# Rotten Tomatoes: The Largest Gap Between Critics and Users **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 16, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072 "2013-11-16T19:04:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![HeyHomie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heyhomie/32/207_2.png) [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072/1 "2013-11-16T19:04:26Z")
Which movie has the largest gap between critics and users on Rotten Tomatoes? As in, a small percentage of the audience liked it, but a large percentage of the critics like it; or vice-versa? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072/2 "2013-11-16T19:26:58Z")
With some quick looking, I found _[Grown Ups](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/grown_ups/)_ has a 52% split: Audience 62% Critics 10%. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072/3 "2013-11-16T19:29:22Z")
[Hating Breitbart](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hating_breitbart/). /thread ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072/4 "2013-11-16T19:33:18Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > With some quick looking, I found _[Grown Ups](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/grown_ups/)_ has a 52% split: Audience 62% Critics 10%. [Boondocks Saints](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/boondock_saints/) has a 70% gap. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072/5 "2013-11-16T19:43:25Z")
Checking some more, I came up with _[Grandma’s Boy](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/grandmas_boy/)_: Audiences 81% Critics 18% Split 63% As you can see, my research was being outdated as I was conducting it. _Hating Breitbart_’s 94% is going to be tough to beat. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072/6 "2013-11-16T20:28:12Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > [Hating Breitbart](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/hating_breitbart/). > > /thread It’s a 94% difference for those who are curious. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2013, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072/7 "2013-11-16T20:45:20Z")
That’s a political documentary, though, with what looks like a lot of five-star audience reviews. I’ll bet that a lot of those raves are for the message, not the film itself. ---
**Author:** ![67java89](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/aeb1de/32.png) [@67java89](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/67java89)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2013, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072/8 "2013-11-18T00:11:39Z")
I’m In Love With A Church Girl…6% of critics liked it, 77% of audience liked it. Ugh, that was a bad movie. ---
**Author:** ![Sterling\_Archer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Sterling\_Archer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sterling_Archer)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072/9 "2013-11-21T15:25:45Z")
How about movies where the critics rated them much higher than the audience? ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072/10 "2013-11-21T15:50:25Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > It’s a 94% difference for those who are curious. Nitpick: a difference of 94 _percentage points_. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2013, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rotten-tomatoes-the-largest-gap-between-critics-and-users/674072/11 "2013-11-21T15:57:14Z")
> [@Sterling\_Archer](#): > > How about movies where the critics rated them much higher than the audience? My first thought was to look up movies that had received notoriously low [CinemaScores](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaScore#Rating), and the largest gap I could find was [Haywire](http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/haywire_2011/), with an 80 percent critical score and a 40 percent audience score. But I only looked at about a dozen movies, so there might be a more divisive one out there.