Kung Pow is a cinematic triumph

Edit: there's an animated cow so it counts

Rat Race is one of the funniest movies of all time, I didn't care what the ratings say.

Here's the flipside of this phenomenon:

The Little Mermaid (2023)

Absolutely awful, atrocious, lazy cinema. It had a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. When they do the whole under the sea scene, none of the sounds align with anything happening on screen. The plot was garbo. They've got a whole song dedicated to the cruelty of eating fish as if fish never eat any fish, and then that's still not as bad as the fucking "scuttlebutt" song.

Titan AE is at 61% on RT, but I fucking love it.

I liked Thor Love and Thunder, something I've been clowned on for every time I say it lol. I get why a lot of people hate it but it was enjoyable to me.

Rotten tomatoes is rotten itself. Half the professional critics there have been bought and paid for. So many movies have a critics score of 20 and an audience score of 90, or vice versa. It's just a sad place, don't go there

My general personal rule is "If I'm entertained then it's good" hmrm I don't care what anybody says.

Not animated, but since you've hit the frontpage and everyone else seems to be ignoring that...

1994's Street Fighter. It's terrible, but Raul Julia hams his way out of the screen for you. It's Street Fighter: The Pantomime, and it's glorious.

Between that, Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers, and Alan Rickman in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, I can't decide which of them was best at saving a mediocre cocaine fuelled movie by playing a panto villain in the midst of undeserved po-faced seriousness.

The number of times I've watched a highly rated movie only to find it's not good. cough oppenheimer cough

Anything fourth wave Marvel, people were done after infinity wars and just shit on anything since because it's too much nerddom on their systems. I still loved she-hulk but people didn't.

This was Sucker Punch for me

We're back: a dinosaur story

Rock-a-doodle

The Pagemaster

Once upon a forest

Aladdin 2 and 3

Jetsons: The Movie

I'm probably overrating these because I saw them as a kid.

The Aladdin live action remake was shat on mercilessly by the internet, but I thought it was a fun, true to the spirit of the original while introducing a few new ideas to keep it interesting, and (imo very respectfully) stayed out of Rob William's lane by not trying to recreate his genie. And Will Smith did a great job with his version.

/shrug

My rule is that if the critic score is too high I won't like it, and the audience score needs to be higher than the critic score and we have a banger on our hands

You just remind me I should check Tales from Earthsea.

By the way, congrats for this post, getting nice traction!

I love Van Wilder. The soundtrack is top-notch, it has superstar talent, and quite frankly, it's basically Deadpool without the superhero stuff. Last I checked it was below 20% on RT.

Not animated, but trust me, if you'd actually watched Manos: The Hands of Fate, you would not have enjoyed it in any capacity.

As it happens, I just discovered this nice chap: https://youtube.com/@CinemaWins "Because liking things is more fun than not liking things."

Horror movies is a completely different scale. Subtract 2 for horror, just because. Witch sounds like a good horror title.

Subtract 2 for Horror

Are we talking about the Ghibli Earthsea movie? I actually enjoyed it, even though I read the books when I was younger. It was an interesting way to tell a large part of the story and doesn't deserve the hate it gets IMO. But it's also not an amazing adaptation either, it's in a weird spot.

This was The Emoji Movie for my kids. I refused to watch it because of obvious reasons, but they insisted and totally liked it. I finally gave it a watch and... It was totally fine. Pleasant at times, even.

Are you my friend? I've had to stop taking any of his movie or TV show recommendations without extra verification. He thinks that everything he watches is great. I kinda envy how he can enjoy literally any TV show or movie.

Tales From Earthsea wasn't even the worst Ghibli movie. That title belongs to Ocean Waves.

Exactly the same, I still love Tales of Earthsea. It has its issues compared to the book, but it's still great. My conspiracy theory is that it's a plot by Hayao Miyazaki fans to discredit his son since the father didn't like it.

I really liked Under Ninja recently. Everyone's been shitting on the adaptation because it looks weird, telling to read the manga, but the manga is just as weird. The adaptation is really keeping the same vibe.