I think one of the reasons the critics came at it so harshly was that it was sort of this meme-movie. Lots of quotable lines. Lots of memorable scenes. But the overarching story kinda sucked. The villains were silly and lame. The heroes were uninspired. The movie parked itself on Irish Dude-Bro demographics and just kinda catapulted itself into cult classic material by casting Willem Dafoe a bit before he went mainstream.

I think it's better than a 26%. But not all that much better.

For me, fan score is a separate axis (how much fun is the film).

I love to chase my toddler around and say “You’re going nowhere! Where you goin’? nowhere!” Before lightly bodyslamming him. Now he just runs around yelling, “I’m not going anywhere”

https://youtu.be/8qfNR-ft7A4

I actually just showed my partner the first movie a few weeks ago, somehow she had never heard of it but I was shocked at the scores on imdb.