'X-Men: First Class' (June 3)
Starring: Michael Fassbender, James McAvoy, January Jones
What it is: "X-Men: First Class" is set in the early 1960s, showing how the X-Teens at Xavier's School For Gifted Youngsters became the X-Adults. That means the cast is newer and younger and dealing with the Cuban Missile Crisis. You probably never knew that mutant(因基因变异而不同的) superheroes were part of that thing. That's what you get for sleeping through history class.
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'Super 8' (June 10)
Starring: Riley Griffiths, Joel Courtney, Elle Fanning
What it is : It's 1979 and some geeky, filmmaking kids find an alien. Not a cute one. You can call "Super 8" "Lost" co-creator J.J. Abrams' more menacing "E.T." if you want but what you can't call it is a sequel or remake or reboot. And for a big movie landing smack-dab(恰好地) in the middle of the summer movie season, that feels like some kind of miracle.
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'Green Lantern' (June 17)
Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard
What it is: Reynolds is The "Green Lantern." He wears a green suit, fights bad guys and works with an interplanetary(行星间的) corps of power-ring-wearing space cops to maintain order in the universe. Blake Lively plays someone who wears really fashionable clothes, no doubt. OK, lie, she plays an aerospace executive.
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'Mr. Popper's Penguins' (June 17)
Starring: Jim Carrey, Carla Gugino, Angela Lansbury
What it is: In "Mr. Popper's Penguins," a heartless corporate type (Carrey) learns to be nice when a brood of penguins show up at his doorstep (no word on whether or not he also learns to do that marching thing they're so famous for). Based on the beloved classic children's book, it could go a long way toward erasing the memory of Carrey's creepy animated "A Christmas Carol."
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'Bad Teacher' (June 24)
Starring: Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Jason Segel
What it is: In "Bad Teacher," Cameron Diaz drinks and smokes weed. In the classroom. She hates the kids. She doesn't care if they learn. Think an easier-on-the-eyes Billy Bob Thornton minus the Santa suit and you have every teacher union's worst public relations nightmare.
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'Cars 2' (June 24)
Starring: Owen Wilson, Larry The Cable Guy, Michael Caine
What it is: Um… OK, so… now the cars are… spies? Whatever, "Cars 2" is about these talking cartoon automobiles, see, and you have to take your children to it. No exceptions. It's the Pixar joint that's least loved by adults and most loved by the under-10s, but you have to concede that even when this studio is only batting .500, that's a way better average than just about everybody else.
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'Transformers: Dark of the Moon' (July 1)
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
What it is: In "Transformers: Dark of the Moon," the cars-that-turn-into-robots continue their never-ending quest to fight and fight and fight and fight. And this time they do all that on the moon and in 3-D. Haters are invited to go see "The Help" or that new Woody Allen movie, whatever it's called.
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'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows -- Part Two' (July 15)
Starring: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
What it is: 'Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows -- Part Two' is THE movie of the summer, 10 years in the making. When other sequels tell you they're the last in the series, they're always lying to you. This one isn't. So long, Harry.
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'Winnie The Pooh' (July 15)
Starring: Voices of Jim Cummings, John Cleese, Craig Ferguson
What it is: In "Winnie the Pooh," Eeyore the donkey needs a new tail so Pooh and his pals in the Hundred Acre Wood help him find one. Honey is also consumed. And then Piglet and Tigger turn into giant metallic fighting robots and make fart jokes. Guess which one of those plot points is fake.
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'Captain America: The First Avenger' (July 22)
Starring: Chris Evans, Hugo Weaving, Tommy Lee Jones
What it is: The theme song to the crudely animated Saturday morning cartoon of the 1960s really says it all about "Captain America: The First Avenger": "When Captain America throws his mighty shield, all those who chose to oppose his shield must yield. If he's led to a fight and a duel is due, then the red and the white and the blue'll come through." And in this introductory course in all things Captain, he throws his shield at Nazis during World War II. Klang!
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'Cowboys & Aliens' (July 29)
Starring: Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Olivia Wilde
What it is: "Cowboys and Aliens" is exactly what it says it is — cowboys in the Old West find themselves battling aliens, only without the benefit of a history of science-fiction movies and TV shows informing their sensibility. In other words, no "Star Wars" points of reference to hang their strategy on. Sorry, Han Solo.
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'The Smurfs' (July 29)
Starring: Neil Patrick Harris, Jayma Mays, Hank Azaria
What it is: It's "The Smurfs(蓝精灵)," an adventure revolving around characters who haven't been seen on Saturday-morning TV for decades — not that selling nostalgia to parents and cute CG creatures to kids wasn't a winning formula for the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" franchise. The tiny blue dudes (and one tiny Smurfette) cross over from their magical land to New York City where, presumably, Harris can at least help them pick up hard-to-get tickets for Broadway shows.
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'Rise of the Planet of the Apes' (Aug. 5)
Starring: James Franco, Freida Pinto, Andy Serkis
What it is: The prequel(前传) "Rise of the Planet of the Apes" is actually sort of a remake([电影或歌曲的]新版，改编版) of 1972's "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes," which was one of the sequels to the original "Planet of the Apes," which was itself weirdly remade by Tim Burton a few years back. Confused yet? Have a banana and calm down.
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'The Help' (Aug. 12)
Starring: Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Sissy Spacek
What it is: "The Help" is that book everybody's book club loved so much. White Southern belles and their African-American maids negotiate the upheaval surrounding the civil-rights movement of the 1960s.
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'Fright Night' (Aug. 19)
Starring: Colin Farrell, Anton Yelchin, Toni Collette
What it is : "Fright Night" is a remake of the schlocky 1985 horror movie that no one was demanding be remade.
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'Spy Kids 4: All The Time in The World' (Aug. 19)
Starring: Jessica Alba, Jeremy Piven, Joel McHale
What it is: In "Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World," the spy kids grew up and, presumably, went off to spy university or something, but they do appear — in what capacity is uncertain — in this movie that's all about Jessica Alba as a spy mom . Look, whatever it takes.
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'Conan the Barbarian' (Aug. 19)
Starring: Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Rose McGowan
What it is: "Conan the Barbarian" gets the reboot treatment with newcomer Momoa ("Stargate Atlantis," "Game of Thrones") as the man who devotes equal time to sword-swinging, death-avenging and pectoral-oiling. There was much more opportunity to fully commit oneself to each pursuit in fantasy olden times of yore(很久以前).
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'Final Destination 5' (Aug. 26)
Starring: Nicholas D'Agosto, Emma Bell, David Koechner
What it is: With "Final Destination 5," Death is not a guy you can trust to just go away, even after he promises everything's cool. He's got more teens to kill in convoluted(错综复杂的) ways, this time starting with a suspension bridge collapse and, who knows, maybe winding up(以…告终) at a miniature golf course. All bets are off.