Review: to play one lewd scene after another 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the film settles too easily along the contours of expectation 
Sentiment: negative

Review: it 's a frankenstein-monster of a film that does n't know what it wants to be . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: a leash -- far too polite to scale the lunatic heights of joe dante 's similarly styled gremlins 
Sentiment: negative


Review: ca n't begin to tell you how tedious , how resolutely unamusing , how thoroughly unrewarding all of this is , and what a reckless squandering of four fine acting talents ...