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Leigh Paatsch

Leigh Paatsch

Agrees with the Tomatometer 78% of the time.

Publications:
Courier Mail (Australia) , Daily Telegraph , Daily Telegraph (Australia) , Herald Sun (Australia) , New York Post
Total Reviews:
353

Worst Reviewed Films

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Rating T-Meter Title | Year Add Date
0/5 50% Sleeping Beauty (2011) " A hideous arthouse snoozer, Sleeping Beauty strikes the rare double of being as pretentious as it is puerile." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Jun 22, 2011
0/5 0% A Heartbeat Away (2010) " According to our hipster hero, you can't get more sonically 2011 than Red Hot Chili Peppers. So in the spirit of such whip-smart with-it-ness, a message to all involved with the making of A Heartbeat Away: give it away, give it away, give it away, NOW!" — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Mar 17, 2011
0/4 33% The Good Guy (2009) " There is a reason why McCarthy doesn't get hired to play a sharking alpha male very often. When he makes an effort to work his features into a frenzy of boiling testosterone, he looks like a petulant third-grader." — New York Post
Posted Feb 19, 2010
0/5 48% Antichrist (2009) " This woman-hating, audience-baiting, nerve-grating tripe gets off to a rancid start, and then just rots away before your very eyes for 104 stupefying minutes." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Nov 26, 2009
0.5/5 4% Vampires Suck (2010) " A parody of the Twilight movies so painfully unfunny it could turn proud Twilight haters into lifelong fans." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Aug 26, 2010
0.5/5 81% Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009) " It is not a rip-off. But make no mistake, it is a cash-in." — Courier Mail (Australia)
Posted Oct 28, 2009
1/5 43% A Few Best Men () " The set-up is simple enough at best. The execution is simple-minded at worst." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Feb 7, 2012
1/5 17% I Don't Know How She Does It (2011) " This sappy, crappy and condescending chick flick has been slapped together for those wishing to bask in the cinematic afterglow of the ever-radiant Sarah Jessica Parker." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Nov 3, 2011
1/5 4% Abduction (2011) " The electricity of the Twilight phenomenon may have zapped Taylor Lautner to super-stardom, but it ain't gonna keep him there. Sadly, it is already apparent the 19-year-old shall never learn to act in his, yours or any other lifetime." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Sep 22, 2011
1/5 38% Johnny English Reborn (2011) " Moderately funny if you still laugh at people walking into stuff, falling off stuff, and having their private parts inadvertently collide with stuff. Chillingly unfunny if you don't." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Sep 15, 2011
1/5 36% One Day (2011) " The most desperate, cloying weepie seen in many a long time." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Sep 2, 2011
1/5 0% Big Mamma's Boy () " It doesn't matter if you get Big Mamma's Boy confused with Martin Lawrence's terrible Big Momma's House franchise. The overall outcome for this cringe-inducing comedy is about the same." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Jul 28, 2011
1/5 34% Burke and Hare (2011) " This unfunny farce stinks to high heaven." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted May 12, 2011
1/5 76% The Reef (2010) " Terrible scripting, unconvincing acting, wonky continuity and feeble atmospherics induce an overpowering feeling of tedium that cancels out any potential for true terror." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Mar 17, 2011
1/5 14% Yogi Bear (2010) " Should Yogi Bear ever end up on the endangered list... Well, who are we to stand in the way of progress?" — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Jan 14, 2011
1/5 6% The Last Airbender (2010) " Being a Shyamalan film, the entire cast (which also includes Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel as an exiled Fire Prince) recite their looney-tunes lines as if they have been drugged, then hypnotised, then drugged again." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Sep 15, 2010
1/5 55% The Killer Inside Me (2010) " Viewers are invited to spend these torpid minutes burrowing into Lou's back story in search of reasons why he is off his rocker. But this is one movie psycho that defies all amateur psychoanalysis." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Aug 26, 2010
1/5 35% 4.3.2.1 () " A complete absence of wit and some truly terrible writing and acting makes for one bluntly bad movie." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Aug 20, 2010
1/5 40% The Expendables (2010) " The film bulls-eyes so-bad-it's-sad from the get-go. The precision with which it just keeps hitting that unwanted target is spooky." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Aug 12, 2010
1/5 23% Case 39 (2010) " It is universally terrible in virtually every department, save for the creepy charisma displayed by young Ferland." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Nov 5, 2009
1/5 34% G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009) " This ultra-violent, incoherent and utterly underwhelming action flick cost more than $200 million to produce." — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Posted Aug 7, 2009
1/5 15% Year One (2009) " Just like the stunt fudge on which Black chows down in his signature scene, Year One is unmistakably crap." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Jun 17, 2009
1/5 14% My Best Friend's Girl (2008) " A film that truly bites." — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Posted Oct 10, 2008
1/5 7% Babylon A.D. (2008) " If Kassovitz really believed he had a classic in the making, why didn't he take a stand and nix the casting of Diesel while he had the chance?" — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Posted Oct 3, 2008
