ROTTEN TOMATOES: Opening This Week

ROTTEN TOMATOES: Movies opening This Week

This week we have two wide releases (3000+ theaters) and one 'tweener (1100 theaters). The wild thing is that there is no gray area this week. One of them is currently sitting at 100%, the other two at 0%.

• Hangover. 3200 theaters. 100% positive reviews. Summary: "Proudly inappropriate and buoyed by both a clever script and some obvious chemistry between the film’s male leads, director Todd Phillips’ comedy will play like gangbusters with men and may even attract some women who know and love knuckleheads."
  
• Land of the Lost. At least 3300 theaters. 0% positive reviews. Will Ferrell's comic take on the famous and trippy Saturday morning grade-Z TV series. One reviewer opined: "There should be criminal penalties for wasting $100 million on a movie this dreadful." Another called it "bland and laugh-free." Will Ferrell's once-promising career seems to have been sucked into the same vortex that transported our heroes to the distant past.
  
• My Life in Ruins. 1100 theaters. 0% positive reviews. The latest from Nia Vardalos. Call it My Big Fat Greek Life. Typical comment: "The film has the feel of a vaudeville show, with a series of stock characters entering and exiting, hamming for the camera as they go."