Summer stench

Movies don’t give off an odor per se (or at all), but the title, premise, plot or characters can trigger an automatic response deep within us in the same way a familiar smell can.

Just as Proust’s Madeline brought him immediately back to his childhood, the knowledge that Judd Apatow tackled pregnancy in a film called “Knocked Up” triggers a “that’s going to be a hit” response that leaves us vaguely giddy.

Here are some other summer films that “smell” like something.