Most Disappointing Movies

Oh my word! The most disappointing sequel that I think that I have ever seen. Where the other movie suceeded this movie entirely failed. I am just not very impressed at all. I expected so much more of this movie after the first.

The story starts off exactly where the original ended, of that I was happy for, because I was anxious to see what happened. If I had known what was coming ahead, I don't think that I would have been anxious, though. The whole first half of the movie was the same, get captured, run away plot over and over again. It became very hard to bear after a while. So, when I watched as Brent and Nova discovered the remnants of New York in a cave, I thought the story was going to take a good turn uphill. Instead, it got worse, a lot worse. Brent and Nova meet up with a race of telopaths who worship an atom bomb. I thought that it could have been well done, but the movie didn't do it right. I did like the idea of the race that didn't believe in violence, so they make their enemies kill eachother. That was probably the best thing about this movie, at least the thought behind it.

I was surprised to see Charlton Heston disappear in the first ten or so minutes, and when they brought him back for the end I was pretty excited, but nothing could really save this movie. On top of all that, people I thought would live all died. Which I hope is all part of the bigger Planet of the Apes story. Well, on to the next movie in the series to see what happens yet. Though, I am not nearly as excited to see what happens after watching this movie, compared to when I watched the first.

Probably, the most anticipated movie to ever hit the big screen, "The Phantom Menace" falls short of everyones high hopes. I just didn't get the same feeling when I saw this movie, as I did when I first gazed upon the original epic.

Out of all of the millions of ten-year old kids on the planet, George Lucas picked one of the worst ones to play young Anakin Skywalker, newcomer Jake Lloyd. His acting is just plain out atrocious. Although, many think, his skill level and that of Hayden Christiansen are equally matched. The best character comes from Liam Neeson as Qui-Gon Ginn, and the worst, besides Lloyd, comes from Ahmed Best as the utterly annoying Jar Jar Binks.

The lack of character development is definitely one of the worst things about this movie. If Lucas wanted us to care about his new characters, he sure didn't convince me. Putting a bunch of newly established and poorly developed characters into danger, does nothing to make the movie tense. Even the show's title villan the phantom menace is incredibly undeveloped, making him feel very un-menacing.

The pod-race is pretty unique and the ending battle is fun and exciting. Too bad the best actor in the movie dies at the end.

After the disappointing beginning to the Star Wars saga, I was hoping for a better follow up movie. And after the months of waiting Episode II finally hit the big screen, giving me even more reasons to be dissatisfied with George Lucas and his world.

Why this movie really fails, is not the lack of a compelling story, but the horrible dialogue that was forced upon the actors Natalie Portman and Hayden Christiansen. The movie was supposed to set up the loving relationship between the characters of Padme and Anakin, but instead just felt awkward and misplaced.

That said the story was actually a little better than the first, but still there needed to be more of it. I want to love the characters like I did in the original trilogy, but instead I just feel uncomfortable when they are on screen. Whether it be from Anakin's perverted stares or McGregor's Jedi-Mullet (which I actually respect).

Other than the lack of character development, and the discusting dialogue, the only other thing that I really hated about this movie was Yoda's ridiculous fighting, which made me disrespect Yoda a little.

Like the first and third, it had the potential to be great, but Lucas decided average was good enough for him. Disappoining.

Although, I am not a huge fan of the new trilogy, I think that this movie has the most good points about it, and fewer bad points than the others in the trilogy. I realized that my review before was a little unfair, so I decided to re-write it, in order to be more objective.

While one of the main complaints that I have read about the movie are the tedious amount of lightsaber duels that tend to get a little dull, I think that they are actually quite good and all pretty interesting. Although I do not like some of the elements of the fights, I think they work in the end.

I really don't like how weak the Jedi appear to be in this movie. The Jedi that Mace takes with him to dispatch Palpatine, for intstance, all die within thirty seconds, without, or hardly defending themselves.

The dialogue is a little bit better than the last movie, but just barely. We still see some really bad lines between Anakin and wife Padme, and Christensen's acting is just as poor as always.

