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Why you should see it: At their best, Vaughn and Aniston have the whole comedy thing down pat.

Why you should not: Test audiences despised the ending, so a new, happier one was recently shot.

June 6

The Omen Starring: Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles and a freaky evil kid who isn't Dakota Fanning for once

Directed by: John Moore (Behind Enemy Lines)

Written by: Dan McDermott

What it's about: A prominent ambassador (Schreiber) adopts a little boy who turns out to be the son of Satan. They already made this movie a bunch of times, but June 6 will be 6-6-06, which seems reason enough for another half-baked remake.

Why you should see it: The 1976 Richard Donner movie didn't exactly cry out for a do-over, but at least this one has a high standard to aim for.

Why you should not: Compelling remakes of '70s horror movies come around about, oh, never.

June 9

A Prairie Home Companion Starring: Meryl Streep, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan and Garrison Keillor

Directed by: Robert Altman

Written by: Garrison Keillor

What it's about: Set behind the scenes of Keillor's beloved National Public Radio show, the movie chronicles a fictional finale in which the St. Paul station that airs the show has been sold to a Texas conglomerate.

Why you should see it: It is a great movie — a two-hour good-time grin with some surprising moments of heartbreak.

Why you should not: Even if you don't love Keillor's show or Altman's movies, this sucker packs some profound magic. Perhaps that's not your thing, either?

Cars Starring: The voices of Owen Wilson, Bonnie Hunt and Paul Newman

Written and directed by: John Lasseter (Toy Story, A Bug's Life)

What it's about: Wilson plays hotshot racer Lightning McQueen, who gets stuck in podunk Radiator Springs, where antics and puns ensue and, shucks, he just might learn a little something about life.

Why you should see it: This is Pixar, people. Their mixture of eye-popping animation, anthropomorphic characters and celebrity voices hasn't yielded a single dud.

Why you should not: Something in the trailers suggests this might be the movie where the Pixar formula goes astray. After the talking toys, fish, monsters and insects, cars just seem a little pedestrian.

June 16

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift Starring: Lucas Black (Jarhead), Bow Wow and Zachary Ty Bryan

Directed by: Justin Lin (Better Luck Tomorrow)

Written by: Alfredo Botello, Chris Morgan (Cellular) and Kario Salem (The Score)

What it's about: Brightly colored cars in illegal street races ... this time in Japan. The bad news is that efforts to bring back Vin Diesel fell through. The good news is that Paul Walker's gone, too.

Why you should see it: Better Luck Tomorrow showed that Justin Lin had the chops to direct an edgy youth movie.

Why you should not: But Annapolis proved him capable of much worse.

The Lake House Starring: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Shohreh Aghdashloo

Directed by: Alejandro Agresti (Valentin)

Written by: David Auburn (Proof)

What it's about: It's like Speed, but without a bus, a bomb or Dennis Hopper. And with a mailbox that transports love letters through time. A remake of the Korean film Il Mare, in which a man and woman write each other letters, only to discover that they're both living in the same house but in different time periods — two years apart.

Why you should see it: Could Keanu plus time travel equal an excellent adventure?

Why you should not: Every other love story Keanu has ever done. Also, Valentin was cloying, annoying crap.

Nacho Libre Starring: Jack Black and Efren Ramirez

Directed by: Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite)

Written by: Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess and Mike White

What it's about: Black (Nacho) plays a Mexican cook who stuffs his face into a wrestler's mask to save his financially strapped orphanage.

Why you should see it: Mike White wrote the best part Jack Black's ever been given, as Dewey Finn in School of Rock.

Why you should not: Because Napoleon Dynamite was a great four-minute movie that went on just a little too long.

June 23

Click Starring: Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken and David Hasselhoff

Directed by: Frank Coraci (The Waterboy)

Written by: Jack Giarraputo, Tim Herlihy (almost every Sandler movie to date), Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe (Bruce Almighty), and Sandler

What it's about: Sandler obtains a magic remote control that can control the universe. Pausing, rewinding and replaying in slow motion the world around him is a lot of fun ... until the remote gets stuck in fast-forward.

