Get Limp: Peter Travers on Marchs Worst Movies

It may be April Fools Day, but the parade of terrible movies released in March is no laughing matter. In his latest Scum Bucket round-up, Rolling Stone movie critic Peter Travers tosses the months grossest flicks into the cinematic crap receptacle.

First off is the Abel Ferrara dramaWelcome to New York, which explores the infamousDominique Strauss-Kahn affair. Despite his loyalty to the filmmaker, Travers wields the bucket based on the studio softening the film from an NC-17 to R rating. Next up isDo You Believe?, another corny, ham-fistedChristian drama from the Gods Not Dead crew. This time,everyone in Chicago looks at a cross above the Chicago river, and thats about it. Its people. . . telling you you must believe, Travers snaps. No! Dont believe.

He also runs away from Tim Johnsons animated 3-D comedyHome, which features the voices of Jim Parsons (as an alien) and Rihanna (a teenage girl searching for her mother, played by Jennifer Lopez). In the real world, we would never see a movie where Jennifer Lopez would agree to play Rihannas mother, Travers says. Even worse is the by-numbers action-thrillerRun All Night, which finds Liam Neeson treading water with anotherTaken-esque role.Liam, youve gotta get a brand new bag, Travers pleads.

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Neill Blomkamp may have struck sci-fi gold withDistrict 9, but Travers says hes milked his formula dry withChappie: [He]keeps making that same movie again robots who are more human than we are. Do something else! Speaking of formula, our critic says everyone inInsurgentseems to be thinking, Wewish were in The Hunger Games. In reality, theyre in the Scum Bucket. And Sean Penn earns similar scorn for his role inThe Gunman, another pointlessTakenknock-off.Its awful, Travers says. Its one chase scene after another. Sean, your hearts not in it and neither is our box-office dollar.

The months second-scummiest flick, Serena, stars Hollywood royalty Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper. But the drama, a Greek tragedy set in the Ozarks, falls shockingly flat.These people need really good directors, Travers says. But Marchs biggest disappointment is the big-ticket comedy Get Hard, which wastes two of the worlds funniest comic actors, Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart, in a lame plot about an embezzling hedge-fund manager trying to toughen up before entering prison. Travers cant resist some pointed word-play while tossing this dud in the bucket: A movie called Get Hard shouldnt be what this one is one limp noodle.