I saw this at the theater on opening night back in '02. You could feel the aura of failure within the first 20 minutes. Nearly empty theater. I remember it being such an odd movie; I didn't hate it, but I could never figure out what it was trying to be. Had a few good laughs.
shareYeah, that was its biggest problem. It didn't know what it wanted to be. That, and the musical score, which was awful. But the movie wasn't THAT bad.
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It was so universally savaged by critics that people stayed away in droves.
Most people who say it's bad, in my experience, haven't even seen it.
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I admit I haven't seen it, but again, it was just blistered by every critic and every person I know who did see it. I mean, usually even crappy movies have a couple of critics who say it was OK, but I don't think one critic at that time did anything but kill it.