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0/4
|
23%
|
Bad Boys II (2003) |
"
If Bad Boys II had a secondary title, it would be Hurl Harbor; it's that sickening."
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Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jul 18, 2003
|
|
0/4
|
36%
|
Spun (2003) |
"
It's giving Spun too much credit to say it's all style and no substance."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted May 9, 2003
|
|
0/4
|
12%
|
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"
If the traditional two-dimensional, cel-painted format of animation really is dying, it's because of films like Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Nov 27, 2002
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|
0/4
|
3%
|
fear dot com (FeardotCom) (2002) |
"
The only thing scary about feardotcom is that the filmmakers and studio are brazen enough to attempt to pass this stinker off as a scary movie."
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Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Aug 30, 2002
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0/4
|
2%
|
The Master of Disguise (2002) |
"
Pity first-time filmmaker Perry Andelin Blake, who tries to make the best of this mess, despite being saddled with a star who seems to have no self-restraint, and who clearly has had his sense of what's funny and what's not seriously impaired."
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Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Aug 2, 2002
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|
0/4
|
13%
|
Sorority Boys (2002) |
"
A stupid Animal House wannabe, Sorority Boys is not just dull, it's downright offensive."
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Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Mar 22, 2002
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|
0/4
|
11%
|
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist (2002) |
"
Most of the time, this mess is about as much fun as being with a bunch of drunken frat boys who are talking back to a martial-arts film."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Feb 1, 2002
|
|
0/4
|
44%
|
Very Bad Things (1998) |
"
...unpleasant and extremely unfunny..."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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0/4
|
15%
|
Tales from the Crypt Presents: Bordello of Blood (1996) |
"
For a horror-comedy film to work, it's got to be both funny and scary. Tales From the Crypt Presents Bordello of Blood is neither."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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0/4
|
15%
|
Eddie (1996) |
"
If the people responsible for Eddie were trying to make a statement about greed in professional sports with this laughless comedy, they didn't just miss the shot -- they missed the rim, net and backboard completely."
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Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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0/4
|
8%
|
Bulletproof (1996) |
"
Dickerson and screenwriter Joe Gayton have misguidedly tried to turn Wayans into a physical action star and evidently hoped that Sandler could act."
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Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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0/4
|
83%
|
Scream (1996) |
"
First, it's not scary, and second, after seeing it, you may scream at yourself for wasting your time and money."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
0/5
|
14%
|
Beverly Hills Ninja (1997) |
"
An extremely unfunny vehicle for Chris Farley."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
0/4
|
9%
|
Virus (1999) |
"
This disgustingly gory science-fiction/horror film also bears a striking resemblance to last year's equally graphic Deep Rising and nearly surpasses that film with its sheer stupidity."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 1, 2000
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|
0/4
|
13%
|
The Glimmer Man (1996) |
"
Yet another action-thriller that just isn't very thrilling."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
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0/4
|
48%
|
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) |
"
It features so much in the way of awkward and contrived situations that even an extremely talented cast nearly flounders."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 1, 2000
|
|
1/4
|
73%
|
The Last Exorcism (2010) |
"
An ill-considered, laughably dumb coda sequence only compounds Exorcism's numerous problems."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Aug 26, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
6%
|
Standing Ovation (2010) |
"
It's an amateurish, poorly assembled and incompetently performed collection of musical comedy cliches."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
13%
|
Jonah Hex (2010) |
"
Jonah Hex misfires. Repeatedly."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jul 6, 2010
|
|
|
79%
|
Mother and Child (2010) |
"
As far as the stories are concerned, a couple of them are pretty good. But the nearly disastrous third section unravels the entire movie."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jun 24, 2010
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|
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10%
|
Grown Ups (2010) |
"
Its brand of "humor" consists mostly of insults, as well as sexual, flatulence and scatological jokes. Yet it's not these things that make the comedy so noxious. It's the ridiculous attempts to redeem itself and the characters at the end."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jun 24, 2010
|
|
|
65%
|
8: The Mormon Proposition (2010) |
"
It's as if the filmmakers went into the project without a specific direction, aside from making an obvious statement. The resulting movie feels rambling and unfocused."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
8%
|
Furry Vengeance (2010) |
"
Fraser has never been more "doofus-y" than in this moronic humiliation comedy, which actually gets dumber as it goes."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Apr 29, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
19%
|
The Back-up Plan (2010) |
"
The Back-up Plan wants to be cute. But more often it settles for being cutesy. And more often still, it's off-puttingly crude."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Apr 22, 2010
|
|
|
28%
|
Clash of the Titans (2010) |
"
If even half as much effort had gone into character development and plotting as went into character and creature designs, they might have had something worthwhile."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Apr 1, 2010
|
|
