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430,176 | 1,173,088 | 129,280 | 3 | Ughh . . . What happened Steve ? | The new remake of the 1970 Neil Simon classic THE OUT OF TOWNERS stars Steve Martin , Goldie Hawn and John Cleese . However , even with this excellent comedic cast , the script for this film itself just staggers with unfunny jokes , scenes , and humor-much UNlike the first . If you're a fan of the original , maybe you ... |
429,613 | 1,173,088 | 102,005 | 3 | Simply appalling - but in a good way . | Harley Davidson and the Marlboro Man is total crap at its best ( or worst ) . This movie is garbage ? excessive and stupid . It's also extremely homoerotic , packed to the gills with fetishistic male machismo , sweaty muscular men , and Don Johnson constantly wearing an open shirt . ( By the way , he's nicknamed Cowb... |
429,826 | 1,173,088 | 104,437 | 3 | Preeeety lame , Millhouse . | I really like the original " Honey I Shrunk the Kids " movie because it was clever , fun and I grew up on it . ( Nostalgia always triumphs over film weaknesses . ) However the sequel , " Honey I Blew Up the Kid , " is absolutely terrible . Although it's not quite as bad as " We Shrunk Ourselves , " it's still disastrou... |
430,114 | 1,173,088 | 381,707 | 3 | Almost painful to sit through . | White Chicks , the newest intellectually insulting " gut buster " from the Wayans Brothers ( Shawn and Marlon ) , is about as funny as a route canal and as entertaining as when Steven Seagal takes a minute or two out of his films to go on boring rants stressing the importance of global peace and political equality . Th... |
430,054 | 1,173,088 | 362,227 | 3 | One of the most genuinely annoying films I've seen all year | I guess it's not fair for me to judge the film . I was a bit biased . I had read about the true story of Merhan Nasseri , an Iranian refugee who landed at Charles de Gaulle Airport near Paris in 1988 after being denied entry into England because his passport and United Nations refugee certificate had been stolen . Due ... |
430,637 | 1,173,088 | 90,756 | 3 | I don't buy into its hype | After hearing so much about " Blue Velvet " I was very disappointed . Sitting down to watch it , I knew it would be a bizarre experience and had heard that it was quite disturbing ; however , I have a strong stomach . What I don't like about " Blue Velvet " is that it seems like exploitation . It didn't " disturb " me ... |
429,457 | 1,173,088 | 302,640 | 3 | The Not-So-Hot Movie . . . | Some SpoilersTo set the record straight , I tend to overrate films from Adam Sandler , Rob Schneider , and the rest of the " SNL " - gone-film crew . Why ? I am not sure . Was I the only one who found " Happy Gilmore " hilarious ? Apparently so . Am I the only one who thought " Big Daddy " was crude but had a heart at ... |
430,941 | 1,173,088 | 117,179 | 3 | Where's Helen Hunt ? | TV version of " Twister " springs a few leaks but manages to remain watchable . My sister bought this at a Wal-Mart a few years back when it was released , I saw it back then and thought it was okay . Later " Twister " with Bill Pullman and Helen Hunt comes out ( or was it before ? I think it was ' 97 ) and did a bette... |
430,369 | 1,173,088 | 335,121 | 3 | A stinking pile of doggy doo-doo | I bought this film when it came out on DVD - - despite all its negative reviews - - because of Robert De Niro's attachment to the project . That was my sole reason . Let's be fair - - it's not the utterly disastrous movie the critics made it out to be . Is it bad ? Yeah . Pretty bad . Awful ? No . It's just a bit below... |
429,473 | 1,173,088 | 114,898 | 3 | Pretty bad . | I was excited to see " Waterworld " when it came out back in 1995 . I guess I was too stupid to have heard of its awful advance previews and its months on the shelves ; an action delivered by a studio fearing wasting money on a hugely expensive flop . Well , they wasted their money , all right . This film ( which cost ... |
429,963 | 1,173,088 | 103,873 | 3 | It isn't funny enough to be a comedy , isn't scary enough to be a horror , and isn't convincing enough in its character development or subplots to make us care at all . | Peter Jackson's problem is very simply that he deals in extremes . He has never found moderation in his career and this is what will always prevent him from becoming a master of his craft . As a shock filmmaker in his early days he was quite effective ? the passionate filmmaker who wasn't that great but kind of grabbed... |
429,221 | 1,173,088 | 367,882 | 3 | Shockingly inept - did I really just watch this ? | Let me start by saying Indiana Jones is a staple of my childhood , like many of you who might be reading this review , but I've never been a so-called " fanboy . " I enjoy all three movies , specifically the first and third , and I can appreciate " Temple of Doom " in spite of its faults . So I went to see the midnite ... |
