Review: none of this is meaningful or memorable , but frosting is n't , either 
Sentiment: negative

Review: honest performances 
Sentiment: positive

Review: the cheap , graceless , hackneyed sci-fi serials of the '30s and '40s 
Sentiment: negative

Review: mctiernan 's remake may be lighter on its feet -- the sober-minded original was as graceful as a tap-dancing rhino -- but it is just as boring and as obvious . 
Sentiment: negative


Review: constructed around a core of flimsy -- or , worse yet , nonexistent -- ideas