Again, Lucas's poor scripting and minimal amount of story or character development, make this movie into nothing but average. I must admit however, the last half hour besides Vader's "Nooooooooooooo" is what really makes me like the movie more. That and the "Clone Wars" series.

It's like part one, without the humor, story, and fun that made the first one so good. The story takes up from exactly where it left off in the first, and then takes a huge turn for the worse.

The Good: An interesting story, the characters are just as good. It is interesting to see how they played off of the original even if it doesn't work all that well.

The Bad: Not as funny as the original. Not as charming as the original. Too much is crammed into the same amount of time. The future just looks plain stupid.

What is really wrong with this movie, is they are trying to make it bigger and better than the original, but end up cramming too much stuff into too little time. It really is a play off of the original, and it is nothing without it. A lot of the things that they thought might look good in the film, really turned out just the opposite. The hoverboard sequence at the beginning for example.

It just doesn't have the charm and appeal of the original. It is hard to follow up such a unique and charming film, and they probably tried hard, it just didn't pay off.

A visual extravaganza? Maybe. A good movie? I am not convinced. What starts out as a rather interesting look into the life of a family who adopt a robo-child after the loss of their son, turns into a mess of ideas, none of which are very interesting.

I liked the idea of a robot that could love, and I liked the idea of that robot searching for a way to become a real boy in order to gain that love in return, but the way it was presented to me, just made me irritated. The plot just became confused in the middle, and didn't really work it out until the end. After all that we are forced to suffer through, we are then supposed to care for Haley Joel Osment's character David, and that too seems forced. I think Spielberg tried too hard to make me care about David, and it gave me the opposite affect.

I don't think that I have ever been disappointed with Spielberg's work, nor did I think it was possible, but he proved me wrong with this one.

I would have preferred puppets, to the uninteresting CGI I was forced to sit through. Although the movie tried to bring me into a magical land, I couldn't help but think that I was being ripped off. The story tries to give a real connection between real life and the magical world that Leonidas is trapped in, but it doesn't really convince me.

In other words, I was disappointed in the Jim Henson company, I was really disappointed. What seemed like a good idea, was lost in the randomness of this magical mask-world and in the awkward and mixed up story. Sure, it looks pretty interesting, but it ends up just feeling like a waste of time. I just wasn't interested in where the story was leading our main characters, nor did I care if they ever made it to a beautiful end, I just wanted it to be over, so I could get back to the real world. Merely mundane.

Not great, but not bad either, a movie that is worth seeing. It starts off rather quickly and stays that way the entire way through. I had fun, I just wish that it had a little more substance. It was basically an effects extravaganza leaving little, if any time to tell a good story. The movie could have, and probably should have been trimmed, taking out a lot of the filler scenes of special effects and strengthening the story which at times, felt non-existant.

The story is, if anything, very weak and all over the place. It switches a lot, so that some things that you thought were important at the beginning of the film ended up having little or no importance. The whole Cannibal sequence, for instance, is nothing but an extremely lengthy way to get Will Turner (Orlando Bloom) to Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp). Most of the film really, in my opinion, feels effects-driven and not story driven.

Another thing that I thought was a step down from the original was the value of the humor. The first of the movies had legitimately good humor, that really added to the film. The new installment "Dead Man's Chest" made me feel like the writers were trying to force some of the jokes to be as good as the originals, and it really didn't work. That said, not all of the humor suffered in the same respect, the fight scene at the end of the movie between Jack, Will, and Norrington (Jack Davenport) was exciting, and held a large amount of humor in the idea of a three-way sword fight.

From what I can tell is that the movie was really a transport to show off the millions of dollars of special effects that they used for this movie, and the effects are nothing but spectacular. It never ceases to amaze me, that the quality and realisticness of computer generated images has got this far. But just because you can do it with today's technology, doesn't mean that you should. I think what the movie really needed was some trimming of the effects scenes, saving more time for story telling.

The new characters in the film are introduced fairly well, whether it be the fearsome captain of the Flying Dutchman Davy Jones (Bill Nighy) or the somber father of Will, Bootsrap Bill (Stellan Skarsgard) they are all well set up.

