Other movies we should expect for the holiday season:

NOV. 21

• "Bolt" (PG). Bolt (voice of John Travolta) doesn't realize that he doesn't really have superpowers; in fact, he simply plays a dog with them on TV. That, of course, changes. The cast includes Miley Cyrus.

• "Nothing Like the Holidays" (PG-13). John Leguizamo and Freddy Rodriguez star in the story of a Puerto Rican family celebrating Christmas in Chicago.

NOV. 26

• "Four Christmases" (not yet rated). And none of them happy, evidently. Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon play a couple who visit their divorced parents over the holidays. Big points for having Seth Gordon, who directed the great documentary "The King of Kong," behind the camera.

• "Transporter 3" (PG-13). In which Jason Statham returns and answers the question: There was a "Transporter 2"?

DEC. 5

• "Punisher: War Zone" (not yet rated). Ray Stevenson takes over the role of the Punisher, who is still meting out justice. Dominic West plays his adversary. All well and good, but if it was a good comic-book film, wouldn't it have been out this summer?

DEC. 12

• "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (not yet rated). So, genius in casting Keanu Reeves as Klaatu, the alien visiting Earth, in this remake of the 1951 classic, or a mean joke?

DEC. 19

• "The Tale of Desperaux" (not yet rated). Emma Watson, Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman and Sigourney Weaver are among the stars lending their voices to the animated version of the children's book. A mouse who reads, that kind of thing.

• "Yes Man" (not yet rated). Jim Carrey can't say no. That's not an evaluation of his script choices, it's the plot of the movie. Guy says yes to everything for a year. So hey, he's going to have to expect these kinds of jokes.

DEC. 25

• "Bedtime Stories" (not yet rated). Your gift for the holidays: an Adam Sandler movie on Christmas. What did you do wrong? Anyway, the movie is about Sandler's character, who tells his niece and nephew stories that come true.

• "Hurricane Season" (not yet rated). Forest Whitaker coaches a New Orleans high-school basketball team made up of players from rival schools who must play together a year after Hurricane Katrina.

• "Marley & Me" (not yet rated). If you were hoping for a Bob Marley biopic, well, no. Jennifer Aniston and Owen Wilson — tabloid writers get frothy just reading the names — star in this film about a family that learns much from a dog named Marley.

• "The Time Traveler's Wife" (not yet rated). Henry (Eric Bana) is a librarian who travels through time involuntarily.