Jason Cenzano (cenzano38)

Girl In Progress takes a good cast and places them in an unoriginal story with an unoriginal script. It makes sure to cover all the standard cliches for a movie like this. The cast is so strong that they almost make it work in spite of the bad story.

Eva Mendes and Cierra Ramirez have good chemistry as the mother and daughter struggling to make sense of their lives. Each gave very good individual performances. Cierra Ramirez did a very good job for someone having so little screen time. Matthew Modine and Patricia Arquette come out of big screen obscurity to give two good supporting performances.

There's no need to spend money on Girl In Progress, but that doesn't mean fans of coming of age stories shouldn't watch it on a movie channel or regular TV when it's aired.

While I went in not expecting anything, I've got to say that Battleship is a good summer movie. It has enough story to keep the movie going and plenty of action. The actors were perfect. Not trying to make their role something it wasn't. At over $200 million, the effects were great.

It did have a run-time of over 2 hours. The good news is that it doesn't really seem like it is. The score was full of good music and well placed. Between the shaky cam and the music, they were able to fool the audience into believing some very simple scenes were action packed, and increase intensity in other areas. It's a lot more frequent that the music is more distracting than being this good.

Battleship is a forgettable summer blockbuster that will help you pass part of the hot summer day in the A/C. It's worth going to the theater for.