# Brilliant reviews for crappy movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 24, 2005, 11:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-reviews-for-crappy-movies/318403 "2005-08-24T11:11:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-reviews-for-crappy-movies/318403/41 "2005-08-25T19:41:05Z")
Leonard Maltin’s record-setting (for shortest) review of _Isn’t it Romantic?_ “No.” One of my favourite headlines was in _Newsweek_ about _Switching Channels_, the television-reporters-based remake of the classic newspaper-reporters-based movie _His Girl Friday_: “Weakened Update” ---
**Author:** ![Cervaise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cervaise/32/16693_2.png) [@Cervaise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cervaise)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-reviews-for-crappy-movies/318403/42 "2005-08-25T19:44:50Z")
Since _Battlefield Earth_ has come up a couple of times, I’d like to say I’m rather proud of [my own take on it](http://moviegeek.homestead.com/files/battlefieldearth.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-reviews-for-crappy-movies/318403/43 "2005-08-25T19:55:04Z")
One I just remembered: Off-topic, but “Musician” magazine wrote this for the review of mid-80s chanteuse Sade’s Lp _Quicker Than Pride_: “Faster than sominex.” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-reviews-for-crappy-movies/318403/44 "2005-08-25T20:54:14Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Since _Battlefield Earth_ has come up a couple of times, I’d like to say I’m rather proud of [my own take on it](http://moviegeek.homestead.com/files/battlefieldearth.htm). Toast isn’t boring! :mad: The movie indeed sucked, though. ---
**Author:** ![FordPrefect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e99b99/32.png) [@FordPrefect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FordPrefect)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-reviews-for-crappy-movies/318403/45 "2005-08-25T20:58:45Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Since _Battlefield Earth_ has come up a couple of times, I’d like to say I’m rather proud of [my own take on it](http://moviegeek.homestead.com/files/battlefieldearth.htm). I really enjoyed your review, right up until “and the hero is as boring as toast”. What the hell do you have against toast? Me and Mrs Prefect watched that movie knowing it would be a dreckfest, but desperately wanting to watch some science fiction, and found it entertaining, in the way that “Plan 9 from Outer Space” is entertaining. Your review brought back the horror and the laughs, thanks. ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-reviews-for-crappy-movies/318403/46 "2005-08-25T21:01:32Z")
I gotta throw in the two word review for Spinal Tap’s _Shark Sandwich_: “Shit Sandwich” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-reviews-for-crappy-movies/318403.md?page=2)