Task: Sentiment Analysis
Input (English): my giant is two movies for the price of one , but neither is worth the cost of admission , even if you get in free .
as lamely directed by michael lehmann , the picture tries to be a comedy by using and reusing every giant joke in the book .
( " without goliath , david is just some punk throwing rocks . " )
languidly paced throughout , the movie becomes increasingly lugubrious
as the screenplay by david seltzer ( the omen ) meanders toward its sad ending .
since it 's rarely funny or convincingly dramatic , what the filmmakers thought they were doing remains a mystery .
other than a few nice visuals , there 's nothing to recommend the picture .
with great film comedies under his belt from when harry met sally ?
to the original city slickers , billy crystal has shown that he 's more than the world 's best oscar host .
he does , however , have a propensity for choosing hopeless material
as in last year 's father 's day and this year 's my giant .
one wonders if he reads the script before agreeing to go ahead with a project .
surely reading the one for my giant would have shown that there was nothing there .
perhaps he thought he could ad lib it into success .
or maybe he wants to be a dramatic actor and thought he could do something serious with the movie 's somber tone .
the most charitable thing that could be said about it is that it is so ineffectual that people will probably forget
they saw it by the next day .
this one - joke movie 's single idea is to place real - life basketball player gheorghe muresan , who stands seven and a half feet tall , into as many visually striking situations as possible .
sammy ( crystal ) , an agent currently without clients , is rescued after a car accident by a sweet romanian giant named max ( muresan ) .
after throwing out constant one - liners ( " either god is in the salvage business or big foot just took my car . " ) , sammy decides to get serious , seeing max as his meal ticket .
and although he does n't like it , he 's willing to sign max up to do disgusting events like a wrestling match with a half - dozen dwarfs .
( the movie itself knows no bounds as
it contains one of the most putrid and lengthy vomiting scenes ever . )
after a series of missed opportunities , the comedic part of the movie is over , and it turns into a cheap and maudlin disease movie .
we learn that max 's condition is terminal , and he will soon die . to be fair , the movie does contain a few good scenes - all of which you can see in the trailers .
let 's hope billy gets himself a pair of reading glasses before he signs up for another movie .
my giant runs too long even at just 1 : 37 .
it is rated pg for violence and profanity and would be acceptable for kids around ten and up .
my son jeffrey and his friend matthew , both 9 , gave the movie a single star and had nothing good to say about it .
matthew pointed out that it " is not as good as it could have been or should have been .
"
( amen . )
he went on to comment that he did not like the way the movie changed completely in the middle .
jeffrey complained particularly about how gross the movie was .
Output (English): N