ROTTEN TOMATOES: Jonathan R. Perry

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JONATHAN R. PERRY

Agrees with the Tomatometer 81% of the time.

Biography: Film critic and arts & entertainment editor for Tyler Morning Telegraph, 50,000-circulation daily in East Texas. Member, Online Film Critics Society (June 2002-present). Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critic. Contributor, celebritywonder.com and allmovieportal.com.

Favorites: Top Ten of 2001: 1. Moulin Rouge 2. The Royal Tenenbaums 3. Ghost World 4. Memento 5. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Rings 6. Waking Life 7. Sexy Beast 8. Monsters, Inc. 9. Panic 10. Shrek Top 10 of 2002: 1. Gangs of New York 2. Punch-Drunk Love 3. Bowling for Columbine 4. Solaris 5. Far From Heaven 6. All or Nothing 7. Frailty 8. Storytelling 9. The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 10. About a Boy All-time favorites: 1. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2. Apocalypse Now 3. Vertigo 4. Citizen Kane 5. Dr. Strangelove 6. Casablanca 7. The Seventh Seal 8. Taxi Driver 9. Bonnie & Clyde 10. The Graduate

Publications: Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas)

Total Reviews: 347
Total QuickRatings: 283

Location: Tyler, Texas

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Rotten 0/4	Rotten 55%	The Devil's Rejects (2005)	" The only conceivable way this toxic heap could benefit mankind is if every print were melted down and had its celluloid content rendered into guitar picks." Posted Jul 24, 2005
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 6%	Envy (2004)	" To use the obvious metaphor and equate 'Envy' to what Jack Black�s miracle product is designed to clean up would be an insult to the canine digestive system." Posted May 4, 2004
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 29%	The Punisher (2004)	" Whoever first had the big idea of revisiting this material should be hung up by his Buster Browns and forced to watch the result -- then he'll know what 'punishment' means." Posted Apr 24, 2004
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 6%	Johnson Family Vacation (2004)	" Before the opening credits had ended, I was counting down the minutes until I could get back to scraping old tile adhesive off my kitchen floor." Posted Apr 12, 2004
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 23%	Bad Boys II (2003)	" ... So bad that it rockets through the gauntlet of insipidity and tastelessness and emerges on the other side to become good, only to ricochet off the wall of cinematic decency and become bad all over again." Posted Jul 30, 2003
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 7%	Boat Trip (2003)	" The best I can say of this sinking ship is that it�s an equal opportunity offender: there�s something here to infuriate you whether you�re a heterosexual, homosexual, black, white, Hispanic, Swedish, Swiss, aristocrat, Joe Sixpack, disco diva, war veteran" Posted Mar 25, 2003
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 0%	Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever (2002)	" ... After 90 minutes of mind-numbing explosions, I cheered when a death by electrocution finally broke the monotony." Posted Sep 24, 2002
Rotten 0/4	Rotten 27%	How High (2001)	" Sinfully tasteless cinema was everywhere in 2001 - but this movie is so bad it's Freudian." Posted Jun 10, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 16%	Primeval (2007)	" It's rough going when our heroes have us longing for the complexity of the riverboat crew from 'Anaconda.'" Posted Apr 27, 2007
Rotten .5/4	Fresh 61%	Jackass: Number Two (2006)	" The title tells all. To hell with it." Posted Oct 13, 2006
Rotten .5/4	Rotten 13%	Boogeyman (2005)	" So boring, derivative and patently inane that hate is entirely too strong an emotion to attribute to it. You're either in the target demographic or you're not." Posted Aug 16, 2005
Rotten .5/4	Rotten 31%	The Longest Yard (2005)	" As humorless, lazy and oppressively inane as anything since any one of the witless car chase movies that derailed Burt Reynolds� career not long after the original wrapped." Posted Jun 1, 2005
Rotten .5/4	Rotten 2%	King's Ransom (2005)	" One of those barbarically unfunny romps that would be over in less than 10 minutes if just one character had an IQ higher than a cherry Pop-Tart." Posted Apr 26, 2005
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 2%	Twisted (2004)	" With Ashley Judd above the title, no cookie-cutter contrivance is unaccounted for, no performance betraying the hint of any effort beyond showing up on the set. " Posted Mar 2, 2004
