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The Benchwarmers (2006)
Absolutely dreadful and totally unfunny
I didn't laugh a single time at this awful film. I expected something entertaining because I'm a huge fan of "Happy Gilmore" and I kind of like Rob Schneider and David Spade (I think they're bashed too often). However this film really annoyed me. Its humor was completely juvenile and they even got the actor from "Napoleon Dynamite" to play an almost IDENTICAL dorky character - only even less funny! It's a real pain to sit through and I have to warn you that I tried, but couldn't manage to laugh a single time.
Not even the cameo by Jon Lovitz put a smile on my face.
If I could give 0/10, I would.
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)
A really terrible film with no saving graces - bad dialogue, bad acting, bad direction...just plain BAD!
I saw this film at the London Premiere, and I have to say - I didn't expect much, but I did expect something that was at least mildly entertaining.
The original "Basic Instinct" was no great film and is still something of a "smut classic" but it was entertaining. I can recall countless times flipping through channels on TV on a late Friday or Saturday night having come across the movie and finding myself beginning to actually pay attention to it.
However, this lame-brain, waaay-belated sequel has nothing. Is Sharon Stone still gorgeous? Well, let's put it this way -- for a 47-year-old, she's pretty hot. Is she as beautiful as she was in the original? No. She also has clearly had plastic surgery on her face, and her haircut in this movie is somewhat unappealing. She doesn't look as soft or genuine or innocent as she did in the original -- which is sort of the whole point of being an evil seductress, and whatnot.
The rest of the performances range from bad to terrible -- and Michael Caton-Jones (a typically safe director -- one who doesn't always do great work but manages to make worthwhile movies) has officially delivered his first true turkey; a movie so bad people were laughing at certain moments that were intended to be serious.
I hear the film went through multiple editing sessions, and it's very clear from the start. Nothing makes much sense. The whole plot is a cosmic mess and the ending -- oh my! Talk about stupid AND unbelievable. (Still predictable, though.) I saw "Gigli," I saw "Son of the Mask" -- and although I'm not looking to "smear" this film, I can say with my own authority (which you don't have to agree with at all, mind you) that I prefer both those films over this catastrophic failure.
By the way, Stone left five minutes before the movie began and people in the theater began throwing things at the screen during a particularly outrageous and insulting scene inside an orgy-type nightclub.
"Basic Instinct 2" -- basically, it stinks, too.