Thread: Over rated films?

Films you've watched that you think are over rated.

A recent one for me: A few days, ago I settled down to the DVD of Pan's Labyrinth, the critics telling me that it was the best film of 2006 and my brother telling me it was fantastic and awesome.

Not so. Two isolated storylines - one dramatic, well-acted but at the same time problematic and with under-explored characters (that is, the Fascists vs Reds) and the other (the Labyrinth) surreal for no good reason, with only the faintest touches of genius (Pale Man, a great sequence with no consequence or point whatsoever), very little reason or rhyme, and it flows about as well as bitumen, stopping and starting every now and then for another inconsequential micro-adventure with the same tired motifs (excl. Pale Man). And they only touch at the very end, almost without effect.

Being left with half-and-a-bit of a film (and the "bit" being the mess that is the fantastical aspects of the film) resulted in a very dissapointed viewer.