When am I gonna get a month where theres no Scum Bucket? Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers asks in his latest awful-movie video round-up. It was certainly not November. Thanksgiving month certainly brought its fair share of cinematic turkeys, andTravers has disposed ofthe 10 least appetizing.
First upis the blockbuster sequelThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1, which makes the list solely because of its cash-grabbing split-release strategy.You did it because you want our money, Travers says to the studio execs, and you sucker-punched us. Meanwhile, Travers says the Abraham Lincoln biopicThe Better Angelsdisappoints, despite the fact that acclaimed filmmaker Terrence Malick served as a producer, and takes on Open Windowsfor following a predictably voyeuristic plot involving a camera and a naked girl.
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Travers isnt surprised the horror compilationV/H/S Viralcame out and died on the big screen. As for the lists other horror flop, Jessabelle, our critic keeps his review short and sweet: Ugghhh! Travers is grossed out by the product placement in motorcycle documentaryOn Any Sunday: The Next Chapter(Ive never seen more Red Bull in my life than Ive seen in this movie), and hes similarly disheartened byA Merry Friggin Christmas, which featuresa humor-less next-to-last big-screen appearance of the late Robin Williams (Its so sad to see him do a movie thats just bereft of any kind of reason for being).
The months worst holiday flick is Kirk CameronsSaving Christmas, which Travers calls not only dull but also offensive and bad in every way. But Novembers two hugest flops are a pair of comedy sequels: While Travers loved the originalDumb and Dumber, he thinks Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels were too old to revive their idiotic characters for the long-awaited sequelDumb and Dumber To; meanwhile, he reserves the darkest depths of the Scum Bucket forHorrible Bosses 2, which wastes a talented comic cast (including Jason Bateman and Jennifer Aniston) on a flat plot wherein characters walk around, hoping for inspiration to fall from the sky.
Remember, filmgoers: Leftovers should occupy your refrigerator, not your cineplex.
