Sounds more fun than the midnight screening I attended. I was kind of ready to be let down from the early pro reviews, but the general mediocrity was still surprising. The audience was so hyped before the show, but that didn't carry over to the actual screening.

Same here, but boy did my mom hate it.

I like "Arthur" a lot but that is a strange choice to take a middle-schooler to.

Given what a cold fish of a movie "Beauty and the Beast" was, with no attempt to build atmosphere or emotion, this is a terrible potential matching of director and material.

It is Fun Character Actor-Palooza if nothing else.

I read at TvTropes that WB was desperate to get a DC-related movie out to the public while waiting on "Batman Begins", so they took an unrelated script they had lying about, about a woman who gained feline-themed superpowers, and dolled it up to ostensibly be a Catwoman film.

Wow, "Heartbeeps"! On one of his "Late Night with David Letterman" appearances, Andy Kaufman said he'd refund anyone who sat through that movie. Letterman responded, "Well, I hope you have change for a twenty."

Same here. I mean, having a birthday party at a McDonald's, with Ronald McDonald showing up, that's just a very '80s plot point along with a promotional opportunity. But the huge building, the dance contest, the oodles of dancing teens and football players?

Yeah, she can be a frustrating read. John Simon, one of her peers, is even worse though. Not only was he also mean and cruel, particularly to female performers, he didn't seem to like ANYTHING that came out in the 1970s, to judge from the collection "Reverse Angle". I can see coming down hard on stuff like…

I read the Jabootu's Bad Movie Dimension recap of that one ages ago, and I've caught a chunk of it on TV. It seems to be the kind of bad movie I like, fun bad (sort of the macho equivalent of all the bad pop musicals being made around the same time, actually). I really need to catch up with that Rifftrax. "The…

The only one that stuck with me was "Herbie Rides Again", which has some really funny setpieces, including a wonderfully cracked dream sequence for the villain and a cute cable car chase. ("Was that anyone we know?") I don't think much of the bulk of live-action Disney movies of the 1950s-70s, but that movie's not…

I've seen most of it on TV over the years, but never watched it stem to stern. As People Magazine put it, "It rhymes with dull". There are a few lovely sets and setpieces, and I like how all in it went on the power of love in a Disney-style way, but it's a slow mover, and there are many more interesting fantasy…

I mentioned this below. I never intended to see it when it came out (I was 10 at the time) just because the whole Ronald McDonald cameo thing seemed stupid, and the reviews didn't change my mind. Then it was screened at a class time-killing assembly in grade school (I think before summer vacation), and then when it…

That was one of the first movies I sought out on TV/video just to see how bad it was. There's the makings of a fun comedy in some scenes in the first half (i.e. Howard trying to find a job), but then it gets derailed by that Dark Overlord storyline.

This is pretty much what happened to me with the "Beauty and the Beast" remake. I decided that since seemingly everybody else (including friends) was chomping at the bit to see it, I should at least have my opinion be fully informed — and as more and more footage trickled out I became more intrigued by how bad it…

Yeah, I had to sit through a lot of lame kiddie movies in the 1980s and '90s (including "The Flintstones"), and knew my time was being wasted, but it was rare I wound up genuinely upset by them; there were usually a few amusing moments in them. Same with stuff like "Batman and Robin" and "Men in Black II" later on —…

What kind of class would assign you that movie? I'm just curious, and I feel your pain.

Yeah, looking back "Hook" really was a precursor to the live-action fairy tale craze that "Alice in Wonderland" kicked off in terms of its bloated approach, way too long runtime, and oddball revisions of the original source material, though I would argue it's better than Disney's "Alice", "Maleficent", or "Beauty and…

"Attack of the Clones" was definitely one of my unhappier theater experiences. I didn't walk out, didn't doze off, but I was profoundly bored for long stretches of it, the climactic battle(s) went on forever, and I wouldn't see any "Star Wars" film again until "Rogue One" (which I liked a lot) thanks to my…

Apparently it had an insanely messy production, which resulted in the various inconsistencies as to the nature of the wives, etc. Nicole Kidman tried to back out of it, but couldn't; John AND Joan Cusack were luckier.