Get Smart isn't as bad as you might expect. Thing is, that's not saying much of anything if you expected it to be as terrible as it looked.

Ah, Smurfs. They're the little blue people who inadvertently gave children a new way to curse in front of their parents without getting into trouble. "Oh, smurf you!" "Yeah? Well, you're a smurfy smurfhole!" Now comes news from Variety that they're packing up their tiny suitcases and heading for Hollywood to star in a new big screen movie.

This won't be the first time the trousers-only Smurfs have cavorted in a movie. Originally a creation of cartoonist Pierre Culliford, they had their debut on the Belgian silver screen in 1965 with Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs. But it's the 1980s TV series from Hanna-Barbera that most people are probably familiar with today, and will, in all likelihood, be the major source material for the film.

So here's the thing -- after barely keeping things under control following last week's news, my excitement over the next Transformers movie, Revenge of the Fallen, is kicking into overdrive. Something in my brain is getting me all worked up over all this stuff that I'm hearing and seeing, and no amount of Bumblebee urinating on John Turturro in my head seems to help. Oh well, I'm just going to embrace it. So maybe I get severely disappointed later on -- big deal! Welcome to my life.

The full title of Transformers 2 has been revealed! Since part of the movie was being filmed in Pennsylvania, I was hoping it would be called Transformers 2: Amish Paradise, but that is not the case. (Also, Pennsylvania is apparently standing in for China.) No, the movie is called Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen, thereby guaranteeing that Megatron, who we last saw at the bottom of the Dino de Laurentian Abyss, will be making a return. The film also has the distinct honor of being the 27th sequel to have the word "Revenge" in the title.

Will it be able to live up to the legacy of other great "revenge" movies? Let's compare:

Last week we reported on the revelation of the first teaser poster for the 2009 Witchblade movie, depicting a bare-assed model wielding the superheroine's mystical gauntlet. While no actress has yet been cast in the sure to be boob-licious role, they have chosen a director and a writer! And they're actually pretty experienced, too -- none of those two-credits-on-IMDb fellows here. Only one problem -- they're Australian. I don't trust anyone whose toilet flushes clockwise.

I must be a glutton for punishment. Despite not liking the first Transformers movie (although I like this one), I am desperate for new information about the sequel. Maybe it's because I used to work in the toy industry, or maybe it's because I subconsciously liked it on some level. No, that second one is too horrible to contemplate. Let's say it's entirely professional curiosity. It will help me sleep at night.

Peanut butter and chocolate. Smoking jackets and elderly playboys. Tim Burton and Johnny Depp. What do these pairs have in common? Each half goes so well and so often with its companion that their combination seems not only natural, but expected. Add the pairing of "vampires and soap operas" to that list as Depp and Burton team up once again, this time to bring Dark Shadows to the big screen, according to a report at IESB.

The Incredible Hulk hasn't been quite the buzz machine that certain other comic books have been this summer, but it's been generating plenty of its own news over the weekend, with the biggest bit of news being that Hulk will actually speak in this movie -- unlike in the TV series and Ang Lee's Hulk film (except in a dream sequence) -- and he'll be voiced by the TV series' star, Lou Ferrigno. [Yes, the one who didn't speak on the TV show. - Z]

Michael Bay may never win an Oscar, but he definitely deserves something for making Transformers. A kick in the pants? Shia LaBeouf's undying gratitude? How about a gold tub of popcorn? His blockbuster robot spectacle won the Best Movie prize from the entirely viewer-decided MTV Movie Awards, hosted by Mike Myers on Sunday night, and he took a break from making the sequel to accept. It was kind of a predictable win, though, since last year the film won the Best Summer Movie You Haven't Seen Yet award. And in 1987, it also won the Best Movie That We Don't Yet Have the Technology to Make award, so it had that going for it, as well.