RT's Best of the Decade!
We look at some of the top Tomatometers of the past ten years
Just ten years ago, we were unearthing our analog phones and covering our heads with tin foil hats while listening to Matchbox Twenty and Creed to prepare for Y2K - the day electronics would turn against us. It's true, the new decade will arrive with considerably less dangerous fanfare and hoarding of canned goods, but it should not and does not take away from all of the films that impressed not only audiences, but the Tomatometer as well over the past ten years. With our annual Golden Tomato Awards just around the corner, RT braved the mothball-scented digital cobwebs in our archives to find some of the very best the Tomatometer had to offer this decade.
Best Reboot/Remake
While film after film has taken us forward with the voyagers of the Starship Enterprise, Star Trek was a true origins story that wasn't geared towards Trekkies, too simple for fans of the show, or too complex for newbies. Star Trek delivered a visually stunning brand of mainstream entertainment that propelled the series back not only back into theaters, but the public consciousness. However, the movie had some stiff competition, going up against the son of Mr. and Mrs. Bond and a man in a bat suit, amongst a number of others but its broad appeal and ability to recruit a whole new generation of Star Trek fans make it the Best Reboot of the Decade.
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Best Superhero Movie
We shouldn't be surprised at all. Written and directed by Brad Bird -- who showed what he was capable of with the superb Iron Giant -- The Incredibles is a classic that succeeds in that rarest of ways; poking fun at the genre while at the same time celebrating it and bringing something new and exciting to the form. It's almost like Bird read Watchmen and distilled the novel's premise to a pure comedic element. Fallen strongman Mr. Incredible and his wife, Elastigirl, have been forced into a suburban life since superheroes have been outlawed; only to return to action when crazed villain Syndrome -- who's the ultimate fanboy -- sets out to wreak revenge on those that created him.
With Bird's impeccable sense of retro design writ colorfully in Pixar's CG world, The Incredibles is an artistic triumph as well as being a dynamic action film and a seriously smart comedy -- in any genre, really. It's an "unprecedented film that is not just a grand feature-length cartoon," wrote the Los Angeles Times, "but a grand feature."
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n.die.jaedong on 12-23-2009 12:36 PM
sweet list and categories. but the incredibles over you know what? blar.
Jay S. on 12-26-2009 08:26 PM
Servethe... is that a Nirvana reference? Best of the decade.. The Departed followed by There Will be Blood...Best this year and have seen most all the fall contenders is Hurt Locker hands down
koopa_beach on 01-26-2010 05:01 AM
The Incredibles was more creative than The Dark Knight. It was also more enjoyable.