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Ryan Reynolds
Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively—
Green Lantern
—4/2/11
[Reynolds:] Yeah, there's a lot of daddy issues in the movie.
I
have some daddy issues, so we'll keep some tissue nearby. Yeah, he
needs
mentors.
Blade: Trinity (2004)
Instead of building on its predecessors,
Blade: Trinity
feels cheap, compromised, and plumb tuckered out.
The Amityville Horror (2005)
Begin by blaming leads that lack charisma outside of their model bodies, move on to the cheap technique of pounding soundtrack blasts...arrive at the comically clichéd script.
Just Friends (2005)
Brush aside the pratfalls, cheap-shot fat jokes, and creative variety of crotch attacks, and what's left? Not a lick of emotional sense.
The Proposal (2009)
Though there's definitely an audience for the story's increasingly sunny sweetness, the film sparks to life pretty much only when the estimable duo of Bullock and Reynolds bickers.
Green Lantern (2011)
On brightest screen, in threest-D,
It's the latest franchisee.
This superhero's super-slight;
Beware two hours...
Green Lantern
bites!
The Change-Up (2011)
A sort of raunchy
It's a Wonderful Life
, though the plentiful nudity and babbling brooks of profanity tip the scale from sensitivity to outrageousness.
The Croods (2013)
Appears to have been market-tested to within an inch of its life, so despite a theme of finding the capacity to evolve, the picture remains mired in the tar pit of formula.
Turbo (2013)
Kids...will probably ho-hum their way through
Turbo
happily enough and forget it moments later. But they deserve better, too, than this lackluster, generic kiddie flick.
Woman in Gold (2015)
Corny, commercial, predictably platitudinous, and tear-jerkingly weepy...also an inevitably thought-provoking dramatization of facing the "ghosts" of the past on an individual level and a national one.
Deadpool (2016)
May not be wildly fresh, but it does wriggle against its genre straightjacket, and if it doesn’t quite escape, it puts on a great show in the process.
Pokémon: Detective Pikachu (2019)
With Reynolds cracking wise and a number of frantic action sequences, this looks like an effective enough franchise launcher. But...it all feels a little too much like work.
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