Member Discussion of TOOT-ALL RECALL

Movies With Mitch gave it a 2.5/5.

I went to the movies and saw this. I wasn't planning to, but I went with my grandpa and my 10-year-old cousin, so there weren't many options).

I can't believe Richard Roeper AND Roger Ebert gave this mess of a remake a fresh review. Looking at Roeper's Rotten Tomatoe resumee, http://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/richard-roeper/ , on his display site alone he gave a fresh review to 11 (!) rotten movies! Tastes can be different, but as he's a Top Critic I would expect him to be a little more inline, if movies are so obvioulsy rotten. Just an observation of mine, even if the agreement meter is in the 70ies for both of them.
If you look at Peter Travers site for example,  http://www.rottentomatoes.com/critic/peter-travers/, he is way more inline with the general concensus of a movie lately.

And sometimes too hard. Seriously, Ebert giving a rotten review to Robot & Frank, which as of right now has a 90% fresh and 89% audience approval, and giving a fresh one to Total Recall with 32% rotten critic and audience reviews is .
In his review for Robot&Frank he is kind of convincing us of flaws, while calling Total Recall "well crafted" and almost excusing the flaws.

Originally posted by Vits While I mostly respect those critics, they do go easy on movies from time to time. You can tell because their arguements are less about explaining the flaws and more about convincing us why the flaws exist.

Even more than Red Dawn, I dislike the idea of remaking Total Recall, because the original was a good, fun movie.  That said, I imagine that the reason for remaking Total Recall was because of (1) the money and (2) because they can make the three-boobed woman look more realistic.  I mean, there's the three-boobed woman at the end of the credits in Good Luck Chuck (no, that movie is not at all worth watching just to see what I'm talking about) that looked realistic, so why not remake Total Recall so that character looks all the more better. . . .