Best of 2004

The best super hero movie ever! I love the ending.

One of the most clever and unique stories ever put on film. Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet give the best performances of their careers.

This film deserves its title of Best Picture of 2004. At times, it is completely hilarious, and sometimes it is sincerely heartbreaking. The cast is spectacular, notably Hilary Swank as a discouraged female boxer, and Morgan Freeman as a worker at the Dunn's Gym. You have to see it.

Pixar does it again. They never seem to fail in making a great movie. All the characters are great, and the action scenes are incredible. The Boundin' thing at the beginning isn't my favorite short film, but it is okay. This is one of the best superhero movies ever.

This movie is a great adaptation of the book, though it is cheesy at times. The director, Alfonso Cuaron, is spectacular. They left the backbones of the story intact, creating a great feeling of emotion and flow. By far the best of the series. The only part I hate is the Knight Bus and the shrunken head. It feels too cartoony. The cast is great in this movie: Alan Rickman as Snape, Gary Oldman as Sirius, Maggie Smith as McGonagall, and even Daniel Radcliffe is good in this movie.

One of the funniest movies I have ever seen. The songs are hilarious.

The story is just as great as the first, and the end is very well done. After watching these two Kill Bill movies, I am really interested in watching more of Quentin Tarantino's work.

It is a superb portrayl of high school. The whole movie is absolutely hilarious. The ending makes you think.

It is pretty weird. However, it still is a good movie with great acting and an inspiring story.

A great sequel that is only a little less entertaining than the first. The car chase is spectacular. The ending is really touching. I can't wait for the third one!

A very good movie. The beginning and the end are awesome, but the middle is a little slow. Tom Cruise and Jamie Foxx's performances are top-notch and Oscar worthy. This movie has a really cool feeling to it.

I really liked it. Tom Hanks is great, as always. It made me really care about all of the characters.

I like Shrek a little better than Shrek 2, but this movie is still great. Puss in Boots is hilarious. It has something for everyone.

I didn't know the "other" story of Peter Pan until I saw this movie.

It was really good. It is probably one of the best sports movies ever. Good acting by Thorton. All of the rest of the cast is pretty good too. I like how each player had their own back story to them. The ending is perfect. This movie deserves better than what people say about it.

At first I was like "is this really it?" And then Mel Gibson's unique direction kicked in, and it was great. His graphic way of directing adds a whole new element to one of the best stories ever told.

I loved the characters in this movie: Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning were both great. I liked how the director tried to be stylish, but sometimes I felt like it was almost TOO stylish. But I do appreciate that he was trying something different.

It was very well done and definately deserves the acolades it garnered (wow, lots of big words). I liked all of the characters except Thomas Hayden Church's character. He was just not likeable. Virginia Madsen and Sandra Oh were great.

It is a very, very good movie. Don Cheadle was great. It did confuse me in a couple of spots, though.

It was a fascinating documentary. I don't know if I'll ever eat fast food again.

A really good movie. Very underrated. Jim Carrey is soooo good as Count Olaf. The dark humor in this movie is hilarious.

This movie is hard to explain. It is a comic book movie, but it doesn't really feel like it. It's kind of like a mix between The Matrix, Men in Black, and Van Helsing. Hellboy is perfectly cast. My favorite character was Abe Sapien. He was really cool. The special effects aren't that great at times, but the character development in the movie makes up for it. It is definately underrated.

A great parody that works as a movie on its own.

Not great, but I want to see it again. Natalie Portman's character was great, but I wanted to like Zach Braff more.

Paper Clips is an ordinary documentary chronicling the extraordinary efforts of a small Southern town in Tennessee. Though stylistically it is not impressive, the story is moving enough to keep the viewer's attention.

It is actually a really good movie. Rachel McAdams proves, once again, how great she is. She can do comedy (Mean Girls and Wedding Crashers), suspense (Red Eye), and now romance (The Notebook). She always picks good movies to do. This lived up to the hype, but it is not perfect.

Really good. I kept thinking that something scary was going to "pop out" but nothing ever really happened that was very scary. Anyway... Johnny Depp's performance is very strong. The twist will catch you completely off guard. This is a very unique suspense movie.

Anchorman scores lots of laughs.

A good movie. It has some good moments. I hated the mom by the end.

Great acting, great script, and a great movie adapted from a great play.

I loved the first half, but the end was just okay. The situational irony is hilarious.

The first one was so much better, but the cast is really good. It's just a whole lot of fun to watch.

A pleasant and enjoyable movie. At times, I felt that it dragged on, but I don't regret watching it.

