M Night killed my inner-movie child

Rating: 1/10 (13 June 2008)

I'm going to start off with the good points of this movie: There have been worse movies made. After watching The Happening, though, i cannot name any of those movies off the top of my head.
Now the bad points: The plot was horrible. It tried so hard to be creative, so hard to spookily realistic, so hard to be so unique that it was just plain stupid. Plan 9 From Outer Space had a better plot than the Happening. The acting was horrible. I've seen better acting in a school play. The ONLY acting in this movie that could be considered decent was when Whalberg's character was being a dick and joking around.
The movie didn't even have strong characters to back up the horrible acting. The only character that I liked was the psycho-plant hippy guy. Elliott was a pansy, and not the good kind like shaggy and scooby. His was wife spent the whole time dragging everyone else down with her bad attitude. The little girl never spoke, was rarely in camera shot, and had no real character to begin with.
The Happening is by far not the worst I've ever seen, but I would never recommend it to anyone. I give the acting a 1 out of 10, the plot a 1, the dialog a 1, the cinematography a 4, and the music a 3.