Why you should see it: Whatever you may think of Sandler, a movie that brings Walken and Hasselhoff together cannot be all bad.

Why you should not: Seems like it has a good premise, but so did The Benchwarmers at one point.

Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties Starring: Bill Murray, Breckin Meyer and Jennifer Love Hewitt

Directed by: Tim Hill (Muppets From Space)

Written by: Joel Cohen (Cheaper by the Dozen)

What it's about: America's favorite fat cat 20 years ago takes a trip to jolly old London and switches places with a rich, fat feline in this essential sequel to 2004's Garfield. For more information, read Mark Twain's The Prince and the Pauper.

Why you should see it: Old pro Bill Murray can get laughs reading obituaries.

Why you should not: He's Bill Murray, not He Who Is Risen.

Waist Deep Starring: Tyrese Gibson (Four Brothers), Meagan Good (Roll Bounce) and Larenz Tate (Crash)

Directed by: Vondie Curtis-Hall (Gridlock'd)

Written by: Curtis-Hall, Michael Mahern (Mobsters ) and Darin Scott (Tales From the Hood)

What it's about: An ex-convict (Gibson) is driven to desperation when his son is kidnapped and held for ransom by a vicious crime lord. He begins to rob banks to raise the ransom, but only banks where the thug has an account.

Why you should see it: It's rated R, and based on the preview, it looks like the two beautiful leads get sweaty.

Why you should not: Curtis-Hall directed Glitter. That's right, Glitter.

June 30

The Devil Wears Prada Starring: Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Adrien Grenier

Directed by: David Frankel (Entourage, Sex and the City)

Written by: Aline Brosh McKenna (Laws of Attraction) and Don Roos (The Opposite of Sex), based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger

What it's about: Big-screen adaptation of Weisberger's thinly disguised "fiction" book about working as assistant to Vogue editor in chief Anna Wintour (Streep).

Why you should see it: Streep rarely chooses unredeemable projects.

Why you should not: Do we care how hard it is to work for a fashion magazine?

Superman Returns Starring: Brandon Routh, Kate Bosworth and Kevin Spacey

Directed by: Bryan Singer (X-Men, X-2)

Written by: Michael Dougherty and Dan Harris

What it's about: Set five years after Superman II, more or less, Superman returns from self-imposed exile to find Lois Lane with a kid and Lex Luthor out of prison, with yet another plan for world domination.

Why you should see it: Singer made the X-Men movies into something accessible to mainstream audiences without sacrificing their comic-book roots; he made superheroes human.

Why you should not: Look, it can't be any worse than Superman IV: The Quest for Peace.

July 5

Little Man Starring: Marlon and Shawn Wayans

Directed by: Keenen Ivory Wayans (Scary Movie, Scary Movie 2)

Written by: The Wayans brothers

What it's about: A digitally altered Shawn Wayans plays a weensy little criminal mistaken for a baby by a wannabe dad (Marlon).

Why you should see it: Consider it your biennial dose of Wayans charm.

Why you should not: Perhaps you recall White Chicks?

July 7

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest Starring: Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Keira Knightley

Directed by: Gore Verbinski (Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)

Written by: Ted Elliott and Terry Rossio (Shrek), based on the Disneyland ride

What it's about: Bill Nighy joins the fun as supernatural villain Davey Jones, out to collect the soul of Captain Jack Sparrow (Depp) just in time to ruin the marriage plans of Will (Bloom) and Elizabeth (Knightley).

Why you should see it: Depp's Jack Sparrow is one of the most entertaining characters in cinematic history.

Why you should not: Bloom's still a stiff. And Chow Yun-Fat is in part three, not this one.

July 14

Pulse Starring: Kristen Bell, Ian Somerhalder (Lost) and Christina Milian

Directed by: First-timer Jim Sonzero

Written by: Stephen Susco, with Wes Craven (Nightmare on Elm Street), Tim Day, Vince Gilligan and Ray Wright, based on the film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

What it's about: A remake of the J-horror flick Kairo: When the souls of dead kids start popping up on her server, Kristen Bell needs to seriously think about getting a firewall.

Why you should see it: Bell is fantastic as a teenage private eye on Veronica Mars, so she should be up for teen ghostbuster, too.

