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01/27/12 |
Poor |
 "...the story's resolution and a final scene are so steeped in implausibility as to see this movie fall, as if from a great height, into extreme silliness." |
| 2. |
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08/19/11 |
Poor |
 "This Conan barely qualifies as a character, smirking and hacking his way through life, never evolving into someone who can change or whom you want to follow." |
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05/27/11 |
Poor |
 "...feels like a betrayal of its predecessor's accomplishments and goodwill, cheapening what worked in the first place to emphasize some wrong things this time around..." |
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04/01/11 |
Poor |
 "Hello? It's not unusual to find, in a family film, a couple of jokes tossed over the heads of tykes to help keep parents awake." |
| 5. |
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02/11/11 |
Poor |
 "...there's no justification, other than making a buck, for spoon-feeding kids a debased, pretty-to-think-so version of a Shakespeare classic that can mean so much later." |
| 6. |
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01/15/10 |
Poor |
 "A dreary, ill-advised production that frequently looks cheap and features a largely unappealing cast (Billy Ray Cyrus as an intelligence officer -- somebody shoot me)..." |
| 7. |
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11/13/09 |
Poor |
 "...waiting for something inspiring or interesting to happen -- something, perhaps, to do with fighting for the music these people supposedly care about -- is fruitless." |
| 8. |
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04/10/09 |
Poor |
 "Well, what do you know. It really is possible to get too much of Seth Rogen.... the film's meandering script never settles into a narrative groove." |
| 9. |
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02/06/09 |
Poor |
 "Confusing, too long and just plain silly... Director Paul McGuigan nudges this lurching behemoth along like a dead school bus lost in a forest." |
| 10. |
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04/12/13 |
Weak |
 "Writer-director Jon Van Dyke's real agenda -- getting Christian viewers to help end sex trafficking -- mires the movie in self-conscious angst and speeches." |
| 11. |
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12/25/12 |
Weak |
 "Good intentions are lost in the film's frantic pacing and juvenile humor.... lost in the mayhem is Midler, who shines at times but is superfluous overall." |
| 12. |
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11/09/12 |
Weak |
 "...an ill-conceived dramedy with a shockingly annoying performance by Sean Penn... can't really figure out what kind of movie it's supposed to be." |
| 13. |
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09/21/12 |
Weak |
 "Rob Hedden seeks but fails to bring gloss to his silly, semi-anarchic feature.... never gets it to full boil. In fact, he bizarrely brings narrative momentum to a crawl..." |
| 14. |
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06/15/12 |
Weak |
 "...like a season of MTV's 'The Real World' set in mountainous India... everyone seems to find bliss. But something essential about how and why is not coming through." |
| 15. |
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06/01/12 |
Weak |
 "...tepid, superficial... We do get a general impression of UFC champ Anderson Silva as a family man who rises above some of the nonsense in his sport, but that alone doesn't justify a film." |
| 16. |
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12/16/11 |
Weak |
 "There's not much here that sticks to the ribs... In the end, I'd rather hang onto fond memories of my Eisenhower-era record, squeaky voices and all." |
| 17. |
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12/17/10 |
Weak |
 "...exhausting... a lot like being trapped in a room while someone plays a video game you barely understand." |
| 18. |
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09/17/10 |
Weak |
 "Somewhat charming and long on jokes... curiously incapable or unwilling to sustain any drama from its more serious elements." |
| 19. |
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10/30/09 |
Weak |
 "...a misfire from Henry Jaglom about a grown woman with a serious Electra hang-up about her father... Jaglom seeks our boundless empathy but gives us little in return." |
| 20. |
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05/08/09 |
Weak |
 "A glum and slack family drama... punctuated by bright bursts of dreamy surfing images, but not enough to make the film rewarding... None of it is compelling, and the overall story is loose and patchy, like a poor, straight-to-DVD potboiler." |
