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* An ''Indiana Daily Student'' review of ''Last Man Standing'' noted it was a remake of AkiraKurosawa's ''Yojimbo'' but said, "It may seem strange to remake a Kurosawa film as a Western." The film was already remade as a western: ''AFistfulOfDollars''. There's also a long history of back-and-forth inspiration between westerns and samurai films.

** In a ridiculously inaccurate negative review for ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' by Stephen Hunter of ''The Washington Post'' it quickly became clear that he [[DidNotDoTheResearch did not bother to watch the movie]], or was distracted for most of its length. At one point, he said that Rogue had the power to ''reverse time'', even going so far as to call her "the Mistress of Rewind." He was apparently confused by the scenes in which she extinguishes flames (using Pyro's power) and makes Wolverine's wounds reappear (he let her borrow his HealingFactor. His wounds reappearing is [[NoOntologicalInertia another problem]]).

*** We could easily fill this page with reviews from that long, ''long'' summer, because a considerable number of them were written by people (people paid to write reviews of movies, mind you) who [[DidNotDoTheResearch did not bother to go back and watch]] [[ContinuityLockout the first movie]]...

** "Stories went nowhere..." In other words, nobody at MovieGuide [[DidNotDoTheResearch had ever heard]] of the 2003 animated series? Or the original comics? The intro was a minimal effort to give newcomers [[AllThereInTheManual an insight into the film's world]], just in the bleak chance that someone going to see it [[SmallReferencePools had never been exposed to previous Turtles-related material]].

** An [[http://smokescreeners.org/downloads/animated_smoking.pdf article]] on depictions of tobacco and alcohol use in movies for children identifies [[{{Pinocchio}} Lampwick]] as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Lamp]]''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS wit]]''.

** In his review for ''Gojira'', he claimed that the character Emiko is the fiance' of Serizawa's son. Emiko is actually Serizawa's fiance', and though she loves another man, that man is not related to Serizawa.

* Armond White (a film critic who is infamous for panning acclaimed movies and acclaiming panned movies) wrote in his negative review about ''{{Toy Story}} 3'': "The toys wage battle with the daycare center’s cynical veteran cast-offs: Hamm the Piggy Bank pig, Lotsa Hugs and Big Baby." Hamm is not from the daycare center: he's one of Andy's toys, and he appeared in the previous two films. Oh, and most even more important: HE'S NOT A VILLAIN! Also, Lots'''o''' Hugg'''in''' Bear, not Lotsa Hugs.
* In Armond White's review of ''{{Inglourious Basterds}}'', he identifies Marcel, the black film projectionist/Shoshanna's lover, as the narrator of the penultimate chapters. There's a LOT wrong with that statement: 1. The brief narration is done by Samuel L. Jackson, who has a distinctive voice to anyone who watches movies. 2. The narration is in English, where Marcel appears to speak only French, 3. There is no narration in the penultimate chapters. The two times Jackson narrates are near the center of the film.

* The whole kerfuffle that erupted over the film ''{{The Last Temptation of Christ}}'' was because people were informed about scenes of Jesus settling down, getting married, and having sex. What they ''weren't'' informed about was that these scenes were a hallucination caused by the Devil in order to try and convince Jesus not to fulfill his destiny, walk away and have a normal life, a temptation Jesus rejected. You know, as sort of described ''in the name of the film''. Nobody listened, however, and due to staunchly Catholic MediaWatchdogs, the film wasn't premiered in Mexico ''until 2005!''

* A ''History's Mysteries'' episode on zombies has somebody say that the North American image of zombies was something like "Freddy from ''Friday the 13th''..." Freddy's in ''ANightmareOnElmStreet''. Jason Voorhees is in ''[[Film/FridayThe13th Friday the 13th]]''. At least they could both be considered [[OurZombiesAreDifferent zombies]], [[OurMonstersAreDifferent depending on who you ask]].

* There's been an assumption on the part of some of the reviewing public that ''{{WesternAnimation/Coraline}}'' is a TimBurton film, due to both the animation style and the fact that the trailers hype it as being by "the director of ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''". The director, for ''both'' films, is in fact Henry Selick, and Burton has nothing to do with ''Coraline''. Neil Gaiman, author of the original book, [[http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/by-way-of-preamble.html has expressed his annoyance with this]], and it's been [[http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp02092009.shtml mocked]] in webcomics.

* A review of ''[[DragonBallEvolution Dragonball: Evolution]]'' opened with the following informed lines.

