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

[Q]: america 's favorite homicidal plaything takes a wicked wife in " bride of chucky , " and their unholy matrimony is something old , nothing new .
the burning question on the minds of most moviegoers , however , has nothing to do with nuptial specifics or even how the movie stacks up , but rather whether or not the duo gets down and dirty on their blood - soaked honeymoon .
the answer is a sick - and - twisted yes - and viewers are treated to a shadowy glimpse of some hot - enough - to - melt - rubber ( or at least singe it )
lovin' .
guess they 're anatomically correct .
chucky ( again voiced by brad dourif )
, of course , is the star of the " child 's play " series , a my buddy - type doll possessed by the spirit of a slain serial killer .
in " bride , " the plot ( heh )
picks up with his girlfriend tiffany ( jennifer tilly ) resurrecting chucky 's remains ( he was blown up at the end of " child 's play 3 " ) with the help of a black arts manual called " voodoo for dummies . " silly mortal .
before long , she 's also been reduced to shin - high figurine status , and the plastic incarnations of these one - time lunatic lovebirds hit the road to scope out some potential new human bodies .
the rest of this rocky horror puppet show plays out as tiff and the chuckster stalk a young couple ( nick stabile and katherine heigl ) with conjugal plans of their own , leading them towards a new jersey grave where a magical , soul - transferring amulet allegedly lies in wait . along the way , our murderous barbie and ken go through post - marriage motions similar to any given pair of newlyweds - bicker , argue , kiss and make up .
but when they squabble over who 's going to do the dishes , watch out .
hey , even faux people have got to work through their problems .
director ronny yu keeps the mayhem flashy and stages an inventive scene or two , but not even visual flair can make up for the fact that these creepy kewpies are neither scary nor menacing .
when one of them charges , it 's nothing a good forward punt could n't take care of .
and when a climactic chase scene is needed , one of the dim - bulb protagonists must _ pick_chucky_up _
so the demonic toy can force his hostage to run at gunpoint .
throw in some silly casualties and a ridiculous ending
( will " son of chucky " be next ? ) and this is a bizarrely bad 89-minutes at the movies .
as is the thing to do in post- " scream
" slasher cinema , don mancini 's screenplay slathers on the in - jokes and genre - parody . but
little of the humor succeeds , proving self - reference can be completely worthless when it lacks bite . to be fair , though , most of " bride of chucky " is on auto - pilot , so it 's not quite right to single out one misfired aspect of the film .
similarly shaky , the acting ranges from screeching camp to boring bland , the effects are n't that special and
the story is one big groaner .
here 's hoping chucky and his entire clan - past , present and future - rest in peace .
[A]: N


[Q]: capsule : earthy , experimental , difficult , shockingly frank ( even for 1997 ! ) , and ultimately refreshing story of a black man on the run from the cops .
the first few minutes of sweet sweetback 's baad asssss song ( yes , i checked --
that 's the correct number of ss )
are without dialogue , just eerie montages of sounds .
a young boy , obviously malnourished , is taken in and fed up by several loving mother - surrogate figures .
then one of them takes the boy to bed for a sexual initation ( underneath the title credits ) that 's far more confrontatory and shocking than any ten basic instincts -- probably because it has the directness and clumsiness of real life , something we 're not used to seeing on screen .
this is one tough movie to swallow , no matter who you are , but that probably reflects more on how pallid and unchallenging movies have gotten lately .
( i suspect the sex scenes in movies like el topo and salo would probably melt the synapses of most modern audiences . )
the plot is simple but not simpleminded .
sweetback , hassled by two white cops who are apparently just looking for an excuse to beat up on a black man , breaks his bonds and runs like hell .
along the way he moves through a good many of the kinds of environments that we are only just now being seen in a more serious light in the movies -- or at all , for that matter : the slums , the missions , the ghetto .
in other , lesser , movies , sweetback would be machine - gunning everything in sight and the end credits would roll over a pile of bodies ; in this one , we get taken on a kind of a tour of the depressing and anarchic world that sweetback takes for granted .
ssbas first appeared in 1971 and was promptly rated x ( " by an all - white jury " , as director melvin van peebles crowed in his legendary ad campaigns ) , and it 's hardly surprising why .
there 's a good deal of sex in the movie , but it 's handled in a way that 's unsettlingly frank -- a frankness that spills over into the rest of the movie .
in one scene , sweetback visits a friend 's house in the hope of getting sanctuary there , and the other man chats him up while on the toilet .
we 're not used to coming this close to people in real life , let alone in the movies -- especially not people who are not made out to be glamorous .
the movie is also full of experimental stylistics that are relatively unused today , but probably because of that seem curiously fresh and new in van peebles ' hands .
one scene , in which a man is interrogated by the cops , is loaded full of menacing energy as they fire off a gun inches from his ears , and suggest his deafness through a cleverly edited soundtrack .
another note : ssbas is not so much anti - white ( that would be too easy ) as anti - authority , and as the movie goes on to demonstrate , authority exists in many forms -- governments , churches , and even the paranoid inside of one 's own mind .
ssbas is ultimately about thirsting for freedom -- and it looks like we could use a little more of that in our movie diet , god knows .
[A]: P


