Man, even Uwe Boll flicks get a few percentage points.
Wow. How often does a film get zero tomatoes?
If you go to the movie main page (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/movies/) and choose “0% only” on the tomatometer, only 4 movies come up, including Zoom. (One is shown rwice for some reason).
Zoom seems to be the only zero percenter that wasn’t a limited release.
Wow.
And I thought it might be fun to take the kids to see it.
Thanks for saving me the headache and money, Revtim
Not true, Retvim. There are at least 100 comedies alone with a 0% score on the Tomatometer, including Roberto Benigni’s Pinocchio and both Baby Geniuses films.
Hmm, you’re right. I wonder why the Tomatometer didn’t pick those up.
Might just be recent releases.
sigh I knew it was a mistake to write the whole script in Ubbi Dubbi, but they just wouldn’t listen.
Wow, that is pretty harsh…I think alot of the critics failed to keep in mind it was a supposed to be for kids, it’s not the follow up to X-Men for goodness sake. Wow, zero percent, that’s pretty bad.
That’s a shame. I was going to take my son to see it. Guess I’ll wait until it comes out on DVD or PPV.
That’s probably it.
Eh, so was the Spy Kids franchise, and even the third (and, IMHO, weakest) installment got a 44%. (The first, in case you’re wondering, got a 92%.)
I think some of you guys might be misunderstanding the Rotten Tomatoes rating system. It’s not intended to rank the movie itself, but rather rank what percentage of movie critics gave it a generally positive review. This means that if every critic gave it a 49% (or similar) rating, then Rotten Tomatoes rates it as 0%.
It doesn’t mean that everyone thinks it’s worthless, just that nobody liked it enough to give it a positive review. Still pretty harsh, but not as harsh as you might think. Hey, one reviewer even thought that it had “a faint ability to please.”
Yeah, but it has to seriously suck not to be able to fool a single one of the surveyed reviewers into giving a more positive than negative review. Even Garfield 2 didn’t get 0%.
Too bad that Ron Brewington of American Urban Radio isn’t reviewing films anymore, he would have loved Zoom and declared it a frontrunner for an Oscar nomination as Best Film. Of course, that would have been after the film junket to Hawaii and the $10,000 worth of swag on the way out of the screening…
T-ub-oo Ub-inf-ub-in-ub-it-ub-y… Ub-and B-ub-ey-ub-ond!
Just came in here to day that parts of Zoom were filmed in front of my wife’s office building.
Not much love for the Smashmouth soundtrack either. I’m no fan of Smashmouth, but half the reviewers seemed to pick on the soundtrack as being one reason to hate the movie. Was it just old songs? Or new songs that suck?
You just made me spend ten minutes trying to find an Earl Dittman quote for “Zoom”, but there doesn’t seem to be one on the web. In fact, I can’t even find a positive review on the official site. I did find the trailer, which tells me this is the movie equivalent of a Costco hot dog: maybe ok if you’re stuck for options, but slapped together and something you’ll forget in half an hour.
Here’s a page that should be of interest to this crowd. A trailer editor tells how quotes are worked into the trailers. Apparently his identity was discovered, and he was fired. http://www.hollywoodbitchslap.com/feature.php?feature=1811
The crux of the matter:
ERIK: So how do you cut review spots that early without actual reviews?
DAN: Simple, we make 'em up. We make up a couple of reviews (sometimes cribbing them from other, similar movies; sometimes making them out of whole cloth) just so we have a structure to cut a spot around. These spots are called “review shells”, and when we get real reviews, we slot 'em in.
Only sometimes the studio doesn’t bother to get real reviews. (See David Manning.) Sometimes, more often than you think, the studio likes the review shell as-is, and so turns the fake reviews into “real” ones by asking a reviewer to attach his name to an existing blurb. (See Earl Dittman.)
For example: Earl D. turned in two solid pages of review quotes for my current project. But another of “his” quotes was one that we’d cut into the spot a week previously. My producer came up with the quote, I cut it into a spot, the studio liked it, and eventually instead of replacing it with a real quote, they asked Earl if he “wanted” the quote.