This is different??

Rating: 1/10 (15 December 2014)

I heard a lot of squealing about this movie and expected better but it's very conventional and follows the same ol' story arc as movies it is supposedly mocking. The characters are a tad snide and make a few quips but other than that this movie is EXTREMELY middle-of-the- road.
The only lead character with any screen presence was the big wrestler guy. As for the lead, if that dude walked by me on the street I totally would not recognize him. No star power here. No screen presence. Zoe Saldana is starting to get typecast as "space babe." She should take another kind of role soon. Bradley Cooper's character was downright annoying. An angry little animated character is not new or groundbreaking.
We don't even get a dynamic bad guy! People, everyone knows that if you want your movie to be kick-ass you have to make your bad guy dynamic, weirdly sexy...or at the very least, British (this is known as The Alan Rickman Principle). This bad guy was just some weird blue dude who apparently drooled a lot while eating black licorice and forgot to wipe his mouth off. This movie is a giant ho-hum.