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53%
|
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (2010) |
"
The movie asks us to root for a main character who's somewhat unlikable, someone who does some pretty despicable things before he gets his eventual, much-deserved comeuppance."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Mar 18, 2010
|
|
|
23%
|
Repo Men (2010) |
"
[It] works for about an hour. But then, the ultimately disappointing film comes undone, culminating with over-the-top gore and some convoluted, contrived plotting."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Mar 18, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
28%
|
Remember Me (2010) |
"
This shameless romantic drama tries to wring tears out of susceptible audiences by exploiting one of the most infamous, tragic moments in America's recent past."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Mar 12, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
14%
|
Our Family Wedding (2010) |
"
These performers all deserve better, funnier material than this lame, occasionally offensive, multicultural comedy-drama can offer."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Mar 12, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
45%
|
Until the Light Takes Us (2009) |
"
This is one of the most inept and clumsy pieces of filmmaking in recent history."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Mar 12, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
16%
|
When in Rome (2010) |
"
If someone taught classes on how not to make a romantic comedy, When in Rome would most certainly be one of the examples they would use."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jan 28, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
48%
|
Antichrist (2009) |
"
A grueling, unpleasant exercise in cinematic sadism."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Dec 17, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
5%
|
Old Dogs (2009) |
"
At least Luis Guzman and Dax Shepard were smart enough to avoid being credited for their roles in it."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Nov 24, 2009
|
|
|
38%
|
Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) |
"
The adaptation of Darren Shan's best-selling book series is confused muddle of a movie. The filmmakers can't decide on whether they want it to be a comedy, a horror, a coming-of-age tale, a good-vs.-evil parable or a combination of all of those things."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Oct 22, 2009
|
|
|
28%
|
Adventures of Power (2009) |
"
The film's penchant for dorky nostalgia -- especially '70s and '80s-era music -- quickly becomes irritating. It deserves a real tongue-lashing for trying to re-introduce the inexplicable Mr. Mister hit "Kyrie" into the American consciousness."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Oct 22, 2009
|
|
|
50%
|
Astro Boy (AstroBoy) (2009) |
"
This animated adaptation of the Japanese comics characters and concepts appears to have been cobbled together from parts of other, better movies."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Oct 22, 2009
|
|
|
9%
|
Opa! (2009) |
"
[Modine] seems too tentative and blase to work as the film's lead. Especially since he's paired with the vibrant Scott. She definitely deserves a chance to work again, with someone as committed to film chemistry as she clearly was."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Oct 15, 2009
|
|
|
73%
|
More Than a Game (2009) |
"
The film is pretty superficial in its reporting and is by-the-numbers in its storytelling. If the subjects weren't interesting, the movie would be a complete snore."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Oct 15, 2009
|
|
|
25%
|
Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
"
A confused, contrived mess that would be laughable if it weren't so noxious and mean-spirited."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Oct 15, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
39%
|
Surrogates (2009) |
"
If you didn't know any better, you'd swear that both the cast and crew of Surrogates were trying to make the worst movie possible."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Sep 27, 2009
|
|
|
17%
|
Love Happens (2009) |
"
A cliche-ridden, treacly drama that trivializes the bereavement process while it makes romance look easy and like a foregone conclusion."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
|
|
78%
|
The Informant! (2009) |
"
Director Steven Soderbergh tries too hard to force his tone on the material. There's already enough goofiness here."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
|
|
43%
|
Jennifer's Body (2009) |
"
It tries to be equal parts snark and snarl - think Mean Girls meets Carrie. But it's unsuccessful at doing either of those things well."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Sep 17, 2009
|
|
|
85%
|
Soul Power (2009) |
"
The movie is surprisingly dry and flavorless. It certainly doesn't help that filmmaker Jeffrey Levy-Hinte put this collection of footage together without any narration and with a bare minimum of narrative captions."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Sep 3, 2009
|
|
|
24%
|
Little Ashes (2009) |
"
Beltran tries to give this flimsy nonsense some weight, but Brits McNulty and Pattinson's attempts at a Spanish accent are woeful."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Sep 3, 2009
|
|
|
46%
|
Management (2009) |
"
The only thing that prevents the entire thing from becoming an unpleasant mess is Zahn, an often comic character actor who has an endearing goofiness to him and to his performances."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Sep 3, 2009
|
|
|
6%
|
All About Steve (2009) |
"
In the final 30 or so minutes it turns deadly serious, which is about the only time this mess gets any laughs."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Sep 3, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
43%
|
Shorts (Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock) (2009) |
"
It's a brightly colored headache of a movie with lowbrow humor and obnoxious characters that will be just as much of an irritant to children as it is to their parents."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Aug 20, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
14%
|
I Love You Beth Cooper (2009) |
"
There's not one remotely funny thing about this movie, except for maybe the fact that the filmmakers are trying to pass off Rust as a teen."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jul 9, 2009
|
|
1/4
|
15%
|
Year One (2009) |
"
Year One -- a film so simple-minded that even a caveman could have written it. Or could have directed it ..."
—
Deseret News, Salt Lake City
Posted Jun 18, 2009
|
63%
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