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{{quote|''"This sucks on so many levels." -- Dialogue from ''[[JasonFriday Xthe 13th (film)]]''. Rare for a movie to so frankly describe itself.''|'''[[Roger Ebert]]'''}}
 
A stock part of reviews, usually critical ones.
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It can also be done with unintentionally self-critical sounding titles.
 
This is sort of an inversion of [[Quotes Fit for Aa Trailer]], when the work's creators or publicizers use a work's own lines to ''promote'' it. Of course, reviewers can do this trope "positively" and creators can do that one "negatively", but such instances are rare (especially the latter for [[Polish the Turd|a certain reason]]).
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* [http://www.qwipster.net/mosquitocoast.htm This review] of ''[[The Mosquito Coast]]''. (See last paragraph.)
* [http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_movies_blog/2010/08/movie-review-vampires-suck.html This review] of ''[[Vampires Suck (Film)|Vampires Suck]]'' mentions that the title is "too apt".
** The review in ''SFX'' starts off saying it's almost too obvious to say that "''Vampires Suck'' ... does", but it's also entirely accurate.
** Peter Travers' wrote a zero-star, four-word review: "This film sucks more."
* [http://www.totalfilm.com/reviews/cinema/disaster-movie This review] of ''[[DisasterSeltzer Movieand (Film)Friedberg|Disaster Movie]]''. "Contender for most apt movie title ever".
* [[That Guy With theThe Glasses|Luke Mochrie]] took the "random events" line from the trailer of ''[[Devil]]'' and said that it describes the film as a whole perfectly; everything that happens in the plot is random.
* This wiki's page on ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' isn't the only place that quotes Ian Malcolm's lines from the second movie to sum up the whole franchise:
{{quote| "''Oooh, ahhh.'' That's how it always starts. Then later there's the ''running'' and the ''screaming''."}}
* [[That Guy With theThe Glasses|Doug Walker's]] ''Five Second Movies'' do something similar, such as summarising ''[[The Matrix]]'' with Neo's "Woah."
** Much fun was had by the [[That Guy With theThe Glasses]] [[Hatedom]] with [[Phelous]]'s line "This is gonna suck" in the ''[[Suburban Knights]]'' trailer.
* If we consider ''[[The Wizard (Film)|The Wizard]]'' as an ad for Nintendo products, [[The Angry Video Game Nerd (Web Video)|The Angry Video Game Nerd]]'s review of the Power Glove counts.
{{quote| "It's so bad."}}
* The Time Magazine [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1083942,00.html review] of ''[[Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince]]'' noted the book's parallels to the series' [[Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets|second installment]] and quotes the character Hagrid saying "Chamber o' Secrets all over again, isn't it?"
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'''Cyrus''': However, we acknowledge that it did in fact, suck. }}
** [[Cop Out]] review: "I mean, just think about-Okay, the name of this movie is 'Cop Out', and this... that name alone has so much more hidden meanings into it than we'll ever know because Holy Jesus! I cannot believe what I suffered through tonight." said Co-Host 3000.
** [[The Cabin in The Woods (Film)|The Cabin in Thethe Woods]] review: "It gave me a cabin in the ''[[Incredibly Lame Pun|wood]]''" - guest reviewer Brian Salisbury.
** A Thousand Words review:
{{quote| '''Co-Host 3000''': Have we-Have we mentioned the title of this movie?<br />
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'''Co-Host 3000''': 'Cause every goddamn frame is literally killing Eddie Murphy's career.<br />
'''Korey''': Oh, I though you were gonna say A Thousand Words Can't Describe How Bad This Movie Is. }}
* Holy Moly's [http://www.holymoly.com/reviews/cinema-dvd/film-review-just-go-it52943 review] of ''[[Just Go Withwith It]]'' is an subversion. Just read the title.
* Also ''[[Sucker Punch]]'': "But there is nothing here to enjoy, beyond the tiny satisfaction in noting that the movie lives up to its name." - [http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/movies/sucker-punch-from-zack-snyder-review.html New York Times review].
* blu-ray.com's [http://www.blu-ray.com/movies/The-Ugly-Truth-Blu-ray/7038/#Review review] of [[The Ugly Truth]] opens with:
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* Not exactly an '''''echo''''', but Leonard Maltin's review of the 1948 film ''Isn't It Romantic?'' consisted of one word: '''"NO."'''
* "[[You Bastard|Those of us who watch...are WE]] ''The Condemned'' ?" More than one review answered "Yes".
* Occasionally used by [[The Agony Booth (Website)|The Agony Booth]], for example (in the ''[[Zardoz]]'' [http://www.agonybooth.com/recaps/Zardoz_1974.aspx?Page=2 recap]):
{{quote| Frayn, apparently watching this movie, yells out, "A bore!" He then repeats, "How pointless!" a couple of times as he falls out of the mouth to his death. So, I guess he knows how the movie will end.}}
* Given the overall warm reception the game Awesomenauts has received, several reviews have noted that its title is for the most part, well-earned.
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