Yahoo Movies Nativity 3 Director Slams 'Disgusting' Critics After Press Drubbing
Debbie Isitt, the writer-director of ‘Nativity 3: Dude Where’s My Donkey’, has hit back at her film’s critics after it received a mauling in the national press, saying “These critics are just so out of touch with what people like and want.”
She singled out the Guardian’s film writer who described her festive comedy as “a John Lewis Christmas ad directed by Satan”, asking the Coventry Telegraph, “What on earth is wrong with Peter Bradshaw? He is disgusting and like a troll and should be ashamed of himself.
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“Was he sent to boarding school and abandoned? Perhaps he’s insane.”
His response to the Martin Clunes film which opened last Friday was fairly vitriolic.
His one star review said, “This is one of those British family comedies that make you want to soil the Union flag with your own faeces in the cinema foyer before setting fire to it.”
Above: ‘Nativity 3’ director Debbie Isitt
She also hit out at the Telegraph’s Robbie Collin for his one star review which called it “a garbled, sprayed-around mess”, adding “as soon as I left the cinema, I went looking for a donkey to kick me in the head.”
“I would do it for free… and in my high heels,” Isitt responded.
The film-maker pointed out that despite poor notices, the film was still being well-received at the box office.
“We are trying to do a good thing, not a bad thing, in what is a dark, depressing climate. Audiences love these films and will watch them over and over again.
“’Nativity 3’ has gone in at No 3 in the UK with a £1.8 million gross, 15 per cent up on ‘Nativity 2’.”
Bradshaw and Collins were not alone in disliking the largely improvised film though as it currently has a 11% rating on Rotten Tomatoes from 19 reviews. Time Out said, “The title is the funniest thing about this cynical seasonal cash-in” while Radio Times called it “desperately poor stuff”.
Isitt’s remarks chime with ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ creator Brendan O’Carroll’s comments from earlier this year, that critics are now largely irrelevant.
"The press are becoming less and less relevant. They really are. And I think they know it themselves,” he told us back in June.
"They’re all gathering together into that elephant’s graveyard. And they’re all going to lie down and the only thing we’ll want is their tusks.”
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