1. It's all just filler between the dance scenes, which are admittedly fun. Think Pussycat Dolls with slightly more clothes on. Unrepentantly formulaic, but enjoyable all the same.
2. The film should have been called Rehash Dance, because it is Flashdance without any new ideas.
3. ...yet another tedious inspirational tale revolving around a would-be dancer's efforts at transcending her wrong-side-of-the-tracks upbringing to become a professional hoofer.
4. Another dance movie this year? Seriously, where the heck do they keep coming from?
5. This film's limp retelling of the against-all-odds cliche just doesn't bump, grind or sweat enough to make it happen.
6. We know the trajectory, it's a question of how brightly the rocket burns and how interested we are in the astronauts aboard this dance missile from small town Indiana to Chicago Big Time Dance School
7. It's hard to dislike all these urban musicals aimed at teenage girls, and even harder to tell them apart.
8. Mary Elizabeth Winstead [has] star quality.
9. Then you wait for the moment one of the regular girls gets injured, the hostess has to find a replacement and... the rest you know.
10. So predictable that you know exactly what's going to happen at any given minute.
What is the critic consensus?
A: Cheap, predictable, formulaic and unimaginative generic dance film. Comes across as Showgirls for simpleton teens, but with much less flesh on show.

1. Anyone looking for a religious experience at the multiplex this weekend will do better checking out Dennis Rodman's hair hues in Double Team.
2. The Saint suffers from some of the same plot inconsistencies, lapses in logic and outrageous stunts as their other films. But there's no wit at work here, and most of the one-liners are tired sexual double-entendres.
3. Well-executed and more satisfying than Mission: Impossible, this super-production is packed with thrills and high-tech gadgetry.
4. The Saint is all glitz and comic-book spy plot with no more than a passing hint that Templar has a real personality behind the disguises.
5. One of the most ludicrous scripts to come out of the Hollywood Script Factory in recent years.
6. There is very little in The Saint that's original or fresh.
7. This story has too many rough edges.
8. Whereas something like Clear and Present Danger was briskly all of a piece, "The Saint" has difficulty making us believe that its diverse elements belong in the same motion picture.
9. ...if the purist Saint fans are out there breathing heavily because I did not have a problem with this movie, well, that is my excuse.
10. More entertaining than Mission: Impossible or the last Bond film, Goldeneye, it brings back the humour and sang-froid that makes the genre work.
What is the critic consensus?
A: The Saint is watchable thanks to Kilmer and Shue, but the muddled screenplay stretches credulity.

1. Cheers to Christina Ricci, but I hope her contract doesn't demand another sequel. She deserves better.
2. Bad move, Barry. You should have quit while you were ahead.
3. If you can laugh at campy perversity, there are enough snappy one-liners, hilarious sight gags and wonderfully twisted situations to put you on the floor.
4. When the film tries to advance a plot it loses most of its energy and humor, and tells a rather weak story. It is only when the story-telling comes to a full halt for the sake of a joke that the film is really funny.
5. The second Addams flick is actually funny, too. And obviously that goes a long way.
6. I like it when Hollywood apologizes. And I liked this movie. Apology accepted.
7. If you haven't yet seen the first film, rent that instead, or, better yet, go pick up a volume of the original Addams cartoons.
8. A thinner, airier reunion.
9. As sequels go, this is passable...
10. It remains perilously slim in the story department, but glides over the thin ice with technical razzle-dazzle and an exceptionally winning cast.
What is the critic consensus?
A: New, well-developed characters add dimension to this batty satire, creating a comedy much more substantial than the original.

1. A refreshing, oddball summer entertainment with a sharp sense of humor.
2. This droopy action comedy saps Hollywood's best comic actors of their superpowers.
3. A long, shapeless, undisciplined mess!
4. Could use a little more brain, and a little less spleen.
5. Great concept, stale on dialogue; strong climax.
6. Mystery Men takes forever to set things up and finish things off.
7. The erratically funny film feels more like Stiller and his friends got together to get paid for messing around.
8. The idea behind Mystery Men is an inspired gag with enough energy to fuel a comic sketch but not a two-hour movie.
9. Something of a hit-and-miss affair; but for me the hits clearly outnumbered the misses.
10. It simply just isn't all that funny.
What is the critic consensus?
A:
Absurd characters and quirky gags are brought to life by a talented cast, providing this superhero spoof with lots of laughs.