** There can ''only'' be a [[{{SexIsEvil}} bad explanation]] for Casey crashing at April's place so often. How could the two of them ''possibly'' be [[{{InnocentCohabitation}} chaste]]???
** "Stories went nowhere..." In other words, nobody at MovieGuide [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} had ever heard]] of the 2003 animated series? Or the original comics? The intro was a minimal effort to give newcomers [[{{AllThereInTheManual}} an insight into the film's world]], just in the bleak chance that someone going to see it [[{{SmallReferencePools}} had never been exposed to previous Turtles-related material]].
** The thing with those stars aligning to unleash a beam of energy on Earth that [[{{SealedEvilInACan}} unlocks monsters from another world]] is merely modification of a common plot device. A similar theme was used in the first [[Comicbook/{{FantasticFour}} Fantastic Four]] [[Film/{{FantasticFour}} movie]], with the cosmic beam storm. But somehow, this is an ''evil'' tactic by ''Satan'' to get us addicted to looking for answers in -'astrology''! Never mind that not one single constellation in the Zodiac ([[{{EasternZodiac}} Eastern]] or [[{{Western Zodiac}} Western]]) was even once mentioned on screen.

** Contrary to Baher's assessment of "a confused view," the movie actually has no problem with vigilantism ''per se''. What it does have a problem with is [[{{IfYouKillHimYouWillBeJustLikeHim}} Punisher-style vigilantism]]. The Foot Clan and monsters [[{{WhatMeasureIsANonHuman}} are what they are]] and are deemed as "[[{{WhatMeasureIsAMook}} worthy to die]]." Yet, ordinary criminals [[HumansAreSpecial are not to be killed]]. They are to only be subdued and left for the police. That is the code of battle honor the Turtles fight with, and is very similar to {{Batman}}'s.

* When ''{{Star Wars}}: The Phantom Menace'' came to theaters in Spain, a small weekly publication that was given free along with one of the Spanish people's most relevant newspapers, including several incorrect statements about the original saga, it was said that "... Darth Maul, so fully evil, he kills Qui Gonn (played by Liam Neeson) when he's sleeping".

* The Rotten Tomatoes website and a few movie theatres that gave away free film pamphlets, made this summary from [[Film/HowToTrainYourDragon How to Train Your Dragon]]: "Hiccup goes on a mission to pass their village's initation into manhood by capturing and training a dragon. If he succeeds, he will become a warrior. If he fails, he will be forever banished". This would techically be true had the film been more faithful to Cressida Cowel's book, but so much liberties were taken to change the plot that instead of a boy going through a rite of passage capturing and training dragons, it's a teenager whose village is dedicated to killing dragons befriending an injured dragon and finding that everything he and his village knows about them to be wrong.

* [[http://animatedviews.com/2011/superman-the-motion-picture-anthology-blu-ray-collection/ This review]] of the ''{{Film/Superman}}'' Motion Picture Anthology Blu-Ray keeps crediting Bud Collyer as the lead of the 1940s serials and portrayer of Lois Lane's father in the extended version of the first movie. However, Bud Collyer voiced Superman in [[Radio/TheAdventuresOfSuperman the radio series]], as well as some cartoons from the 1940s and '60s. Kirk Alyn actually acted as the lead in the serials, and Lois' father in the first movie.

* The MovieGuide.org review of ''[[SouthPark South Park]]:Bigger, Longer, and Uncut'' refers to Big Gay Al as being black. It also claims that "the whole point of ''South Park'' is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see ''South Park'', even though it is rated R. Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up."
* The author of ''The New York Times''' [[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/movies/14dvd.html review]] of some remastered RodgersAndHammerstein [=DVDs=] expressed disappointment when he read the back cover of ''{{Carousel}}'' saying that it came with a film adaptation of its predecessor, ''Liliom'', assumed this referred to the 1930 adaptation, but then found himself watching FritzLang's 1934 movie. One must wonder why he felt surprised, since the back DVD cover and the insert listing production notes and DVD features and chapters clearly list the 1934 adaptation among the bonus features. (Granted, other people anticipated the inclusion of the 1930 movie, but they did so ''before'' obtaining the DVD.)

* The book ''{{Disney}} Dossiers: Files of Characters From the Walt Disney Studios'' is full of glaring omissions and mistakes. For example, {{Disney/Aladdin}}'s fact sheet says "Parents: None (orphan)", completely neglecting the fact that him finding out his father was alive was '''the main friggin' plot of ''Aladdin and the King of Thieves''''' (which the book also claims came out a year earlier than it actually did). [[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco]]'s profile also seems to negate the existence of [[WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool Malina]] by saying that Kuzco has no "significant other" (even though it ''does'' sound like something Kuzco would say about himself). Also, for some reason, DonaldDuck's filmography highlights includes the ''DuckTales'' movie (which he wasn't even mentioned in), Timon's last name (Berkowitz) and Scar's birth name (Taka) are forgotten, and some of the voice actors for the characters are glaringly omitted (''e.g.'', Cam Clarke for [[Disney/TheLionKing Simba]], April Winchell for [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]]).

