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WTF?

Kim Hollis: On the list of unlikely repeat box office champions, where does Beverly Hills Chihuahua stack up? Is this the Dark Knight for four-year-olds?

Scott Lumley: I just threw up a little in my mouth after that analogy. Can we at least wait for this "movie" to clear $100 million before we start comparing it to the Dark Knight?

Sean Collier: Today, on "Sentences I Never Thought I'd Type:" Can Heath Ledger come back from the dead to blow up a truck full of puppies?

Tim Briody: Why so...uh...chihuahuay?

Scott Lumley: C'mere Tim, i want to show you a magic trick. (Produces pencil

Shane Jenkins: You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become cast in a talking dog movie. Right, Piper Perabo?

Calvin Trager: I read that Piper Perabo is being considered for the female lead opposite Vincent Chase in the Benji reboot that everyone is talking about.

Jason Lee: Can you imagine Batman singing the "Chihuahua!" song, flanked by Afred and Commissioner Gordon as his pips? That alone would be worth the price of admission. Or how about if the Beverly Hills Chihuahua is Batman's next bad guy in the next film? Or maybe the bad guy owns a Beverly Hills Chihuahua? Or maybe the next Batman film is seen entirely from the point of view of the Beverly Hills Chihuahua?

The possibilities are endless.

Kim Hollis: Really, you can just sub out the Bat Dance for the Chihuahua Dance. There's already a song, after all.

As the proud owner of a real chihuahua, I'm not sure how I feel about another round of people going out and adopting these little guys because they look cute on TV/commercials. I actually had my dog a couple of years before the Taco Bell phenomenon, and experienced the same misgivings then. They're really not good pets for kids, in my opinion.

Brandon Scott: You want to know the truth, I can't imagine why more talking animal or animal in the lead movies don't get made. Like Roundtine, they are box office gold, Jerry...Gold!!!

It's not A Good Year for Scott

Kim Hollis: Why is Ridley Scott so scattershot? He has movies like Gladiator, Black Hawk Down and American Gangster, but he also has stuff like Body of Lies and A Good Year. What causes the disparity between success in projects?

Scott Lumley: His choice in projects is eclectic and occasionally downright odd. I think he willingly tackles material that he knows won't necessarily be a huge success, but I don't know why he would sign on for this film. Shoot, after I saw the trailer, Russell Crowe's character was so smarmy I immediately knew I wouldn't be seeing this based on how little I liked the two primary characters.

Shane Jenkins: I would love to see Ridley get down and dirty. For a long time now, his movies have been so over-polished that it feels like all the life has been sucked out of them. It would be interesting to see him take on a low-budget film, where he would be forced to change up his usual cinematic style. That, or do another sci-fi film. He seems to have a knack for those.

Jason Lee: kly, I'm somewhat at a loss to explain the Ridley Scott syndrome. Huge blockbuster successes in the past, big names on board, household name . . . but can't open a movie every once in a while. My only guess would that be audiences are starting to catch a whiff of "Been there, done that" with him. Same style, same actors, etc.

Kim Hollis: All I know is that Nottingham has "disaster" written all over it. Crowe as hero and villain? There's a project that's doomed both to fail and confuse people.

Brandon Scott: While Ridley, like far too many in Hollywood, is inconsistent...look at the titles you mentioned? Both "failures" star Russell Crowe, and while many of Scott's bigger films have had him there too (and there are few working actors better in dramatic roles then he is), there are also not too many more polarizing figures in Hollywood than he. The guy's rep is about as solid as quicksand, hence he works with Ridley over and over, since not everybody else wants to put up with him (apparently). The film-going public is aware of this...or perhpas it has nothing to do with any of this at all. There is always that possibility, too.

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