If the SpongeBob franchise has finally gone on the run, it seems like it’s left the audience that matters most in the dust.
The bulk of MFKZ is composed of chases and shoot-outs that drive the plot forward at a plodding pace.
Maybe it’s not the worst thing in the world that Storks doesn’t take many cues from Pixar’s tear-jerking playbook.
It inflates the meta conceit (already overblown) of a pop-obsessed, sex-negative serial killer to excessive but trite proportions.
Bennett embodies slackness as an affectation, not a raw response to a culture of authenticity-killing productivity.
Aside from being another rote addition to the revenge-film canon, John Stockwell’s In The Blood is also a supreme waste of Gina Carano’s talent.
The tawdriness of the 2010 film has been tempered substantially in Machete Kills.
Geoffrey Fletcher’s film is a twisted, spirited exercise in stark juxtaposition.
The film comes to play like a sly sales pitch for 3D TV sales, directed squarely at coach-potato potheads.
Rodriguez loves grindhouse cinema, but you’d never know it from Machete, which seems more interested in mockery than homage.
The awkward title pretty much covers it.
Modus Operandi doesn’t look beyond the aesthetics it admires.
Robert Rodriguez’s films are so busy chuckling at their own supposed audacity that there’s no need for viewers to join in the revelry.
Nimrod Antal’s Herculean task is to trick his audience in making a dopey premise compelling.
It would appear that every artsy, indie filmmaker secretly wants to make a pothead comedy.
Rob Zombie’s gut understanding of what makes ’70s horror so great is unfortunately glimpsed in only short, sporadic bursts in Halloween.
The film’s patchwork of plot devices is oddly appropriate given its impossibly moronic, prejudice-ridden characters.
The tequila runs through Maggie Gyllenhaal’s veins, but the film unfortunately needs a new tap.
It doesn’t so much play out as a sequel to House of 1000 Corpses but as a recapitulation.
Disney gives the big thumbs up to the nuclear American family by including only four 3-D glasses on this disc.