* The MovieGuide.org review of ''[[SouthPark South Park]]:Bigger, Longer, and Uncut'' refers to Big Gay Al as being black. [[ItGotWorse and]] claimed that and I quote "the whole point of SOUTH PARK is that the children in the movie should have been allowed to see the Terrance & Phillip movie, just as the world's children should be allowed to see SOUTH PARK, [[AnimationAgeGhetto even though it is rated R.]] Furthermore, the message of the movie is clear: that adults should let children engage in depraved actions and foul language, and that all this is just part of growing up. "

** In his review of SherlockHolmes - A Game of Shadows; Ebert also says that "I've luxuriated in the genial atmosphere of the Conan Doyle stories, where a step is heard on the stair, a client tells his tale, and Holmes withdraws to his rooms to consider his new case during a period of meditation (involving such study aids as opium).". Given that Holmes ''never'' took narcotics during a case (only when out of work) and even when he did, it was either Cocaine or Morphine, one can wonder just how much of Conan Doyle Ebert actually read.

* Siskel and Ebert had never heard of Music/WeirdAlYankovic when ''Film/{{UHF}}'' came out, and derisively assumed that his name sounded so ridiculous that it had to be a made-up name like "Yahoo Serious" ("Weird Al" is indeed a nickname, but Yankovic is his real last name). Their entire perception of the film seemed to be colored by thinking of Al as basically being Yahoo Serious.

** This is, in a way, partially the fault of whomever decided to title and market this film based on the original, printed page, [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs very weird]] ''OZ'' series in such a way that audiences were doomed to assume it was a sequel to the beloved musical version.

* An ''Indiana Daily Student'' review of ''Last Man Standing'' noted it was a remake of AkiraKurosawa's ''Yojimbo'' but said, "It may seem strange to remake a Kurosawa film as a Western." [[TheMagnificentSeven Not that strange.]] Oh, and speaking of ''Yojimbo''? Four words: ''AFistfulOfDollars''.
** Let's not forget that Yojimbo itself was already sort of a remake of ''Red Harvest'' by Dashiell Hammett.

* A book about the AcademyAwards completely screws up the plot of ''{{Unforgiven}}'': "After the death of his wife, ex-outlaw (ClintEastwood) returns to violence to punish corrupt sheriff (GeneHackman) with the support of two companions (MorganFreeman and RichardHarris)". He leaves retirement for bounty, offered by a prostitute (who lives in said sheriff's city) on the guys who slashed a colleague's face. The second companion is Jaimz Woolvett, and Richard Harris doesn't even share a scene with Eastwood!

** In his review for ''[[Gojira]]'', he claimed that the character Emiko is the fiance' of Serizawa's son. Emiko is actually Serizawa's fiance', and though she loves another man, that man is not related to Serizawa.

** In his review for ''[[Godzilla Gojira]]'', he claimed that the character Emiko is the fiance' of Serizawa's son. Emiko is actually Serizawa's fiance', and though she loves another man, that man is not related to Serizawa.

** In his review for "Gojira", he claimed that the character Emiko is the fiance' of Serizawa's son. Emiko is actually Serizawa's fiance', and though she loves another man, that man is not related to Serizawa.

** In his review for ''[[EvilDead Army of Darkness]]'', he mixed up Ash's chainsaw and shotgun hands.

* The Netflix blurb for Kingdom of Heaven states that Orlando Bloom's character takes up his sword to free the Holy Land from the Turks. That would be true if the movie were about the first crusade-it's actually about Saladin's recapture of the Holy Land *from* Crusaders, who had been occupying it for almost a century. And that would still be wrong, because the conflict is between the Chrusaders and ''Arabs''. Turks were not involved, and only became a significant political power centuries later.
* The ''Film/{{X-Men}}'' films:
** In a ridiculously inaccurate negative review for ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' by Stephen Hunter of ''The Washington Post'' it quickly became clear that he [[DidNotDoTheResearch did not bother to watch the movie]], or was distracted for most of its length. At one point, he said that Rogue had the power to ''reverse time'', even going so far as to call her "the Mistress of Rewind." He was apparently confused by the scenes in which she extinguishes flames (using Pyro's power) and makes Wolverine's wounds reappear (he let her borrow his HealingFactor. His wounds reappearing is [[NoOntologicalInertia another problem]]).

* ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Lord of the Rings]]''

** It's not uncommon to hear people talk about "Dark Vader", "Hans Solo". Even the actors are prone to such mistakes: JamesEarlJones made the [[http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/news/2009-01-22-james-earl-jones_N.htm "Dark Vader" mistake]] when referring to his character, and CarrieFisher referred to Padmé as "Princess Amidala" in a Newsweek interview.
*** Also, using "Darth Vader" to refer to pre-Vader Anakin is a common mistake.

** It is within the realm of possibility that the reviewer thought he was preserving an important spoiler concerning Death's role; he does seem rather sinister up until he starts to talk.

** This is true of most films with a romantic subplot, no matter how minor. It's automatically labelled as a "romance" or "romantic comedy", even if the romance in question has no impact on the main story.

* Siskel and Ebert had never heard of WeirdAlYankovic when ''Film/{{UHF}}'' came out, and derisively assumed that his name sounded so ridiculous that it had to be a made-up name like "Yahoo Serious" ("Weird Al" is indeed a nickname, but Yankovic is his real last name). Their entire perception of the film seemed to be colored by thinking of Al as basically being Yahoo Serious.

