Is Lisa Kennedy America’s Worst Movie Critic?
September 5th, 2009
Today, a film starring the charming and lovely combination of Sandra Bullock and Bradley Cooper called All About Steve hits theaters. IMDB sums up the movies plot as thus “Convinced that a CCN cameraman is her true love, an eccentric crossword puzzler trails him as he travels all over the country, hoping to convince him that they belong together.” Sounds like the perfect Labor Day Rom Com, right?
Wrong.
As of yesterday, All About Steve had rarely seen 00% rating on the revered Rottentomatoes.com “Tomatometer”. In other words, out of the 33 reviews of the movie that had been published, not a SINGLE ONE OF THEM were positive. Brian Tallerico of Movie Retriever had this to say “Easily one of the worst movies of the year (if not the decade), there is not one redeeming quality to All About Steve, an offensive film morally, socially, and to the institution of comedy.” Manolha Dargis from The New York Times said “It seems incredible, but the grimly unfunny comedy All About Steve might just be the worst movie on Sandra Bullock’s résumé.” (Allow us to remind you that Sandra Bullock was in the 1993 shatserpiece Demolition Man.)
Then Lisa Kennedy came along. Who is Lisa Kennedy? Well, as of 12 PM today, Ms. Kennedy of the Denver Post is the first Top Rated Critic to give this movie a “Fresh Tomato”. Witness:
And with this opening sentence, who wouldn’t want to see it?
Perhaps you’ve seen “Adam,” the film about a guy with Asperger’s syndrome meeting a girl without it. If you have, then you might think “All About Steve” heroine Mary Horowitz also lives with that form of high-functioning autism.
Sandra Bullock + stalking & autism = Maybe the finest movie of the year, right? Looks like we will judge for ourselves when one day we are forced to sit through this mental health documentary on an airplane.
But for now, we have to wonder: Just who at 20th Century Fox is giving out free HJ’s in Denver? Because we refuse to believe this review was written without a minimum of at least 2 to 3 Gratis HJs.
And really: Does Lisa Kennedy’s Fresh Tomato for All About Steve make her the countries worst movie reviewer? We say: Yes.
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