Pete Docter's Up (Disney / Pixar) (top); Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie in The Hurt Locker (Jonathan Olley / Summit Entertainment) (bottom)
And the Golden Tomato goes to…
Pete Docter's animated feature Up and Kathryn Bigelow's Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker. In the former, a old widower travels to South America carrying his house along with him; in the latter, a bomb-squad unit goes about trying to defuse explosives in Iraq.
Those two disparate films were the critics' top favorites according to the website Rotten Tomatoes. The reviews for Pixar's Up were 98 percent positive; those for The Hurt Locker were 97 percent positive. Previous Golden Tomato winners include two other Pixar productions, WALL-E in 2008 and Ratatouille in 2007.
At the other extreme, the Moldy Tomato Award for the year's worst-reviewed film went to Andrzej Bartkowiak's Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li, with a mere four percent critical approval rating. Considering the competition — Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Did You Hear About the Morgans?, The Box, etc. — this is quite a feat.