First of all, I'm heartened to see the previous comment, it's good to see the Americans know it was terrible too.
Now, imagine my surprise and delight at the news that Doctor Who was making a long awaited come-back, I even loved the tagline, "He's back, and it's about time." Quite clever and catchy if I do say so myself. Unfortunately, that's about the only good thing about it. Well, that said I liked the choice of Paul McGann as the Doctor, he had the right... alien feel about him, and his costume was good too, and I liked the scene in the operating theatre when they got lost in his cardio-vascular system, but that is literally all the good I have to say.
It started appallingly, with the Master being tried on Skaro by the Daleks! Ah yes, those well known keepers of the peace and... no, wait, weren't they a scurge to the universe slaughtering anything that wasn't a Dalek, and even some things which were? And the TARDIS interior... hideous, inexcusable. The whole Master turning into evil goo? Offensive in it's stupidity. As if it weren't bad enough the arbitrary placing of the eye of harmony in the TARDIS, making it accessable only in the presence of a human? Oh, very useful on a TIME LORD CRAFT, I don't think. The Doctor being half human? Once more, just plain stupid. The whole kissing thing... well, I'm not all that angry about that really, I actually think it perhaps had potential as a character development, the emergent of a romantic side, although I'd have preferred to see it happen with, say, a character he'd had around for long enough to grow attached to, rather than someone he met the day before. I could go on with the criticism for hours, but these things are limited to 1000 words. Even if, as a friend suggested, you consider it apart from Doctor Who, it's a poor film in its own right, and it's absolutely nonsensical without the background provided by Doctor Who.
I class it with the other Doctor Who films, in that they are terrible and should not be considered even vaguely relevant to the continuity of the series. What's more they relied on the Doctor Who name for success, and if you consider them apart from it as films in their own right they're not much cop either, I'm just glad there's no sign of a series being spawned from it.
Basically, it's all very well trying to find new things for the Doctor to do, but you can't just rewrite the entire universe like that, I really do wonder how they managed to make it without someone saying "You're actually going to do this?? The fans will hate it, this is going to suck."
Now, imagine my surprise and delight at the news that Doctor Who was making a long awaited come-back, I even loved the tagline, "He's back, and it's about time." Quite clever and catchy if I do say so myself. Unfortunately, that's about the only good thing about it. Well, that said I liked the choice of Paul McGann as the Doctor, he had the right... alien feel about him, and his costume was good too, and I liked the scene in the operating theatre when they got lost in his cardio-vascular system, but that is literally all the good I have to say.
It started appallingly, with the Master being tried on Skaro by the Daleks! Ah yes, those well known keepers of the peace and... no, wait, weren't they a scurge to the universe slaughtering anything that wasn't a Dalek, and even some things which were? And the TARDIS interior... hideous, inexcusable. The whole Master turning into evil goo? Offensive in it's stupidity. As if it weren't bad enough the arbitrary placing of the eye of harmony in the TARDIS, making it accessable only in the presence of a human? Oh, very useful on a TIME LORD CRAFT, I don't think. The Doctor being half human? Once more, just plain stupid. The whole kissing thing... well, I'm not all that angry about that really, I actually think it perhaps had potential as a character development, the emergent of a romantic side, although I'd have preferred to see it happen with, say, a character he'd had around for long enough to grow attached to, rather than someone he met the day before. I could go on with the criticism for hours, but these things are limited to 1000 words. Even if, as a friend suggested, you consider it apart from Doctor Who, it's a poor film in its own right, and it's absolutely nonsensical without the background provided by Doctor Who.
I class it with the other Doctor Who films, in that they are terrible and should not be considered even vaguely relevant to the continuity of the series. What's more they relied on the Doctor Who name for success, and if you consider them apart from it as films in their own right they're not much cop either, I'm just glad there's no sign of a series being spawned from it.
Basically, it's all very well trying to find new things for the Doctor to do, but you can't just rewrite the entire universe like that, I really do wonder how they managed to make it without someone saying "You're actually going to do this?? The fans will hate it, this is going to suck."