Don't watch without No-Doz

Rating: 1/10 (29 May 2005)

When an average theatergoer pays a kingly sum to see what would appear from all of the merchandising and previews to be a promising and funny movie is treated instead to sleepwalking on celluloid.
I'm trying to figure out what Hollywood is thinking these days with tepid fare such as 'Madagascar' and the only slightly funnier 'Robots'. I have yet to see anything so far that is remotely original and instead we are overwhelmed with tired scripts and remakes of movie classics or brainless t.v. shows (ie. Dukes of Hazard, Bewitched, The Stepford Wives, etc. etc. etc.).
There's not much I could add to previous commenter's that hasn't already been said except that my 4-year old loves anything (or will at least say she loves it) that we take her to. I fell asleep a few times, but was unfortunately nudged to an awakened state by my wife only to face more plodding scenes that seemed to draw my eyelids close together again.
I agree, there was little or no character development (I understand that this is more for the younger set, but throw the adults a bone every once in a millennium) and the dialog was as plastic as Paris Hilton's smile. For me it seemed like a 30 minute plot stretched out to 90 minutes. You can't blame the actors for being in such a lousy movie, we all do things we're ashamed of later.