430,855 | 1,173,088 | 216,487 | 3 | An absolutely terrible and laughably bad film | When this was being advertised on TBS back in 2001 , every single ad featured Mel Gibson and Jet Li's names . They were only producers , but you wouldn't know it by the extent to which their names were featured . I thought the film looked good back then - some kind of " Matrix " / " Highlander " clone , maybe , but it ... |
431,010 | 1,173,088 | 162,650 | 4 | Amusing but really nothing special . | An enjoyable but nevertheless quite silly and average remake of the classic television show has the new John Shaft ( Samuel L . Jackson ) beating up a white racist ( Christian Bale ) and getting booted off of the police force . Everyone in this film is a racist - primarily the whites - and this whole idea is way too fo... |
430,729 | 1,173,088 | 75,860 | 4 | Overrated , disappointing sci-fi film that has become fondly remembered over the years . . . but why ? | Steven Spielberg's " Close Encounters of the Third Kind " ( 1977 ) is a genuinely silly , unfortunately outdated story . Its epic scope made it one of the highest-grossing films of 1977 , nominated for two Academy Awards ® ( it lost Best Visual Effects to George Lucas ' " Star Wars " ) . Now , 27 years later , it just ... |
429,311 | 1,173,088 | 118,747 | 4 | Why , why couldn't they let it alone ? | The Blues Brothers is one of the most classic comedies of the past 25 years . Somehow , someone decided to mess up the legacy by creating a sequel . . . 18 years later . Dan Akyroyd returns as Ellwood Blues . He has just been released from jail , and trying to put the band back together again . Because of the real life... |
430,632 | 1,173,088 | 63,036 | 4 | Hugely disappointing | Brian De Palma , Robert De Niro in his first movie . . . it has to be good , right ? That's what I thought . But I was hugely disappointed . " GREETINGS " is no more a comedy than SCHINDLER'S LIST . I didn't laugh a single time , nor grin or smile . It has one good gag , at the very end of the film , and if it had main... |
429,831 | 1,173,088 | 374,900 | 4 | Very simplistic in humor and also very repetitive | By now if you haven't managed to see " Napoleon Dynamite " you've still probably heard it referenced a lot . " Vote for Pedro " has become a pop culture reference already along with many annoying idiots trying to imitate the voice of the titular character , quoting lines from the movie such as " Sweet " or so on and so... |
431,136 | 1,173,088 | 277,371 | 4 | About ten years past its prime , and even then its victim to its own satire | Not Another Teen Movie is an " American Pie " - style satire of the sex / teen comedies of the 1980s . It includes all the stereotype characters - The Jock , The Geek , The Cheerleader , The Spoiled Stuck-Up Princess ( I can't use the real word ) , The Foreign Exchange Student and the Token Black . It is quite funny ... |
431,146 | 1,173,088 | 960,144 | 4 | Disappointing | Look , I'm not one of those snobby cinema elitists who scoffs and upturns their nose at every Adam Sandler film that comes out . " Happy Gilmore " is one of my all-time favourite " guilty pleasures " and he's done a lot of entertaining films that aren't by any means thought-provoking or life-altering but , for all prac... |
430,366 | 1,173,088 | 277,187 | 4 | Come on , guys , let's be honest - - it's really bad . | I saw this film because it was a labor of love by Bill Hicks and his best buddy , Kevin Booth . They filmed it over a number of years with home video equipment and it ( clearly ) had no budget at all . However , looking it up on IMDb I am surprised to find a rating , and I know this must be due to the Bill Hicks cult f... |
429,444 | 1,173,088 | 120,749 | 4 | This is just another mediocre thriller that we've seen a million times before , parading as something it isn't . It's mediocre at best . | The problem with " Mercury Rising " is that every scene is handled mediocre at best , and the film never tries to become anything it isn't . Bruce Willis plays an ex-undercover FBI agent . At one time he had been undercover at a bank robbery , and two teenagers were killed when the FBI busted in and started shooting . ... |
430,771 | 1,173,088 | 301,470 | 4 | Disappointing | The first " Jeepers Creepers " was a good horror film . It was entertaining and director Victor Salva didn't give in to his typical cinematic fetishes ( I won't mention them all here - last time I did my review wasn't approved ) . Anyway , the first film was a huge success and Francis Ford Coppola essentially said , " ... |
430,088 | 1,173,088 | 99,005 | 4 | A really mediocre film that suffers from poor direction | Roger Spottiswoode isn't the worst director , and he did a good job on the underrated sci-fi thriller " The Sixth Day " ( a . k . a . " The Box Office Downfall of Mr . Schwarzenegger " ) . However , " Air America " has to be one of his most inept projects . It comes across as an amalgamation between drama , comedy and ... |
