If Those Are the GOOD Reviews

Lady in the Water not getting much critic love, a few of the quoted blurbs before clicking on the link from some of the positive reviews below (as judged by Rotten Tomatoes, occaisonally they misjudge and change the good tomato to a rotten one and vice versa, links go to original reviews)

"Maybe the theme is that you should try to score some of that stuff Shyamalan must be smoking."

"A gaping psychic wound, a blood-spattered, pulsating tumor ripped violently from both its creator's head and, more fascinatingly, his heart, then planted onscreen, raw and unfettered, for all to come and see."

"Lady in the Water challenges us to believe in the power of myth. But the big challenge here is surviving the tedium of Shyamalan's meandering inventiveness. What's supposed to be fanciful storytelling is really just audience punishment."

"As with all of his other films, Lady in the Water offers plenty of grist for after-movie dinner conversations. The film is not without merit, just difficult to figure out. Maybe that's the way Shyamalan wants it."

Ouch! That's gonna leave a mark. I won't even bother linking the bad reviews, also, Ross Douthat writing for Slate has a post regarding the book written about his battle with Disney to get this film made (a battle acrimonious enough to send him running from that studio into the loving (though not after this weekend's returns) arms of Warner Bros.).