CinemaSins is a YouTube channel created by Jeremy Scott and Chris Atkinson.CinemaSins - YouTube. Retrieved June 20, 2014. The channel produces the "Everything Wrong With..." series that offers critique and commentary on movies. As of November 28, 2025, CinemaSins has approximately 9,180,000 subscribers and over 4.0 billion video views. Retrieved June 20, 2014.Gutelle, Sam (October 24, 2013). "YouTube Millionaires: Cinema Sins Shows No Movie Is Perfect". Tubefilter. Retrieved January 18, 2014. Its slogan is "No Movie Is Without Sin," indicating that even the greatest films ever made still have flaws. The channel's founders have since established a stand-alone website, CinemaSins.com, operating concurrently with the YouTube channel.
History Scott and Atkinson met in 1999 while working as managers at a movie theater and had a shared love for movies. Atkinson had worked at the theater since he was a teenager.Gold, Adam (January 30, 2013)."Multiplex hecklers, musicians and marksmen are turning YouTube into a career path — and in some cases, a cash register" .Nashvillescene. Retrieved June 20, 2014. The two began to preview new Friday releases the prior Thursday after the theater closed, and would criticize and crack jokes during the early showing.Klima, Jeff (June 5, 2014)."CinemaSins Scores Neil Degrasse Tyson For ‘Gravity’ Review; NMR Scores CinemaSins For Interview".NewMediaRockstars. Retrieved June 20, 2014. On May 9, 2011, they launched the YouTube channel "thecussingchannel" which contains supercuts of various films such as "Just the Cussing" for Pulp Fiction and "Just the Spells" for all 8 of the Harry Potter films, as well as four Apple ad parodies narrated by Scott. In addition to writing articles for ReelSEO, Scott founded the Internet marketing firm The Viral Orchard, and Atkinson wrote for his movie review blog.. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
On December 11, 2012, after a few unsuccessful channel attempts, they released "Everything Wrong With The Amazing Spider-Man In 2 Minutes Or Less", which garnered over 250,000 views in the first week partly due to a BuzzFeed post.Berkowitz, Joe (July 19, 2013)."Everything Wrong With Every Movie You've Seen In The Last Decade (And The Art Of Going Negative)".FastCoCreate. Retrieved June 21, 2014.Kennelworthy (December 11, 2012)."Everything Wrong With The Amazing Spider-Man In 2 Minutes Or Less". BuzzFeed. Retrieved June 21, 2014. Since then, they have consistently put out at least 2 "Movie Sins" videos each week, and now work full-time on the channel. In May 2014, Jeremy Scott started the channel CinemaSins Jeremy in which he makes videos detailing his thoughts and criticisms about trends in films and Hollywood news, as well as reviews and mashups.CinemaSins Jeremy - YouTube Retrieved August 6, 2014. Two other spin-off channels featuring the Everything Wrong With... format have been launched.
In October 2014, Brand Sins was launched with content that criticizes companies, and in January 2015, Music Video Sins, with content revolving around complaints and inconsistencies in music videos. On January 9, 2016, CinemaSins started a podcast called The SinCast in which Scott, Atkinson and Barrett Share discuss various topics related to film and CinemaSins projects. In September 2018, TV Sins was created which focuses on highlighting errors in popular TV shows. In January 2021, Commercial Sins was created which focuses on highlighting errors in TV commercials. As of , the channel has amassed over 3 billion views and 9.17 million subscribers, and over 700 films (and over 2,000 episodes combined from all channels) were sinned.thecussingchannel - YouTube. Retrieved June 20, 2014.
Video series CinemaSins was launched on December 11, 2012, on YouTube, and uploaded their first two-minute long video titled "Everything Wrong With The Amazing Spider-Man" by Jeremy Scott. Due to the success, CinemaSins have released seven other series.
Everything Wrong With... CinemaSins main video series, Everything Wrong With..., explores complaints about a film's writing, acting, direction, production values, deus ex machina examples, clichés, plot holes, instances that defy logic and physics, factual errors, poor visual effects, derivative premises and other content that they deem "sins".8 YouTube Channels Every Film Fan Should Subscribe To|Film Inquiry
Most transgressions are awarded a single sin, but on occasion, more sins (as much as one billion, as seen in the Home Alone 2: Lost in New York episode, specifically during the cameo of Donald Trump) that appear to offend the narrator are awarded for effect. The climactic rescue scene in The Fate of the Furious disabled the sin counter and at least 161 sins were instead displayed as "R.I.P."; because of the damage, a 2.0 was used temporarily until the original counter was 'fixed' in Scream 2. However, there are times when sins are removed due to the presence of a scene which is considered exceptionally good, which makes up for the original sin (an exception was done during an April Fools episode in 2016 for the Troll 2 by removing a total of 10,000 sins before resetting to zero in the end). On two occasions (The Avengers and Doctor Strange), the sin counter additionally counted sins by mistake or added by the narrator.
CinemaSins has been known to show great disdain for certain directors, such as Michael Bay, Roland Emmerich, McG, Joel Schumacher, Zack Snyder, and M. Night Shyamalan.
