10 Movies Rated Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes That Would Be Rotten If Released Today

Spy Kids has 93% on Rotten Tomatoes. That's the same rating as No Country For Old Men. Just let that sink in for a minute.

Quite why it was so adored in 2001 that it trumped all-out classics and Oscar wins is one of cinema's biggest mysteries. Heck, its sequel was still Certified Fresh despite being a bit of a chore. My guess is that being directed by Robert Rodriquez at a time when he'd been absent for a few years and his Mexico Trilogy was still fresh in people's minds meant that they wanted to see him succeed across genres, so honed in so tightly on his visual stylings that everything else was ignored. Now, post-Grindhouse (an experiment that told everyone both he and Tarantino weren't infallible), you'd be hard pressed to find anyone that forgiving.

This movie's critical success was so hyperbolic that it's actually been crowned the most overrated movie on the whole of Rotten Tomatoes; a 2014 analysis of the difference between critic and audience ratings found that it had the biggest gap at 48%. That makes the debate around DC's movies look positively tame.

Also on the list was Stuart Little 2, which is perhaps even more inexcusably high.