Part of what movie critics do -- how they see their job -- is to anticipate what their readers will like. Of course they draw the line. They know Norbit is going to be a huge hit, but they trash it anyway. But a movie like this, they have no choice but to embrace: they know people will like it, and they know that relative to everything else they're forced to see, they basically liked it. So, bam!, it gets uniformly positive reviews and we're off! Then: cue backlash! It all creates a weird disconnect -- how come all the CRITICS likes it, but my friends whose taste I trust were (at best) split on it? It gets extremely confusing. Still, I don't envy a critics job -- I wouldn't last two weeks, because I'd write bad reviews of everything, then suddenly praise "LAST DAYS," which most of my readership would walk out of.