TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
PROBLEM: adam sandler is n't known for appearing in deep , thought - provoking films , but he 's still a really funny guy .
most of his movies are successful not because of the film making behind them , but because they let sandler do what he does best without a stupid plot to drown him out .
big daddy is the first film in which the story seems more important than sandler 's comic performance , and it 's a miserable failure
.
sandler plays a thirty - something loser who gets attached to an orphaned young boy ( played by cole and dylan sprouse ) .
as one might expect from the synopsis , director dennis dugan resorts to the usual bag of manipulative and sentimental sequences , including a repulsive courtroom battle and a lot of teary scenes in which characters say " good - bye " to one another ; in addition , there 's a ridiculous amount of disgusting toilet humor ( urine and vomit both get more screen time than sandler himself ) .
there 's a hilarious running joke featuring a female doctor who previously worked at hooters , and the film features passable performances from sandler , joey lauren adams ( as the love interest ) , and the two young boys , but the film on the whole is trite and disappointingly unfunny .

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: synopsis : lifelong friends rafe ( affleck ) and danny ( hartnett )
join the us air force and are stationed at pearl harbor , hawaii .
rafe goes to england to fight alongside british pilots and is seemingly killed in action .
danny falls in love with rafe 's girlfriend , evelyn ( beckinsale ) , but rafe survives and returns to confront his former friend .
meanwhile , the japanese sneak attack is imminent . . .
review : " pearl harbor " is a perfect example of movies as product rather than as art .
it is little more than a crassly - calculated attempt to woo the masses , enticing them with big stars , big effects , and a big setting -- but no heart .
it is difficult to criticise the actors , because they do everything the movie demands of them . sadly ,
this amounts to barely more than reciting dialogue of such sheer banality that it makes one eager to see the script randall wallace wrote with his right hand at the same time as he was writing " pearl harbor " with his left .
the plot here is pure cliche , and the wartime setting simply a convenient backdrop .
there is no genuine exploration of what pearl harbor meant to the united states , and no insight into its vital role in inciting that country to join world war ii . instead , there is just an assembly - line love triangle , some empty patriotic rhetoric , and a laughable attempt to placate japanese viewers via the inclusion of some reticent imperial commanders ( when one intones , " i fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant " , i nearly fell out of my seat ) .
to the movie 's credit , it does include a fantastic portrayal of the attack itself , an exciting and dizzying hour which plunges viewers into the war .
if only the remaining two hours had been crafted with such skill , perhaps this memorial day non - event would have been worth watching .

SOLUTION: N

PROBLEM: " have you ever heard the one about a movie so bad that it made a guy run out of the theatre screaming ? " obviously the producers at columbia tristar did not think that we suffered enough from the first installment , and so to finish us utterly , they have now released " urban legends : final cut " .
this is another " scream " -like feature , consisting merely from the recycled materials of rip - offs from the most pointless movies of all time .
amy ( jennifer morrison ) is a film student who is attending a film school filled with uninspired film students who do not have a clue about what to do .
but just as she reaches the halfway mark of her final semester at prestigious university 's film program -- where each year 's best thesis production takes the coveted hitchcock prize , a virtual one - way ticket to hollywood success -- she has a chance encounter with campus security guard reese ( loretta devine ) , whose tale of a series of murders based on urban legends at another university inspires amy to try her hand at a fictional thriller organized along similar lines .
soon enough , fake -- and real -- blood starts to flow , and amy is being chased around by scary killer , while her cast and crew get slain , one by one .
is the culprit the original urban legends murderer , just some random psycho , !
a member of the faculty , one of her competitors for the hitchcock , or is there something even more stupid going on ?
this is another one of those tiring , pointless teen slasher flicks : neither scary , funny , or interesting .
it simply lacks the ability and the story to entertain .
the body counts and screams continue to grow , as the weak level of intelligence sinks rapidly .
in fact watching films like that after having watched " scary movie " is impossible keeping a serious face .
several times
i tried to prevent myself from laughing , without succeeding .
and then i realized that practically the whole theatre was laughing .
it 's the same thing that has been told and told and told over and over again as if it was the revelation of the century .
how many times must we tolerate the same clich ?
s
that have haunted the slasher genre since its birth ?
it has been so many films about masked killers that most of us have developed an allergy for them .
they are the most stupid , meaningless , predictable and soulless films in existence .
however , director john ottman manages to make " urban legends : final cut " into one of the worst achievements of this godforsaken genre .
what was done with a sense of redemption for past failures and irony in " scream " , ottman takes seriously .
for that reason alone , it is worth a look , just to realize how bad a movie can be
.
it 's tough to find comparisons for such an achievement , and we have to dig in ancient history to find a movie that would match its intellect .
even movies like " lost in space " and " mission to mars " seem spectacular in its shadow .
we have not seen such waste of t !
ime and resources
since " showgirls " ( 1995 ) .
no matter how hard i tried to find positive elements in this so called production , i came up with nothing , except the way the killer was dressed .
here i feel that i have to compliment the costume designers trysha bakker and marie - sylvie deveu , that have wisely replaced the well known scream - mask with a very elegant fencing mask .
jennifer morrison ( " stir of echoes " ) is all right , and the other actors ' best achievement is keeping a straight face when pronouncing the words from the script .
in fact the only thing that is terrifying about this film ( with the exception of its screenplay ) is its portray of film schools .
if these graduates will be the directors of the future , then hollywood 's golden days are over .
rumors are already spreading through the internet that columbia tristar is already developing a third installment .
let 's just hope and pray that it 's just an urban legend .

SOLUTION:
N