Despite the many worthy nominated films, the Oscarcast was painfully dull, slow, witless, and hosted by the ill-matched James Franco and Anne Hathaway.

The next time you hear someone blather on about all the ways the Oscars need to be shorter and more populist, remind them of this unholy abomination of a telecast.

At least none of the winners this year will ever be overshadowed in the history books by the production.

Oscar producers must have known their telecast was running into trouble when the night's biggest laughs went not to the newly minted hosts but to former host Billy Crystal

The show around the two hosts was as ill-conceived as their chemistry. A much-ballyhooed attempt to trumpet the history of the Oscars fell horribly flat.