[Q]: satirical films usually fall into one of two categories : 1 ) long - term satire where everything , including the jokes , is somehow related on a large scale ( i . e .
"
dr .
strangelove " ; 2 ) situation satire in which the comedy and themes are derived moment by moment and scene by scene ( i .
e .
" men in black " ) .
what 's unique about " wag the dog " is that it does n't necessarily fit either of these descriptions , and yet is both at the same time .
the result is a clever comedy based on an original , smart premise , even if the focus does tend to wander a bit .
if there 's anything that affects americans the most it 's politics and showbusiness .
in this age of information and technology , we 've been so conditioned by the media and the entertainment industry in our ways of perceiving things , it 's gotten to the point that we are practically controlled by it .
we need the media to bring us the most up - to - date news , but we also need the escapism of hollywood to counter all that thinking .
this film starts off well by quickly establishing these ideas , and then presents an interesting scenario : if politics , the media coverage of politics , and the entertainment industry are so closely related , could n't someone with the power and authority to manipulate one of the aspects manipulate them all ?
that 's
the idea conrad brean ( de niro ) , a professional washington spin doctor , comes up with in order to restore the president 's good name who has been accused of child molestation just weeks before the election .
brean , along with the president 's top advisor , winifred ames ( heche ) , fly to california to meet up with hot - shot movie producer stanley motss ( hoffman ) .
they pitch him an idea to " produce " the image of a war with albania ( it 's a country no one 's heard of
so they people will buy it ) .
soon the wheels are in motion and the film 's riffing satire comes into play .
we 're inundated with the hollywood mind set as motss brings in a number of experts to help manage the situation , such as a folk singer , visual and sound effects technicians , and a modern style expert known as the fad king ( leary ) .
the initial atmosphere is rich with numerous pop culture references where everything somehow relates to something on tv , in the movies , or in the news .
the characters ' dialogue is witty and funny , although some of the actual jokes and gags seem rather sitcom - esque .
for example , one scene shows motss and brean 's production crew filming an actress portraying a poor albanian refugee .
motss ordered a kitten for the girl to carry , but instead wound up with a dozen different dogs .
since it 's all computer - enhanced anyway , she ends up cradling a bag of tostitos with the kitten to be inserted later .
this demonstrates the film 's ability to take a relatively ordinary situation and make it smart and funny just through the premise .
but then there 's the gags and one - liners that , although are humorous , seem a little gratuitious in the long run such as motss not being able to remember the actress 's name ,
or , whenever a problem emerges , always responding with , " this is nothing !
" by the time the film makes it to the midpoint , everything that is going to happen in terms of plot happens .
the first act is quickly paced , while the second act contains most of the jokes and is the core of the film .
every ten minutes or so a new problem crops up that motss and brean must deal with , and
it 's always fascinating to see what they do and how they do it .
the screenplay provides good characterization and actually deals with most of the problems head - on in realistic manners .
however , it does have a tendency to avoid things and shift its focus from the election campaign and false war smokescreen to something a bit off the subject .
as the third act rolls around the satirical nature becomes more concerned with the situations and less so with the big picture .
what had started off as a brilliant , somewhat harmless conspiracy to fool the general public begins to seem more like something that would happen in a movie .
still , the situation comedy is quite funny , especially a montage showing the entire country flinging old shoes into trees to honor sgt .
willie schumann - a war hero
motss and brean concocted .
truly great satire manages to create for an entertaining story that makes you laugh at the time , but think about afterwards and " wag the dog " at least succeeds in this respect .
however , in retrospect it seems like so much more could have been done , namely by extending the running time and filling in the plot holes .
then again , it 's a valiant effort .
[A]:
P