"Works as advertised"

While searching through the ever-growing lists of new iPhone apps, I have found an increasing number of reviewers giving (relatively) high ratings to applications simply for working "as advertised." At first this seems like a reasonable criteria to rate an application, but upon reflection it really isn't.

If a film were released called "Terrible Movie," it would not get the Academy Award for best picture simply for fulfilling that claim. Likewise, an application which does something pointless or stupid should not receive high ratings just because that's what it's supposed to do.