Review: really get weird , though not particularly scary 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the film sounds like the stuff of lurid melodrama 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the self-serious equilibrium makes its point too well ; 
Sentiment: negative

Review: those visual in-jokes , as in the film 's verbal pokes at everything from the likes of miramax chief 
Sentiment: positive


Review: even in those moments where it 's supposed to feel funny and light