429,818 | 1,173,088 | 120,663 | 4 | Look Closer | There's more to this movie than t & a . It was really made famous during its release because Tom and Nicole split . I doubt this was coincidental - they knew that splitting would cause more controversy over an already-controversial film . I'm not saying that they only split up because they wanted more attention for the... |
430,038 | 1,173,088 | 105,219 | 4 | Really , really bad | This was Brandon Lee's second-to-last movie and it shows he was developing a sense of what it takes to star in an action movie . The problem is that the film itself is a total waste . According to IMDb , Lee wanted John Woo to direct the film but they cast someone else because they feared American audiences wouldn't go... |
430,898 | 1,173,088 | 271,263 | 4 | Crude , juvenile , and just not very entertaining | Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights could have been a really sweet Christmas story with a heartwarming message at its core . Instead , it's a vile , heartless animated feature that swerves back and forth between naughty and nice , not sure what to become . Take , for instance , the scene towards the end , when the mayo... |
430,601 | 1,173,088 | 186,804 | 4 | They Should Be Embarrassed ! | This latest entry into straight-to-TV videos sees Tom Skerrit running for his life when disaster hits New York City . Another predictable , pretentious natural disaster " thriller " made for TV , " Earthquake in New York " does nothing we have not seen before , and accomplishes zip . Boring from start to finish . stars... |
429,752 | 1,173,088 | 120,577 | 4 | Could have been much better | 54 is a film based on the infamous " Studio 54 " of the 1970s - the hangout for the social elite and party clubbers . In the film , Ryan Phillippe is the main character , based on an actual employee of Studio from 1977 - 1982 . The film's problem is that it's all glitter and style and no substance . It tries to be a ... |
429,415 | 1,173,088 | 111,026 | 4 | Weak | A so-called " spy spoof " that has James Belushi playing Agent Royce , who is called out of duty after the Cold War and sent on a new mission by his boss , played by Peter Boyle ( who was in another James Belushi movie called " Red Heat , " also starring Arnold Schwarzenegger ) . Not very funny , and as much as I enjoy... |
430,017 | 1,173,088 | 97,474 | 4 | He's back . I'm bored . | Sigh The original " Halloween , " released in 1976 , was an instant classic and solidified John Carpenter as one of the horror genre's most promising new talents . Unfortunately , the success of the film spawned a series of dire and predictable sequels , all progressively worse than their predecessors . Although " Hall... |
430,276 | 1,173,088 | 124,819 | 4 | Silly crude humor that isn't very funny - - makes " South Park " look sophisticated | Although I am not by any means obsessed with " South Park , " I do think it's a very funny show and the film adaptation was hilarious . Trey Parker and Matt Stone can be quite funny and I thought certain scenes of " Team America " were genius . ( And others . . . not so much . ) But their second film outing , " Orgazmo... |
429,758 | 1,173,088 | 169,514 | 4 | Pretty awful | This was a made-for-TV movie a few years back when comic book adaptations were just starting to make a name for themselves with films such as " X-Men " raking in all the cash at the box office . Unfortunately " Witchblade " is just another cash-in and not at all unique - it is supposedly based on a comic book of the sa... |
430,117 | 1,173,088 | 119,975 | 4 | Strangely entertaining | I was in a mediocre hotel in England , up at two in the morning and couldn't get to sleep . I decided to put the TV on and one of the first channels I flipped to was a show starring Christopher Lloyd . It looked pretty bad , but there was something about it that was strangely fascinating . . . I later found out that it... |
430,133 | 1,173,088 | 62,711 | 4 | Classic erotic adventure is now dated and silly | Barbarella was famous ( or rather infamous ) when it came out because Jane Fonda was naked , her husband directed the movie and it was therefore quite controversial . Now it's come out that she / her book / tabloid magazines claim Roger Vadim used to make her have threesomes with other women . Somehow , it seems appr... |
430,271 | 1,173,088 | 340,855 | 4 | Poorly made and dishonest | Having taken a slight interest in the story of Aileen Wuornos , I was appalled by " Monster " because it does no justice to her story . To be fair , Charlize Theron gives a good performance as Wuornos , but after seeing Nick Broomfield's " The Selling of a Serial Killer " ( 1992 ) I realized just how biased and dishone... |
430,403 | 1,173,088 | 116,151 | 4 | Terrible ! | A little boy who lives in a luxurious hotel ( his father , Jason Alexander , owns it ) has no friends and lives a miserable life until a monkey ( or , to be more accurate , an orangutan ) walks in one day and becomes his new best buddy . Cue lots of stupid physical humor , shots of surprised guests shocked at the prosp... |
