Retrospectively.....

Rating: 10/10 (17 September 2000)

Okay, okay. Now that the hype surrounding this movie has died down a bit, and people aren't saying it's the best movie ever (by this time it has dropped to no 4 in the list), we can look at it clearly. It's just as well that it is a bloody good movie then isn't it? So, there are obvious plot points on second viewing (isn't that true in any movie), and you have to slightly suspend belief (ditto to my previous parentheses). Does that really matter? The sole reason this movie scored so highly is because it DIDN'T aim at the lowest common denominator. At the risk of sounding pretentious, the kind of people who dislike this movie are the people that got 'Scary Movie', the worst kind of spoof (a bad one), to the top of the box office charts. Who do I mean? People who don't want to watch a movie too close to the knuckle, and think the best option for a movie's content is fart jokes. (By the way I voted South Park:bigger... as an 8* movie).