We have a bad feeling about this.We advise you to stay away from these 2011 turkeys.
Natalie Portman and Ashton Kutcher" in No Strings Attached" (Paramount Pictures)
As professional movie watchers, part of our job is figuring out what movies are actually worth watching. You know, separating the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff, the "National Treasures" from the "National Treasure: Book of Secretses." And as the 2011 release schedule shapes up before us, we're seeing a few risky propositions being put forward -- movies that might turn out to be considerably less than the sums of their parts.
Let's take a look at the list... as a strictly hypothetical exercise, of course. You never know; that "Transformers" threequel could be the movie that finally makes people hail Michael Bay as the modern-day equivalent of Michelangelo Antonioni. Autobots have their existentialist moments, right?