I forgot to mention last week that Who’s Your Caddy? was not screened for critics prior to its release. I probably overlooked the film because it hasn’t been released at all in Canada.
Meanwhile, it is beginning to look like Underdog, which opens this Friday, is also giving critics the cold shoulder. The only local screening that I know of is on Thursday night — and as we all know, night-before-release-date screenings “don’t count”. I also know of at least one major American city where at least some critics are being told that there won’t be any screenings of this film.
Incidentally, I have been curious lately as to how some Christians might react to this film’s “One Nation… Under Dog” tagline, which might strike some as a tad sacrilegious. (See also the “John 6:27” tagline in some of the Live Free or Die Hard posters, where “John” stood for John McClane and “6:27” stood for the release date. If there were a third example of this sort of thing, we would have a “trend” and someone could write an article about it.) FWIW, I know of at least one Christian firm that is actually promoting this film to the church-based press — presumably because it’s a “family movie”, and not because of any perceived religious content.
AUG 1 UPDATE: I have just been informed that Thursday night’s preview screening of Underdog is a “no press” screening.
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