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Travers: Its Time for Julys Scum Bucket


Hot town, scummer in the city Peter Travers is back once again to count down the worst movies of the month, and July was particularly rife with garbage. Our trusty critic says he couldve tossed 25 movies into the Scum Bucket, but hes gracious enough to leave us with only 10.

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Starting things off is Earth to Echo, a kids movie that thinks its E.T. but doesnt even land in the same universe as Steven Spielbergs classic. Speaking of recycled plots, Very Good Girls finds Dakota Fanning and Elizabeth Olsen playing two young girls trying to lose their virginity over summer break, and as Travers succinctly puts it, Its a very bad movie.

Next up is the atrocious documentary America: Imagine the World Without Her, in which filmmaker Dinesh DSouza tries to debunk all the myths liberals spew about their homeland doing bad things. Travers points out some of DSouza particularly egregious claims like slavery wasnt bad because black people also owned slaves, and American soldiers gave candy to children in Vietnam before throwing it into the Scum Bucket with bewildered disgust.

At number seven is Road to Paloma, an insufferably slow revenge story that stars Jason Momoa (a.k.a. Khal Drogo from Game of Thrones), who also wrote and directed the movie. Next up, Planes: Fire and Rescue marks another tragically dull childrens movie; while Scarlett Johanssonstars in Lucy, a promising film about a woman who starts using more than the average 10-percent of her brain and gains super powers. Didnt they make this movie with Bradley Cooper and wasnt it called Limitless and wasnt it better? Travers asks. Uh-huh.

Jason Segel and Cameron Diazs seriously unfunny Sex Tape flounders to number four, and The Purge: Anarchy is basically the same movie as 2013s The Purge, except it plays out in the city instead of a gated community. And speaking of terrible horror movies, Eric Bana stars as a cop who gets involved in creepy crime scenes and exorcisms in Deliver Us From Evil and its so bad Travers cant help but bemoan: Its all over the trades, Variety, Hollywood Reporter, that horror movies just arent doing the business that they used to do. Is that a mystery? Theres no mystery because they stink! Deliver Us From Evil? I say, deliver us from bad horror movies. Give us good ones and well go!

And last but not least, our old friend The Rock, a.k.a. Dwayne Johnson, puts on a lions-head hat and takes up the role of titular role inHercules. Its a movie so terrible, so dumb, that it left Travers completely speechless. So instead, he allows the Rock have the final say and lets just say it aint pretty.

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