The Crappening

Rating: 6/10 (27 August 2009)

These comments may contain spoilers- if that's possible(?)
I wanted to like this movie more than I did. I dig M.'s movies. I like the actors. I loved that Brian 'I'm not even supposed to be here today' O'Halloran had a bit part- look quick and you might catch him driving the jeep. Poor Dante, that guy just cannot catch a break.
I saw the Happening in the theaters mostly because of the creepiness of the commercials and found myself rolling my eyes through a lot of it. I just caught the last 3/4's of it on cable tonight and found myself laughing a lot, which I'm pretty sure they were not shooting for. Sure there were some scenes that were pretty gruesome like what happens with the two boys that they are traveling with, others were Monty Pythonesque, like the lion scene at the zoo. That one had me in stitches.
Not any of the actors best work, nor was it M.Night Shyamalan's best, but it does have about a 5 or 6 on the re-watchable scale if only to make sarcastic quips if you are watching it with friends. Or if you are playing a drinking game and have to drink whenever a character says a form of the word happening (like 'what's happening here?' or 'what just happened?') You'd be surprised at how frequently this will happen. There, it just happened there. And again!
Just kidding about the 'Crappening' thing, it wasn't as terrible as some of the other ratings on here suggest.