The latest post over at Texas Pete’s blog reviews The Fantastic Mister Fox, calling it “the best movie I’ve seen lately.” He also reviews Love Happens (“Crap”), The Proposal (“El Crapola”), Confessions of a Shopaholic (“Super Crap”), New In Town (“C.R.A.P”) and Julie & Julia (“Fun, light, insightful.”)

Don’t you think it’s a crime that you have to watch six movies just to see one or two that are fun. light, insightful, never mind the best movie you’ve seen? Well, you don’t have to, of course. You can avoid movies with Sandra Bullock in them, for a start. Has she been in a good movie? I’m trying to come up with one and I’m getting zilch. Same goes for just about any movie with Keanu Reeves.

And you can any movie with a title that sounds like a blog or blog entry. “Confessions of a Shopaholic” might be a pretty good blog, and “Love Happens” could possibly be a post worth reading, but if they turn out to be crap you can just click away from them, no worries. Pay for a movie ticket and buy a tub of popcorn, though, and you’ve pretty much got to stay for the whole thing.

I’m not sure how you find a movie like Julie & Julia, though. It pairs up the story of how Julia Childs fell in love with French cooking, and how Julie Powell wrote a blog, and then a book, about cooking all the recipes in Julia Childs’ book Mastering The Art Of French Cooking. Sounds like a yawner, doesn’t it? It did to me, but it got rave reviews and I just love Meryl Streep, so I gave it a shot and I loved it. Pete hit it just right: It’s fun, it’s light, and yet somehow it’s insightful. It’s a very sweet movie.

Lucky for me I haven’t seen any of the movies described variously as crap, crap and crap. And I won’t be, not even at rental prices.