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Fantastica Daily is not a Tomatometer-approved publication. Reviews from this publication only count toward the Tomatometer® when written by the following Tomatometer-approved critic(s): Chuck O'Leary, Shirley Klass.

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Rating Title | Year Author Quote
1.5/4
Disaster Movie (2008) Mervius The filmmakers understand that comedy springs from incongruity. However they seem to lack the timing, craft, and spirit that go into such.
Posted Aug 29, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
The House Bunny (2008) Mervius I got more solid laughs out of this movie than from anything I've seen yet this year.
Posted Aug 24, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Death Race (2008) Mervius The movie is exactly what you're probably expecting after having seen the trailer. Nothing more, nothing less.
Posted Aug 24, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
American Teen (2008) Mervius American Teen's virtue lies not so much in the cinematic techniques used, but in the honest personalities that shine through.
Posted Aug 24, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Tropic Thunder (2008) Mervius Ends with such a self-congratulatory celebration as to underscore the question of who the joke is really on - crappy movies, or the audiences who eat them right up.
Posted Aug 24, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Henry Poole Is Here (2008) Mervius For a while, the movie wields its existential angst so purposefully and heavily that it can be difficult to handle, depending on how philosophically minded you are.
Posted Aug 24, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Rocker (2008) Mervius The Rocker has some pretty funny moments, but overall the whole affair never shakes off the nagging feeling that it wants to be School of Rock.
Posted Aug 20, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Fly Me to the Moon (2008) Mervius If the software that Pixar Studios is using these days in version 7.0, then what the makers of Fly Me to the Moon are utilizing is perhaps version 2.5.
Posted Aug 15, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008) Mervius I received chills up my spine more than once, just via a careful line or two of dialogue reflecting Obi-Wan's esteem for his apprentice.
Posted Aug 15, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008) Mervius Young women may not typically demand this quality of cinematic entertainment to be aimed at their demographic, but they should.
Posted Aug 09, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Pineapple Express (2008) Mervius Pineapple Express is a madcap farcical crime comedy first and foremost, saturated with the casual conversational silliness of a marijuana disconnect.
Posted Aug 09, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Swing Vote (2008) Mervius The final 10 minutes are good enough that they actually deserve a better movie supporting them.
Posted Aug 02, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Brideshead Revisited (2008) Mervius The kind of movie that shows us a world we might like to visit, no matter how much we might have reservations about the people we'd have to face in such a vacation.
Posted Aug 02, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Step Brothers (2008) Mervius Someone with the short term memory problems of the protagonist in Memento might find Step Brothers to be the height of comedic genius.
Posted Jul 25, 2008  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Mamma Mia! (2008) Mervius A Frankenstein's monster of a musical, with ABBA tunes stitched together using the DNA extracted from successful musicals.
Posted Jul 18, 2008  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Dark Knight (2008) Mervius One character says it best. 'Now that's a Batman.'
Posted Jul 18, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008) Mervius If 3-D cinema technology takes off, I can imagine a day when this version of Journey to the Center of the Earth is regarded as a mere gimmicky throwaway.
Posted Jul 12, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008) Mervius The movie may be artificial in an interesting way, but when the characters and dialogue arrive with the danger and edge of a Playskool toy, it's hard to get behind it.
Posted Jul 12, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Hancock (2008) Mervius In the end, the movie sneaks up on us and delivers a solid pay-off, one that may even have many members of the audience shedding a tear.
Posted Jul 02, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
WALL-E (2008) Mervius There are jokes and gags aplenty, sure, but without any depth to the characters, the effect is a bit one-sided. Too much of the movie winds up feeling skin-deep.
Posted Jul 02, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Wanted (2008) Mervius An over-the-top action movie that builds and builds, and keeps the promises it makes along the way.
Posted Jul 02, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Get Smart (2008) Mervius Steve Carell may have been born to play this part.
Posted Jun 20, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
The Love Guru (2008) Mervius Mike Myers once again channels his inner giggling 12-year-old, but does so with a full embrace rather than with an air of irony or self-mockery.
Posted Jun 20, 2008  Edit critic review
1.5/4
What Happens in Vegas (2008) Mervius In the end, only the one-dimensional characters on screen seem capable of believing that love has been found in this dreadful mire.
Posted Jun 17, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
The Happening (2008) Mervius In the end, one has to wonder why Shyamalan is so intent on riding his one-trick pony so hard. The animal is tired and needs desperately to rest.