It's one of those "humantity's inventions come back to bite it in the butt" movies that makes you think.

I love the "figure the puzzles out" style, but it borrows too much from The Da Vinci Code.

I actually like this movie, and it has a great soundtrack. Some of the dialogue, however, is really terrible. I really liked the ending, even though everyone else hates it.

It was pretty good... definately worth a watch. I just wish that they would have made Odysseus a more major character. Brad Pitt was pretty great as the great warrior Achilles.

Moderately funny.

It's a good movie to watch every Christmas. The elves are kind of Nazi-like and creepy, and the songs aren't that great, but I think it will probably become a holiday perennial film. Robert Zemeckis's motion capture technology has a long way to go if he ever wants to make traditional animation obsolete. The characters' expressions are bland and boring because of this premature technology. I have a love-hate relationship with this movie.

It was a pretty good movie. The romance was good, and Jennifer Garner is great.

Adam Sandler is usually annoying, but it was actually good.

This is a story meant for the stage. The film comes across as cheesy, long, and tedious. But the music is great, and it's somewhat watchable. P.S. Why did they hire Joel "Batman & Robin" Schumacher to direct this?

Shall We Dance is an all-around okay film. The ending was well-done.

Better than I was expecting, but not great. It was a predictable, yet nice little movie.

I give it three stars for originality.

HEY! HEY! HEY! This movie is suprisingly original and funny.

It's really innovative: it was the first movie with completely CGI backgrounds. And it has an entertaining story, too.

A surprisingly well-made drama with a stunning ending.

Very funny, but the plot is kind of weird.

It was actually a good movie. It was, however, a little too long.

This movie was surprisingly okay.

A surprisingly solid zombie film.

An interesting psychological thriller.

This movie is overrated by almost everyone, but that doesn't mean I didn't kind of enjoy it. The twist ending is clever, but some of the camerwork and acting is cheesy.

A clever thriller that is a cheesy guilty pleasure. The "day spa" guy is pretty funny. Good action scenes.

The first one is better, but it doesn't follow the trend of terrible sequels.

Though I think this sequel was unneeded, it is still entertaining enough to recommend.

The special effects are awesome, but the plot is kind of shaky.

I liked it. It could have been better, though. The battles were refreshingly new, and do not recycle the trends of battle sequences in other movies. The cast was good, especially Clive Owen as King Arthur. I really like the theme music. I'm not sure where history ends and the legend begins, but it's lots of fun along the way.

It's an okay sports story. It is very inspirational.

It was an okay movie. Joaquin Phoenix is a great actor, but he is too good for this movie. I didn't like the love story. Oddly enough, I liked the ending (which you will find weird that I did once you watch the movie).

Dodgeball scores a few laughs.

It's really weird. But it's funny enough to be an okay movie.

I guess I liked it. It was very weird and creepy, but that is what made it entertaining.

I liked it. It wasn't terrible. I'm glad that I wasn't trapped with them!

The set-up is great, but the end kind of let me down. Julianne Moore is great in it.

An okay comedy with some funny moments.

Boring, stupid, and unfunny.

It was just okay. I like Queen Latifah and Jimmy Falon, but the plot wasn't quite there for me.

It's okay, but I fell asleep. I don't think I missed much.

Not as good as the clever first one.

It is terrible that Disney made their last traditionally-animated movie this bad. The characters are okay, I guess.

I really can NOT stand Bernie Mac. He really annoys me. I liked the movie concept, but it just wasn't done right.

It was pretty stupid. I don't like that Cedric the Entertainer guy (what a stupid name!).

Not a good movie at all. The action scenes are all well thought out, but I just didn't like it. The ending was just okay. It was too long.

It's a cheap rip-off of Finding Nemo.

It ruined the book for me (which I liked).

I absolutely hated it! It wasn't funny at all, and Snoop Dogg is completely stupid.

I admit... I did jump a couple of times. But it was so cheesy, corny, and stupid that I wanted to laugh out loud. The noise the stupid Japanese kids make is hilarious.

Why did I watch this twice? Terrible!

It was pretty bad. The plot is nowhere to be found, and all they do is go to random hair salons to get new hairdos.

Bring back Michelle Pfeiffer! This is one of the most poorly made films I have ever seen. The action scenes are stupid and boring, the special effects were terrible, the script was unintentionally funny, and why don't they ever talk about Gotham City? Oh, and it has the worst "evil conspiracy" ever: using make-up products to kill people and take over the world. I'm glad I watched it on AMC and didn't waste a cent on it.