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| Garfield: The Movie (2004) |
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| What looked like a cheap, quick knockoff of a classic comic strip and cartoon actually captures the tone just right. |
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One of the year's cheesiest and most embarrassing movies. |
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(Lawrence Toppman, Charlotte Observer) |
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So charmless, so completely devoid of laughs and feels so long - even at 85 minutes - that before it's over, you may want to claw your eyes out. |
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(Jeff Vice, Deseret News, Salt Lake City) |
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If you want 78 minutes of bad writing and boredom then do I have a movie for you! |
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(Joshua Tyler, Cinemablend.com) |
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It’s marginally better than The Cat in the Hat, though that’s like saying suffocation is mildly more amusing than drowning. |
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(Sean O'Connell, Filmcritic.com) |
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I didn’t laugh once, and it’s hard to know at whom it’s aimed, since it’s too unsophisticated for adults, and too boring for children. Garfield is a dog. |
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(Chris Tookey, Daily Mail) |
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| The Book of Eli (2010) |
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| The perfect movie. |
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The Book of Eli combines the maximum in hollow piety with remorseless violence. |
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(David Denby, New Yorker) |
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An absurd, incoherent narrative defined by contradictions: religious and violent, arty and exploitational, serious and trashy, stylized and gritty. |
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(Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com) |
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A post-apocalyptic western cursed by laborious pacing and a sense of self-importance which its nutty story does not warrant. Ponderous in the extreme and laced with portentous religious overtones. |
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(Mike Goodridge, Screen International) |
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As with All About Steve, it’s hard to convey exactly how mad this film is. Imagine The Road, remade by Christian fundamentalists with a sadistic interest in mutilation in general, and amputation in particular. It’s that weirdly deranged. |
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(Chris Tookey, Daily Mail) |
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| MacGruber (2010) |
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| I could not believe the stuff I was seeing in this movie... You just won't believe where it goes, and that's comedy... I laughed my *** off at MacGruber. |
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MacGruber joins a too long list of horrible Saturday Night Live adaptations of sketch characters into feature length films. |
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(Patrick McDonald, HollywoodChicago.com) |
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Although the most obvious flaw with MacGruber is the disappointingly low laugh quotient, that's not the sole problem. As is the case with many poor action/comedies, this one spends too much time on exposition for a plot that no one in the audience cares about. It's boring and tedious, but incorporating this extraneous material is how the five-minute skit becomes bloated to elephantine proportions. |
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(James Berardinelli, Reelviews) |
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Leading man Will Forte will make you pine for the graceful savoir faire of a Jack Black or an Adam Sandler. |
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(Catherine Bray, Film4) |
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Will Forte, who hasn’t starred in a movie before and looks extremely unlikely to do so again, lacks the slightest vestige of credibility or charm as MacGruber. He also co-wrote the script. Let’s just say that comedy is not Forte’s forte. |
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(Chris Tookey, Daily Mail) |
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| The Last Airbender (2010) |
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| It captivated my imagination. |
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The Last Airbender is an insult to anyone with a triple-digit I.Q. and a willingness to use it inside the confines of a movie theater. This is bad filmmaking and bad storytelling. It also sounds what should be the death knell to M. Night Shyamalan's career. |
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(James Berardinelli, Reelviews) |
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The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. |
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(Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times) |
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The best way to watch The Last Airbender is probably with your eyes closed. |
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(A.O. Scott, New York Times) |
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I see a dead career. |
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(Robbie Collin, News of the World) |
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I didn’t think it was possible for him to make something worse than his Lady in the Water or The Happening. But he has managed it. |
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(Peter Bradshaw, Guardian) |
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Please let it be the last Shyamalan. |
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(Chris Tookey, Daily Mail) |
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| Sucker Punch (2011) |
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| I think Zack Snyder just thought of the craziest things he wanted to see in a movie, so he did it. That's what artists should do. Now it turns out to be some metaphorical fantasy and that's cool too. |
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I walked out of this movie in a state of depression. Depressed that so much technical bravura could be thrown away. Depressed that someone mistook this empty, nihilistic sketch for a substantive and meaningful project. Depressed that I had been bamboozled into paying $10 to be subjected to it. At least, however, I understood the meaning of the title. I had been sucker punched. |
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(James Berardinelli, Reelviews) |
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Sucker Punch never pretends to be anything more than a money-making spectacle, but Zack Snyder could have hid his cynicism better. |
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(Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News) |
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I don't doubt that Mr Snyder is possessed of an imagination; it's just that what he imagines is hackneyed, meretricious and boring. |
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(Anthony Quinn, Independent) |
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Proves that while masturbating over your cast may not make you blind, it can impair directorial vision. |
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(Catherine Bray, Film4) |
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Bewilderingly pointless. |
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(Edward Porter, Sunday Times) |
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Soul-suckingly putrid… It seems to have been made for 12 year-old boys by a sad middle-aged man whose only experience of life is from violent comics, shoot-‘em-up video games and online pornography. |
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(Chris Tookey, Daily Mail) |
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| The Hangover Part II (2011) |
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| Epic. Outrageous. |
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Someone has finally dared to make a mainstream American comedy in which nothing funny happens. |
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(Adam Sternberg, New York Times) |
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It's hard to imagine a more calculating, creatively bankrupt piece of real estate than The Hangover Part II. |
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(Eric Hynes, Village Voice) |
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More of a vulgar assault than an attempt at actual comedy. |
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(Brad Brevet, Rope of Silicon) |
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Less attractive and far less amusing. |
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(Philip French, Observer) |
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The worst sequel of all time. |
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(Chris Tookey, Daily Mail) |
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| Your Highness (2011) |
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| A really big budget movie full of action and special effects, all to make really immature jokes. I totally support that and I enjoy the exercise. |
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