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Category: Business, Advertising, Products, Hygiene, Dogs, 1930s
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Envy received generally negative reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 8% based on 117 reviews with an average rating of 3.1/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Jack Black and Ben Stiller fail to wring laughs from a script that's essentially one extended poop joke."[3] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 31 out of 100 based on 30 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[4] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "D" on an A+ to F scale.[5]
The film had been shot almost two years before its release, and was in danger of going straight-to-video in the US due to poor audience response during test screenings. It was only due to the success of 2003's School of Rock starring Jack Black that it finally got a theatrical release. Nevertheless, the film performed poorly in US theaters, so much so that it was released straight-to-video in several European countries and Australia.[6]
The film was nominated for a Razzie Award for Worst Actor (Stiller), but lost to Fahrenheit 9/11 (George W. Bush). At the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, during a press conference for Shark Tale (2004), both Black and DreamWorks' Jeffrey Katzenberg publicly apologized for Envy.[6]
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jan 08, 2017 -
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Category: Ineptness, Crudity, Talentlessness, Kitsch, and Bad Art, Movies, Scatology, Dogs, Twenty-first Century
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Category: Dogs, 1910s, Cars
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Category: Technology, Dogs, 1950s
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Category: Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Dogs, 1900s
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Category: Accidents, Animals, Dogs, 1990s
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Category: Animals, Dogs, Asia
Posted By: Alex - Fri Oct 02, 2015 -
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Category: Animals, Elderly and Seniors, Engineering and Construction, Dogs
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