurus”. They are soon teamed up to save the planet from a giant alien robot that lands in California. But the robot won’t be they’re only problem, for his alien master “Galaxhar” is on his way to Earth and he’s not looking to be friendly.

This past weekend the movie Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa came out and everyone from the first hit movie was there for a second helping of funny. Just to brush you up on the story. In the first one, four animals from the Central Park Zoo, Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippopotamus (Jada Pinkett–Smith) escaped from the zoo and when they get captured are sent away on freight to Africa. They fall off the ship and end up in Madagascar. Well in this one, along with the help from their friends the penguins, who also left the zoo and are in Madagascar, they hatch up a plan to get back to New York on a plane that was wrecked on the island.

This weekend Ben Stiller took a poke at Hollywood actors and how shallow and self involved they can be. The movie is “Tropic Thunder” and let me just say that Ben has hit a home run with this movie. The movie is about three famous actors and a successful rapper who star in a war movie being filmed in South America. This movie is set to have the biggest budget ever for a war movie, with the cast that it has brought together, the only thing is they are terrible together and have been costing the studio way too much money. So after the studio pulls the plug on the project, the director decides to drop our group in the deep jungle of South America and film the movie with realism. He doesn’t tell the cast this very important piece of information though. Once there, our cast find themselves in deep trouble when they encounter real Asian soliders, which are not too happy about them coming into their territory.