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The worst blockbuster movie of every year since 2000, according to critics
2000: "What Lies Beneath"
2001: "Pearl Harbor"
Global box office total: $449.2 million
Critic score: 25%
What critics said: "The effect of watching a Michael Bay film is indistinguishable from having a large, pointy lump of rock drop on your head. His new picture, 'Pearl Harbor,' maintains the mood." — Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Runner-up: "Hannibal" grossed $351.7 million globally and holds a 39% critic score.
2002: "Men in Black II"
Global box office total: $441.8 million
Critic score: 39%
What critics said: "The down-home satire of how we cope with cultural difference has evaporated, replaced by jazzy effects that wear out their welcome by the halfway mark." — Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Runner-up: "Die Another Day" grossed $432 million globally and holds a 57% critic score.
2003: "Bad Boys II"
Global box office total: $273.3 million
Critic score: 22%
What critics said: "This sequel is as sour and jaded as they come." — J.R. Jones
Runner-up: "The Matrix Revolutions" grossed $427.3 million globally and holds a 36% critic score.
2004: "Shark Tale"
Global box office total: $367.3 million
Critic score: 35%
What critics said: "Feels borrowed, sampled and dittoed from the collective funniness of the past 10 years in studio-made animation." — Desson Thomson, The Washington Post
Runner-up: "Meet the Fockers" grossed $516.6 million globally and holds a 39% critic score.
2005: "Madagascar"
Global box office total: $532.7 million
Critic score: 55%
What critics said: "Boring and bedraggled." — Derek Adams, Time Out
Runner-up: "Mr. & Mrs. Smith" grossed $478.2 million globally and holds a 59% critic score.
2006: "The Da Vinci Code"
Global box office total: $758.2 million
Critic score: 25%
What critics said: "Completing the trail of cryptic clues simply becomes an end in and of itself — think Sudoku: The Movie — with little in the way of whimsy, star chemistry or excitement to enliven the dour plod." — Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Runner-up: "Night at the Museum" grossed $574.5 million globally and holds a 43% critic score.
2007: "National Treasure: Book of Secrets"
Global box office total: $457.4 million
Critic score: 35%
What critics said: "As much as you want to applaud the movie's winking commitment to its own Looney Tunes logic, it's frustrating when lazy and illogical plot devices are used like cattle prods." — Peter Howell, Toronto Star
Runner-up: "Shrek the Third" grossed $799 million globally and holds a 41% critics score.
2008: "Hancock"
Global box office total: $624.4 million
Critic score: 41%
What critics said: "Train wrecks are intrinsically spectacular, and Will Smith's new movie offers a doozy. Two of them, in fact." — Tom Charity, CNN.com
Runner-up: "Mamma Mia!" grossed $609.8 million globally and holds a 55% critic score.
2009: "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"
Global box office total: $836.3 million
Critic score: 19%
What critics said: "The movie is like the play date from hell, the kind where a crew of children reduce your home to rubble and conduct endless bouts of loud war on the living-room floor while you ponder the propriety of opening a bottle of wine." — Mary F. Pols, Time
Runner-up: "The Twilight Saga: New Moon" grossed $709.7 million globally and holds a 28% critic score.
2010: "The Twilight Saga: Eclipse"
Global box office total: $698.5 million
Critic score: 48%
What critics said: "The choice of whether to see 'Eclipse' isn't really a question of whether the movie is good or bad. It's a question of whether or not the movie speaks to your secret, unregulated, inherently ridiculous experience of identification and desire." — Dana Stevens, Slate
Runner-up: "Alice in Wonderland" grossed $1.025 billion globally and holds a 51% critic score.
2011: "The Smurfs"
Global box office total: $563.7 million
Critic score: 22%
What critics said: "To play The Smurfs Drinking Game you will need: Two 500 cl bottles of Blue Bols (per player), one white sleeping cap, ample powder-blue face paint and too much spare time." — David Jenkins, Time Out
Runner-up: "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1" grossed $712.2 million globally and holds a 25% critic score.
2012: "Ice Age: Continental Drift"
Global box office total: $877.2 million
Critic score: 38%
What critics said: "Whenever I watch an 'Ice Age' movie, I understand how my mother felt whenever I zoned out in front of the television after school." — Rafer Guzman, Newsday
Runner-up: "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2" grossed $829.7 million globally and holds a 49% critic score.
2013: "Man of Steel"
Global box office total: $668 million
Critics score: 56%
What critics said: "No fun costume change in a phone booth, no wowing humans with his powers and no repartee with reporter Lois Lane." — Mara Reinstein, US Weekly
Runner-up: "Thor: The Dark World" grossed $644.6 million globally and holds a 66% critic score.
2014: "Transformers: Age of Extinction"
Global box office total: $1.1 billion
Critics score: 18%
What critics said: "You're either awestruck, dumbstruck or just plain struck in the face." — Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out
Runner-up: "The Amazing Spider-Man 2" grossed $709 million globally and holds a 52% critic score.
2015: "Minions"
Global box office total: $1.16 billion
Critics score: 56%
What critics said: "There's plenty of high-velocity comic inanity on display to keep kids happily diverted. But the movie's major flaw is an extension of its own premise: Search as they may, the minions never find a villain worthy of their subservience." — Christopher Orr, The Atlantic
Runner-up: "Spectre" grossed $880.7 million globally and holds a 64% critic score.
2016: "Suicide Squad"
Global box office total: $746.8 million
Critics score: 27%
What critics said: "To say that the movie loses the plot would not be strictly accurate, for that would imply that there was a plot to lose." — Anthony Lane, New Yorker
Runner-up: "Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice" grossed $873.6 million globally and holds a 27% critic score.
2017: "Despicable Me 3"
Global box office total: $1.034 billion
Critics score: 59%
What critics said: "Has some laughs, but not enough to prop up what feels like a flagging franchise." — Adam Graham, Detroit News
Runner-up: "Fate of the Furious" grossed $1.2 billion globally and holds a 67% critic score.
2018: "Venom"
Global box office total: $855.8 million
Critics score: 28%
What critics said: "Mostly bad-bad, with a splash and dash of fun." — Mara Reinstein, US Weekly
Runner-up: "Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald" has grossed $648.8 million globally and holds a 38% critic score.
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