Posted Jun 17, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Incredible Hulk (2008) Mervius In the end, fans of the original comic book series should be much more satisfied this time around.
Posted Jun 17, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Kung Fu Panda (2008) Mervius Action scenes, humor, Jack Black's brand of goofy personality, and a moral or two all combine pretty seamlessly and entertainingly for the quick 90-minute run time.
Posted Jun 06, 2008  Edit critic review
1.5/4
You Don't Mess With the Zohan (2008) Mervius You Don't Mess with the Zohan is not as awful as the despicable Little Nicky, but it aspires to the same sloppy adolescent-stream-of-consciousness depths.
Posted Jun 06, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Sex and the City (2008) Mervius The story - such as it is, without direction or much discernable craft - often wanders around like a concussion victim.
Posted Jun 06, 2008  Edit critic review
1.5/4
The Strangers (2008) Mervius It would indeed be nice to be able to tell you that the movie has an engaging story, but alas, this product is as faceless as its inscrutable antagonists.
Posted Jun 06, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Son of Rambow (2007) Mervius Son of Rambow is a little entertaining and a lot silly.
Posted Jun 06, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008) Mervius The action, especially in the area of the fighting, is the best reason to watch this movie, and the grand battles are comparable to those in the first entry of this franchise.
Posted May 20, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008) Mervius If Lucas and crew make a fifth Indiana Jones movie, I suspect we'll learn that our aging hero can fly too.
Posted May 20, 2008  Edit critic review
1/4
Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008) Mervius Expelled is an embarrassing, uninformed, misinformed, river dance of manipulation and logical fallacies.
Posted Apr 20, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
88 Minutes (2007) Mervius The unbelievable 88 Minutes, nearly incoherent in its unnecessarily complicated story, is a carnival of red herrings. Al Pacino should have known better.
Posted Apr 20, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008) Mervius The story ends with such a bang of charm that many of the movie's sins can be forgiven, even though one of them is revisited right there in the final shot.
Posted Apr 20, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Street Kings (2008) Mervius The heavy-handed dialogue and aggressive score do their best to make up for Keanu's understated performance, but instead suggest a pay-off that isn't there.
Posted Apr 15, 2008  Edit critic review
1/4
Prom Night (2008) Mervius The movie is so relentlessly uncreative that I can't imagine anybody who has ever seen a couple slasher flicks enjoying it.
Posted Apr 15, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
The Ruins (2008) Mervius Mere competence doesn't generate the needed bonus points for when the filmmakers bail out in the third act and reveal the entire affair for cheap Hollywood fluff.
Posted Apr 05, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Stop-Loss (2008) Mervius The movie, heavy-handed and manipulative, asks some honest and important questions at the expense of honest storytelling.
Posted Apr 01, 2008  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Shutter (2008) Mervius This movie elicits perhaps more laughs than any of the entries that have preceded it in the Asian horror remake franchise.
Posted Mar 24, 2008  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Drillbit Taylor (2008) Mervius The kind of uninspired comedy where the producers have wrongly assumed that inserting the right people into the right gimmicky situation will write its own hilarity.
Posted Mar 24, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008) Mervius The filmmakers and actors have honored the source material while embellishing for a modern movie audience, and the result is very entertaining.
Posted Mar 24, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Never Back Down (2008) Mervius A particularly cheesy flashback montage at the "moment of truth" (and of course I use the word "truth" lightly) may elicit laughs from older and more experienced viewers.
Posted Mar 24, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
The Bank Job (2008) Mervius The surprising thing for this reviewer is how much emotional weight the story manages to concoct.
Posted Mar 24, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008) Mervius An intelligent script, bouncy soundtrack, and (above all) terrific lead performances combine to make this short outing a robust and rewarding one.
Posted Mar 24, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
10,000 B.C. (2008) Mervius The movie works, if only at times, because it wields a savage exoticism that accentuates the outright strangeness of pre-history.
Posted Mar 24, 2008  Edit critic review
3/4
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) Mervius Well-produced and entertaining, the movie takes that little extra step forward by showcasing the talents of its leads.
Posted Mar 24, 2008  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Penelope (2006) Mervius The movie's strengths ultimately win the day. As odd as the story may feel at times, it does contain some terrific scenes and individual moments.
Posted Mar 24, 2008  Edit critic review
2/4
Semi-Pro (2008) Mervius A long series of shock moments sharing time with Will Ferrell behaving badly.
Posted Mar 24, 2008  Edit critic review
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