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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Movie (2004)
Hardcore fans only.
Okay, here's the deal, if you have been a Yugioh since its very beginning and you have bee in love with all the characters and you've collected the cards and watched all the manga and 4Kids episodes at least twice, you are clearly a blindly faithful fan and you will enjoy the film. If, however, you have enough of your senses to check your watch in frustration, you'll recognize this film for the complete and utter garbage it was.
The plot is chock-full of bizarre inaccuracies (Anubis, the Egyptian God with a dog's head, comes back as a buff blonde sorcerer!) which will leave anyone confused, even those who's knowledge of Egyptian history extends as far as the "The Mummy" series.
Now, I recognize that today, 90% of kids animated movies are pretty cheesy, but almost every phrase out of these characters' mouths are ham-handed references to destiny and believing in yourself and never giving up.
And this is the worst bit: I don't hate this movie because it was based on a cartoon. I have seen the cartoons, both the original Japanese and the 4Kids versions and they weren't nearly as bad as this, hell I thought some of it was really cool. But this movie, like the 'Pokemon' movies and like the 'Mortal Kombat 'and 'Street Fighter' movies, is the extremely unfortunate result of big business trying to cash in on what is ostensibly a current fad before popularity dies. Unfortunately, like all the aforementioned franchises, in retrospect this movie will undoubtedly have done more to kill the franchise than to boost it.
The Cable Guy (1996)
Different doesn't mean worse
'The Cable Guy' marks Jim Carey's first real attempt to do something not entirely juvenile, long before he got real recognition in 'The Truman Show', 'Man on the Moon' and 'Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind'. Unfortunately most people were so used to seeing Carey acting like an ass on screen that the idea of him playing someone legitimately dark was too confronting and the film slumped. However, Carey's sweet but scary Cable Guy, with Broderick's awkward and eternally patient fall-guy balances perfectly between typical Carey buffoonery and real intensity. Stiller's direction and Lou Holtz Jnr's script push the film (originally pitched as your average Carey slapstick) into a region that yes, can be very confronting, but isn't bad; consider it the 'Apocalypse Now' of comedy. This film is hugely underrated by audiences but despite occasional slips into sheer stupidity (let's face it, we have to expect it of Jim Carey) it's earned a spot with the likes of 'Reservoir Dogs' 'Fight Club' and 'Natural Born Killers' in the 80s-90s new wave of neo-noir cinema that has and still is defining the new Hollywood.