429,475 | 1,173,088 | 119,925 | 4 | Poor Kevin . | Like all futuristic / post-apocalyptic action movies , " The Postman " opens up with people dressing like they did in the 1800s . Kevin Costner looks like he rode in off the set of " Dances for Wolves " seven years late . The year is 2013 , the world is a mess and its inhabitants have destroyed their land . A crippling... |
429,864 | 1,173,088 | 192,618 | 4 | Pretty dire . | This aired on Disney a few years back as one of their infamous " Original Movies . " The concept is something from a " Simpsons " Halloween episode : a computer home is won by a family and they move in only to find their lives dominated by a glitch in the system . In this case the glitch is a visual representation of a... |
430,001 | 1,173,088 | 80,761 | 4 | Really . . . bad . | I'm not sure how this is considered by some people to be a " classic " horror film . It is one of the better horror films released in the 1980s , but that's not saying much in the era of a gazillion sequels per franchise and films like " Boogeyman " and " Critters . " " Friday the 13th " is a poorly made movie . The ac... |
430,122 | 1,173,088 | 144,814 | 4 | A Total Rip-Off . . . | The Rage : Carrie 2Dumb sequel is a practical scene-for-scene mimic of the original with lesser actors , a lesser screenplay , and a lesser impact . Based on the novel by Stephen King writing as Richard Bachman ( originally titled " The Rage " ) , I can't believe King ever thought he could keep his alias a secret after... |
430,620 | 1,173,088 | 102,685 | 4 | One of the most overrated action films I've ever seen . | Point Break was named a hugely clever satire of male testosterone in my " Films of the ' 90s " book ( edited by Jurgen Muller ) . They claimed it was one of the finest films of the decade and placed it in their book of must-see ' 90s films , leaving out classics such as " Reservoir Dogs " and " Dumb and Dumber " ( ye... |
429,616 | 1,173,088 | 327,162 | 4 | A huge mess | Word was leaked early that this film was a disaster . Test screenings went miserably and the ending had to be re-filmed . It sat on the shelves for close to a year . Nicole Kidman said nasty things about director Frank Oz behind his back , and the cast and crew in turn said things about her . Matthew Broderick said it ... |
430,330 | 1,173,088 | 349,205 | 4 | Poor Steve Martin | Cheaper By the Dozen would have at least been an amusing film if it hadn't already been made about a hundred times before . In the early stages of production I was actually misled into thinking it was a direct adaptation of the book , and was excited to see how they'd pull that off . Little did I know the title is al... |
429,279 | 1,173,088 | 97,967 | 4 | Wasted Potential . . . | Next of KinThere's a lot of potential wasted here in this story of a redneck ( Liam Neeson ) whose big city brother ( Bill Paxton in a brief cameo ) is killed by crime lords ( including a very young Ben Stiller ) . Taking revenge into his own hands , the redneck makes the trek to the big city and there finds his other ... |
430,019 | 1,173,088 | 115,813 | 4 | Entertaining because it's so poor | Ironically this film was on ABC Family Channel last night , despite its R-rating for graphic violence , language and sexuality . I know it was on pretty late , but still . . . I watched it because I saw Ron Livingston's face and figured it couldn't be THAT bad . . . well , I was wrong , and now I've lost my faith in Li... |
429,369 | 1,173,088 | 190,641 | 4 | Dang . Overlooked By the Academy AGAIN ! | Pokemon the First Movie : Mewtwo Strikes Back is not exactly low 100 material for IMDb , but it is pretty bad . I guess kids would like it if they like the show , but you'd have to be a pretty die hard fan . I guess that's why it's on the low 100 . No plot , no good characters , no interesting parts . Well , maybe so... |
429,380 | 1,173,088 | 305,224 | 4 | You'll need anger management after seeing this movie . Well , not really , but it's only so-so . . . | It's funny how buddy movies have transformed over the years . During the eighties there was a supply and demand for cop-buddy films , such as " 48 Hrs . , " " Red Heat , " and even " Turner and Hootch . " During the nineties there was a supply and demand for road comedy movies , for the most part . And now there seems ... |
429,911 | 1,173,088 | 87,078 | 4 | Lame sequel to a lame movie | I'm a big fan of Arnie . I've never liked any of the " Conan " films . I think they're both campy , stilted , poorly acted , silly , unimaginative , dire , boring . I don't like swords-and-sworcery flicks , either , so maybe that has something to do with my dislike for the movies . Arnie returned in 1984 after the succ... |
429,495 | 1,173,088 | 395,251 | 4 | Dull , and very disappointing | The original " Producers " is one of my favorite films - it's clever , original and - at the time - it was also fairly controversial ( keep in mind it came out at the end of the ' 60s ) . It proved Mel Brooks had comedic genius inside him ( even if his later career faltered somewhat ) and the musical numbers were as fu... |
