More movie sequel action this weekend with the release earlier this week of Live Free or Die Hard (read our review here). If action movies aren’t your thing then you still have several balanced options with a family friendly, animated movie as well as a more emotionally stirring drama (I didn’t say ‘chick flick’, did you?). This looks like it’ll be one heck of a big earning box office weekend!

Here are all your movie details & trailers for this weekend, June 29 - July 1, 2007.

Live Free or Die Hard
Starring: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Maggie Q
Director: Len Wiseman
Genre: Action / Adventure / Thriller
Duration: 2hr 10mins
Rated: PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action, language and a brief sexual situation.
Plot: On the July 4th holiday, an attack on the vulnerable United States infrastructure begins to shut down the entire nation. The mysterious figure behind the scheme has figured out every modern angle — but he never figured on an old-school “analog” bug in the “digital” plan: John McClane. Yippee Ki Yay!
My Take: I got to see this the day it come out and I highly recommend it for all action movie fans, whether you’ve seen the prequels or not. The action was awesome and non-stop. I had been nervous it’d be a let-down after the long hiatus since the third one, but I wasn’t disappointed in the least. Read my review of Live Free or Die Hard.
Live Free or Die Hard Movie Trailer:

Ratatouille
Director: Brad Bird
Starring: Brad Garrett, Lou Romano, Patton Oswalt
Genre: Action/Adventure, Comedy, Kids/Family and Animation
Rated: G
Duration: 1hr 51mins
Plot: A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family’s wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely - and certainly unwanted - visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy’s passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down.
My Take: The potential for this movie is completely lost on me. They’re asking kids to embrace rodents and French cuisine together, much less one or the other. The French chef thing worked in Little Mermaid for a brief scene, but nearly 2 hours of it?? Yikes!
Ratatouille Movie Trailer (9 minute preview):

Evening
Director: Lajos Koltai
Starring: Vanessa Redgrave, Toni Collette, Claire Danes, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close
Genre: Drama, Romance, and Adaptation
Rated: PG-13 for some thematic elements, sexual material, a brief accident scene and language.
Duration: 1hr 57mins
Plot: Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters; Constance, a content wife and mother, and Nina, a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But who is this “Harris,” wonder her daughters, and what is he to our mother? While Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann’s life and their own lives, their mother is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys in her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years ago, when she was Ann Grant, a young woman who has come from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college.
My Take: This certainly looks like one aimed for the ladies, but doesn’t appear too bad looking all the same to me. The cast is an all-star roster, which is very intriguing. I might wait till it’s out on Netflix, but I’d still consider seeing it.
Evening Movie Trailer: