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181 | it 's a bad thing when a movie has about as much substance as its end credits blooper reel . | 1 |
108 | too often , the viewer is n't reacting to humor so much as they are wincing back in repugnance . | 1 |
241 | it appears that something has been lost in the translation to the screen . | 1 |
552 | here 's yet another studio horror franchise mucking up its storyline with glitches casual fans could correct in their sleep . | 1 |
22 | holden caulfield did it better . | 1 |
69 | this one is definitely one to skip , even for horror movie fanatics . | 1 |
392 | an overemphatic , would-be wacky , ultimately tedious sex farce . | 1 |
322 | that 's pure pr hype . | 1 |
209 | this is not the undisputed worst boxing movie ever , but it 's certainly not a champion - the big loser is the audience . | 1 |
452 | it 's clear the filmmakers were n't sure where they wanted their story to go , and even more clear that they lack the skills to get us to this undetermined destination . | 1 |
373 | not since freddy got fingered has a major release been so painful to sit through . | 1 |
612 | davis ... is so enamored of her own creation that she ca n't see how insufferable the character is . | 1 |
408 | there are simply too many ideas floating around -- part farce , part sliding doors , part pop video -- and yet failing to exploit them . | 1 |
748 | and when you 're talking about a slapstick comedy , that 's a pretty big problem . | 1 |
502 | deadeningly dull , mired in convoluted melodrama , nonsensical jargon and stiff-upper-lip laboriousness . | 1 |
357 | stealing harvard aspires to comedic grand larceny but stands convicted of nothing more than petty theft of your time . | 1 |
547 | the film is based on truth and yet there is something about it that feels incomplete , as if the real story starts just around the corner . | 1 |
670 | verbinski implements every hack-artist trick to give us the ooky-spookies . | 1 |
584 | a hamfisted romantic comedy that makes our girl the hapless facilitator of an extended cheap shot across the mason-dixon line . | 1 |
208 | and the lesson , in the end , is nothing new . | 1 |
121 | it seems to me the film is about the art of ripping people off without ever letting them consciously know you have done so | 1 |
197 | for starters , the story is just too slim . | 1 |
212 | the entire movie is about a boring , sad man being boring and sad . | 1 |
869 | a subject like this should inspire reaction in its audience ; the pianist does not . | 1 |
402 | however it may please those who love movies that blare with pop songs , young science fiction fans will stomp away in disgust . | 1 |
526 | it 's a bit disappointing that it only manages to be decent instead of dead brilliant . | 1 |
318 | hit and miss as far as the comedy goes and a big ole ' miss in the way of story . | 1 |
649 | the film 's few ideas are stretched to the point of evaporation ; the whole central section is one big chase that seems to have no goal and no urgency . | 1 |
189 | its story may be a thousand years old , but why did it have to seem like it took another thousand to tell it to us ? | 1 |
852 | part low rent godfather . | 1 |
770 | i do n't think i laughed out loud once . | 1 |
722 | too restrained to be a freak show , too mercenary and obvious to be cerebral , too dull and pretentious to be engaging ... the isle defies an easy categorization . | 1 |
254 | attempts by this ensemble film to impart a message are so heavy-handed that they instead pummel the audience . | 1 |
31 | ... designed to provide a mix of smiles and tears , `` crossroads '' instead provokes a handful of unintentional howlers and numerous yawns . | 1 |
600 | professionally speaking , it 's tempting to jump ship in january to avoid ridiculous schlock like this shoddy suspense thriller . | 1 |
819 | the movie is dawn of the dead crossed with john carpenter 's ghosts of mars , with zombies not as ghoulish as the first and trains not as big as the second . | 1 |
687 | this is a shameless sham , calculated to cash in on the popularity of its stars . | 1 |
127 | in the end , we are left with something like two ships passing in the night rather than any insights into gay love , chinese society or the price one pays for being dishonest . | 1 |
390 | mattei is tiresomely grave and long-winded , as if circularity itself indicated profundity . | 1 |
233 | i 'd have to say the star and director are the big problems here . | 1 |
382 | a great ensemble cast ca n't lift this heartfelt enterprise out of the familiar . | 1 |
232 | it 's not that kung pow is n't funny some of the time -- it just is n't any funnier than bad martial arts movies are all by themselves , without all oedekerk 's impish augmentation . | 1 |
571 | passable entertainment , but it 's the kind of motion picture that wo n't make much of a splash when it 's released , and will not be remembered long afterwards . | 1 |
281 | chokes on its own depiction of upper-crust decorum . | 1 |
340 | the most hopelessly monotonous film of the year , noteworthy only for the gimmick of being filmed as a single unbroken 87-minute take . | 1 |
813 | i can take infantile humor ... but this is the sort of infantile that makes you wonder about changing the director and writer 's diapers . | 1 |
531 | ( t ) here 's only so much anyone can do with a florid , overplotted , anne rice rock 'n' roll vampire novel before the built-in silliness of the whole affair defeats them . | 1 |
4 | it 's slow -- very , very slow . | 1 |
178 | it made me want to wrench my eyes out of my head and toss them at the screen . | 1 |
676 | well-nigh unendurable ... though the picture strains to become cinematic poetry , it remains depressingly prosaic and dull . | 1 |
838 | sometimes seems less like storytelling than something the otherwise compelling director needed to get off his chest . | 1 |
839 | but this films lacks the passion required to sell the material . | 1 |
28 | it 's a cookie-cutter movie , a cut-and-paste job . | 1 |
137 | forced , familiar and thoroughly condescending . | 1 |
814 | this piece of channel 5 grade trash is , quite frankly , an insult to the intelligence of the true genre enthusiast . | 1 |
264 | it ca n't decide if it wants to be a mystery/thriller , a romance or a comedy . | 1 |
242 | it all feels like a monty python sketch gone horribly wrong . | 1 |
301 | the x potion gives the quickly named blossom , bubbles and buttercup supernatural powers that include extraordinary strength and laser-beam eyes , which unfortunately do n't enable them to discern flimsy screenplays . | 1 |
764 | movie fans , get ready to take off ... the other direction . | 1 |
489 | it 's dumb , but more importantly , it 's just not scary . | 1 |
291 | even with a green mohawk and a sheet of fire-red flame tattoos covering his shoulder , however , kilmer seems to be posing , rather than acting . | 1 |
689 | once the 50 year old benigni appears as the title character , we find ourselves longing for the block of wood to come back . | 1 |
157 | it takes talent to make a lifeless movie about the most heinous man who ever lived . | 1 |
701 | even the finest chef ca n't make a hotdog into anything more than a hotdog , and robert de niro ca n't make this movie anything more than a trashy cop buddy comedy . | 1 |
20 | pumpkin takes an admirable look at the hypocrisy of political correctness , but it does so with such an uneven tone that you never know when humor ends and tragedy begins . | 1 |
461 | it 's too bad that the helping hand he uses to stir his ingredients is also a heavy one . | 1 |
361 | a very long movie , dull in stretches , with entirely too much focus on meal preparation and igloo construction . | 1 |
734 | this is n't even madonna 's swept away . | 1 |
647 | too much of the humor falls flat . | 1 |
751 | one long string of cliches . | 1 |
582 | despite all evidence to the contrary , this clunker has somehow managed to pose as an actual feature movie , the kind that charges full admission and gets hyped on tv and purports to amuse small children and ostensible adults . | 1 |
715 | there 's too much falseness to the second half , and what began as an intriguing look at youth fizzles into a dull , ridiculous attempt at heart-tugging . | 1 |
578 | just not campy enough | 1 |
844 | given how heavy-handed and portent-heavy it is , this could be the worst thing soderbergh has ever done . | 1 |
29 | i had to look away - this was god awful . | 1 |
554 | it treats women like idiots . | 1 |
329 | utterly lacking in charm , wit and invention , roberto benigni 's pinocchio is an astonishingly bad film . | 1 |
657 | expect the same-old , lame-old slasher nonsense , just with different scenery . | 1 |
118 | every nanosecond of the the new guy reminds you that you could be doing something else far more pleasurable . | 1 |
653 | a lackluster , unessential sequel to the classic disney adaptation of j.m. barrie 's peter pan . | 1 |
545 | from the opening scenes , it 's clear that all about the benjamins is a totally formulaic movie . | 1 |
513 | care deftly captures the wonder and menace of growing up , but he never really embraces the joy of fuhrman 's destructive escapism or the grace-in-rebellion found by his characters . | 1 |
58 | manages to be both repulsively sadistic and mundane . | 1 |
365 | portentous and pretentious , the weight of water is appropriately titled , given the heavy-handedness of it drama . | 1 |
672 | in all , this is a watchable movie that 's not quite the memorable experience it might have been . | 1 |
202 | there ought to be a directing license , so that ed burns can have his revoked . | 1 |
171 | rarely has leukemia looked so shimmering and benign . | 1 |
190 | try as i may , i ca n't think of a single good reason to see this movie , even though everyone in my group extemporaneously shouted , ` thank you ! ' | 1 |
431 | should have been someone else - | 1 |
133 | the tale of tok ( andy lau ) , a sleek sociopath on the trail of o ( takashi sorimachi ) , the most legendary of asian hitmen , is too scattershot to take hold . | 1 |
412 | the movie 's accumulated force still feels like an ugly knot tightening in your stomach . | 1 |
256 | rarely has so much money delivered so little entertainment . | 1 |
135 | pumpkin means to be an outrageous dark satire on fraternity life , but its ambitions far exceed the abilities of writer adam larson broder and his co-director , tony r. abrams , in their feature debut . | 1 |
781 | at once half-baked and overheated . | 1 |
639 | indifferently implausible popcorn programmer of a movie . | 1 |
110 | scores no points for originality , wit , or intelligence . | 1 |
775 | not really bad so much as distasteful : we need kidnapping suspense dramas right now like we need doomsday thrillers . | 1 |
637 | the piquant story needs more dramatic meat on its bones . | 1 |
163 | slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler 's fancy , but when it costs a family of four about $ 40 to see a film in theaters , why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead ? | 1 |
661 | it 's another video movie photographed like a film , with the bad lighting that 's often written off as indie film naturalism . | 1 |