* Some movie theaters used to give patrons a pamphlet with one-sentence descriptions of current movies. According to this paper, "The Mummy Returns" was about the main characters discovering their son was the reincarnation of Osiris.

* Movie critic Eleanor Ringel claimed in her review of ''TomAndJerry, The Movie'' that the Tom and Jerry series won fifteen Academy Awards for Outstanding Animated Short Subjects. They were ''nominated'' fifteen times and won seven Academy Awards.

** * An [[http://smokescreeners.org/downloads/animated_smoking.pdf article]] on depictions of tobacco and alcohol use in movies for children identifies [[{{Pinocchio}} Lampwick]] as [[SpellMyNameWithAnS Lamp]]''[[SpellMyNameWithAnS wit]]''.

* An article on a magazine about ''QuantumOfSolace'' stated that JamesBond allied with the exiled General Medrano from Chile to destroy the Quantum Organization. Medrano is actually a CompleteMonster and part of Quantum's plan (he's to be installed as dictator). It's also set in Bolivia, not Chile, though it was shot in Chile.

* One of the YouTube comments on [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epZxUhCE5l8 this video]] is "Jake La Motta is not pleased" despite the fact that the video itself is a reference to RobertDeNiro's role as Travis Bickle in TaxiDriver and not Jake La Motta in ''Goodfellas''.

* The Netflix blurb for Kingdom of Heaven states that Orlando Bloom's character takes up his sword to free the Holy Land from the Turks. That would be true if the movie were about the first crusade-it's actually about Saladin's recapture of the Holy Land *from* Crusaders, who had been occupying it for almost a century.
** And that would still be wrong, because the conflict is between the Chrusaders and ''Arabs''. Turks were not involved, and only became a significant political power centuries later.

* In Armond White's review of ''{{Inglourious Basterds}}'', he identifies Marcel, the black film projectionist/Shoshanna's lover, as the narrator of the penultimate chapters. There's a LOT wrong with that statement: 1. The brief narration is done by Samuel L. Jackson, who has a distinctive voice to anyone who watches movies. 2. The narration is in English, where Marcel appears to speak only French, 3. There is no narration in the penultimate
chapters. The two times Jackson narrates are near the center of the film

** It's arguably understandable. This troper was able to keep them straight when he was 14 and saw the movie for the first time, so a veteran movie critic should have had no problems.

* One particularly scathing movie review for ''Film/SilentHill'' derided the film for being based on a video game series, but praised the movie's composer for at least writing a unique cinematic score instead of relying on the video game's "[[PacManFever beeps and whistles]]". The music in the movie, of course, was taken directly from the games. Coming at this from another angle, a newspaper blurb on the game ''SilentHillHomecoming'' described it as being based on the movie.
** There were in fact several [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]] to the movie in ''Silent Hill: Homecoming'', so it's easy to see how they got confused. For example, The Boogeyman/Pyramid Head's design is based off his movie design, and the introduction of the Smog enemy looks almost identical to the introduction of the Armless Man in the movie.

** "Stories went nowhere..." In other words, nobody at MovieGuide [[{{DidNotDoTheResearch}} had ever heard]] of the 2003 animated series? Or the original comics?
*** The intro was a minimal effort to give newcomers [[{{AllThereInTheManual}} an insight into the film's world]], just in the bleak chance that someone
going to see it [[{{SmallReferencePools}} had never been exposed to previous Turtles-related material]].

** [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/last_airbender/articles/1891859/gorgeous_imagerybeautifully_wrought_special_effects_fantasy_fun_for_all_agesim_talking__of_course_about_the_last_airbender_website/ This reviewer]] thinks that the movie took place in the far future.
** So does [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100630/REVIEWS/100639999/1023 Roger Ebert]].
** In all fairness, the movie Appa DOES look more like a beaver than a bison. The beaver tail is enough to confuse most people who have seen the show but can't remember what the heck he is.

** Wee-eeeelll, this is... KINDA understandable, Frank always appears in stark white facepaint and he's clearly got cannibalistic tendancies, if the scene where he serves [[IncrediblyLamePun Meatloaf]] to the cast is any judge and, well, his famous intro song repeats that he is a 'Sweet Transvestite from Transsexual Transylvania.' Dracula is about the only thing any Western audience can relate to as being from Transylvania, even if here, Transylvania is actually another galaxy, with Transsexual merely being a planet. (Spoiler, they're all aliens and this is a ''really weird movie.'') So it IS understandable, just not ''necessarily'' accurate.
*** It probably also helps that Frank is first introduced wearing a stereotypical Dracula cape.

