By PHIL VILLARREAL, Arizona Daily Star

Apparently, the Great Depression was only depressing when Little Miss Sunshine wasn't around.As the sprightly, indomitable title character in "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl," Abigail Breslin ("Little Miss Sunshine") boasts the contagious giddiness of Shirley Temple.

In the 29th century, the lone residents of Earth are a solar-powered trash-compacting robot and his cockroach sidekick. Humans have flown away and pollution has choked vegetation and animal life. What's also just about died off is entertainment value.

Cameras don't lie, but they can certainly point you in the wrong direction, forcing a tunnel vision that obscures the bigger picture.

Here's a look at what movies are headed to the theaters this summer (release dates are subject to change):Kung Fu Panda (June 6) - The only way to make Jack Black convincing as a martial-arts hero is to turn him into an animated panda. So that's what they did.

"Postal" should be returned to sender.

A torrent of nostalgic rage courses through "Chicago 10," a spirited documentary about war protesters who were arrested and tried after riots related to the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

The premise of Helen Hunt's romantic comedy "Then She Found Me" is reminiscent of "Rocky IV," when Rocky tells his wife the circumstances in which he'll fight Ivan Drago, his revelations increasingly awful.In Russia, he says. On Christmas Day. For no money.

You may have listened to James Brown's "I Feel Good" a thousand times by now, but you haven't truly heard the song until you've witnessed it performed by a group of octogenarians in the documentary "Young at Heart."

You're a burned-out academic away at a conference, when you step inside an apartment you've kept for ages but haven't visited in months. Stepping inside, you find two illegal immigrants living there.

Think Beirut, and what comes to mind are war-torn streets, assassinations and ... chick flicks?