Subject: Reviews/Criticism (Page 17)

From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter; some day I intend reading it.

(1890 – 1977) comedian, actor & television host
Books Reviews/Criticism

The Road to Wellville… is basically a… production of a Benny Hill episode.

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism

This movie is not merely bad, but incompetent. I get tapes in the mail from 10th graders that are better made than this… I have often asked myself, “What would it look like if the characters in a movie were animatronic puppets created by aliens with an imperfect mastery of human behavior?” Now I know.

(1942 – 2013) American film critic, journalist & screenwriter
Reviews/Criticism

If you hear a door slam in the theater, you'll know that Elvis has left the building – in disgust.

American film critic
Reviews/Criticism

One can’t judge Wagner’s opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don’t intend hearing it a second time.

(1792 – 1868) Italian composer
Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

I really should dynamite this movie just for forcing me to watch Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler try to act. The dude plays himself and I didn’t believe it – that’s how bad he is.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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The last time I was in Spain I got through six Jeffrey Archer novels; I must remember to take enough toilet paper next time.

(1928 – 2003) English entertainer
Books Insults Reviews/Criticism

It’s like Isacsson wrote the dialogue to be performed by two sales consultants at a marketing conference.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

Chain Reaction has more nifty coincidences than an identical twins convention.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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You can't watch it without being convinced that the Americans are doomed… Springer assembles the white trash, not to mention the black trash, the Hispanic trash, and every other category of bozo in these United States, and sets them loose to abuse one another for our entertainment.

(1961 – ) Irish journalist, writer & playwright
Reviews/Criticism

I’m not sure who cast this movie, but the only way they could have come up with two duller performances would have been to have the two leads play their characters using sock puppets.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
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His pictures seem to resemble not pictures but a sample book of patterns of linoleum.

(1890 – 1954) British critic
Reviews/Criticism

It's probable that if a meteor landed right in the middle of Los Angeles, nobody would even notice. I say this because apparently nobody noticed that the first Anaconda sucked.

(movie reviews at mrcranky.com)
Reviews/Criticism

Your expectations of how bad The Lone Ranger is can’t trump the reality.

American film critic & televison interviewer
Reviews/Criticism

“ …as fascinating as chewing styrofoam – with the occasional firecracker jammed in to make you chew faster.

film critic
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You could do worse… by which I mean you couldn't possibly do worse.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism

Planes is an abomination wrapped inside a bullshit party. That’s really all I want to write about this endless crap festival of a film…

(movie reviews at comedyfilmnerds.com)
Reviews/Criticism

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

American writer
Art Entertainment Reviews/Criticism

It is hard to resist a flatterer who gets it right.

American writer
Reviews/Criticism

Negative reviews seem to slide off Pia’s back like discarded mink coats.

(1946 – ) filmmaker, actor & writer
Reviews/Criticism

Whew! That was close: something almost happened there for a minute.

writer, editor & film reviewer
Reviews/Criticism