What Happened with “The Happening”?

M. Night Shyamalan’s latest shock ‘n shout fest “The Happening” didn’t happen. Surprise!

According to Rotten Tomatoes, the film barely pulled in $60 million after more than two weeks in released and has the lowest percentage critic rating among this week’s top 10 highest grossing movies. This means it’s destined to become not just one of the worst rating and successful films of the summer, but perhaps of the entire year.

How could such a highly anticipated movie bomb so horribly? Maybe it had something to do with the fact that it sucked out loud. Richard Corless of Time Magazine called it a…

…feeble gust of an environmental horror story.

Wow, and this is a guy who saw “The Day After Tomorrow”…and lived.

Joe Morgenstern of the Wall Street Journal called it a…

…woeful clunker of a paranoid thriller.

Oh I love that word, “clunker,” a film that describes a movie that’s so bad, it actually makes a noise when it bombs.

But the hands down, greatest critique of them all goes to Gary Brown of Houston Community Newspapers who notes that…

On a brighter note, the Wayans brothers have new material to make Scary Movie 5.

That’s not exactly a “brighter note,” but I get the point.

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