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5/17/2006
'Da Vinci Code'
Bombs With Critics
NEW YORK, May 17 /Christian Newswire/ -- 'Da Vinci
Code' Bombs With Critics. Here’s a sample of what critics who previewed “The
Da Vinci Code” yesterday had to say about the movie:
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“Dud”; Unwieldy”; “Plodding.” (Reuters) “A Bloated
Puzzle”; “The movie is so drenched in dialogue musing over arcane
mythological and historical lore and scenes grow so static that even
camera movement can’t disguise the dramatic inertia”; “No chemistry
exists between the hero and the heroine.” (Hollywood Reporter)
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“Almost as bad as the book.” (Boston Globe)
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“High-minded lurid material sucked dry by a
desperately solemn approach”; They’ve “drained all the fun out of the
melodrama.” (Variety)
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When the movie “takes a brief wrong turn, and Howard
momentarily loses control of his huge, streamlined vehicle, it’s hard to
say where to put the blame.” (FoxNews.com)
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“Critics Crucify ‘Da Vinci Code.’” (Australian
Associated Press) “Critics largely panned the cinematic version”; “The
movie did receive some lukewarm praise, but the majority of the response
was highly critical”; “One scene during the film, meant to be serious,
elicited prolonged laughter from the audience. There was no applause
when the credits rolled; instead, a few catcalls and hisses broke the
silence.” (CNN)
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“At one point, some of them responded in the
auditorium with laughter to one of the developments in the
plot—something director Ron Howard would not have anticipated.” (Press
Association Newsfile)
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“Shrugs of indifference, some jeering laughter and a
few derisive jabs”; “The Cannes audience clearly grew restless as the
movie dragged on to two and a half hours and spun a long sequence of
anticlimactic revelations”; “Some people walked out during the movie’s
closing minutes...and there was none of the scattered applause even bad
movies sometimes receive at Cannes.” (AP)
Bill Donohue said, “If Ron Howard is being laughed at by
those predisposed to believe the worst about Catholicism, he’s an utter
failure.”
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