The Ten Summer 2010 Movies We're Most Excited to See

Believe it or not, the summer movie season is right around the corner. With only a few weeks to go, we're busy planning our extensive movie coverage for May-August 2010 and trying to determine what's going to work and what's going to suck. The bad news? It looks like there will be a lot more suck this summer season than usual. Maybe you’ll have more time to get outside. In fact, we can't remember a summer less exciting than this one in a long time – so much so that it was actually difficult to come up with a top ten list that truly could be four-star caliber. The list of movies that could populate "Movies We're LEAST Excited to See" could be just as long. (As for what would make that list, we can only dread Sex and the City 2 more if it were in 3D, The Twilight Saga: Eclipse is unlikely to suck any less than the first two, a remake of The Karate Kid sounds like torture, we're totally ambivalent about another Shrekmovie even existing, M. Night Shyamalan has a lot to prove with The Last Airbender, there's a damn Marmaduke movie on the way, and, oh yeah, there's a Step Up movie in 3D this summer. Now awful in three dimensions!)

As for that gray area of “question mark” titles, films that could be surprisingly good or could be total junk, there are a few potential stand-outs includingGeorge A. Romero's Survival of the Dead (5/28), Grown Ups (6/25), The Other Guys (8/6), and Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (5/28). And there are at least four titles that might as well have the words "guilty pleasure" on their poster including Piranha 3-D (8/27), The A-Team (6/11), Predators (7/9), andThe Expendables (8/20).

What does that leave? A few movies well worth marking the calendar for and a few question marks that have snuck their way into a top ten they'd be nowhere near in recent summers. (All plots courtesy of IMDB, which means they were likely provided by the individual studios.)