Review: ridiculousness 
Sentiment: negative

Review: comes to resemble the kind of soft-core twaddle you 'd expect to see on showtime 's ` red shoe diaries 
Sentiment: negative

Review: by bad writing 
Sentiment: negative

Review: we 've seen it all before in one form or another , but director hoffman , with great help from kevin kline , makes us care about this latest reincarnation of the world 's greatest teacher 
Sentiment: positive


Review: a gently funny , sweetly adventurous film that makes you feel genuinely good , that is to say , entirely unconned by false sentiment or sharp , overmanipulative hollywood practices .