** An amazing number of film critics, including RogerEbert, described the ending of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' as involving a duel with a dragon, whereas the creature Harry fought was actually a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk basilisk]]. This may be rather nitpicky, but the fact that the
creature was a snake was a bit of a plot point. On the other hand, [[http://listverse.com/2010/04/16/10-beasts-that-used-to-be-mythical/ early descriptions]] of dragons in western literature describe them as serpents.

** For Transformers 3, we have Movie Juice's negative review that tells us that you can disguise the fact you didn't watch a film with a series of jokes about it. The reviewer called Megan Fox a Decepticon, made jokes about Rosie Huntington Whitely wearing tight dresses and high heels during battle scenes including the scene with the colapsing building, and made several jokes about how silly a lot of the character's names are. To those who haven't
seen the film, let me explain these problems: Megan Fox was a human girl in the first film who sided with the good guys, the Decepticon's are ''aliens'' and ''bad guys''. RHW did wear a form fitting dress and high heels in one scene that you could call a fight scene, but that was between humans, consisted of two holding one down while a third punched him, and her involvement in the scene was her leaving a party and being abducted by a Decepticon before she's even left the premisis. The collapsing building scene is right after she's been rescued, to which she's already changed into more casual clothing. The characters with funny names are all ''alien robots'', it would be weird if they ''didn't'' have alien sounding names. This was, of course, not helped by the reviewer basically trolling anyone who called them out on it.

** A newspaper reviewer of ''The Return of the King'' made a complaint that the movie included a giant spider and wondered why Peter Jackson felt it
was needed. Shelob appears in the series, though her appearance was moved to the third installment for the films.

** When ''StarWars Episode I'' hit the cinemas, an Austrian magazine attempted to introduce uninitiated readers to the film's universe. There was mention
of the fan outcry about the small green Jedi Master named Ewok being too cute, and confused the Neimodian Trade Federation mooks with Sith Lords.

* The ''Boston Globe'' reviewer of ''DonnieDarko'' seems to have taken a bathroom break during half of the film and walked out fifteen minutes before the ending. No other explanation would suffice. However, he admits to not paying attention to the part where Frank explains to Donnie that he (Frank) comes
from outer space. Because the reviewer seemed sure that scene appeared in the movie.

* TV Guide's blurb for ''Godzilla vs Megalon'': "Godzilla and giant robot Jet Jaguar team up to fight a giant cockroach (Megalon, a stag beetle) and a big
black chicken (Gigan, a bluish-green and gray reptilian cyborg with a beak and mandibles) sent by Seatopians."

* Sam Wollaston, TV critic for ''The Guardian'', reviewed a TV documentary titled ''The Human Spider'', about a guy who climbed a big building dressed
as, obviously, Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}. His review, however, referred to the guy as being dressed as Comicbook/{{Batman}}. Because those costumes look ''so'' much alike...

** This even extends to some of the films' own DVD features. The Ultimate Matrix Collection features commentaries on all the films by three critics, who clearly hadn't been paying much attention (one of them seems to think Zion is in space rather than underground, for starters). The sequels are notorious
for being impenetrable, but you're not helping your case when you screw up the few things that ''are'' clearly explained.

** Incidentally, Baehr's conclusion is pretty correct provided one sides with Ozymandias. It doesn't help that Moore left a lot of space for
AlternateCharacterInterpretation.

** In defense of [[http://www.kids-in-mind.com/ kids-in-mind.com]], the site isn't geared toward "parent reviews", but "parent guides". The entire purpose of the site is to list every instance of even remotely offensive material, along with severity ratings in those categories. They don't even do traditional
reviews.

* A review of ''SpyKids 2'' said that Carmen and Juni have to fight the evil Romero, and team up with a new duo of Spy Kids to aid them in their battle... Which seemed to reverse the newcomer's roles; since Romero was a good guy (made clear from his first appearance) and the Cortez siblings had to
race against, and battle, Gary and Gerti. It also completely ignored Donnagon's blatant corruption and the dangers of the Transmooker device. It was like they didn't even bother to watch the film at all.

* When ''{{Star Wars}}: The Phantom Menace'' came to theaters in Spain, a small weekly publication that was given free along with one of the Spanish people's most relevant newspapers, including several incorrect statements about the original saga, it was said that "... Darth Maul, so fully evil, he kills
Qui Gonn (played by Liam Neeson) when he's sleeping".

* ''TheGoldenCompass'' was described by a tv magazine as "in a fantasy world, a girl searches the magic dust that enables travelling between worlds."
Funny how the movie never even gets to that point in the [[HisDarkMaterials book series]].

* Many reviews of the godawful ''DungeonsAndDragons'' movie asked why anyone even bothered to make a movie of a game that no one's even played since the 80s (or 70s in some cases). Of course, the game has been in constant publication - and play - since its creation. What the reviews really meant was "a game I saw other kids play when I was younger but not recently because it's much easier to avoid people you don't share common interests with
once you graduate from high school, and since I haven't personally seen it in a while, [[PopCultureIsolation I assume it doesn't exist any more]]."

