There is no accounting for taste, is a thing people say. Which makes the job of a movie critic rather obsolete... Nonetheless, as a profession, critics are still expected to be impartial arbiters of good taste. Sometimes, though, critical opinion and audience opinion don't match up at all.

These are 13 times when movies got a critical mauling only for fans to completely disagree. We've used the aggregate percentages on Rotten Tomatoes for both critics and audiences to get our ratings.

Who's right and who's wrong? You decide...

1. Bad Boys II [above]

Critics: 28%, Audience: 78%

"Epitomising everything that's wrong with modern Hollywood, Bad Boys II isn't simply bad, it's one of the worst films of the year," wrote Film4.

Thing is, the audiences didn't agree, giving the explode-y Will Smith and Martin Lawrence movie a solid rating and voting with their feet to the tune of a $262m worldwide box office.

2. Final Destination

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Critics: 34%, Audience: 69%

The New York Post called it "a silly slasher movie, minus the slasher" but it was the viewing public who spotted the genius of this franchise starter, where the 'slasher' is the inevitability of death, enacted via apparent accident and often involving household objects.

Four sequels later and the critics caught up, rating Final Destination 5 at 69%. Unfortunately by then the public wasn't so fussed, giving it a so-so 52%.

3. The Punisher

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Critics: 29%, Audiences: 63%

Back before Marvel was the money-printing machine we know today, this 2004 version of The Punisher starring Thomas Jane hit screens to not very much fanfare. The Times said it was "mildly entertaining, for all the wrong reasons" and the overall box office was pretty disappointing.

So audiences didn't turn out, but the ones that did see the movie were much warmer to it than the critics – now it has a bit of a cult following.

4. Equilibrium

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Critics: 38%, Audiences: 81%

This dystopian cerebral action sci-fi starring Christian Bale was accused of riffing heavily on other (better) sci-fi and received mostly negative reviews (the San Francisco Chronicle called it "super- violent, super-serious and super-stupid").

But fans responded well, and director Kurt Wimmer seemed pretty happy with that, saying: "Why would I make a movie for someone I wouldn't want to hang out with? Have you ever met a critic who you wanted to party with? I haven't."

5. Van Wilder

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Critics: 19%, Audiences: 73%

Much of the critical complaints around this movie, starring Ryan Reynolds as a college party organiser, centre on how base, crude and disgusting the jokes are. Which, it turns out, audiences don't have so much of a problem with.

No one comes to this film expecting Terrence Malick, and even the critics praised Reynolds for his likeable performance. Unfortunately the sequel, Rise of Taj, got no love from anyone, racking up 38% and 7% respectively.

6. A Night at the Roxbury

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Critics: 11%, Audiences: 69%

This spin-off from Saturday Night Live characters, starring Will Ferrell, was considered "profoundly unfunny" by Sight and Sound, but audiences have warmed to it.

It's a bit of a '90s guilty pleasure that doesn't hold up that well, but has charmed some with its relentless silliness.

7. Empire Records

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Critics: 24%, Audiences: 84%

Another quintessentially '90s 'classic' about a bunch of 'cool' youngsters – starring Liv Tyler, Renee Zellweger and Robin Tunney when they were hot young things – who work in a record shop, clubbing together to try to save it from bankruptcy.

Audiences of a certain age love it. Critics found it "insubstantial, predictable and often dull" (TV Guide).

8. Cocktail

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Critics: 5%, Audiences: 58%

This 1988 Tom Cruise vehicle got an absolute kicking from critics with comments like "very, very stupid", "if they gave you this in a bar, you'd send it back" and "Cocktail is a bottle of rotgut in a Dom Perignon box".

Audiences were more in favour of it – although 58% is hardly a rave review – and we remember this as a kind of energetic, harmless bit of Cruise-flavoured fun. But maybe we were drunk when we watched it.

9. Step Up

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Critics: 19%, Audiences: 83%

A bit like Stomp the Yard, this dance movie was criticised mostly for its beats outside the dancing, with reviews calling it bland and predictable.

Audiences didn't seem to care – and the presence of a dancing Channing Tatum probably didn't hurt. The movie was a hit and spawned four sequels.

10. Rise of the Foot Soldier

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Critics: 14%, Audiences: 84%

A key British 'hooligan culture' movie, which charts the real-life ascension of Carlton Leach through the ranks of organised crime. Critics found it "ugly" and violent, saying "the direction smacks of sadism".

But like Raise Your Voice (it's nothing like Raise Your Voice), it knew who it was for and fans of ultra-masculine real-crime movies lapped it up. It even got a sequel in 2015.

11. The Boondock Saints

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Critics: 20%, Audiences: 91%

An ultra-violent crime movie about two brothers who embark on a wave of vigilante justice and are hailed as heroes, critics felt it was a "dim-witted, aesthetically clunky Tarantino clone" (Nick Schager, Lessons of Darkness) and questioned its dodgy morality.

Yet audiences generally thought it was a funny, cool actioner. "Just a great movie! Awesome action and just a fun movie! I don't fully get why critics hated it, but what do they know? This movie is a classic!" wrote Tommy F.

Well, there you go. Tommy F said so…

From: Digital Spy