Alien vs. Predator

Remember how good the original Alien and Predator were? Well, keep remembering. Even still, AVP guarantees what no other summer movie can: Predators fighting a winner-kill-all battle with Aliens, and it supplies enough guilty pleasures to make it worth the trip to the theater. The story practically writes itself: A group of nerdy scientists are sent to explore an ancient pyramid buried beneath Antarctica only to discover they're not alone. (Cue evil music.) Once the pesky humans are killed out of the way, the ugly motherfuckers get down to business—and we finally get the goods. One-on-one face-offs include sliced Alien brains, gutted Predators, and zero Danny Glovers. If you're looking for the quality of each franchise's earlier films (Alien: Resurrection not included), you're fighting a losing battle. The PG-13 rating dulls the action, and the plot holes fight their own battle in trying to one-up each other. But if you ignore the inconsistencies that accompany a reprised franchise, your ticket does guarantee a seat to the best extraterrestrial death-match since War of the Roses.