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“A
book so bad it makes bad books look good.” – Salman Rushdie |
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What
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| “Dud”; Unwieldy”; “Plodding.” (Reuters) | ||
| “A Small, Surprisingly Ordinary Movie.” (Boston Globe, Ty Burr) | ||
| “Stodgy”...“Grim.”(Reuters) | ||
“An Unwieldy, Bloated Melodrama.” (Hollywood Reporter, Kirk Honeycutt) |
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| “A Dreary, Droning, Dull-Witted Adaptation...”(Rolling Stone, Peter Travers) | ||
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| Yet there's More! | ||
| “How
can a film contain so many clues yet remain utterly clueless? "
(Chicago Tribune, Michael Phillips) |
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| “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) | ||
| “High-minded lurid material sucked dry by a desperately solemn approach”; They’ve “drained all the fun out of the melodrama.” (Variety) | ||
| 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) | ||
| “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) | ||
| “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) | ||
| “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) | ||
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| What the Scholars are Saying: | ||
| “A
fantasy passing as reality... an insult to our Christian friends and
neighbors." (Don Feder, president of Jews Against Anti-Christian Defamation) |
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| “If
Ron Howard is being laughed at by those predisposed to believe the
worst about Catholicism, he’s an utter failure.” (Bill Donohue, President, Catholic League) |
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| “The
Da Vinci Code is crammed with so many New Age, pagan and satanic concepts
that it boggles the mind to consider them all." (Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer, President Human Life International) |
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| “A
second-rate story at the service of (an anti-Christian) agenda ...
It’s the “look who’s sleeping with whom” trick,
but decked out, for maximum titillation, with the Son of God at its
center." (Paul D. Gallagher, Heritage Foundation) |
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| “The
Da Vinci Code is neither learned nor challenging, except to the reader’s
patience... the writing is shockingly banal...It’s a pretentious, bigoted, tendentious mess..." (Amy Wellborn, M.A., Theologian) |
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“So
error-laden is The Da Vinci Code that the educated reader actually
applauds those rare |
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“The
Da Vinci Code exploits people's lack of knowledge about Scripture,
history, and the |
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