430,878 | 1,173,088 | 328,099 | 4 | Filmgoers ' Least Wanted . | The idea behind " Malibu's Most Wanted " came from a television show starring Jamie Kennedy named , of all things , " The Jamie Kennedy Experiment " - - and it shows . I'm a big fan of the show , and I'm starting to become a big fan of the actor , and so I was thrilled to hear he had his own movie based on the hilariou... |
429,230 | 1,173,088 | 373,883 | 4 | Rob Zombie tries to give a monster a soul . | On paper , a " Halloween " remake looked interesting . Zombie tries to go back to the character's origin and reinvent him - it's a recent trend in Hollywood ( " Batman Begins , " " Casino Royale , " the upcoming " Incredible Hulk , " etc . ) , so it's not quite surprising that Hollywood greenlit the project and it got ... |
430,052 | 1,173,088 | 102,370 | 4 | Just plain sleazy and stupid . | I do not listen to Madonna . What I've heard I've enjoyed , but for the most part I don't go out of my way to hear her music . As an actress she's never really impressed me and personally some of the tabloid stuff has rubbed me the wrong way and I just don't find her interesting anymore . In general I find celebrities ... |
430,821 | 1,173,088 | 241,760 | 4 | Amateur-ish and just not very funny | For every good teen comedy there are about a hundred bad ones . " The New Guy " is one of the bad ones . That annoying guy from " The Core " plays Dizzy Harrison , nerdy high schooler who decides to leave and transfer to another school across town to re-establish himself as Gil Harris , a " cool kid " with bleached hai... |
430,516 | 1,173,088 | 115,697 | 4 | think that people should realize in the future , that just because a comedian is fat he is NOT John Candy ! | ' Black Sheep'In this basic rehash of ' Tommy Boy , ' an equally unimpressive comedy , David Spade plays an election aide who must watch over a candidate's brother , Chris Farley , a chubby , loudmouthed , obnoxious , loose cannon . If Farley gets in the spotlight for anything bad , like he usually does , the candidate... |
431,097 | 1,173,088 | 96,754 | 4 | James Cameron's Worst Film ( Save " Piranha II " ) | I'm a huge fan on James Cameron . I really like Ed Harris . " The Abyss , " however , was a stinker from a mile away . Right from the beginning , the film is ridiculous , and FAR too long . By the end of the film we are sitting , just waiting for this gosh-darned thing to get done with itself and move on , so we can wa... |
430,103 | 1,173,088 | 228,750 | 4 | Proof That Taylor Hackford Is A Hack Who Makes Crap . | I doubt something like this would be made nowadays with the state of the world ( and the fact that so many Americans have been captured , held hostage , and murdered ) . However , this was released a year before it all started on September 11th , 2001 - - and chances are we'll never see a movie like this again for quit... |
429,753 | 1,173,088 | 115,509 | 4 | Why did they have to ruin it ? | Movies like these do not need sequels . Part of the advantage of Don Bluth moving away from Disney is that he didn't need to suffer their endless tirade of straight-to-video , poorly animated cash-in sequels . But apparently it was someone's brilliant idea to make a sequel to " All Dogs Go to Heaven , " so we get this ... |
429,387 | 1,173,088 | 109,836 | 4 | Messy and boring , Kenneth Branaugh's tribute to himself becomes very dull and hard to watch . . . | A boring , and utterly messy retelling of Mary Shelly's classic story sees Kenneth Branaugh as the mad scientist Frankenstein ( guffaw ) and Robert De Niro as The Monster he has created . Interesting in some areas , but overall Branaugh's love of himself gets in the way of the film's narrative . Remind me never to watc... |
429,966 | 1,173,088 | 468,996 | 4 | A poor imitation of " The Osbournes " - but not as funny or original | At one time during the 1980s Hulk Hogan was one of the most popular figures in the entertainment industry . He was a famous wrestler who tried to branch out into films ( and failed ) with numerous projects . As the ' 90s came and went , Hulk's fans faded out - and by 2000 he's nothing more than a has-been . So what bet... |
430,023 | 1,173,088 | 261,289 | 4 | Not the worst movie ever made ( as everyone made it out to be ) , but not good either . | I remember when " Serving Sara " came out I was in the process of moving to England and there were commercials on TV during my pack-out . Each one showed the scene where Elizabeth Hurley gets her pants torn off by Matthew Perry and says , " I said to help me , not undress me ! " Of course it was a clever marketing sche... |
429,313 | 1,173,088 | 170,016 | 4 | How the Grinch stole what could have been a good film | Dr . Seuss ' How the Grinch Stole Christmas is based on the childrens book by Dr . Seuss . In this live action film , Jim Carrey brings to life one of the most beloved stories of our time to the big screen with the direction of Ron Howard . The plot is taken straight from the book with a few creative liberties along th... |
