The Da Vinci Code Sucks?

Da Vinci Code Director Ron Howard screened The Da Vinci Code for press last night at the Cannes film festival and the consensus is that it – how to put this? – sucked. Critics reportedly laughed their way through the movie’s 10 endings. Opie is probably already devising a plan to blame it all on Tom Hanks‘ hair. It was awfully hilarious. Our review round-up below:   The Da Vinci Code drew lukewarm praise, shrugs of indifference, some jeering laughter and a few derisive jabs Tuesday from arguably the world’s toughest movie crowd: critics at the Cannes Film Festival. [Yahoo! News] Critics are just that, critics, so although these reviews might not be so great, you can still be you’re own judge. The rest of the reviews after the jump… [Source] US Weekly Technorati Tags: Tom Hanks, Ron Howard, The Da Vinci Code, Cannes film festival, Tom Hanks, Dan Brown, Akiva Goldsman

Even at two and a half hours, director Ron Howard’s adaptation feels cursory and rushed….[Tom Hanks] seems to have borrowed Rick Springfield’s haircut, circa “Jessie’s Girl,” and that’s his most distinctive personality trait. As sturdy and versatile an actor as Hanks can be, he can’t work miracles when he’s got nothing to work with. [NYP]
 
Opening the annual Cannes film festival, Ron Howard’s adaptation of the Dan Brown bestseller was described variously as “grim,” “unwieldy” and “plodding.” [Yahoo! News]
 
Ron Howard and screenwriter Akiva Goldsman have conspired to drain any sense of fun out of the melodrama, leaving expectant audiences with an oppressively talky film that isn’t exactly dull, but comes as close to it as one could imagine with such provocative material… [Variety]
 
“The feeling moved quickly from one of great anticipation to one of, shockingly, great boredom…instead of the film building to a white knuckle conclusion, it was the audience fidgeting as Da Vinci passed the two-hour mark and unveiled the first of its half-dozen endings…by the time the big climactic moment of the film finally arrived, the audience burst out laughing, as if this were yet another classic bit of Tom Hanks comedy. As the credits rolled, not a single bit of applause was heard.” [Film Stew]
 
Da Vinci’s over-reliance on exposition drew jeers on several occasions toward the end of the screening and even prompted a few walkouts as it faithfully went through the motions of translating Brown’s elaborate puzzler of a book to the big screen. [E!]