22 Movies You Loved As A Kid That Got Terrible Reviews
According to reviews from the time.
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From the Chicago Tribune: “Dreadful.”
From Roger Ebert: “Watching the movie is like attending a party you weren’t invited to, and where you don’t know anybody, and they’re all in on a joke but won’t explain it to you.”
From the New York Times: “Apparently too much eye of newt got into the formula for Hocus Pocus, transforming a potentially wicked Bette Midler vehicle into an unholy mess.”
2.
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From the Film Journal International: “Air Bud may be bland, but it’s also offensive.”
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From Roger Ebert: “Is this a children’s movie? I confess I do not know. Millions of kids will go to see it. There used to be movies where it was bad for little kids to hurt grown-ups. Now Kevin bounces bricks off their skulls from the rooftops, and everybody laughs.”
From the Las Vegas Mercury: “So, so bad.”
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From the Baltimore Sun: “You feel as if you’re being smothered in cotton candy by a director obsessed with infantility and who cannot bear to face the reality of childhood.”
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From Entertainment Weekly: “If I were a 9-year-old boy, there’s a possibility I’d find this little fantasy on the theme of rampant consumerism sort of cool.”
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From the Washington Post: “The horror, the horror.”
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From the Chicago Tribune: “Dreadful.”
From Roger Ebert: “Watching the movie is like attending a party you weren’t invited to, and where you don’t know anybody, and they’re all in on a joke but won’t explain it to you.”
From the New York Times: “Apparently too much eye of newt got into the formula for Hocus Pocus, transforming a potentially wicked Bette Midler vehicle into an unholy mess.”
2.
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From the Film Journal International: “Air Bud may be bland, but it’s also offensive.”
3.
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From Roger Ebert: “Is this a children’s movie? I confess I do not know. Millions of kids will go to see it. There used to be movies where it was bad for little kids to hurt grown-ups. Now Kevin bounces bricks off their skulls from the rooftops, and everybody laughs.”
From the Las Vegas Mercury: “So, so bad.”
4.
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From the Baltimore Sun: “You feel as if you’re being smothered in cotton candy by a director obsessed with infantility and who cannot bear to face the reality of childhood.”
5.
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From Entertainment Weekly: “If I were a 9-year-old boy, there’s a possibility I’d find this little fantasy on the theme of rampant consumerism sort of cool.”
6.
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From the Washington Post: “The horror, the horror.”
