Last updated on 2012-07-12, by Tony

5 Most Anticipated Summer Movies in July and August

Summer time can not only bring summer vacation to students but also prosperity to movie market. Consequently, producers tend to release their blockbuster movies in summer, hoping that the prosperous movie market can bring them more box office revenues. Actually, the fate of summer movie can also be divided into two categories: extremely successful like The Avengers or completely disastrous like Battleship.

Anyway, summer movies never fail to provide audiences unprecedented visual feasts while helping the box office revenues to reach to the peak of the year. Moreover, many summer movies are viewed as most anticipated movies of the year even before their release. Summer movie market 2012 got a good start with The Avengers, gradually progress with Men in Black III and Brave and a promising future with those unveiled summer movies in July and August.

When it comes to July and August, the competition of summer movies is turning white hot. So far, The Amazing Spider-Man makes a good start for movies in July and August. Here this post will present you top five anticipated summer movies in July and August. Trails for those five movies are available on YouTube. So if you want to watch them, you may just as well download those YouTube videos.

1. The Dark Knight Rises

Released Date: 2012-7-20
The great success of The Dark Knight several years ago had aroused people’s interest towards The Dark Knight Rises. Since Nolan had begun to direct Batman series, Batman movies were becoming better and better. As the last Batman movies, The Dark Knight Rises will present you the image of Catwoman, a life-long foe of Batman. Though it is not available right now, a 13-minute preview on YouTube can help you to understand the movie better.

2. Ice Age: Continental Drift

Released Date: 2012-7-13
With the performance of over 2.1 billion dollars in box office of Ice Age trilogy, audiences are expecting Ice Age: Continental Drift can be a new legend. In the latest Ice Age movie, the four friends not only need to find a safe land, but also go through adventures with an ice boat. Therefore, after exploring dinosaur world, the four friends will experience a sea voyage to experience the marine arena.

3. The Bourne Legacy

Released Date: 2007-8-10
In the previous Bourne movies, the performance of Matt Damon is quite impressive. However in the latest Bourne movie, The Bourne Legacy, Matt Damon will not be available. The director claims the summer movie will present audience a new plot that has little thing to do with Bourn. However, he also says the conspiracy in the new movie is based on the plots of the former three Bourne movies. Consequently, this explanation has aroused people’s interest towards this movie.

4. The Expendables 2

Released Date: 2012-8-17
In The Expendables 2, besides Jet Li and Jason Statham, Bruce Willis will also assist Stallone. The most attractive point of The Expendables 2 lies in the gathering of world famous Kung Fu stars. Needlessly to say, the director focuses most of his attention on those fighting scenes instead of plot. However, for a summer movie with so many Kung Fu stars, who cares about the plot? Audiences just want to see how excellent the fighting can be.   

5. Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days

Released Date: 2012-8-03
Finally, there is a comedy for all ages people can anticipate in the summer movie market. Dog Days is actually the third member of Diary of a Wimpy Kid series. Though the previous two movies focus on the school life of Greg, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days will focus on the summer vacation of Greg. Of course, he will get you to laugh in a lot of embarrassing scenes. If you want to some funny summer movie, it is a good choice.

Therefore, those are the top five anticipated summer movies in July and August. Some of them will be released soon while some needs your patience before it is available in the cinema. Anyway, they will help you spend a happy summer vacation.