Reviews

Green-screen effects look incredibly shoddy, the same footage of Superman flying is reused against multiple different backgrounds, his powers are extremely unconvincing (take a scene where he uses ice breath to put out a fire and it is clearly footage of the fire being run in reverse), the fact that... ...

There are also parts of the film's world-building that are interesting, such as the bureau's agents being able to teleport using doorways (which does involve some decent effects work) or the moments where the agents delve into the reason for their existence, but of course this ends up being extremel... ...

With Tusk, Smith obviously takes that concept to a horrific extreme and, though the ludicrous nature of the film's premise seems like it'd make for a comedy as well, it's hard to know what side of the horror-comedy scale Tusk falls upon. ...

O'Hara's haughty upper-class woman getting tarred and feathered, stripped down to her undergarments and ultimately spanked with a coal shovel by Wayne in full view of the entire town, who watch and laugh as she apparently gets her comeuppance before the film ends with O'Hara apparently reconciling w... ...

Even if we take into account the sheer inanity of the premise - the idea that the shark is not only related to the shark that died at the hands of Chief Brody in the original film but is sapient enough to try to chase down and kill everyone else from the Brody family, to the point of being able to m... ...

X-Men: The Last Stand may retain some fairly flashy effects work from its predecessors, but that's all pretty much cancelled out by a barrage of plot holes (without even counting the ones that have been caused as a result of subsequently released films interfering with the canon, such as that entire... ...

Too much of the humour in this film feels like it relied too much on the male cast members riffing off one another (the most blatant example being Martin Starr's character being the constant butt of beard jokes throughout the film) and the fact that, with the possible exception of Seth Rogen's prota... ...

Granted basing a feature film on a four-minute song should give one the freedom when it comes to an adaptation but the film closely follows it to the point where snippets of the song will play from time to time, to say nothing of how the background score will reuse the song's hook over and over. ...

Of course, given the unfortunate reputation that both this film and its creator have earned over the course of the past decade or so I was naturally skeptical as to whether or not this would actually be any good, but I decided to try and put as much of that out of my mind while watching this (though... ...

I'm kind of hoping this ends up being like Mean Girls and Anchorman in that I'll dislike it at first but grow to like it just as much as those films, but even with this expectation in mind I'm still not sure that'll happen with this film (outside of a couple of quotable one-liners, perhaps). ...