15% Sex and the City 2 (2010) " Whenever the light is just right and the angle is just plain wrong, each star gets an unflattering close-up that leaves them looking like drag-queen stand-ins." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Jun 3, 2010
54% I Love You Too (2010) " On the odd occasion I Love You Too is shaken out of its so-so slumber, it's usually at the urging of diminutive American actor Peter Dinklage." — Courier Mail (Australia)
Posted May 18, 2010
41% Letters to Juliet (2010) " By the time we have adjusted to all that European summer sunlight streaming through Seyfried's silky hair, the film is already well on the road to Fluffsville." — Courier Mail (Australia)
Posted May 6, 2010
67% Date Night (2010) " There was probably never going to be a huge amount of great jokes to be found in this scenario no matter who was in the movie. Nevertheless, Carell and Fey do not really 'click' with either each other, or their respective roles." — Courier Mail (Australia)
Posted Apr 8, 2010
67% Brüno (Bruno) (2009) " While Cohen's taboo-breaking audacity remains in full force throughout Bruno, his ability to keep the big laughs on a roll has waned this time around." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Jul 12, 2009
5.5/5 65% Is Anybody There? (2009) " Director John Crowley overestimates the comedic potential of daily life for the elderly and infirmed. Thankfully, the casual, unforced chemistry between Caine and Milner is strong enough to suppress Is Anybody There?'s cornie" — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted May 27, 2009
1/4 25% Four Christmases (2008) " An imperfect storm of horrible writing, awkward casting and questionable taste gathers soon after the opening credits and dumps downpours of buzz-killing humour at depressingly regular intervals." — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Posted Dec 4, 2008
54% Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008) " Every aspect of the production is atrocious in the extreme.The writing is awful. The direction is bilious." — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Posted Sep 5, 2008
18% The Happening (2008) " The movie is a bummer, from beginning to end." — Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Posted Jun 13, 2008
1.5/5 47% Iron Sky () " Iron Sky really could have been something if only someone had written a decent script." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted May 10, 2012
1.5/5 25% Wrath of the Titans (2012) " A mumbling, stubbly Worthington phones in his effort from a long way away. It's as if he just stepped off Man on a Ledge and landed in a leather tunic." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Mar 30, 2012
1.5/5 3% Jack and Jill (2011) " How will future generations judge us for the huge box-office love we've shown Adam Sandler over the years? " — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Dec 1, 2011
1.5/5 78% Chalet Girl (2011) " Chalet Girl is a pedestrian affair that limply modernises the Cinderella fairytale for fun and profit." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Sep 2, 2011
1.5/5 44% Cowboys & Aliens (2011) " Overall, a dull, overblown and forgettable farrago." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Aug 19, 2011
1.5/5 34% Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011) " This fourth episode is being pitched as a reboot of the franchise. Nothing could be further from the truth." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted May 19, 2011
1.5/5 26% Hop (2011) " A clunky, mirth-challenged mix of live action and animation, Hop should be bounced to the back of the family's to-do list in the coming holiday period." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Apr 8, 2011
1.5/5 23% Sucker Punch (2011) " Consider yourself punched, sucker." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Apr 8, 2011
1.5/5 65% Tamara Drewe (2010) " Stephen Frears drapes Tamara Drewe over the screen like a patchwork quilt of half-finished comic sketches and pointless sub-plots." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Feb 3, 2011
1.5/5 44% The Green Hornet (2011) " Even the direction of Michel Gondry is a wipeout. The Frenchman was a late recruit to the project, but precious few glimpses of his trademark surrealism are detected." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Jan 20, 2011
1.5/5 20% The Tourist (2010) " While this farcical thriller can certainly be classified as a no-brainer, it is only on the grounds of sustained mindlessness that the tag truly sticks." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Dec 29, 2010
1.5/5 57% Summer Coda () " Nice scenery, shame about the movie." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Oct 20, 2010
1.5/5 14% Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) " This uncalled-for sequel to the mediocre 2001 talking-pets affair Cats & Dogs is all needless noise and second-rate CGI gunk, and never, ever funny in any sense of the word." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Sep 15, 2010
1.5/5 21% Amelia (2009) " Swanks' clear shot at a third statuette is blocked by hulkingly dull writing and direction that could point the way towards a definitive cure for insomnia." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Nov 11, 2009
1.5/5 50% Whatever Works (2009) " Allen wrote the script almost 40 years ago, and then voluntarily shelved it because studios at the time expressed doubts about its quality. If it wasn't good enough back then, why drag it out now?" — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Oct 14, 2009
2/5 52% John Carter (2012) " John Carter's hard-to-follow story and terrible dialogue leaves it on par with that cheesy Flash Gordon remake from the 1980s." — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Mar 9, 2012
2/5 57% Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999) " For the most part, the sludgy re-processing of the original leaves everything looking as if it was lensed through a wet, worn sock. Only one sequence -- the epic pod race on the planet Tatooine -- goes close to making any worthwhile use of the 3D format" — Herald Sun (Australia)
Posted Feb 9, 2012
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