Scooby Doo movie 50% better than The Da Vinci Code

[KFC]

Scooby Doo - 27%

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1112357-scoobydoo/

And drops into a tie with Dude Where's My Car

Dude Where's My Car - 17%

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/dude_wheres_my_car/

The Da Vinci Code - 17%

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/da_vinci_code/

[NewJeffCT]

1. Maybe Opus Dei is doing their versin of "Freeping" the poll?

or something like that.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

2. Hey, at least it's beating Uwe Boll movies.

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/p/uwe_boll/

[KFC]

4. It also fares well in comparison to Pauly Shore movies

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/p/pauly_shore/

I'll admit I liked Biodome(8%), so I can hardly claim to have good taste in movies.

[LynneSin]

3. IMDB didn't have it that bad

http://www.imdb.com/news/sb/2006-05-18/\\

Initial reviews in the U.S. and Canada of The Da Vinci Code appear less damning than those overseas. But all the critics appear to take pains not to offend angry Christians who appear ready to pounce on anyone giving aid and comfort to the filmmakers. And nearly all of them knock Dan Brown's phenominally successful novel on which the movie is based. A.O. Scott concludes his review in the New York Times by remarking that in the cinema such matters as the divinity of Christ and the search for the Holy Grail "are best left to Monty Python. In any case Howard and Goldsman handle the supposedly provocative material in Mr. Brown's book with kid gloves, settling on an utterly safe set of conclusions about faith and its history, presented with the usual dull sententiousness. So I certainly can't support any calls for boycotting or protesting this busy, trivial, inoffensive film. Which is not to say I'm recommending you go see it." Eleanor Ringel Gillespie in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution describes the movie as "an airplane read turned into a perfectly good airplane movie. The film is less interested in putting the very roots of Christianity up for grabs than it is in giving audiences an old-fashioned summer movie thrill ride. And if in doing so, it bumps into matters of individual faith, so much the better." Lou Lumenick's review in the New York Post is the most enthusiastic of any American critic's."The Da Vinci Code," he writes, "is the Holy Grail of summer blockbusters: a crackling, fast-moving thriller that's every bit as brainy and irresistible as Dan Brown's controversial bestseller." Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times begins his review by remarking that Brown's novel "is utterly preposterous; Ron Howard's movie is preposterously entertaining. ... Luckily, Ron Howard is a better filmmaker than Dan Brown is a novelist." On the other hand, Jami Bernard's review in the New York Daily News reaches the opposite conclusion. "Director Ron Howard's adequate adaptation of the book everyone's talking about isn't nearly as thrilling as Dan Brown's best seller about murder and revisionist Christianity," she writes. Clearly some American reviews are as utterly contemptuous of the movie as those appearing overseas. For example, Steven Rea's in the Philadelphia Inquirer: "This seemingly interminable hash of holy huggermugger takes the thrill out of thriller, and then some.

It got slammed by some viewers but it got some great reviews too. This isn't some artsy-fartsy brain-required movie - this is summer popcorn, leave the thinking cap at home. I know I"m looking forward to it