'Like being licked from head to toe by Tony Parsons': Guardian writers reveal their most hated films of 2008

Jason Solomons on Tropic Thunder: 'My turd of the year is a gross aberration of comedy. It includes a big fat misfire of a performance from Robert Downey Jr who, surrounded by flatterers, has failed to notice that blacking up and talking jive isn't funny - it just takes you to the level of Robin Williams.'
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Ryan Gilbey on Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?: 'Truly bad films must labour under delusions of profundity, to render the shortfall between aspiration and achievement all the more spectacular. This movie - and, more specifically, Morgan Spurlock - fulfil these criteria. Watching this obscenely patronising, simple-minded film is like being licked from head to toe by Tony Parsons.'
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Peter Bradshaw on Wanted: 'If you want to know what a really misogynistic film looks like - a film which really and truly hates women - then pick up this nasty action thriller at the DVD store. But use tongs.'
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Lesley O'Toole on Made of Honor: 'Poor Sydney Pollack. His last ever acting job was playing Patrick Dempsey’s father in this mind-numbingly unromantic, unfunny, "romantic comedy". Made of Honor paired Dempsey - huge in the US as star of TV’s Grey’s Anatomy - with Michelle Monaghan. The pair have zero chemistry but then there's precious little to play with in terms of decent dialogue or even scenarios.'
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Ben Walters on The Love Guru: 'Mike Myers hits bottom in a cringingly bad knockabout farce.'
Ben Child: 'Offensively poor. A hideous concept poorly realised by a comic who hasn't shifted his shtick in more than a decade.'
Ben Patashnik: 'Mike Myers used to be able to make a roomful of people die with laughter rather than attempt to euthanise themselves to avoid having to sit through the rest of this.'
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Damon Wise on The Happening: 'Dreadful story, terrible acting and the most risible non-ending of all time. I can't wait to see it again ... '
(This is a view shared by Phelim O’Neill and Xan Brooks)
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Catherine Shoard on Cashback: 'Astonishingly tedious fantasy starring one of the bit-parters from Harry Potter as an art student who gets a night job at Sainsbury's and finds he can freeze time - a plot point that becomes an increasingly keen metaphor for the struggling viewer.'
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Phil Hoad on Funny Games: 'Pointless, self-indulgent remake - a backwards step from his last, brilliant, film - with an obvious, patronising, nihilistic message about the representation of violence. It probably helped Tartan Films go under too (though that was their own fault for producing it, I guess).'
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Anne Billson on Mamma Mia!: 'A travesty of a musical - like a Club Med hoedown organised by a bunch of no-talent drunks, only not as well choreographed. Makes High School Musical 3 look like Singin' in the Rain.'
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Charles Gant on Dangerous Parking: 'Had he cast the most charismatic man in the world in the lead role of this low-budget dark comedy drama, director Peter Howitt might have made me care about this deeply unlikeable, boring, annoying, self-destructive character. Instead, he cast Peter Howitt - who is, I can reveal, a long way from being the most charismatic man in the world.'
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