Of the few thousand moviegoers polled for Fandango’s report on the ten most anticipated summer movies of 2008, I wonder if any were children. Missing from the list, which named Indiana Jones the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull as highest and Sex and the City as lowest (though tied percent-wise with Speed Racer), are such animated tentpoles as DreamWorks’ Kung Fu Panda and Pixar’s Wall-E. The latter is even more shockingly absent due to the consideration that most Pixar films are enjoyed by adults as much as children. It’s definitely one of my top five movies to see this summer, and I’d bet its box office that it outperforms all of the movies listed below the Chronicles of Narnia sequel, Prince Caspian. The only dark horse I can see in there is Speed Racer, which could also be a huge hit with kids. The fact that it’s so far down on Fandango’s list either means really bad things for the Wachowskis or it’s just more reason to believe the poll is ignoring the significance of youth in the market of movie tickets.

Also excluded, though a bit more appropriately so, are less-blockbuster comedian comedies like You Don’t Mess With the Zohan, The Love Guru, Meet Dave, Step Brothers, Tropic Thunder and, surprisingly, Hancock, which is the latest in the traditional July 4th-weekend-released sci-fi/action comedies from Will Smith. Is this a sign that people think it looks like Smith’s worst summer movie since Wild Wild West? Or were those moviegoers that were polled even allowed to make selections other than the ten listed?

According to another poll over at Cinematical, people don’t seem to be that “pumped up” about Hancock, at least not from its trailer. However, readers of that blog are even less enthusiastic about Prince Caspian, so there’s a certain relativity that must be considered. The results of the poll, which is still open, are interesting when compared to Fandango’s list. As of this writing, the ten most anticipated, based on how great the trailer is, are, in order, The Dark Knight, Iron Man, Indiana Jones, Wall-E (see, other people are as excited as I am), Speed Racer, The X-Files 2, Hellboy 2, The Incredible Hulk (this is certainly set to bomb, huh?), Hancock/Prince Caspian, Wanted and M. Night Shayamalan’s The Happening. Of course, being a poll in which readers can pick only one film, this hardly shows what movies are people’s 2nd choice and so on (a number of people are likely to see at least five of these films over the course of the season).

Looking over last year’s ten highest grossing summer movies, I see three animated films (Shrek the Third, Ratatouille and The Simpsons Movie) and one non-blockbuster — and non-comedian — comedy (Knocked Up). Obviously there are always summer movies that the public doesn’t know it really wants to see until the last minute or even after it opens, so neither Fandango nor Cinematical can be a proper gauge for what will be the box office winners of summer 2008, so maybe there should be a poll — or more fun, a pool — for that.