Meh Expectations: Movie Reviews to help when your expectations are too high

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Sometimes you already know you’re going to go see a movie, but you still happen to see how it’s being reviewed. The worst thing that can happen is seeing amazingly positive reviews about that movie, glowing about every aspect, and raising your expectations so high that you can’t help but be disappointed when you see them.

So let’s help. Find a movie that’s just out, or coming out soon, that has absurdly good reviews. Scan through the actual reviews, and find any quotes you can pull out that express any negativity at all about the movie. Quote those, along with anything else you can think of that’s realistically aspects of the movie that might disappoint you. (Don’t make up stuff that’s not true or get hyperbolic about minor issues.)

The point here is not to get people to decide not to see the movie, it’s just to lower expectations for those who do go see it, so they can be pleasantly surprised if it does turn out to be good.

Here, I’ll start:
Teen Titans Go! To the Movies
So far, it has a 90% positive rating, by most accounts it’s surprisingly good. But, it’s not perfect. Here’s some quotes from actual reviews:

  • Lazy Meta-Jokes. Hard for viewers to suspend their disbelief during contrived musical and action sequences that are uninspired and rushed. As if underlining a cliché was the same thing as avoiding one.
  • The jokes are infantile-obvious and pounded home with a sledgehammer. It’s a TV show which they squeezed a cut-rate movie out of. Slapdash.
  • In-jokes and not much else. A wee bit exhausting. There’s not much there. The movie fails to hold together as a whole. The action is dull, the pacing is all over the place and the plot is predictable. Lazy storytelling.
  • Younger audience members probably will not get this humor.

So it’s basically a low-end movie that gives up on real story telling or character development in order to jam every second full of jokes that kids aren’t even going to get. It sounds terrible, right? It’s not, you should still go see it. But now you’ve got the right level of expectations to give it a chance to surprise you.

Ok, anyone want to take on Mission: Impossible - Fallout? Mamma Mia? Ant-Man and the Wasp? Incredibles 2? I want to see some of those, but they’ve all got ridiculously good reviews, so I need some expectation lowering help.