Only saved from all-time worst status by a good soundtrack and Tom Hanks' best effort to turn a truly awful character into someone vaguely palatable.

This movie is an insult to the audience, its own subject matter and to anyone operating on something higher than basic brain stem function.

Oh, look at the funny retard - he's a moron but he has a simple wisdom that can redeem us all. Fortune cookies are sophisticated when compared to the message of this film. Ugh.

It is a sad commentary on the Academy's milquetoast voting standards that Gump is not the worst film to ever win a Best Picture award.