Worst. Movie. Ever.

Rating: 1/10 (8 February 2015)

OK, I enjoy my fair share of art-house, foreign language and alternative movies, but this was just bad on every possible level. Even worse than SpongeBob SquarePants the original movie, which I suffered through with my pre-school children many years ago and which I thought could never be beaten for the title of Worst Movie Ever. Birdman with Michael Keaton goes way below the all-time low set by SpongeBob with a substantial margin. And to add insult to injury, it was twice the length of SpongeBob, so I'm calling it as twice as bad because I had to suffer twice as long. I am staggered to see that it's still holding a rating of 8.2 on IMDb, even though the 1 and 2 star reviews seem to outnumber the 9s and 10s. I had to laugh at the review that said that Birdman "calls out unsophisticated audiences". That review simply calls out pretentious snobbery. I would have given the movie a zero if the IMDb had let me, but Emma Stone put in a pretty good performance and probably justified the one star on behalf of everyone else associated with the movie. Self indulgent script. Badly written and poorly acted. It's not funny. It's not satirical. It doesn't offer any insights into anything. It's just bad. The group that I went to see this with started laughing as the credits rolled and we kept laughing for the next 10 minutes as we left the theatre. We couldn't believe that we'd just sat through 2 hours of purely self-indulgent cr@p, and the joke was well and truly on all of us.