* The book ''Film in Australia: An Introduction'' by Albert Moran and Errol Vieth screwed up its section on ''Lantana.'' Apparently, they chose to get most of the cast's names from the end credits instead of actually paying attention to the film, and in the process failed to notice that the cast were billed in order of appearance. Thus, they referred to Vince Colosimo's character Nik D'amato as Steve Valdez and his wife Paula as Lisa, who were the fourth and fifth billed characters, right after Leon, Sonja and Jane (three points of the film's love square), but were fairly unimportant to the story. More understandably, they called Geoffrey Rush's character John Somers instead of John Knox (his wife was named Valerie Somers), and more inexplicably, they called Peter
Phelps' character Alex instead of Patrick, even though there's no character by that name in the film. Ironically, they still got most of the plot details right.

* The Rotten Tomatoes website and a few movie theatres that gave away free film pamphlets, made this summary from [[Film/HowToTrainYourDragon How to Train Your Dragon]]: "Hiccup goes on a mission to pass their village's initation into manhood by capturing and training a dragon. If he succeeds, he will become a warrior. If he fails, he will be forever banished". This would techically be true had the film been more faithful to Cressida Cowel's book, but so much liberties were taken to change the plot that instead of a boy going through a rite of passage capturing and training dragons, it's a teenager
whose village is dedicated to killing dragons befriending an injured dragon and finding that everything he and his village knows about them to be wrong.

* [[http://cinemovie.tv/cinemovie_new/component/content/article/55-interviews/1280-guillermo-del-toro-interview-pinocchio-dreamworks This article]] about
Guillermo Del Toro joining DreamWorksAnimation claims that the studio's 2012 movie "Rise of the Guardians" is a sequel to Zack Snyder's "Legend of the Guardians." You know, that owl movie made by ''WARNER BROTHERS''.

* More Roger Ebert. In [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091223/REVIEWS/912239991 this review]] of Guy Ritchie's SherlockHolmes movie, he accuses the movie of tossing 'aside the deerstalker hat and meerschaum calabash' (neither of which were ever mentioned in the novel) and also that 'Watson has decided for once and all to abandon the intimacy of 221B for the hazards of married life' (he was married at least
twice in the books). Also apparently originally Watson was always 'fretful and frightened' - a base libel against Watson who fought bravely in the Afghan war and was always staunchly by Holmes' side whatever the danger.

* The author of ''The New York Times''' [[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/movies/14dvd.html review]] of some remastered RodgersAndHammerstein [=DVDs=] expressed disappointment when he read the back cover of ''{{Carousel}}'' saying that it came with a film adaptation of its predecessor, ''Liliom'', assumed this referred to the 1930 adaptation, but then found himself watching FritzLang's 1934 movie. One must wonder why he felt surprised, since the back DVD cover and the insert listing production notes and DVD features and chapters clearly list the 1934 adaptation among the bonus features.
(Granted, other people anticipated the inclusion of the 1930 movie, but they did so ''before'' obtaining the DVD.)

* Whoever wrote the official website for ''AnAmericanTail'' probably never watched any of the movies. They describe Tanya as "always getting her brother into some kind of trouble" (which he does just fine on his own), and when they describe Tony Toponi they imply that he's in love with Tanya, which of course is never even hinted at in the movies. Now granted, the site was probably created with the idea that the ViewersAreMorons, which is also sadly
reflected in Universal's more recent DVD releases of the movies.

** In a ridiculously inaccurate negative review for ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' by Stephen Hunter of ''The Washington Post'' it quickly became clear that he [[DidNotDoTheResearch did not bother to watch the movie]], or was distracted for most of its length. At one point, he said that Rogue had the power to ''reverse time'', even going so far as to call her "the Mistress of Rewind." He was apparently confused by the scenes in which she extinguishes flames
(using Pyro's power) and makes Wolverine's wounds reappear (he let her borrow his HealingFactor. His wounds reappearing is [[NoOntologicalInertia another problem]]).

** In a ridiculously inaccurate negative review for ''Film/X2XMenUnited'' by Stephen Hunter of ''The Washington Post'' it quickly became clear that he [[DidNotDoTheResearch did not bother to watch the movie]], or was distracted for most of its length. At one point, he said that Rogue had the power to ''reverse time'', even going so far as to call her "the Mistress of Rewind." He was apparently confused by the scenes in which she extinguishes flames (using Pyro's power) and makes Wolverine's wounds reappear (he let her borrow his HealingFactor. His wounds reappearing is [[NoOntologicalInertia another problem]]).

** An amazing number of film critics, including RogerEbert, described the ending of ''Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets'' as involving a duel with a dragon, whereas the creature Harry fought was actually a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basilisk basilisk]]. This may be rather nitpicky, but the fact that the creature was a snake was a bit of a plot point. On the other hand, [[http://listverse.com/2010/04/16/10-beasts-that-used-to-be-mythical/ early descriptions]] of dragons in western literature describe them as serpents.

