Despite its popularity with young consumers, it is critically discussed in European media, NGOs, political parties, and market surveillance regarding its nutritional values, choking hazards, and traces of unwanted chemical substances.

Despite the drop on popularity of the romantic dramas, some of them have enjoyed big box office and critical success, as the controversial, groundbreaking Brokeback Mountain ( 2005 ) for example, that won several awards and Slumdog Millionaire ( 2008 ), a critically acclaimed romantic-drama that has been nominated for ten Academy Awards, and went on to win eight of them, including Best Picture.

Despite this, it was one of their most critically acclaimed albums and was included in Q's 50 Best Albums of 1995.

" Despite the negative publicity, Afrodisiac became Norwood's most critically acclaimed album to date, with some highlighting the " more consistently mature and challenging " effect of Timbaland on Norwood's music, and others calling it " listenable and emotionally resonant ," comparing it to " Janet Jackson at her best ".

Despite these events, this album was critically acclaimed in France, where the band made a 30-show tour in March 1999.

Despite a frequency of more than one train every two minutes, made possible by the installation of digital signalling in 1989, and the partial introduction of double-decker trains since 1998, the central stations of Line A are critically crowded at peak times.

Despite this popularity and two critically acclaimed, top-selling independent 45s, they failed to secure a contract with a major record label.

Despite series-high ratings, the changes were critically panned and many felt that at that point the series had " jumped the shark ".

Despite Powell's great reviews in the part, Bounce was not critically successful and did not move to Broadway.

Despite flopping at the box-office, Paheli was critically acclaimed, as was Khan's performance, which Raja Sen called " A top-notch performance, justifies his supremacy in the film world ".

Despite being critically panned with a 14 % " rotten " rating from Rotten Tomatoes, it was a financial success, grossing over $ 168 million.

Despite its faults, the treatise remains critically successful because of its " noble tone ," " apt precepts ," " judicious attitude ," and " historical interests ".

Despite receiving an average of 81 % at Game Rankings, Tekken 4 stands as the least critically successful game of the Tekken series.

Despite Federal Marshalls and FBI SWAT teams firing thousands of bullets into the home before setting it alight, Kahl was killed by a single. 41 Magnum bullet fired by Sheriff Gene Matthews, who died on an operating table critically wounded by a bullet from Kahl's Mini-14.

Despite the film's financial disaster, critical response for Looney Tunes: Back in Action was mixed to positive, making it more critically successful than the previous Looney Tunes film Space Jam.

Despite being noted as one of Akira Kurosawa's most critically renowned postwar films, Nora Inu was once not held in such high regard by the director himself.

Despite these failures, there were high points in Silverman's tenure at NBC, including the launch of the critically lauded Hill Street Blues ( 1981 ), the epic mini-series " Shogun " and The David Letterman Show ( daytime, 1980 ), which would lead to Letterman's successful late night program in 1982.

Despite not being as critically well received as her previous record, Whip-Smart debuted at # 27 on the Billboard 200 and ultimately achieved gold status.

Despite the issues surrounding the record behind the scenes the album went on to become the bands most critically acclaimed album to date.

Despite the sound change differenced from most Opeth albums, it was critically acclaimed and boosted their popularity, leading to the release of Lamentations on DVD in 2004.

Despite his incarceration, Cormega gained some attention following a shout-out from Nas on his song " One Love ", from the critically acclaimed Illmatic album.

Despite being critically unpopular at the time of its release, due to its poor quality compared to other films and dubious morality, Les Vampires was a massive success with its War-time audience, making Musidora a star of French cinema.

Despite its short run, the series was critically acclaimed by its fans, and has since retained a cult following.

Despite The Big Room being critically acclaimed, it was not as commercially successful as their first album.

Despite Edward Heath claiming it was a ' hard, cold budget, without any glimmer of warmth ' Jenkins ' first budget broadly received a warm reception, with Harold Wilson remarking that ' it was widely acclaimed as a speech of surpassing quality and elegance ' and Barbara Castle that it ' took everyone's breath away '.

Despite this, the film was highly acclaimed and was nominated for several Academy Awards, including Best Picture.

Despite the fact the band were together just four years in their original incarnation, the Small Faces ' music output from the mid to late sixties remains among the most acclaimed British mod and psychedelic music of that era.

Despite their limited commercial success, the creative core of the Birthday Party have gone on to acclaimed careers: singer and songwriter Nick Cave, multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Mick Harvey, and singer, songwriter and guitarist Rowland S. Howard.

Despite Arnauld's achievements in various fields, his name is mostly known because of Pascal's acclaimed writings, which were more fit for the general public than Arnauld's technical essays.

Despite Wagner's increasing prominence as one of several acclaimed self-publishers of the period — along with Jeff Smith ( Bone ), Colleen Doran ( A Distant Soil ), James Owen ( Starchild ), and Sim — the series stalled after issue # 12 in 1994.

Despite being a small village, in recent times it has also hosted acclaimed comedy and arts festivals.

Despite initially unfavorable reviews, Days of Heaven has since become one of the most acclaimed films of all time, particularly noted for the beauty of the cinematography.

Despite the gameplay being universally acclaimed, the title's storyline was divisive and became the source of mixed opinions and controversy.

Despite the negative publicity, the band pressed on regardless with a set of live shows in the summer of that year, including T in the Park where they were acclaimed by many as the best live act T in the Park had ever seen, the Glastonbury Festival and the V Festival.

Despite its relatively short life, Spy was among the most widely acclaimed and discussed of American magazines of its time, chiefly for its detached and ironic tone, its use of quasi-scientific charts and tables to convey information, and its elaborate, classically influenced typography and layout.

Despite the release of her album so late in the year, Larson was acclaimed Female Vocalist of 1978 by Rolling Stone who opined no one else could sound as if she were having so much fun on an album and Nicolette reached No. 15 on Billboard's album chart aided by the hit single " Lotta Love " a Neil Young composition.

Despite this, O ' Leary once again avoided any risk of relegation and signed AC Milan's international defender Martin Laursen, highly rated Chelsea prodigy Carlton Cole and acclaimed French midfielder Mathieu Berson, while still restricted by a tight budget imposed by chairman Doug Ellis.

Despite this, the game was acclaimed by critics, with several publications drawing comparisons to the 1995 video game MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat.

Despite excitement in Japan over Virtua Fighter 3 in arcades, the limited hardware capabilities of the Sega Saturn led Sega to delay a console release.

Despite a lower polygon-count than its predecessor, Virtua Racing, Daytona's 3D-world was fully texture-mapped, giving it a more realistic appearance than the former.

Despite it also having an arcade release, it never enjoyed the popularity of the Virtua Cop nor the Time Crisis series.