In Theaters: September 12, 2014

There are TWO wide releases this weekend.

Dolphin Tale 2

From not legendary director Charles Martin Smith comes the sequel to 2011's Dolphin Tale.  The original was inspired by a true story.  I don't actually know what that true story was, but judging by the prosthetic fin on the dolphin in the poster, I'm gonna say it was about giving a dolphin a prosthetic fin.  Fin is probably not the correct term but that's okay with me.  This is my blog.

Nothing about this suggests to me that it will be bad.  And I like that Ashley Judd and Harry Connick Jr. are in it.  There is one thing that makes me raise an eyebrow though: while the original was inspired by a true story, this one is not.  I'm trying to think of any other time that's happened.

Dolphin Tale 2 is rated PG for some mild thematic elements.

P.S. Director Charles Martin Smith is the one who brought us Air Bud in 1997.  Say what you will about Air Bud.  I give points for cultural staying power.

No Good Deed

I knew nothing about this until moments ago.  Except that a movie by this name was being released this fall.  Anyway here goes!

No Good Deed seems to center around a home invasion.  Remember when Harrison Ford played a bad guy in What Lies Beneath?  And everyone was like, "Wait.  Harrison Ford is the bad guy?"  Well it's Idris Elba's turn.  He usually plays good guys.  Not this time!

We already know female lead Taraji P. Henson can kick butt because we've seen her as that lady detective in the TV show Person of Interest (shoutout to my brother, Dan, for introducing me to that show - see his blog if you want!  just click here).

Director Sam Miller is pretty much a TV man, having directed many episodes of many television series.  Most notably (for this post) he directed several episodes of the British series "Luther," which stars . . . Idris Elba!  This is how actors get jobs a lot of the time.

For the uninitiated, this is probably where you know the name Idris Elba:

that guy from Thor that does the Rainbow Bridge thing

All in all No Good Deed looks pretty solid to me.  The only thing I feel I must mention is the tagline.  It's one of the worst this year for sure.

"First he gets into your house.  Then he gets into your head."

How awful.

No Good Deed is rated PG-13 for sequences of violence, menace, terror, and for language.

      Big Shot Critic