It's Saturday, and we spent all week sifting through reviews and collecting the snarkiest critiques of blunders and missteps in the latest movies and TV shows for the fifth installment of our "Week In Ouch" series.
This week, we've rounded up reviews from Vulture, The New York Post, our friends at HuffPost and more to get their (at times) over the top take on new movies and TV shows like "The Lorax", "Project X" and "GCB."
Let us know which films and shows you think deserved the bash, and which ones you think critics should ease up on.
HuffPost Thought "GCB" Was Like A Really Bad Cartoon (01 of07)
Based on the book "Good Christian B****es," ABC's GCB (the network swapped "B****es for Belles, in case your interested), didn't impress HuffPost's Maureen Ryan.Here's what she had to say:
Things like the cleavage scene make it all the more jarring when "GCB" tries to create warm, human moments, which the scattered show doesn't do anything to earn. The show can't really decide on a tone -- is it a cartoonish, silly soap with undertones of dislike for women, Christians and Texans, or a mildly absurd, comedic drama about a formerly rich person seeking forgiveness?(credit:ABC)
Vulture Thinks "The Lorax" Did Dr. Seuss A Disservice(02 of07)
"The Lorax" looked so promising with Taylor Swift, Zac Efron, and Ed Helms voicing its characters. Plus, that animation is so colorful! Unfortunately, from unrealistic industrialists to flat characters, Vulture's David Edelstein didn't think it could get much worse.
The behavior of the man, known as the Once-ler, is the most flagrantly unrealistic element: Industrialists who devastate large swaths of land don't stick around to experience the consequences. They move on to the next target and the next. They buy houses in Palm Beach. They bankroll libertarian think tanks... But Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" [sic] isn't Seussian in spirit. It's shrill and campy and stuffed with superfluous characters.(credit:Universal)
amNewYork Was Not A "Flynn" Fan(03 of07)
Finding your long lost father at a homeless shelter seems like a sweet tale of reconciliation, but not when its characters (Paul Dano and Robert de Niro) are crazy. Here's what amNewYork's Robert Levin had to say:
"Being Flynn" is so bent on reflecting its abrasive main characters' psychological states - borderline psychotic on the one hand and thoroughly disaffected on the other - that it's often insufferable."(credit:Focus Features)
New York Post Thought "Project X" Could Have Been 5 Minutes Long(04 of07)
You've seen this movie before. High schoolers throw a wild party, and it gets a little too crazy. And according to New York Post's Sara Stewart, "Project X" was a little too terrible. And those jokes! Really?!
It all amounts to nearly an hour and a half of what should be a five-minute scene in a movie where things actually happen -- things other than the terrier getting stoned, other than naked chicks in a Bouncy Castle, other than an endless parade of gay and fat jokes. (Really? Still? I know I'm an Old, but I kind of thought/hoped that stuff was played out by now.)(credit:Warner Bros.)
Tuning In to "Glee"? Hitfix Warns: It's A Giant Car Crash(05 of07)
"Glee" can't really win with Hitfix's Ryan McGee, but this week's episode, "On My Way," was even more of a dramatic wreck than usual.
Watching tonight's episode, "On My Way," was like watching a schizophrenic car wreck, moving in both slow motion and the speed of light. It was a PSA...and it was an extended karaoke performance...and it was a 'roided-up 1950's melodrama all at once.(credit:Fox)
L.A. Times Wanted To Push The "Die" Button On "Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie" (06 of07)
Let's hope it didn't cost a billion dollars to make Funny Or Die's full-length feature film. According to Los Angeles Times' Glenn Whipp, "Tim And Eric's Billion Dollar Movie," Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim make for cringe-worthy writers and directors.
If it's a Funny or Die movie, where's the "die" button? Because watching "Tim & Eric's Billion Dollar Movie," which arrives under the production banner of the popular comedy video website, makes you want to exercise the freedom to click that reject (eject?) button and consign the movie forever to the Funny or Die crypt, right next to "Pandas Teach You How to Dougie" and "Whoopi Farts on 'The View."(credit:Magnet Films)
Enough With The Adele! (07 of07)
She won six Grammys this year, and there's no denying that Adele is a talented woman. And that's exactly why you shouldn't be trying as an "American Idol" contestant -- just ask Entertainment Weekly's Mandi Bierly.
Why do you think singing an Adele song is a good idea, ever? I understand her music moves you and you trust that voters love her music, too, because her album 21 has now spent the most weeks at No. 1 since Prince's Purple Rain. But this is a woman whose voice Beyoncé has described as GOD'S. Why isn't she on the Do Not Touch list along with Whitney Houston and Celine Dion, at least while the album is still so hot? The surest way to show that you are not ready to win six Grammys in one night is to sing one of her tunes. (And if you think you are ready, then you're too cocky for Week 1 of the live shows.)(credit:Fox)