Author: Rob Vaux

My poor brain hung in there for as long as it could, but it lost its grip during the giant chicken attack and I haven’t seen it since.

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Fee. Fi. Fo. Meh.

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If you hear the phrase "Italian caveman epic" and your heart doesn't sing at least a little bit, then I pity your sad and joyless existence.

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It's a car movie made by people who couldn't find reverse in a Volkswagen; a puzzle box thriller assembled by the functionally insane.

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I’d give real money to see the perpetrators of Chicago torn apart by dingoes.

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God help us, there’s going to be a director’s cut, isn’t there?

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Real-life military trainers – regardless of gender – never make you say, ‘Wow you’re hot!’ They make you say, ‘I’ll do whatever you want, please don’t hurt me.’

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By trying to convince us that we’re having a good time even as it pounds us senseless, Speed Racer moves beyond mediocrity and into the realm of active irritant.

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You can actually hear the writers pulling ideas out of their butts and flinging them willy-nilly at the screen.

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It doesn’t suck. Please take a moment to pick your jaw up off the floor and we’ll continue.

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House of Wax is cheap, dirty entertainment, and it knows it.

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It’s obvious that nobody believed in this project longer than it took for the check to clear.

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Robbing casinos? Shit, these guys should be in charge of Katrina relief!

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Psst! DreamWorks! Your Nemo envy is showing!

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Oh come on. Like you couldn’t smell this turkey rotting from miles away.

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Sun Tzu believed that becoming predictable would lead to disaster. Apparently, the creators of The Art of War couldn’t be bothered to take him to heart.

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Though a scant 100 minutes long, After Earth feels longer and slower than your average PBS pledge drive.

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Is this what we’ve been reduced to? A film whose noise and explosions are separated from the season’s other noise and explosions solely by the fact that they’re painted blue?

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Stop for a moment and ponder just how stupid it is to blow the ending of your movie in the title.

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This film sucks on a level I can scarcely describe.

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I suppose this is what we get for encouraging the man.

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