| 75 |
New York Daily News David Hinckley
In the end, "The Poseidon Adventure" has the same appeal on TV as it had in theaters. It's a campfire yarn, a B-movie without pretensions, and it delivers what it promises. |
| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly Gillian Flynn
Pretty pointless. [25 Nov 2005, p.91] |
| 50 |
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
But though it gets off to a fairly brisk start, building to an early jolt of digital special effects razzle-dazzle when the cruise liner rolls over, "The Poseidon Adventure" soon flounders in a sea of cardboard characters and sluggish storytelling. |
| 40 |
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
It is not quite as deliciously awful as the original 1972 disaster movie, but it comes pretty close. |
| 40 |
New York Magazine John Leonard
As in the original, ingenuity matters more than acting, plus there are grenades and fins. |
| 38 |
USA Today Robert Bianco
This low-star-wattage not-so-extravaganza is tedious whether you've seen the original or not. |
| 30 |
TV Guide Matt Roush
Though the performances are uniformly flat... you can still find fleeting moments of popcorn fun. |
| 30 |
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
NBC's "Poseidon Adventure" is notably less terrible than CBS's recent crop of disaster flicks, but as written by Bryce Zabel ("Dark Skies"), it's still nothing to brag about. |
| 30 |
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
Instead of being mindless but engrossing, as [film critic Leonard] Maltin called the original, it's just mindless. |
| 25 |
People Weekly Michelle Tauber
The film goes from cheesy to offensive when a Homeland Security agent onboard warily eyes the "international" waitstaff. [28 Nov 2005, p.55] |
| 10 |
Philadelphia Inquirer Jonathan Storm
Goofy junk that's a disaster all by itself. |
| 10 |
Variety Brian Lowry
[The] movie is a real slog before its tipping point and only barely watchable thereafter. |
| 0 |
Chicago Sun-Times Doug Elfman
It's terrible, terrible, terrible. It's even worse than it sounds. |
| 0 |
New York Post Linda Stasi
A horrible remake. |
| 0 |
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Sometimes, a critic just wants to write, ''Don't watch it." Or, ''NBC, you should be ashamed of yourself." And leave it at that. |
| 0 |
San Jose Mercury News Charlie McCollum
It's almost impossible to know where to begin with what goes wrong with this overblown "epic": the lousy acting by a straight-to-video cast, the turgid pacing, the laughable dialogue or the attempt to "update" the film by tossing in a ludicrous terrorist plot. |
| 0 |
Miami Herald Glenn Garvin
This edition of The Poseidon Adventure lacks not only wit, but any point at all. |
