As Terrible as Possible

Rating: 1/10 (29 March 2009)

Badly written, badly plotted, badly directed. I felt truly sorry for the unfortunate actors condemned to work with this ultra-dorky material. If it was supposed to be funny, it wasn't. If it was supposed to be appealing, it didn't. There was nothing sympathetic about any of the characters, and they managed to be supremely uninteresting at the same time. I was bored rigid by these cardboard characters. I cannot believe anyone outside America finds anything redeeming about this mechanical disaster. There is some kind of a popular culture gap as wide as the Atlantic between those who enjoy this kind of film and those who don't. Some very great films have been produced in America, but the majority, I would say about 80%, of them have had European directors. Oscar is a very eccentric fellow, and this time he amazed me.