In the wake of the disastrous showing for The Island, nearly everyone involved in the film has been publicly pointing a finger of blame at...well, someone else. Director Michael Bay blamed bad marketing, the producers blamed Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson for not being big enough stars, and then this week Johansson's publicists blamed the producers for being incompetent. And everyone, of course, is blaming the dreaded box-office slump.

After opening in fourth place, the film has earned back less than $30 million of its $120 million budget -- so there will be plenty more time for blame, recrimination, backbiting, and excuses as the film limps along to unprofitability.

To aid in the debate, Fametracker helpfully presents these twenty-five fresh reasons that have not been blamed for the flop of The Island. Yet.

The mistaken belief among moviegoers that this was a remake of Gilligan's Island

Ewan McGregor's unnerving beardlessness

The movie's original tagline: "There's Not Actually An Island"

The lacklustre performance of Noa Tishby as "Community Announcer"

Violence in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

A misguided PR campaign that positioned the film as "Bad Boys 2, but with a Scottish guy and the best friend from Ghost World"

Anti-island sentiment following last year's tsunamis

Screenwriter Caspian Tredwell-Owen has the name of a ponce-y schoolboy

Sunspots

Failure to properly publicize the surprise Will Ferrell cameo

Conflict between the Red States and the Blue States

The musical numbers just didn't "pop"

One in every ten The Island lunchboxes was sold with a live leech inside

iPods

Getting steamrolled by the box-office juggernaut that is Michael Chiklis

The decision to do all The Island promotional tie-ins through Speedy Muffler and Brake Center, including special two-for-one The Island non-existent lube jobs

Weak middle-relief pitching

Robert Novak

Persistent anti-The Island letter writing campaign initiated by an energized base of clones

The Sunni Muslims

Howard Dean's scream

Men's changing attitudes toward personal grooming products

America's unpredictable and sudden shift toward hating crap

Jews!

El Niño