The Perfect Score (2004)
For a film that revolves around a test that measures academic aptitude, it sure is dumb. For a movie made by MTV, I guess I shouldn’t expect any less, but this one’s so absurd...
Category: 2000s
Red-Eye (2005)
Rachel McAdams stars as hotel manager Lisa Reisert, who is delayed at the airport due to the terrible local weather in Texas. While waiting for her flight, she meets a handsome and charismatic man...
Wedding Crashers (2005)
The funny bone is in the arm of the beholder, and mine is undoubtedly tickled by Wedding Crashers when it is playing as a comedy. It doesn’t always try, as first-time screenwriters Steve Faber and Bob...
The Island (2005)
An exciting science fiction premise (possibly lifted from the awful 1979 MST3k lampooned flick, Parts: The Clonus Horror) gets dumbed way down for mass consumption in The Island, the latest film that Michael Bay ruins by...
Bad News Bears (2005)
The 1976 classic sports film, The Bad News Bears, has been given an upgrade in 2005 — they removed the word “The” from the title! Outside of this, there is little fundamental difference between this...
The Descent (2005)
In 2002, Neil Marshall wrote and directed a cult horror flick called Dog Soldiers, which featured a group of men alone in the Scottish wilderness meeting and eventually fighting for their lives with a frightening...
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)
Although it’s not likely to replace the original movie, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, in the minds and hearts of many viewers, the good news is that Tim Burton’s version of the Roald Dahl classic book...
Timeline (2003)
A popular Michael Crichton novel gets the big budget movie treatment yet again, and like many of the other adaptations of his work, the results are only so-so. Here, it’s fairly easy to see...
War of the Worlds (2005)
Yet another adaptation of the oft-visited alien invasion classic by H.G. Wells, Steven Spielberg takes his turn for a credible, but a touch underdeveloped, update of War of the Worlds. Produced at breakneck speed for...
Bewitched (2005)
Bewitched is a cute idea for a movie, but that’s all it is. It certainly sounds funnier to hear about than to actually watch. It’s not a remake of the television show of the...