Perhaps it's time to forgive Roger Ebert for his "thumps up" review of both Garfield: The Movie and its sequel Garfield: A Tale of Two Kitties. Often criticized, occasionally accosted (What did ever happen to Vincent Gallo?), but always a perennially relevant film source, Ebert has gotten even more proudly uncompromising later in life. The ailing critic (still recovering from emergency treatment for salivary gland cancer) recently summoned the nerve to tell off the all powerful Disney Co. after a contract dispute, ending in the banning of his trademark phrases "thumps up" and "thumbs down" from all broadcasts of the syndicated At the Movies (a reformated version of what was once Ebert & Roeper nee Siskel & Ebert). Now he's simply taken to mocking the hell out of low IQ ingrates on his "Movie Answer Man" column found at RoberEbert.com. Here he tells off a slang-crazed super fan of the grand debacle Disaster Movie in cryptic internet abbreviations as incomprehensible as those used in the inquiry. Perhaps if he was an ordinary man, just another blogger or another column writer, it would seem tacky and probably not all that funny. But he's Roger Ebert. And that makes this hilarious.Q: Yo dude, u missed out on “Disaster Movie,” a hardcore laugh-ur-@zz-off movie! Y U not review this movie!? It was funny as #ell! Prolly the funniest movie of the summer! U never review these, wat up wit dat?
A: Hey, bro, I wuz buzier than $#i+, @d they never shoed it b4 hand. I peeped in the IMDb and saw it zoomed to #1 as the low$ie$t flic of all time, wit @ lame-@zz UZer Rating of 1.3. U liked it? Wat up wit dat?
Roger Ebert's greatest piece of writing? I think so.