Why you should not: If Hollywood is good at anything, it's taking a subtle, moody piece of art (like Kairo) and turning it into one long, steaming, bespangled turd.

You, Me and Dupree Starring: Matt Dillon, Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson and Michael Douglas

Directed by: Anthony and Joe Russo (Welcome to Collinwood)

Written by: Mike LeSieur

What it's about: Wilson's the best man in Dillon and Hudson's wedding, and when he loses his job after traveling to Hawaii for the wedding, they let him stay in their house.

Why you should see it: The Russos have estimable TV credits, including stints on Arrested Development and FX's woefully unappreciated Lucky.

Why you should not: There hasn't been a lovable Owen Wilson movie since ... since ... Bottle Rocket? That can't be right.

July 21

Clerks II Starring: Brian O'Halloran, Jeff Anderson and Rosario Dawson

Written and directed by: Kevin Smith (Clerks)

What it's about: Dante (O'Halloran) and Randall (Anderson) are still slacking away their lives, except their twenties have turned into their thirties and both work at fast-food joint Mooby's. In other words, this is what Kevin Smith does when his attempt at maturity (Jersey Girl) tanks and he's left going back to the well. Again. And again.

Why you should see it: Because it's just like Clerks. With a Jason Lee cameo.

Why you should not: It really is just like Clerks.

Lady in the Water Starring: Paul Giamatti (Sideways, Cinderella Man), Bryce Dallas Howard (Manderlay) and Freddy Rodriguez

Written and directed by: M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, The Village)

What it's about: A lonely apartment building superintendent (Giamatti) discovers a beautiful woman (Howard) in the building's swimming pool who turns out to be a mermaid. And there are other supernatural creatures after her.

Why you should see it: Advance word says there's no gratuitous twist ending this time. Shyamalan's a good director when he doesn't paint himself into a corner; even The Village had its moments until that terrible "surprise" finish.

Why you should not: This film's been labeled a "bedtime story." What does that even mean?

Monster House Starring: Steve Buscemi, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jason Lee and Nick Cannon

Directed by: First-timer Gil Kenan

Written by: Pamela Pettler, Dan Harmon and Ron Schrab

What it's about: Sounds like The 'Burbs meets Poltergeist: Three kids live next door to a creepy house that turns out to be ... duh-duh-dunh ... a monster.

Why you should see it: Uh ... uh ... it's animated?

Why you should not: Have you seen the trailer? Was it made in 1992?

Super Ex-Girlfriend Starring: Uma Thurman, Luke Wilson and Anna Faris

Directed by: Ivan Reitman (Old School)

Written by: Don Payne (The Simpsons)

What it's about: Wilson plays a normal dude who dumps the super-needy superhottie G-Girl (Thurman), who proves hell hath no fury like a superwoman scorned. In other words, what if Lois Lane broke up with Superman and he didn't take it well? At all.

Why you should see it: Ivan Reitman directed Ghostbusters, Stripes and Meatballs.

Why you should not: Ivan Reitman directed Six Days Seven Nights, Father's Day and Evolution.

July 28

Barnyard Starring: Kevin James, Courteney Cox Arquette and Danny Glover

Written and directed by: Steve Oedekerk (Kung Pow: Enter the Fist)

What it's about: The owner of a farm leaves his animals to go udderly (that's all mine, baby) nuts when he leaves the place under their control.

Why you should see it: You have to assume that nobody saw this the first time, when it was called Home on the Range.

Why you should not: The only people who haven't tired of talking-animal animated movies haven't been born yet.

I Could Never Be Your Woman Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) and Tracey Ullmann (I Love You to Death)

Written and directed by: Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Clueless)

What it's about: Pfeiffer plays a lady growing long in the tooth (but still looking like Michelle Pfeiffer) who falls for a younger man (Rudd). Romantic comedy blooms all around, and Ullmann as Mother Nature gets all up in everybody's business.

Why you should see it: When Heckerling is on, she makes movies like Clueless and Fast Times at Ridgemont High . Plus, Rudd is due for a role that pushes him into the big leagues, where he belongs.