In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.

wow !
what a movie .
it 's everything a movie can be : funny , dramatic , interesting , weird , funny , weird and strikingly original .
yep that pretty much describes this movie .
it starts out like a regular movie and ends up being one of the weirdest , funniest most original movies i have ever seen .
it boggles the mind and some have to wonder why we can not get movies like this more often .
besides being one of the best films of the year , being john malkovich may as well be one of the best movies ever .
period .
then again there are so many good movies , that one can not pick an all time favorite .
john cusack plays
a puppeteer craig schwartz a man out of a job , in search of a job .
his wife lotte schwartz who is played by a completely un - noticeable cameron diaz who looks like something off the streets is an animal lover and has about every kind of animal you could think of .
craig finds a job as a file at the 7 ? floor of a business building .
.. you have to pry open the elevator doors open before it reaches floor eight , the 7 ? floor is just a floor between 7 and 8 .
he is hired by his 105 year old boss ( orsen bean ) to be a filer .
in his office , he discovers a little door , to which was boarded up and hidden .
to his curiosity he opens it and starts to crawl toward it , he then gets sucked to the end and ends up in john malkovich 's mind .
fifteen minutes later he is shot out onto the side of the new jersey turnpike .
he returns to tell his co - worker maxine ( catherine keener ) that he has found a portal that will lead him into john malkovich 's mind , she does n't believe him but after she sees it it changes her mind .
lotte also finds out about the portal and discovers that being someone else is good after all .
john malkovich of course has no idea what is going on , and by the end of this bizarre film there are so many twists and turns , that we do n't know what really happened .
john cusack is outstanding and utterly believeable in a role only he himself could play .
he fits the role perfectly and to me was brilliantly cast .
cameron diaz is outstanding and utterly one of the world 's most prettiest women , is made up here unnoticeable and very unattractive .
she however gives a very comic performance and this could easily be her best role to date .
catherine keener is very funny and sexy as maxine and of course the best thing of the movie is the magic himself john malkovich who is very brilliant and this movie plays big time homage
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to the master himself .
the whole group combined gives us a wonderfully funny movie that is also smart and clever .
spike jonze ( three kings ) makes his fabulous directing debut , and did a fantastic job of directing this new classic film .
he lets the viewer go on the trip as well as let the viewer know they are watching a movie .
by the time the ending rolled around my head was spinning from disbelief of how good this film was .
the screenplay written by charlie kaufman was hilarious and often thought - provoking .
the film also had a soft side to it and even though the ending is very surprising it is also a little sad and heart - warming .
the whole movie was fantastic and had me rolling in the isles . from cameron diaz 's appearence to john malkovich 's explorations i laughed very hard , and it may as well be as funny as as good as it gets ( the funniest ! ) .
there is n't a slow point in the movie , or an overused idea .
there are no cliches except for the fact that this is the most original , inventie , witty , and smart movie i 've seen in a long time .
i found myself amazed by everything : the direction , acting , writing and the whole idea of the movie .
by the end i had to wonder why hollywood does n't want to make movies like this anymore .
or why they do n't .
all filmmakers watch this movie and get some ideas of movies to come out .
this was a surprise hit as was american beauty . ' being john malkovich '
is in the top 5 movies of the year , and in the top 10 best films ever made .
it has something that no other movies playing now has .
in fact it may as well be the best movie out right now .
i highly recommend ' being john malkovich ' and have no doubts you will be disappointed .
P

robin hood :
men in tights is another mel - brooks - produced film in the classic tradition of movies like blazing saddles and young frankenstein .
mel brooks is well known for his comic look at regular life , his fast paced dialogue and sharp wit .
unfortunately , robin hood :
men in tights has none of the easy going humor of blazing saddles , none of the fun acting of young frankenstein , is devoid of the charm of spaceballs , and is even lacking the good , solid dialogue of history of the world .
it is , in short , one of the worst movies i have seen mel brooks , or anybody else , produce .
the plot borrows heavily from the well - received kevin costner movie of last year , robin hood : prince of thieves .
this is not surprising in and of itself , and could have been used to great comic effect , mainly by parodying scenes from the orginal movie .
mel brooks does not take advantage of this , however , and uses the film to launch several ideas into the air , none of which connect and none of which are explained later on .
the movie 's scenes could be shuffled around in any order and one would be hard pressed to notice .
cary elwes , of princess bride fame , plays robin of loxley , a man who was captured in the crusades , fighting with king richard .
he escapes and , joining with a man named achoo
( i am sure you can see the obvious joke ) , fights in england to reclaim his name and the throne for richard , which has been captured by evil prince john , played by funny comic richard lewis .
he also tries for the love of maid marian and attempts to overthrow the evil " sheriff of rottingham " .
a good adventure plot that is sadly unused .
elwes and lewis are both excellent comics , but the dialogue in the movie is simply excruciating .
neither actor has any good words to work with , and the lines simply are n't funny , nor believable .
perhaps the worst example of this is when the group of merry men encounter a man playing a macaulay culkin clone from the hit movie home alone .
this particular scene is so out of place and so badly acted , and followed by so many other scenes of equal miserable ideas , that i really felt like leaving the theatre .
much of the audience continued to look at their watches throughout , and some left the theatre .
chuckles were few and far between , and they mostly dealt with visual jokes ( such as an old , beaten up horse from " rent - a - wreck " ) then from any dialogue whatsoever .
scenes that could have been classics , such as the archery contest , are ruined by poor acting .
perhaps the largest problem with the movie is that it is simply offensive .
the basic plot , that robin has received a key that will unlock the chastity belt of maid marian , is not witty nor funny .
mel brooks as a circumcision - giving rabbi is also offensive to me and others in the audience ( not all jewish , either ) .
the movie simply tries to hard trying to be funny and by and large fails .
the addition of a blind man who stumbles around , falling off cliffs , walking into ledges and being a general buffoon could have had some humorous potential , but is also made terribly offensive .
the only reason to see this movie is the surprise actor at the end who plays king richard .
he is well worth waiting for , if you can stand an hour and half of unfunny dialogue , excruciating visual humor , old puns , ancient jokes and bad acting .
if you ca n't , do n't even bother watching this miserable film .
N

" showgirls " is the first big - budget , big - studio film to receive an nc-17 rating .
and its release last year came at a time when senator bob dole and other politicans
chastised the entertainment industry for promoting sex and violence .
but if " showgirls " is any indication of hollywood 's future , the folks in washington should focus their attack on a more dangerous threat to american values -- bad moviemaking .
" showgirls " is a relentlessly exploitive look at the las vegas strip scene , and the film turns out to be just as trashy as its subject matter .
director paul verhoeven and writer joe eszterhas , who collaborated on another shock - value project , 1992 's " basic instinct , " follow the plight of a young woman ( teen tv star elizabeth berkley ) determined to make a name for herself as a topless dancer .
it 's a hackneyed premise to begin with , so not surprisingly , all of the stock characters are trucked out .
there 's the demanding producer .
the loyal friend .
the bitchy competitor .
lest i forget the scummy club owner .
of course , any attempt at character development or a coherent storyline is just window dressing for the film 's main attraction -- an endless parade of full - frontal nudity .
unfortunately , " showgirls " does n't satisfy in this department .
verhoeven 's slam - bang , in - your - face style of direction proves neither arousing nor erotic .
to make matters worse , you 'll be forced to sit through the movie 's clothed scenes , which do n't cover up for laughable acting and some of the most absurd dialogue ever spoken in film history .
verhoeven and ezsterhas deserve credit for trying to break ground , but if it 's adult entertainment you want , stay home and watch the playboy channel .
you 'll be the wiser for it .

N