As of this morning, Eddie Murphy’s latest film, A Thousand Words has a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Which means that, of the 39 reviews by professional movie critics, absolutely no one liked it.
For comparison’s sake, that 0% puts it in rarified air, alongside such luminary films as Manos: The Hands of Fate, Highlander 2: The Quickening and Sarah Palin propagand-umentary The Undefeated, which probably should have won an award for having the least factually accurate movie title of 2011.
But don’t feel bad for Murphy: RT users have thus far given A Thousand Words a 63% approval rating, though to be honest, I wasn’t aware that many people who enjoyed The Adventures of Pluto Nash still existed.
A sampling of the positive reviews: “Every movie doesn’t have to be cutting edge or Saturday Night Live clever,” says a woman who apparently hasn’t seen SNL since Will Ferrell left; “I laughed out loud and I teared up. Although, come to think of it I was the only one who was doing these things in the theater come to think of it,” says one honest man; and finally, the gold standard of the positive reviews: “It’s Liar, Liar meets The Artist…more or less.”
It’s currently playing in Tucson, but make sure to check out Colin Boyd’s upcoming review, out this Thursday — if nothing else, for the off-chance he decides to screw up the anti-perfect game this flick appears to be pitching.
This article appears in Mar 8-14, 2012.
And whatever happened to Sammy Davis, Jr., David Mendez?
Looks like a longstanding generation problem too complex and intellectual for David Mendez to comprehend and explain to readers…
Not going to lie, Red Star: Sammy Davis, Jr. is a man whose personal and professional history is a bit before my time. And by that, I mean that I was two-and-a-half years old when he died. As far as I’m aware, the switch to my conscious brain had yet to flip over to the “on” position at that point.
Regardless, could you throw me a bone and elaborate on your comment a bit, sir?
Agree…the New York Yankees maxed in 1963. They do that every twenty years or so-ish.
So, David, that’s a “No” on the whole “not being cryptic” thing.
Who’s Ed Murphy? Is that Charlie Murphy’s brother? Kinda looks like him. Charlie is a funny dude.
Hector, Eddie is the dude who voices (and possibly does motion capture for) the donkey in Shrek. I heard he was in a movie recently with the girl who played Precious and something called a “Ben Stiller,” but that’s all I’ve got.
Nintz, I deal with even more cryptic messages from friends on a regular basis. Just last night a buddy sent something about going into the wilderness with nothing more than a machete and a flask of whiskey — which I took to mean that he was going grocery shopping. Who knows.