Each video begins with two taglines added on the film's title card ("In x minutes or less" [X is rounded up to the video's total minutes of runtime, excluding verdict, intro, bonus round and outtakes], and "Spoilers! (Duh)" [indicating the film's potential spoiler content]); the video is then played with an on-screen "sin count" and "sin timer" (video runtime) throughout (with common expletives and profanities censored), and ends with a "verdict" for the film. The early videos usually featured generic verdicts like "Hell", though eventually, they came to employ words or phrases that refer to the film's content, such as lines of dialogue or settings, accompanied with audio samples or snippets to narrate the verdict. On rare occasions, a film will start with negative sins because of how good it is or because of a good decision early in the film, such as not overexposing the studios' logos. Frequently, the first sin listed is the total length of the logo sequences of the various production companies involved in the film, usually lampooning them as being too long. Usually, all of the sins are written by Scott and Atkinson; in one case, Iron Man 3s sins are described by the subscribers instead (Scott still did the video's narration and the bonus round).
Some videos feature a "bonus round", in which additional sins are added (removed, in the case of Deadpool and Deadpool 2) to the count for repetitive occurrences in the film.The Huffington Post UK (March 1, 2013). "The 62 Errors In 'Skyfall'". The Huffington Post. Retrieved January 18, 2014."Everything Wrong With 'Star Trek Into Darkness' In 7 Minutes Or Less". The Huffington Post UK. August 20, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2014."Everything Wrong With Jurassic Park In 3 minutes Or Less". The Huffington Post UK. May 15, 2013. Retrieved January 18, 2014. The sin count rarely reflects the reviewer's relative overall opinion of the film, so their true opinion is usually made clear in the video descriptions. Atkinson does most of the editing, while Scott narrates most of the videos, with the following exceptions:
Atkinson narrated Prometheus on behalf of Scott; Canadian YouTuber Matthew Santoro narrated Underworld: Evolution; Nostalgia Critics host Doug Walker narrated How the Grinch Stole Christmas!; Screen Junkies host Jon Bailey narrated Iron Man 3 and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (the latter was a crossover, with Bailey narrating an "Everything Wrong With" video, while Scott did an Honest Trailers video); Astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson narrated Gravity, Interstellar, and The Martian; Couch Tomato narrated the bonus round for Finding Dory ("20 Reasons Why Finding Nemo and Finding Dory are the Same Movie"); Writer Ian Whittington narrated Supergirl and Minions & Monsters on behalf of Scott Producer Deneé Hughes narrated The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants on behalf of Scott Each episode consists of one video playing about 15–20 minutes or more, but four episodes (Transformers: Age of Extinction, and all three films of the Star Wars prequel trilogy) were split into two parts due to video overruns; the Furious 7 episode was also split into two videos but had the audio outtakes separated into another video. Zack Snyder's Justice Leagues video was also split because of the 4-hour runtime, but unlike the first four instances, the film had two parts uploaded on two separate days (September 23 and 28, 2021), and a full version with the two parts combined was uploaded four days later on October 2. As of August 9, 2018, audio outtakes are now uploaded as a separate video starting with Cloud Atlas.
Certain stock criticisms are used as running gags, a number of which are ironic references to certain films, such as someone/something having "gone to the Prometheus School Of Running Away From Things" (used when one or more characters flee from a fast-moving or falling object in a straight line ahead instead of perpendicular to it to avoid the object completely), and "[Insert Character] would be excellent at CinemaSins" (used when a character mentions a would-be sin in a scene that would have already been counted as one by Scott had he said it instead), or "No one will be seated during the..." suggesting that a given scene is excessively boring or drawn out. Sometimes these criticisms are used in a doubly-ironic fashion within the very films that they reference, such as the alien characters in Signs being sinned for having "the same weakness as the aliens in Signs".Everything Wrong with Signs in 16 Minutes or Less Sometimes they allow Scott to be self-referential. For example, one stock criticism known as the "my college girlfriend" sin involves Scott making a reference to a sexual encounter he claims he had with a girlfriend while in college by commenting that a line said by a character in a particular scene was said by either himself or his girlfriend during that encounter.Everything Wrong With Hotel Transylvania 2 In 13 Minutes Or Less During every film made by a Comcast company, like Universal or DreamWorks, a "Comcast" sin is always played first. Whenever a film title is mentioned in a movie, "Roll Credits" (or its similar text) sin is played.
Family films tend to be less harshly criticized. For example, Megamind receives its share of sins, but they are delivered in a more lighthearted manner. However, one notable exception to this rule is films in the Despicable Me franchise, which have been sinned heavily due to the Minions characters featured in them, whom Scott perceives as highly irritating and thus a negative influence on the films' overall quality.Everything Wrong With Despicable Me 2 In 16 Minutes Or LessEverything Wrong With Despicable Me 3Everything Wrong With Minions In 15 Minutes Or Less
"Everything Wrong With" videos are typically uploaded every Tuesday and Thursday (with exceptions for every September since 2014, during which videos only upload on Tuesdays). Videos are selected and sinned, most commonly chosen by popular demand, though usually by at least one of the following reasons: A prequel film (or a series) to promote an upcoming film, usually sequels, and sometimes film reboots or remakes; An actor or director's prior film role in relation to the upcoming film; A seasonal-themed film to celebrate holidays; or any Academy Award-accolade film to promote the annual Academy Awards; A particular theme, genre or company in relation to an upcoming film; In rare cases, anniversaries for the film or a particular director/actor;