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Taking Summer Stock

Pirates, Angels, and mutants: summer movie hits and misses. EW crunches the numbers to find out how the season's big flicks fared -- plus, six sleeper films you need to see
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SORRY, 'CHARLIE'S' Despite the hype, ''Full Throttle'' choked
Charlie's Angels 2: Darren Michaels

Box Office Losers

Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle Sony With some massaging, the sequel could eke out $100 million, but given the hype, the ladies should have done way better. Too much silliness killed what could have been a longer-running franchise.

Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas DreamWorks Doesn't anyone realize that animated action films are dead? DreamWorks would have done better to sit this season out entirely.

Down With Love Fox Summer, when the box office is ruled by youngsters, is probably not the best time to pay tribute to sex comedies of the early 1960s.

Wrong Turn Fox Bonus points to anyone who still remembers what this twentysomething quickie even was.

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life Paramount The opening weekend did less than half of its predecessor's $47.7 million take. Maybe this is the movie they should've called ''Game Over.''

Rugrats Go Wild Paramount And the world needed yet another Rugrats movie because...?

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Fox Combining a bunch of superheroes won't make audiences care any more (unless they're the X-Men). A costly dud that could have kicked off a new franchise.

Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd New Line Shockingly, fans figured out that Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels weren't actually in the movie.

Hollywood Homicide Sony Was it a crime drama? Was it a buddy comedy? Either way, it's a boot in Harrison Ford's pants to start looking for stronger material.

How to Deal New Line A.k.a. ''A Walk to Forget.''

From Justin to Kelly Fox Don't hold your breath for ''From Clay to Ruben.''

Alex & Emma Warner Bros. A foolish attempt to turn a fall movie into a summer movie. And an unfunny one at that.

The In-Laws Warner Bros. So Albert Brooks in a thong isn't a box office draw?

Gigli Sony Insert your own joke here.

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