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Follow the Money
A 35% on Tomato-meter is “mixed”?
I don’t know that my 4th graders would use that term for it…
Pogue
“Mixed”? C’mon, Gotham. It is the Gigli of education movies. It’s being panned everywhere.
Anonymous
Pogue and Follow the Money — I wasn’t familiar enough with the Rotten Tomato’s rating system. Thirty-five percent seemed somewhere between unanimously panned and mixed. But I’ve barely seen any positive reviews.
Anonymous
Seems it’s now 33% on the Tomatometer from ‘all critics’ and 18% from ‘top critics’.
Of course, this is criticism of the movie itself as art, entertainment and social commentary.
Follow the Money
No worries. It only grossed 2.7 million on 2,500 screens – apparently one of the worst box office performers of the year: http://www.hitfix.com/news/box-office-hotel-transylvania-is-no-1-as-pitch-perfect-sounds-lovely-in-limited-release
Look forward to reading more about the fallout from its performance.
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