You might as well have stayed home and read Shopaholic.

As usual, there were some stinkers at the box office this year. Here are the flicks we felt were especially smelly.

88 Minutes: This movie was shelved for years before finally being released. Never a good sign. The plot (about a forensic psychiatrist having 88 minutes to solve his own murder threat) was so convoluted we're not even sure we've accurately summarized it. The awful dialogue and predictable twists brought out the embarrassing, over-the-top side of Al Pacino. He deserves better.

Smart People: Smart People the movie made actual smart people look bad. Sarah Jessica Parker and Dennis Quaid were so unbelievably boring that not even their arrogance or self-indulgence were entertaining. Dennis Quaid managed to take on the physicality of his character - impressive, except for the fact that it made the zero-chemistry love scenes with SJP seem icky and borderline incestuous.

The Women: We were actually looking forward to this one. It had an impressive cast, (Annette Bening, Bette Middler, Eva Mendes), a screenplay by Murphy Brown scribe Diane English, and was a remake of the George Cukor classic. George Cukor is rolling over in his grave. The cliche portrayal of the relationships between men and women, and of women especially, was embarrassing. This, Hollywood, is what you think of women?

Beverly Hills Chihuahua: A dog that talks. And wears jewels and little sweaters. We'll leave it at that.

10,000 BC: We could barely stay awake on our class trip to the Natural History Museum. Keeping our eyes open through this two-and-a-half hour prehistoric epic was simply not possible. We'd like to meet the stoner who thought it was a good idea to throw woolly mammoths, saber-toothed tigers and prehistoric men and women together in one movie, and call it a love story.