Whether it's a sling from your web, a toss of your batterang, or a punch with your Hulk hands, summer is the perfect time to explore your inner superhero. The past decade has seen the sunny months defined by massive blockbuster hits, such as Iron Man and X-Men, and this year is set to be no different. With a handful of super-budget super-movies to be released in the coming months, there are two that could either be the next splash in the long line of superhero hits, or they could drop with a resounding thud into the nameless movie abyss where nothing is remembered except for how bad it was.
Green Lantern
Hitting the cinema in mid-June, The Green Lantern could easily be one of the summer's best movies. According to film reviews and critics, it could also very easily flop and be this year's version of Aquaman (you do remember when Aquaman came out, don't you?). A take on the classic DC comic of the same name, The Green Lantern is going to portray the beginnings of the Lantern on the planet Earth. Hal Jordan, played by Ryan Reynolds, gets chosen by the power ring of the Green Lantern community after its former owner crashes in the middle of the desert.
Jordan, no stranger to flying as a test pilot, immediately becomes part of the universal peace keeping corps known as the Green Lanterns. Never fond of humans, the rest of the Green Lanterns have fears of his initiation into the brotherhood; but Jordan's humanness allows him to combine empathy with determination in order to prove the other members wrong and overcome the evils of Parallax, the biggest threat to the universe.
Transformers: Dark of the Moon
With its ominous movie trailer that combines historical moon landing footage with a behind the scenes twist, the premise of this Transformers filmis based around the 1960s space race being about discovering a mysterious crash landing on the moon. The moon crash turns out to be an ark launched from the home planet of the Autobots years earlier in a failed attempt to save the Autobot race from the Decepticons. The technology is still buried on the moon when Sam Witwicky, played by Shia Leboeuf, and the normal cast of robot transformers set out to save the world, yet again, from the evil Decepticons. A signal is sent into space and the hibernating transformers emerge from their moon caves to participate in the fight for the universe. This time the fight is all along the Eastern Seaboard of the United States as both Washington D.C. and New York City get attacked by the space robots.
Unlike the Green Lantern, the Transformers seriesis at a place where it is almost too big to fail, even if it ends up being a lousy flick. The movie franchise is sure to rake in a huge amount of money and have massive box office numbers when it debuts on 1 July this year. Will it be big enough, however, to justify a fourth instalment of the morphing superheroes?
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