Summer Action Movies

This summer will be a summer full of action at the movie theaters. Many of the classic series like “X-Men” and “Pirates of the Caribbean” will continue. There will also be many superhero movies coming out this summer like: “Thor,” “Green Lantern,” and “Captain America: the First Avenger.”
The God of Thunder, “Thor”, will hit the big screen at the beginning of the summer. The movie will tell the story of how Thor (Chris Hemsworth) gets kick out of his natal home of Asgar by his father, Odion (Anthony Hopkins) and sent to live on Earth because of his arrogant ways. Once on Earth, Thor falls in love with Jane Foster (Natalie Portman) and with her help, he is able to leave his arrogant ways. At this time, a villain from Asgar plans to attack Earth and Thor must work to defend the Earth from this great evil. Senior Carlos Draine said, “This movie is going to be awesome because Thor is the only good superhero there is.” The movie will premiere on May 6.
The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise will continue telling the crazy stories of the big-hearted but treasure crazy, Jack Sparrow. Junior Phonesavanh Soutchay said, “I can’t wait to see this movie because Johnny Depp is hot! Plus the music always gets me going.” In “The Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides,” Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) and his most loyal friend Barbossa (Geoffrey Rush) are persuaded by Angelica (Penelope Cruz), one of Sparrows past love and Daughter to Blackbeard (Ian MacShane), to go in search of the the Fountain of Youth. Angelica forces Sparrow and Barbossa to get on her infamous father’s ship, the “Queen Anne’s Revenge” in order to help search for the fountain. But Sparrow soon discovers that this was a terrible mistake. The movie plans to premier on May 20.
The X-Men franchise will come out with another installment of the mutants and the obstacles they face in a world that does not particularly like them. But this movie, “X-Men: First Class,” will be different from the rest because instead of telling the story of how Dr. Xavier’s school and Magneto’s Brotherhood of Evil Mutants deal with the the threats that the mutants face, this movie will tell the story of how it all began. In other words, it will tell about how Professor Charles Xavier (James McAvoy) came together with his best friend, Erik Lensherr, also known as Magneto (Micheal Fassbender) and other mutants to rid the world of a great threat. While trying to save the world, the friends have many disagreements and inevitably turn on each other. Junior Kate Ross said, “I can’t wait to see how the story of the X-Men began. I love all these movies.” This movie is set to come out on June 3.
A DC Entertainment movie will be released this summer, “Green Lantern.” Freshman Dustin Lard said, ” I think the Green Lantern will be way better than Captain America becuase he is a better superhero.” Hal Jordan (Ryan Reynolds) will become the first human to be incorporated in the Green Lantern Corps., an organization which its goal is to keep the peace in the universe. Jordan is not trusted by many of the Green Lanterns because they don’t trust humans. But when Hector Hammond (Peter Sarsgaard) threatens the Earth and the universe, the Green Lantern’s realize that Jordan is their only hope. This movie will be released on June 17.
Finally, Marvel Studios is planing on releasing “Captain America: The First Avenger.” It tells the story of Steve Rogers (Chris Evans). Born during the Great Depression to a poor family, he suffered from health problems all his life. But when he saw the horrible things that the Nazis were doing, he felt the need to enter the war. He was denied because of his health but he insisted on joining. As a result, General Chester Phillips(Tommy Lee Jones) offers him to take part of an experiment known as Operation:Rebirth. During the experiment, he was given Super-Soldier Serum which gave him the perfect human body. But the army quickly decided that he is far too expensive to risk in the war so they decide to parade him throughout Europe with a patriotic costume, in order to raise the morale. But when Captain America gets wind of a plan by the Nazis allies, he must go into action and try and defeat his archenemy, The Red Skull (Hugo Weaving). This movie is set to be released on July 22.