Embarrassing

Rating: 2/10 (7 May 2007)

This film is just embarrassing. The casting was never brilliant; Maguire is too weedy and pathetic (I know this is Parker's persona but Maguire is feeble) and Dunst is plain, bordering on ugly, but this time round the story is also an entire mess, the lead actors a waste of screen time and the conclusion weak, clichéd and slothful. And when Parker gets some 'balls' it is nauseatingly odious. This is the worst sort of sequel, a marketing and endorsement exercise with no respect for the source material. When will the studios realise that a film of this ilk can have mass market appeal and a decent narrative? The most expensive film ever made? I thought the point of fast food, manufactured, sugar-coated rubbish was that it was cheap. What a hateful waste of money. Avoid.