Top Five Movies to Cure Your Oscar Hangover

March 12, 2010 — -- Oscar season. To paraphrase Heath Ledger as The Joker, it's oh-so-serious.

War, rape, the Holocaust -- the themes prevalent in many of this year's Academy-recognized films left little room for laughter, certainly not of the knee-slapping, hand-clapping, spit-popcorn-out-of-one's-mouth sort.

But now that the statues have been handed out, the fun flicks can make their way back to front and center -- those movies that, while perhaps not intellectually challenging, offer a damn good time. Below, a roundup of the top five movies coming soon to a theater near you that you'll actually enjoy.

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