** For Transformers 3, we have Movie Juice's negative review that tells us that you can disguise the fact you didn't watch a film with a series of jokes about it. The reviewer called Megan Fox a Decepticon, made jokes about Rosie Huntington Whitely wearing tight dresses and high heels during battle scenes including the scene with the colapsing building, and made several jokes about how silly a lot of the character's names are. To those who haven't seen the film, let me explain these problems: Megan Fox was a human girl in the first film who sided with the good guys, the Decepticon's are ''aliens'' and ''bad guys''. RHW did wear a form fitting dress and high heels in one scene that you could call a fight scene, but that was between humans, consisted of two holding one down while a third punched him, and her involvement in the scene was her leaving a party and being abducted by a Decepticon before she's even left the premisis. The collapsing building scene is right after she's been rescued, to which she's already changed into more casual clothing. The characters with funny names are all ''alien robots'', it would be weird if they ''didn't'' have alien sounding names. This was, of course, not helped by the reviewer basically trolling anyone who called them out on it.

* In Armond White's review of ''{{Inglourious Basterds}}'', he identifies Marcel, the black film projectionist/Shoshanna's lover, as the narrator of the penultimate chapters. There's a LOT wrong with that statement: 1. The brief narration is done by Samuel L. Jackson, who has a distinctive voice to anyone who watches movies. 2. The narration is in English, where Marcel appears to speak only French, 3. There is no narration in the penultimate chapters. The two times Jackson narrates are near the center of the film

** A newspaper reviewer of ''The Return of the King'' made a complaint that the movie included a giant spider and wondered why Peter Jackson felt it was needed. Shelob appears in the series, though her appearance was moved to the third installment for the films.

** When ''StarWars Episode I'' hit the cinemas, an Austrian magazine attempted to introduce uninitiated readers to the film's universe. There was mention of the fan outcry about the small green Jedi Master named Ewok being too cute, and confused the Neimodian Trade Federation mooks with Sith Lords.

* The ''Boston Globe'' reviewer of ''DonnieDarko'' seems to have taken a bathroom break during half of the film and walked out fifteen minutes before the ending. No other explanation would suffice. However, he admits to not paying attention to the part where Frank explains to Donnie that he (Frank) comes from outer space. Because the reviewer seemed sure that scene appeared in the movie.

* TV Guide's blurb for ''Godzilla vs Megalon'': "Godzilla and giant robot Jet Jaguar team up to fight a giant cockroach (Megalon, a stag beetle) and a big black chicken (Gigan, a bluish-green and gray reptilian cyborg with a beak and mandibles) sent by Seatopians."

* Sam Wollaston, TV critic for ''The Guardian'', reviewed a TV documentary titled ''The Human Spider'', about a guy who climbed a big building dressed as, obviously, Comicbook/{{Spider-Man}}. His review, however, referred to the guy as being dressed as Comicbook/{{Batman}}. Because those costumes look ''so'' much alike...

** This even extends to some of the films' own DVD features. The Ultimate Matrix Collection features commentaries on all the films by three critics, who clearly hadn't been paying much attention (one of them seems to think Zion is in space rather than underground, for starters). The sequels are notorious for being impenetrable, but you're not helping your case when you screw up the few things that ''are'' clearly explained.

** Incidentally, Baehr's conclusion is pretty correct provided one sides with Ozymandias. It doesn't help that Moore left a lot of space for AlternateCharacterInterpretation.

** In defense of [[http://www.kids-in-mind.com/ kids-in-mind.com]], the site isn't geared toward "parent reviews", but "parent guides". The entire purpose of the site is to list every instance of even remotely offensive material, along with severity ratings in those categories. They don't even do traditional reviews.

* A review of ''SpyKids 2'' said that Carmen and Juni have to fight the evil Romero, and team up with a new duo of Spy Kids to aid them in their battle... Which seemed to reverse the newcomer's roles; since Romero was a good guy (made clear from his first appearance) and the Cortez siblings had to race against, and battle, Gary and Gerti. It also completely ignored Donnagon's blatant corruption and the dangers of the Transmooker device. It was like they didn't even bother to watch the film at all.

*** The intro was a minimal effort to give newcomers [[{{AllThereInTheManual}} an insight into the film's world]], just in the bleak chance that someone going to see it [[{{SmallReferencePools}} had never been exposed to previous Turtles-related material]].

* When ''{{Star Wars}}: The Phantom Menace'' came to theaters in Spain, a small weekly publication that was given free along with one of the Spanish people's most relevant newspapers, including several incorrect statements about the original saga, it was said that "... Darth Maul, so fully evil, he kills Qui Gonn (played by Liam Neeson) when he's sleeping".

* ''TheGoldenCompass'' was described by a tv magazine as "in a fantasy world, a girl searches the magic dust that enables travelling between worlds." Funny how the movie never even gets to that point in the [[HisDarkMaterials book series]].

