So we've already pined through teen-age vampire love ("Twilight"), thrilled to Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman trying to escape Japanese invaders ("Australia"), followed an addled dog who thinks he has super-powers cross country ("Bolt"), seen James Bond save the water supply of Bolivia ("Quantum of Solace"), lived through a quartet of horrible family Christmas celebrations ("Four Christmases").

Good heavens! What could possibly be left out there to entice us out of our easy chairs and go to the movies between now and Christmas Day?

Well, quite a lot actually, from a being from another world who arrives once again to save our planet (the remake of "The Day the Earth Stood Still") to Tom Cruise as a hero trying to blow up Adolf Hitler ("Valkyrie") to Brad Pitt as a man who ages backward ("The Curious Case of Benjamin Button") to Jim Carrey as a man who can only say "yes" to everything ("Yes Man") to Adam Sandler as a man who finds his made-up stories curiously beginning to come true ("Bedtime Stories").

Here's a look at some upcoming holiday movies:

Will Smith goes dramatic in "Seven Pounds" (Dec. 19), the melancholy tale of a depressed Internal Revenue Service agent trying to make amends for his past by trying to better the lives of seven strangers.

Jim Carrey returns to his comic roots in "Yes Man" (Dec. 19) as a man whose operative word is always "no" -- until he signs up for a self-help program based on the rule of saying "yes" to everything and anything. Soon his going-nowhere life is transformed in unexpected ways. But saying "yes" to everything threatens to become too much of a good thing.

In "Bedtime Stories" (Dec. 25), Adam Sandler also plays a character whose life is turned around. In this comedy he stars as a hotel handyman who unnervingly discovers that the bedtime stories he tells his niece and nephew mysteriously start to come true.

Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston play a couple whose lives are also turned upside down, but this time by a rascally neurotic dog, in "Marley & Me" (Dec. 25). Based on the autobiographical book by former newspaper columnist John Grogan, the heartwarming comedy-drama revolves around the mischievous dog teaching the family about what really matters in life.

Brad Pitt plays a man who grows increasingly younger in the fantasy "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Dec. 19). Based on a 1920s story written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Pitt plays a man who is born in his 80s and ages backward. The film begins in 1918 New Orleans at the end of World War I and follows Benjamin's unusual life curve into the 21st century.

Frank Miller, the man who created "300" and "Spin City," now travels to the mystical world with "Spirit" (Dec. 25), an action-adventure-romance in which a former rookie cop, played by Gabriel Macht, returns from the dead as the masked crusader Spirit to fight crime.