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04/05/12 |
Poor |
 "...drab and uninviting, the battles edited with so many quick cuts it's hard to get one's bearings, and the animated monsters are dispatched before we care about them." |
| 2. |
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01/03/13 |
Poor |
 "...could have been a decent comedy, if director Andy Fickman hadn't made it such a tearjerker." |
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10/25/12 |
Poor |
 "The level of writing here is inferior to that of your fourth-favorite TV cop show.... Perry's limited range doesn't help." |
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01/27/11 |
Poor |
 "It's a good premise, but Reitman and screenwriter Elizabeth Meriwether do little aside from ape Judd Apatow movies.... the movie is unsexy as well as unfunny." |
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04/02/09 |
Poor |
 "...wrestling star John Cena fairly bounces off the lens.... the weak, 'Speed'-derived script depends too much on coincidence and mind reading." |
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03/12/09 |
Poor |
 "...gives us one of cinema's more annoying innocent-plus-crazy-id-best-friend pairings... The boys directed and co-scripted, so there's no one else to blame." |
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01/15/09 |
Poor |
 "A vehicle for high-end product placement disguised as a 'frenemy' comedy... it's chixploitation at its creative nadir (and that's low)." |
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06/07/12 |
Weak |
 "...grim... mucks around in the darker regions of the fairy tale.... revels in all that can melt, ooze, disintegrate, or swoop together..." |
| 9. |
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09/15/11 |
Weak |
 "Nick Swardson just doesn't rise to the occasion, apparently hoping that enormous buck teeth and a Dutch Boy wig will do the acting for him." |
| 10. |
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07/07/11 |
Weak |
 "The latest tween pabulum features Selena Gomez in two roles, which is awkward because she only has one and a half expressions." |
| 11. |
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08/12/10 |
Weak |
 "...a superficial globetrot in which pretty people talk about Hard Truths in pretty locations.... the overriding romance is the camera's love affair with Julia Roberts." |
| 12. |
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01/28/10 |
Weak |
 "...a weak effort... in over its head as it wraps shtick around a plot about orphaned sisters.... its lasting value may be as the answer to a trivia question." |
| 13. |
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06/04/09 |
Weak |
 "It's hard to imagine Donald Petrie's film appealing to anyone but diehard fans of the single-woman-gets-her-groove-back-in-exotic-locale genre." |
| 14. |
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06/07/12 |
Moderate |
 "...more concerned with getting period details in place than preserving the story's power.... A worthy adaptation would have a soupçon of 'The Sweet Smell of Success.' " |
| 15. |
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10/13/11 |
Moderate |
 "...at best a guilty pleasure." |
| 16. |
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06/17/11 |
Moderate |
 "...despite good performances by the leads (and by Michael Angarano as a young painter), the action proceeds in dutiful lockstep, touching predictable dramatic bases..." |
| 17. |
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04/28/11 |
Moderate |
 "It's moderately fun to watch the tire... it's neither fun nor enlightening to observe the observers and the enigmatic functionary (Jack Plotnick) who manipulates them." |
| 18. |
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03/31/11 |
Moderate |
 "...gets by on pep, expressive character animation, and a robust vocal performance by Russell Brand as E.B." |
| 19. |
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08/12/10 |
Moderate |
 "...though diverting and informative in some ways, reduces the girlie-mag phenomenon to harmless camp..." |
| 20. |
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06/24/10 |
Moderate |
 "...the film deflates. Mads Mikkelsen gets mired in brooding as Igor, and Anna Mouglalis is merely photogenic as Coco.... what lingers is the fab décor." |
