Review: fails to overcome the film 's manipulative sentimentality and annoying stereotypes . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: was produced by jerry bruckheimer and directed by joel schumacher , and reflects the worst of their shallow styles : wildly overproduced , inadequately motivated every step of the way and demographically targeted to please every one ( and no one ) . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: am highly amused by the idea that we have come to a point in society where it has been deemed important enough to make a film in which someone has to be hired to portray richard dawson . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: constantly touching , surprisingly funny , 
Sentiment: positive


Review: laughs -- sometimes a chuckle , sometimes a guffaw and , to my great pleasure , the occasional belly laugh