* Many reviews of the godawful ''DungeonsAndDragons'' movie asked why anyone even bothered to make a movie of a game that no one's even played since the 80s (or 70s in some cases). Of course, the game has been in constant publication - and play - since its creation. What the reviews really meant was "a game I saw other kids play when I was younger but not recently because it's much easier to avoid people you don't share common interests with once you graduate from high school, and since I haven't personally seen it in a while, [[PopCultureIsolation I assume it doesn't exist any more]]."

* The book ''Film in Australia: An Introduction'' by Albert Moran and Errol Vieth screwed up its section on ''Lantana.'' Apparently, they chose to get most of the cast's names from the end credits instead of actually paying attention to the film, and in the process failed to notice that the cast were billed in order of appearance. Thus, they referred to Vince Colosimo's character Nik D'amato as Steve Valdez and his wife Paula as Lisa, who were the fourth and fifth billed characters, right after Leon, Sonja and Jane (three points of the film's love square), but were fairly unimportant to the story. More understandably, they called Geoffrey Rush's character John Somers instead of John Knox (his wife was named Valerie Somers), and more inexplicably, they called Peter Phelps' character Alex instead of Patrick, even though there's no character by that name in the film. Ironically, they still got most of the plot details right.

* The Rotten Tomatoes website and a few movie theatres that gave away free film pamphlets, made this summary from [[Film/HowToTrainYourDragon How to Train Your Dragon]]: "Hiccup goes on a mission to pass their village's initation into manhood by capturing and training a dragon. If he succeeds, he will become a warrior. If he fails, he will be forever banished". This would techically be true had the film been more faithful to Cressida Cowel's book, but so much liberties were taken to change the plot that instead of a boy going through a rite of passage capturing and training dragons, it's a teenager whose village is dedicated to killing dragons befriending an injured dragon and finding that everything he and his village knows about them to be wrong.

* [[http://cinemovie.tv/cinemovie_new/component/content/article/55-interviews/1280-guillermo-del-toro-interview-pinocchio-dreamworks This article]] about Guillermo Del Toro joining DreamWorksAnimation claims that the studio's 2012 movie "Rise of the Guardians" is a sequel to Zack Snyder's "Legend of the Guardians." You know, that owl movie made by ''WARNER BROTHERS''.

* More Roger Ebert. In [[http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091223/REVIEWS/912239991 this review]] of Guy Ritchie's SherlockHolmes movie, he accuses the movie of tossing 'aside the deerstalker hat and meerschaum calabash' (neither of which were ever mentioned in the novel) and also that 'Watson has decided for once and all to abandon the intimacy of 221B for the hazards of married life' (he was married at least twice in the books). Also apparently originally Watson was always 'fretful and frightened' - a base libel against Watson who fought bravely in the Afghan war and was always staunchly by Holmes' side whatever the danger.

* The author of ''The New York Times''' [[http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/movies/14dvd.html review]] of some remastered RodgersAndHammerstein [=DVDs=] expressed disappointment when he read the back cover of ''{{Carousel}}'' saying that it came with a film adaptation of its predecessor, ''Liliom'', assumed this referred to the 1930 adaptation, but then found himself watching FritzLang's 1934 movie. One must wonder why he felt surprised, since the back DVD cover and the insert listing production notes and DVD features and chapters clearly list the 1934 adaptation among the bonus features. (Granted, other people anticipated the inclusion of the 1930 movie, but they did so ''before'' obtaining the DVD.)

* Whoever wrote the official website for ''AnAmericanTail'' probably never watched any of the movies. They describe Tanya as "always getting her brother into some kind of trouble" (which he does just fine on his own), and when they describe Tony Toponi they imply that he's in love with Tanya, which of course is never even hinted at in the movies. Now granted, the site was probably created with the idea that the ViewersAreMorons, which is also sadly reflected in Universal's more recent DVD releases of the movies.

* The book ''Planet Of The Apes Chronicles'' is well known among ''PlanetOfTheApes'' fans for its many errors in regards to the films.

* The book ''{{Disney}} Dossiers: Files of Characters From the Walt Disney Studios'' is full of glaring omissions and mistakes. For example, {{Disney/Aladdin}}'s fact sheet says "Parents: None (orphan)", completely neglecting the fact that him finding out his father was alive was '''the main friggin' plot of ''Aladdin and the King of Thieves''''' (which the book also claims came out a year earlier than it actually did). [[Disney/TheEmperorsNewGroove Kuzco]]'s profile also seems to negate the existence of [[TheEmperorsNewSchool Malina]] by saying that Kuzco has no "significant other" (even though it ''does'' sound like something Kuzco would say about himself). Also, for some reason, DonaldDuck's filmography highlights includes the ''DuckTales'' movie (which he wasn't even mentioned in), Timon's last name (Berkowitz) and Scar's birth name (Taka) are forgotten, and some of the voice actors for the characters are glaringly omitted (''e.g.'', Cam Clarke for [[Disney/TheLionKing Simba]], April Winchell for [[Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians Cruella de Vil]]).