Monster Trucks Is The Best Movie Of 2017

That headline is technically true since all the other movies I've seen theatrically this year were technically released in 2016. Monster Trucks is the only 2017 movie I've seen theatrically thus far, so, yep, it is indeed the Best Movie Of 2017 for me right now!

Snarky explanation for that clickbait headline out of the way, let's talk about Monster Trucks, the second feature film from Paramount Animation that's been delayed nearly two whole years after its initial May 2015 release date and also serves as the live-action directorial debut for Ice Age director Chris Wedge. It's a live-action movie with a CGI creature best friend for the lead character in the vein of those Smurfs and Alvin And The Chipmunk movies, though this is more like the forgotten 2009 film G-Force in that Monster Trucks is technically an original property. And, thankfully, it's better than all of the other 21st century live-action/CGI family movies I just listed off.

Plenty Of Intensity Awaits In Don't Breathe

In a run-down, mostly abandoned neighborhood, there lives an elderly blind man whose named...The Blind Man (Stephen Lang). He's got a ton of cash he received after his daughter was run over and three young adults are hankering to steal all of that moolah. The three individuals looking to pull off this score are Rocky (Jane Levy), a single parent looking to take her daughter to a better life in California with this dough, Alex (Dylan Minnette), a paranoid rules-follower whose super apprehensive about the heist and Money (Daniel Zovatto), Rocky's boyfriend and the one who gets the tip about all of the money The Blind Man has.