So, I think that some of the content of the movie was lacking, but the value of it is still, all said, fairly good. It is worth seeing, although a little dark and violent for the younger kids, for anyone who fell in love with the original.

From the director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy Peter Jackson comes a remake of the 1933 movie King Kong. It starts out fairly well, and holds the interest fairly well until about the middle of the film, where the story gets duller and more mundane. It is way overdone, action should be used much more sparingly...I was not interested in a huge 30 minute t-rex fight, nor was I interested in a lengthy bug war, but after all of that the film still goes on leaving the viewer quite BORED. I think that one of the things that the movie really suffers from is that it tried to be too much like the original. After all of the huge lenghty action scenes, you realize that King Kong still hasn't been to New York yet, by this time I was incredibly bored...but it just kept going. The acting is fairly well done by most of the characters (Jack Black included) and the visuals were also well done. Too bad that is not all a movie needs, or this movie would get five-stars from me. In short, too much, to long, too boring...not worth seeing in my opinion.

This movie was really bad. From what I can tell, they were really set out to make the movie not as good as the others. Most of Magneto's mutants don't really have noticable powers, so they all die. In fact only like three of his mutants can actually do something...what is that all about.

The direction made this movie seem silly, the effect of which was also found in Jurassic Park III. And in case you really thought that this was the last stand, watch the ending, which makes you think they could have been joking about this being the last stand.

What was the point of adding characters that we don't care about, that we are never allowed to care about? There is no point. Ratner didn't even show us cool powers. There are millions of freakin' "mutants" that, from what I can tell had no powers at all.

It was a mess. Maybe Singer will come back and redeem the series. That is the only thing that I can hope for.

Despite the advertisments for this film, that depict it to be in the same category as the rest of Shyamalan's work, this film is first and fore-most a comedy. Roaring laughter and quiet giggling could be heard the entire way, as joke, after joke, after joke popped across the screen. So, while I could see what he was going for in some ways, I thought that he ruined any chance of pulling off his newly created mythology because he just didn't take it seriously, himself.

This movie was full of seriousness, yes, but after every serious moment, a comedic one woul follow, making it harder and harder, with each passing minute, to believe in his rather interesting story. That said, there were some very good funny moments, and very good serious ones, but when slapped together one after another, it resembled a poorly constructed sandwich rather than a hit movie.

The whole movie made me feel like I was stuck between three contrasting worlds: one of comedy, one of mythology, and one of blatant arrogance on the part of the director, who's character was the center of the purpose of the story. His part seemed like it was not made for just the context of the story, but also as a rather obvious attempt to make himself look good.

Now usually I find Shyamalan's direction to be rather different and interesting, the shots and the movement rather well done. I did not, however, think that he achived that effect in this film where the mindless blurry shots and face shots really took away from the movie.

So, while the characters are interesting and well played, they would fit in better if Shyamalan was just trying to make a plain and simple comedy, and not a mythological adventure.

Fan's of Shyamalan, save your money for his next movie, which, hopefully, will be a whole lot better.

What an interesting idea ruined by the appaling direction of Mike Mitchell, who's style somewhat resembles the direction of a Disney Channel Original Movie, except more amature. I doubt that I have seen worse directing, and believe me, I have seen some pretty bad stuff. It is no wonder, the man has only directed 7 times in his life.

The story is actually superior to most Disney Channel Originals, and I was really interesting to see what would happen. I liked the characters in the movie, and the powers were weird and unique. I also liked the separation of the gifted students from the not-so-gifted ones, that made for a more compelling story.

Though, some of the plot was predictable and uninspiring it was fun to see it all come together. I am just glad the main kid gets superpowers unlike Disney's "Up, Up and Away", which decided to put in a message instead of what the audience really wanted to see.

So, the makings of a good film, an enjoyable film, a really fun film, are ruined by the inconcievably bad direction of Mike Mitchell.

Not nearly as witty as the original. Not nearly as entertaining as the original. Not nearly as original as the original. One of those movies in which it is very apparent that it posesses the sequel curse.