430,470 | 1,173,088 | 94,500 | 4 | Very disappointing | I grew up reading " The Lion , the Witch , and the Wardrobe " and must have read it over five or six times altogether as a child - which is rare for me because I'm not the sort of person who reads books more than once . The novel was clearly intended as a Christian allegory by its author , C . S . Lewis , a devout Chri... |
430,817 | 1,173,088 | 82,533 | 4 | Not scary , not fun and just very campy and dated | I'm a fan of Joe Dante's work . " Gremlins " is a brilliant film and one of my favorites ; its campy humor worked to great effect , it was pretty scary in its own silly little way and all in all it just worked perfectly . " The Second Civil War " is a great underrated satire of politics and war and " Toy Soldiers " isn... |
430,993 | 1,173,088 | 272,020 | 4 | Boring and underdeveloped | I saw this on TV expecting a pleasant and entertaining film and got neither . It's really an aggravating movie because it wastes so much potential ; Robert Redford , for starters , and James Gandolfini as a prison warden . It's like " Shawshank Redemption Redux , " minus the epic scope and character development - - ess... |
429,489 | 1,173,088 | 84,754 | 4 | Very Poor . I'm surprised they decided to make a TV show out of this . | A pretty poor made-for-TV movie that was the pilot for the television show " T . J . Hooker " starring William Shatner . " You don't need to worry about wasting hours trying to figure out what T . J . stands for - - you all will know me as Sergeant . " The beginning of the movie is laughably bad . Shatner's Hooker is i... |
431,140 | 1,173,088 | 458,525 | 4 | Lame . | It's hard to dislike Hugh Jackman , which is why it's frustrating to witness him suffering through a number of films . He's a talented actor who's been stuck in a rut lately , and if anyone was hoping that Wolverine would be a return to form , those expectations may well be diminished within the first few minutes alone... |
429,194 | 1,173,088 | 293,508 | 4 | Joel Schumacher ruins another film | I guess before production started on this it was Joel Schumacher's goal to cast the most unsuitable actors in the roles of the singers . Gerard Butler , as the titular Phantom , couldn't sing if his life depended on it - every time he hits a high note ( or any note , for that matter ) his voice sounds like a whale bell... |
429,674 | 1,173,088 | 157,503 | 4 | Spinal Tap rip-off is low on laughs and running out of ideas in the first ten minutes . . . | Hit-and-miss mockumentary about a Minnesota beauty pageant and the weirdos involved in it . An all-star cast can't compensate for a pretty messy script and some very unfunny Christopher Guest-type humor that fails to deliver on a consistent level . stars . - John Ulmer |
429,268 | 1,173,088 | 121,765 | 4 | George Lucas is back , and so is Star Wars ! ( a few really small spoilers ) | NOTE : I saw this film again after writing this review and didn't like it the second time . This review is also one of the worst I've ever written . So you have been warned . - - I went to see Star Wars Episode II : Attack of the Clones the day after it came out in theaters May 16 , and I must say I was surprised ! I w... |
429,439 | 1,173,088 | 119,643 | 4 | You'll love it . . . if it's the only movie you've ever seen or you're a female . | What ever happened to Martin Brest ? A ring of critical and financial successes - - " Beverly Hills Cop , " " Midnight Run , " " Scent of a Woman " - - and suddenly . . . " Meet Joe Black " ? " Gigli " ? Huh ? This three-hour dramatic epic ( yawn ! ) is a remake of an older film , which I hear is much , much better . T... |
429,759 | 1,173,088 | 118,966 | 4 | Should have been a lot better | I really wanted to see this film - I thought the plot was really unique and intriguing . A cop ( Andy Garcia ) has a son who is dying and needs bone marrow replacement in order to live . The only match is a convicted serial killer , who escapes from jail . To save his son he has to track down the killer . Michael Keato... |
431,021 | 1,173,088 | 90,856 | 4 | Williams looks embarrassed | I used to like Robin Williams . As time has gone on I've come to realize that perhaps I don't very much . When he's funny , he's hilarious . When he isn't . . . it's embarrassing . And CLUB PARADISE is one of the worst films he's made , which is saying something . It's hard to imagine that something so bad could have b... |
430,378 | 1,173,088 | 101,787 | 4 | All heil Joel Schumacher . | No , not really . Of course I'm joking . I'd rather be buried alive . To be fair , Schumacher has made some good films - " Falling Down " is great fun by any standards - but his bad far outweighs the few good projects he's worked on . His influence on a film is instantly recognizable . " Dying Young " is one of Schumac... |
429,322 | 1,173,088 | 325,703 | 4 | The title should just be " Angelina Jolie In Tight Clothing Doing Stuff . " | Jan de Bont , how unfortunate it is to see you squander away your career . A promising action director once responsible for the thriller-epic " Speed " - now resorting to formulaic action sequels . The title may as well just be " Angelina Jolie In Tight Clothing " because that's basically the selling point . Let's face... |
