Yer Outa Luck, Brother TUCKER!

FROM THE DIRECTOR of HOWARD STERN's PRIVATE PARTS (OH-OH!) FEATURING 2005 WORST ACTRESS RAZZIE "WINNER" JENNY McCARTHY in a SMALL ROLE (OH, NO!) and LOOKING LIKE a BADLY-LIT SIT-COM (SEE BELOW) THIS HAS ALL the EARMARKS of a TOTALLY FORGETTABLE FILM...

AND by RAZZIE BALLOT TIME, EVERYONE BUT OUR VOTING MEMBERS HAD FORGOTTEN IT! 

Not that we aren't riveted by the dramatic impact of this pivotal scene, but....is that the back of Conan O'Brien's head in the background?!?!?

Forgettable? YES! In a year where we've already got BASIC INSTINCT 2, POSEIDON, LARRY THE CABLE GUY: HEALTH INSPECTOR, BENCHWARMERS and now LADY IN THE WATER to choose from, JOHN TUCKER doesn't even cut it as a Razzie contender.  It truly deserves to be forgotten...unless you come up with a Truly Trashy Teen-Sploitation category.

The plot of this movie looks suspiciously like one of those 1960s drive-in movies starring some mid-level "rock 'n' roll star" -- like the day-long marathon running on TCM today (July 26).

Only TUCKER doesn't even have the dozen-or-so lame-o song-and-dance numbers that at least made some of those 60s movies watchable! 

Looking at this poster for this movie, showing the backside of a girl in a tank top and panties, I still have one question: Which one of the girls in the movie is on this poster?

 

Hey, again. I just read what Slant Magazine had to say, dishing their take on dead 'Tucker,' but at IMDB.com, Newsday's film reviewer John Anderson has a better explanation about probably going straight to #1 this weekend, (I hope to God it doesn't, save Miami Vice or 'Pirates' to take first!)

While the movie is set at a high school, the film is "less an institution of learning than it is a sanitarium for the chronically aroused. Having apparently adopted a policy of 'No child's behind left behind,' Forest Hills High (in 'Tucker') is a debauch on the brink of an orgy.  The school," Anderson continues, "is a fitting setting to confirm 'two things moviegoers have long suspected: 1) That all teenagers care about is sex, and 2) That what gets the go-ahead in contemporary Hollywood isn't a movie that will be entertaining, or even make sense, but one whose concept -- and only its concept -- can most easily be sold."

'John Tucker Must Die' "has everything the marketing department at Fox, or any studio, dreams about. Good-looking young people to put on the poster and a theme that appeals to audiences' worst instincts," and represents "everything that's wrong with movies today."



BTW, from my last post, I have perfected the best year-round category to consider for the Razzie Awards ...

Most Asinine Executive(s) to Greenlight an Idea/Development for any Film

If I had my way with the vote, I'd pick the whole Sony Pictures Executive Board!

Can you believe the crap they came out with this year!  At least 5-10 pictures have come from their Screen Gems, [or SCREEN GERMS] label that haven't been screened for critics and bombed!

My advice, they ought to retire the label should they give a damn about making good films anymore...

My sister said she went and saw this movie over at her friend's house, and she said that it was an OK movie, but not her type of movie. I think that's just girls who think that. This was a lot like a chick flick, and there have been plenty of bad chick flicks that are as worse as this one, but some are just plain bad.

P.S. This is the second year in a row that Jenny McCarthy has gotten a Razzie nom, this time, as Worst Supporting Actress (after winning last year's Worst Actress Razzie, as well as Worst Screenplay and Worst Picture, as a producer for Dirty Love). So, I guess Razzie voters didn't forget about this movie after all!

I know now one of those movies in which a male actor has played a male role dressed up as a female has gotten a Razzie nom, and we all know which movie it is.

Besides Date Movie, I'm probably gonna rent this film for Valentine's Day. It's probably not appropriate for Valentine's Day, but still. I already know it's pretty bad, the same for Date movie.