Movie Releases for December 2009

If you’re looking for movies to go and see over the Christmas period there’s something for everyone this year.

Starting 11 December, we kick off with my film of the year, “Where the Wild Things Are”, based on the best selling children’s book by Maurice Sendak. It tells the story of Max, who one evening plays around his home, “making mischief” in a wolf costume. As punishment, his mother sends him to bed without supper. In his room, a mysterious, wild forest and sea grows out of his imagination, and Max sails to the land of the Wild Things. This is an extremely heartwarming movie of how a young boy deals with his emotions through his adventures with the wild things. Release Date: 11 December 2009.

We also have the usual seasonal movie in the 3D animated adaptation of A Christmas Carol, based on the classic Charles Dickens story, with Scrooge being voiced by Jim Carey. Release Date: Out Now.

There’s also comedy in two British movies. Martin Freeman (The Office) stars in “Nativity” a comedy about a teacher who gets in over his head whilst in charge of putting on the schools nativity play. Release Date: Out Now.

Then the bad girls are to cause more mayhem in St Trinians: The Legend of Fritton’s Gold. Most of the original cast are back including Rupert Everett as Miss Fritten and the Doctor himself, David Tennant also joins the cast. This time the girls of St. Trinians are on the hunt for buried treasure after discovering headmistress Miss Fritton is related to a famous pirate. Release Date: 18 December.

Then after 10 years in the making we get James Cameron’s “Avatar” screening in 3D, or what has now been dubbed by the internet community “Dances with Smurfs”. Avatar’ tells the story of an ex-Marine who finds himself in a war-zone on an alien planet. Now an Avatar – a human mind in an alien body – the ex-Marine must fight for the survival of both himself and the planet’s inhabitants.

There’s high expectations for this but after a couple of trailers its looking like it isn’t the mind blowing film Cameron was promising. In fact it looks mediocre and the CGI pales in comparison to the likes of Transformers and Iron Man. This could either be great or a rather large of Christmas Turkey! Release Date: 16 December Advance Screenings, General Release: 17 December.

Finally, being released on Christmas day is Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes” starring Robert Downey Jnr, Jude Law and Mark Strong. So far from the trailers and with an impressive cast this movie is looking like a lot of fun and hopefully should mark Ritchie’s return to form.

I’m really looking forward to seeing this, although I wont be missing my Christmas Avatar, I mean turkey in order to see it on release day. Release Date: 25 December.

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