429,827 | 1,173,088 | 131,704 | 4 | Promising self-satire falls short | The beginning of this movie is promising . It sets itself up for self-parody - - satirizing the old cartoon show and its absurdities while also managing to make fun of some clichés of cartoons and feature-film spin-offs . Then it becomes its own material - - it turns into a disastrously unfunny , stupid kiddie movie wi... |
430,426 | 1,173,088 | 120,912 | 4 | Back in Black ? I Don't Think So . . . | Men In Black II , the follow up to the hit film Men In Black , features Tommy Lee Jones and Will Smith as the agents K and J respectively . This time around , J finds trouble in the universe as a hostile alien hunts for a mysterious object on Earth , and the only man who can help him doesn't remember a thing ? that man... |
430,749 | 1,173,088 | 114,214 | 4 | Something Missing . . . | The Quick and the DeadDisappointingly mediocre story about a gunfighting legend ( Sharon Stone ) who ventures back to her home town to face the corrupt sheriff ( Gene Hackman ) who murdered her daddy ( Gary Sinise in a brief cameo ) . The movie is directed by Sam Raimi ( " Spider-Man " ) , but it fails to come across a... |
430,085 | 1,173,088 | 265,738 | 4 | One of the worst shorts ever ? Perhaps . | The SharkTank Redemption seemed to indicate that the DVD would contain a humorous spin-off parody of the movie involving sharks trying to escape their tanks at an ocean exhibit . That sounded rather lame , but it's a better plot than what's here . Basically Alfonso Freeman ( Morgan's son ) works at a Hollywood agency... |
430,212 | 1,173,088 | 372,532 | 4 | Even as a " chick flick " romantic comedy it doesn't deliver | I went to go see this not having heard anything about it , now knowing what to expect . I figured it would be , at the very least , mildly entertaining and humorous . I'm a sucker for romantic comedies like " Kate and Leopold " and " My Best Friend's Wedding " - - they aren't great movies , but they are good time-passe... |
430,421 | 1,173,088 | 141,369 | 4 | Not as bad as some say , but it could have been so much better if they had stayed faithful to the show . . . | What my heading for this comment is pretty much sums up what I think . They should have stayed faithful to the show more , and never have shown Claw's face . The dog should have been cgi animated , or at least played some part in the plot . Same with the niece . Oh well , another wasted Disney effort , I guess , though... |
429,754 | 1,173,088 | 110,442 | 4 | Pretty lame | The first " Major League " was enjoyable ( even if it wasn't great or anything ) whereas this cash-in sequel is basically just to suck the money out of a film that made more cash at the box office than anyone expected . The first " Major League " came out in ' 87 and this one in ' 94 ; the seven-year gap surely didn't ... |
430,357 | 1,173,088 | 86,356 | 4 | Bad Idea , Bad Execution , Bad Movie . | Put yourself in this position : You're a 30-something judge with a wife and kids whose job is to send people to jail . But when small technicalities get in the way of justice , you have to compromise your morals and let rapists and murderers on the loose - - just because the police may have performed a search without a... |
430,639 | 1,173,088 | 361,596 | 4 | Disappointing and muddled | I think the most important aspect of any documentary is the ability to entertain its audience . This does not mean it must be " fun . " It can be moving , disturbing , or horrifying . But I think that , at the least , it should be able to maintain a viewer's interest ? if a filmmaker has succeeded at this , he has succ... |
429,566 | 1,173,088 | 99,371 | 4 | Cole Trickle and his gang are here to PUMP . . . YOU . . . UP ! | This film has the worst cast of characters ever . I'm not necessarily speaking of actors , just the names of the people they portray . I mean , come on , Cole Trickle is bad enough ( sounds like a gay hero's alter ego ) , but look at the rest of the names listed in this film : Harry Hogge , Claire Lewicki , Tim Daland ... |
429,867 | 1,173,088 | 318,403 | 4 | A disgrace to the original | I found this to be an utter waste of time , effort and money . I know Disney always displays lack of creativity when making " straight-to-video " films - but rehashing the plot of the original film with a " new perspective " is an all-time low . . . soon they'll just be re-releasing the original films with new animatio... |
430,582 | 1,173,088 | 75,696 | 4 | Really quite lame and not nearly as funny as the show | I've always been an infrequent fan ( if that makes any sense ? ) of the cult British TV show " Are You Being Served ? " When it was originally aired it was actually in black and white and then moved on to color as the years progressed . I thought the characters were likable and had good trademarks , the humor was well-... |
