Movies to Watch in Summer 2011 (Videos) Part 2

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7. Super 8 (June 10)

Actors: Elle Fanning, Kyle Chandler, Joel Courtney, Ron Eldard; directed by J.J. Abrams

Synopsis: In the summer of 1979, a group of friends in a small Ohio town witness a catastrophic train crash while making a super 8 movie and soon suspect that it was not an accident. It’s something more terrifying than any of them could have imagined

8. Bad Teacher (June 17)

Actors: Cameron Diaz, Justin Timberlake, Jason Segel, Phyllis Smith, Lucy Punch; directed by Jake Kasdan

Synopsis: A comedy centered around a foul-mouthed, junior high teacher (Diaz) Actors, after being dumped by her sugar daddy, begins to woo a colleague (Timberlake) — a move that pits her against a well-loved teacher (Punch).

9. Green Lantern (June 17)

Actors: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively, Peter Sarsgaard, Mark Strong; directed by Martin Campbell

Synopsis: A test pilot is granted a mystical green ring that bestows him with otherworldly powers — and membership into an intergalactic squadron tasked with keeping peace within the universe.

10 Cars 2 (June 24)

Actors: Owen Wilson, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Michael Keaton, Jason Isaacs, Bonnie Hunt; directed by John Lasseter and Brad Lewis

Synopsis: Racing star Lightning McQueen (Wilson) teams up with his best friend Mater for an international adventure as they go up against the world’s fastest cars.

11 Larry Crowne (July 1)

Actors: Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Bryan Cranston, Wilmer Valderrama; directed by Tom Hanks

Synopsis: After losing his job, a middle-aged man reinvents himself by going back to college

12. Transformers: Dark of the Moon (July 1)

Actors: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley, Josh Duhamel, Hugo Weaving, John Malkovich, Patrick Dempsey; directed by Michael Bay

Synopsis: The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and learn its secrets, which could turn the tide in the Transformers’ final battle

Movies to Watch in Summer 2011 (Videos) Part1

Movies to Watch in summer 2011 (Videos)

Check out Synopsis you can look forward to as the 2011 summer movies roar into theaters, beginning in May 2011.

There's comic-book fodder like "Thor," "Green Lantern" and "Captain America: The First Avenger." There are sequels galore, such as "Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides," "The Hangover, Part II" and "Transformers 3."

There are comedies like "Bad Teacher" and "Horrible Bosses." There's also the very last "Harry Potter" installment (*sniff*). There's even "Smurfs."

1. Thor (May 6)

Actors: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Anthony Hopkins, Idris Elba, Ray Stevenson, Kat Dennings, Stellan Skarsgard; directed by Kenneth Branagh

Synopsis: “Thor,” the latest Marvel comic book adaptation follows the powerful but arrogant warrior Thor (Hemsworth), Actors is stripped of his superpowers and cast out of the fantastic realm of Asgard to live on Earth. Once there, he warms up to his new environs and soon becomes the humans’ defender when angry gods come calling.

2. Bridesmaids (May 13)

Actors: Kristen Wiig, Rose Byrne, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Ellie Kemper, Wendi McLendon-Covey; directed by Paul Feig

Synopsis: A comedy centered on two women (Wiig and Byrne) battling to plan their friend’s wedding party.

3. Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (May 20)

Actors: Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Geoffrey Rush, Ian McShane; directed by Rob Marshall

Synopsis: Capt. Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive Fountain of Youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it, too.

4. The Hangover Part II (May 27)

 Actors: Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms, ZZach Galifianakis, Justin Bartha, Liam Neeson; directed by Todd Phillips

Synopsis: Phil, Stu, Alan and Doug travel to Bangkok for Stu’s wedding. And in Synopsis manner of mayhem will they find themselves in this time?

5. Kung Fu Panda 2 (May 26)

Actors: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Seth Rogen, David Cross, Jackie Chan, Gary Oldman, Dustin Hoffman; directed by Jennifer Yuh

Synopsis: Po (Black) joins forces with a group of new kung-fu masters to take on an old enemy with a deadly new weapon.

6. X-Men: First Class (June 3)

Actors: James McAvoy, January Jones, Michael Fassbender, Jennifer Lawrence; directed by Matthew Vaughn

Synopsis: Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr were archenemies and took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their powers for the first time. In the process, a rift between them opened, which began the eternal war between Magneto’s Brotherhood and Professor X’s X-Men.