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 23%	Torque (2004)	" ... The ninth circle of gearhead Hell." Posted Jan 20, 2004
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 4%	My Baby's Daddy (2004)	" In all its harrowing witlessness, it ironically proves the healing power of laughter." Posted Jan 20, 2004
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 12%	Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat (2003)	" ... a shrill, soulless and disturbing void of imagination that murders the spirit of a beloved children's book -- which the filmmakers obviously have not read." Posted Nov 23, 2003
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 9%	Grind (2003)	" 'Grind' rather economically describes the experience for anyone above age 11 who wanders into this skateboarding 'Rad' retread for 'jackass' fans." Posted Aug 15, 2003
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 10%	Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd (2003)	" Why, Lord, why?" Posted Jun 17, 2003
Rotten .5/4	Rotten 30%	Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)	" Should sheer boredom or an advanced state of masochism compel you to see the film, try this instead: Take seven $1 bills and methodi-cally shred them into pieces of equal size. You�ll end up with an expensive bowl of green confetti � and an infinitely mor" Posted Apr 22, 2003
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 8%	My Boss's Daughter (2002)	" Urination can be funny. So can severed ears, folliculitis, rock-climbing trophy wives, chest self-exams and owls that drink from the toilet. Occasionally, even a massive head wound can be funny. None of these things are funny in 'My Boss�s Daughter.'" Posted Sep 3, 2003
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 48%	Jackass: The Movie (2002)	" Our culture is headed down the toilet with the ferocity of a frozen burrito after an all-night tequila bender � and I know this because I�ve seen 'jackass: the movie.'" Posted Oct 28, 2002
Rotten .5/4	Rotten 15%	Swimfan (2002)	" No surprise ever threatens to surface in this unintentionally hilarious 'Play Misty for Me' with mononucleosis." Posted Sep 8, 2002
Rotten 0.5/4	Rotten 5%	Serving Sara (2002)	" This mind-numbing comic void never generates enough electricity to brown an English muffin." Posted Aug 26, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 13%	Just My Luck (2006)	" Lohan can be good in characters endowed with a glimmer of intelligence. But too often she shoehorns herself into vehicles operating under the fallacy that stupidity is cute." Posted May 17, 2006
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 37%	Scary Movie 4 (2006)	" David Zucker, who once had one of the most supple comic touches in the business, has turned into the chowderhead who keeps elbowing you in the ribs asking, 'Get it? Get it?'" Posted Apr 23, 2006
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 10%	Annapolis (2006)	" 'Annapolis' is a neatly pressed, mirror-shine drone -- so impeccably mediocre we get the feeling somebody cheated on the entrance exam." Posted Feb 1, 2006
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 41%	End of the Spear (2006)	" No level of noble intent by the filmmakers can compel me to recommend a work of cinema that's this cheap, simplistic and sloppy." Posted Jan 21, 2006
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 23%	Freedomland (2005)	" A dour, humorless, clunky, reductive, insulting diatribe on race relations, masquerading as a kidnap melodrama. Or maybe it's the other way around." Posted Feb 22, 2006
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 8%	Undiscovered (2005)	" Not one character has the emotional maturity of an English muffin. If we could harness the intellectual energy of everyone involved in this, we could toast one. Lightly. " Posted Aug 30, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 6%	Supercross: The Movie (2005)	" I've made bologna sandwiches that inspired more enthusiasm." Posted Aug 30, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 24%	The Amityville Horror (2005)	" Michael Bay should have been strung up by his Buster Browns for getting the Big Idea of exploiting the DeFeo tragedy for a new generation. Let this family rest in peace." Posted Apr 17, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 12%	Are We There Yet? (2005)	" 'Are We There Yet?' is an eerily appropriate title for cinema�s first authentic endurance test of 2005." Posted Jan 25, 2005