430,785 | 1,173,088 | 116,695 | 5 | I still can't warm up to this movie | I still remember the fuss " Jerry Maguire " made when it came out back in ' 96 and I still remember the first time I saw it and wondered what the big deal was . I respect Cameron Crowe and I think he has good intentions . " Almost Famous " is a really , really good chronicle of its era . It had interesting characters w... |
430,033 | 1,173,088 | 99,091 | 5 | Haven't I seen this before ? | Michael is a straight-flying young business kid who gets into a fight with a jealous boyfriend one night at a bar . Suddenly a mysterious stranger intervenes and saves him from a beating . The stranger disappears but later that night , while jogging , Michael bumps into him on a pier again ( a foreshadowing of later ev... |
429,172 | 1,173,088 | 248,667 | 5 | Plays too much like a documentary and not a film | Ali was one of those hugely-hyped films that just kind of fizzled out once it had been released . So much was built up around its release : Will Smith and all his training he endured to take on the role of Muhammad Ali , director Michael Mann's struggle to get the film made , and of course the very idea of a film bio... |
430,689 | 1,173,088 | 444,734 | 5 | Rather pathetic | This was a special TV presentation in 1993 at the height of many of its stars ' popularity . Faces like Scott Bakula and Craig T . Nelson may not translate as well to modern drivers who wouldn't even be able to recognize them from anything at all . Basically , it's an hour-long special that provides dangerous driving s... |
429,280 | 1,173,088 | 99,141 | 5 | Disappointingly unfunny and rather mediocre buddy comedy . . . | There's a reason that " Bird on a Wire " is one of those forgotten films from the 80s . It's forgotten because it's not very good at all . John Badham is a very unpredictable director . He can turn out great films ( " Saturday Night Fever , " " The Hard Way " ) and very bad ones ( " Another Stakeout " ) . The reason , ... |
429,937 | 1,173,088 | 99,165 | 5 | Mediocre , not awful . | If you are a fan of Brian De Palma , you already know about " The Bonfire of the Vanities . " This is constantly referred to as his hugest flop and largest disappointment , probably for good reason . Its cast - - Tom Hanks , Melanie Griffith , Bruce Willis and Kim Cattrall - - are hardly unpopular and the material is f... |
429,863 | 1,173,088 | 112,744 | 5 | Not very effective at all . | Sean Penn directs Jack Nicholson in this story of a man who swears to avenge his daughter's death by killing the drunk driver who struck her . The movie opens up with Nicholson's character being a sleazy guy in a strip club and instantly we don't care very much about him , because he treats everyone like crap and doesn... |
430,460 | 1,173,088 | 294,862 | 5 | Okay updated arcade game | QBert is an updated arcade game , much like PacMan . It involves escaping from bad guys from jumping down pyramid blocks . I've played this updated version , and it's not that bad . Worth getting cheap for 5 bucks if you like classic style arcade games . If not , pass . |
429,919 | 1,173,088 | 388,500 | 5 | OK , but unnecessary , and what happened to Bacon and Silverstone ? ! | I was really surprised to see Kevin Bacon credited for this film halfway down the list . I thought it was just an extended , uncredited cameo . I was almost shocked when I realized he was taking credit for starring in the film - and his name wasn't even near the top of the list ! Ditto for Alicia Silverstone . What's h... |
430,172 | 1,173,088 | 120,382 | 5 | Nearly Carrey's best . . . | Jim's greatest film is Dumb and Dumber-it cracks me up every time I watch it , but THE TRUMAN SHOW is one of his best . It's got a good cast , and interesting idea , and while there're many plotholes we can avoid this by just having fun at the movies . stars - - JOHN ULMER |
431,098 | 1,173,088 | 99,276 | 5 | Clarence Is Back . . . | In a tale not-so-great as " It's a Wonderful Life " by any means , but still a decent family story . . . Robert Carradine ( " Revenge of the Nerds " ) stars as Clarence , the angel from " It's A . . . Life , " only this time , he has wings . And as we are all supposed to know , angels of course get YOUNGER as they get ... |
430,335 | 1,173,088 | 93,437 | 5 | A rather disappointing cult film . | I don't see a TV , Michael . No TV means no MTV . So says Sam ( Corey Haim ) to his brother ( Jason Patric ) as they check out their new house in Santa Cruz . That quote best describes " The Lost Boys " - - a vampire film for the MTV generation ( opening with Echo and the Bunnymen's " People Are Strange " Doors cover... |
430,789 | 1,173,088 | 110,950 | 5 | This movie bites . | I'm one of the very , very , very , very , very ( this could go on a long time ! ) . . . few people who thought Ben Stiller did a good job on " The Cable Guy , " and it was a good satire . I had wanted to see " Reality Bites " for a while and finally got to see it on TV last week . I was really disappointed . It's a la... |
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