"CLASH" IS A TITAN

Director Louis Leterrier's Clash of the Titans (3-D) remake was Box Office gold this Easter weekend, pulling in a stunning $64.1 million dollars from 3,777 screens. The Warner Bros. film stars Hollywood's most bankable new actor Sam Worthington (Avatar), Ralph Fiennes and Liam Neeson. A strong cast wasn't enough to save it from being ripped to shreds by critics. Also, foreign totals have yet to come in, but it won't be long before this one recoups its $125 million budget. Well done, indeed.  Did any of you see it?  I'm still on the fence about it.

Director/actor Tyler Perry has his market cornered and they turned out again this weekend to show their ardent support for his latest effort Why Did I Get Married Too?, which came in second with $30.1 million from 2,700 theatres. The Lionsgate film stars Janet Jackson, Jill Scott, Sharon Leal, Louis Gossett Jr.,  Michael Jai White and Perry himself.

The year's best-reviewed film How to Train Your Dragon from Disney earned $29.2 million in its second week bringing its total to $92.3 million in earnings. Worldwide, the film has made $134.6 million and should be sticking around the Top Ten for a while as the positive word-of-mouth continues to spread.

Alice in Wonderland (3-D) hangs on in fifth with $8.2 million this weekend, just surpassing the $300 million in earnings mark domestically.

Comedies Hot Tub Time Machine ($8 million), The Bounty Hunter ($6.2 million), She's Out of My League ($1.4 million) and the incredibly resilient Shutter Island just hangs on to a spot in the Top Ten with $1.4 million. Click on the links to read reviews for each of these.

Fox's Date Night opens in 3,300 screens next Friday. Expect a massive debut for the comedy starring Tina Fey and Steve Carell.

REVIEW: SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE

Great acting, direction and a strong storyline make for a great time in director Jim Field Smith's She's Out of My League.  Upon first seeing the trailers and advertisements for the romantic comedy, I recall having rolled my eyes at the many times-done plot line of Average Joe/Geek-conquers-heart of Hot Babe.   She's Out of My League however, is unique enough to stand on its own and I was pleasantly surprised.

Canadian actor Jay Baruchel plays Kirk, an awkward, modest and all-around-nice guy who works as an airport passenger scan terminal clerk.  By chance one day, he runs into gorgeous Event Planner Molly (Alice Eve) in a rush to catch her flight.  After Kirk's pervy boss tries purposely to delay Molly's scan as he admires her beauty, he interjects and helps her on her way.  She forgets her iPhone though at the Scanning Station and Kirk has to return it to her.  They coordinate a meet-up and from there the sparks start to fly between the odd couple.  Pretty implausible, but Sean Anders/John Morris' script makes it all work fine with fully-fleshed dialogue and richly developed characters.

Things aren't smooth sailing for Kirk and Molly though.  Kirk's family and friends constantly do and say things to reinforce how Molly simply is "out of his league".  Kirk's supportive friends rate him a "Five" and Molly a "Hard Ten" on that proverbial Scale of Ten and the constant see-sawing of defeating Kirk with belittling and the sweet victories he earns as we see how Molly is genuinely into him, pretty much drives the entire film.  The fact of the matter though is that the lovers come from two completely different worlds and we are curious to see whether or not their lifestyle differences are enough to tear them apart.