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 16%	Alexander (2004)	" Whipping a battery at the screen would have accomplished nothing -- but I haven't ruled out a drive to LA so I can whip a battery at Oliver Stone." Posted Dec 4, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Fresh 69%	The Spongebob Squarepants Movie (2004)	" A cartoon sponge and starfish playing fisticuffs with a marauding biker on David Hasselhoff's live-action backside is the most asinine image I've ever seen at the movies." Posted Nov 21, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 27%	Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004)	" I never thought a film about giant snakes that eat people could be this atrociously dull." Posted Sep 1, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 26%	Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (2004)	" Being neither 12 years old nor endowed with X chromosomes, all that held my attention was wondering what in the holy underwear Paul Williams was doing up there." Posted Aug 16, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 55%	Ladykillers (2004)	" ... a mean, nasty, mostly laughless 104 minutes spent in dogged pursuit of an ironic cause that�s as subtle as a falling gargoyle�s head." Posted Mar 30, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 12%	Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004)	" I cried 'Please, Lord, make it stop' at about the 90-minute mark -- long after I was numbed into a vegetative state by reheated spy cliches and sub-sophomoric bathroom jokes." Posted Mar 15, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 13%	Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004)	" ... Nothing if not fluffy -- but oddly, egregiously offensive in ways far more insidious and damaging than merely wasting our time." Posted Feb 21, 2004
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 36%	The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)	" ... a curious form of cinematic matricide worthy of kabuki drama is being committed here � the offspring is rising up to disembowel its celluloid parent, visiting cruel punishment on Tobe Hooper for the unforeseeable sins that have sprung from the genre h" Posted Oct 19, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 28%	Daddy Day Care (2003)	" I�m not offended by its singular lack of energy or invention � I never expected more than a cinematic Big Mac when I saw Eddie Mur-phy�s name above the title 'Daddy Day Care.' But what I got was a sandwich from a gas station." Posted May 13, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 22%	Bulletproof Monk (2003)	" It�s so bad there�s no way it can�t attract a cult following." Posted Apr 22, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 14%	View from the Top (2003)	" It�s understandable why it sat on the shelf for almost two years. What I can�t comprehend is why it didn�t stay there." Posted Mar 25, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 20%	The Life of David Gale (2003)	" I don�t like being lied to. I don�t like being cheated. I don�t like being manipulated by a filmmaker willing to negate his entire story for the sake of cleverness or a cheap thrill. It should come as no surprise that I didn�t like 'The Life of David Gal" Posted Mar 1, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 12%	National Security (2003)	" Another of the three or four obnoxious, race-baiting flops Hollywood routinely seems to tolerate from Martin Lawrence between can�t-miss blockbusters such as �Big Momma�s House� and �Bad Boys.�" Posted Jan 21, 2003
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 21%	Empire (2002)	" If you�ve spent every waking moment since the summer of 1991 pining for a 'New Jack City' with a salsa soundtrack, your cinematic savior has arrived." Posted Dec 9, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 8%	Stealing Harvard (2002)	" Whether the film 'works' is a question in direct correlation to willingness to set aside preconceptions of logic, characterization or ambition - and tolerance of Tom Green." Posted Sep 24, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 6%	The Adventures of Pluto Nash (2002)	" A scandalous waste of cinematic resources: a comedy with no laughs, a sci-fi epic without wonder, an action thriller with no thrills." Posted Aug 18, 2002
Rotten 1/4	Rotten 2%	The Master of Disguise (2002)	" ... The cinematic equivalent of the 8-year-old hooligan who mocks you by repeating everything you say." Posted Aug 4, 2002

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