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

carla gugino graduates from high school and instead of staying in her small farming town , she goes to college in california .
there she meets the residential advisor pauly shore , who is a city boy .
when gugino goes back home for thanksgiving , she brings shore with her , and her parents ( lane smith and cindy pickett ) are less than thrilled .
dan gauthier , gugino 's boyfriend from high school , proposes to gugino .
gugino is n't ready for anything like this
so she makes up the story that she is engaged to shore .
she and shore have to make it look like they are engaged while her parents try to make it end .
forget jurassic park , cliffhanger , the firm and last action hero , son - in - law is the film to see this summer .
son - in - law is a great romantic comedy that should please the viewers , especially fans of the wiez .
when son - in - law is long gone and forgotten , the blockbuster summer films will still be playing and you will have a chance to see them then .
this film could also make great video fare for those that are leery of spending seven dollars on it .
nothing will be lost by watching it on a television screen .
although the basic story line has been done many , many times before , the film is still fun to watch .
the laughs are plentiful , especially when the wiez is around .
the way some of the jokes are done are new , even though some of the jokes are old .
there are also several new jokes that , at least , i have n't seen before .
still , when presented right , even old material can be funny still .
this film is just basically a light comedy that is great to see if you are in the right mood that does n't contain much violence or any nudity that is definitely worth full ticket price .
the cast for this film does an excellent job .
pauly shore ( encino man ) is the star attraction of this film .
he is great , and knows how to entertain the audience .
pauly shore just seems to take over the entire screen when he is on with expressions and comments that are hilarious .
this film would definitely not have been as good with anyone else in this role .
carla gugino
does a very good job as the farm girl gone city girl .
she makes her character believable , on some levels , yet interesting at the same time .
the person who played the grandfather ( mason adams , i believe ) also does a great job .
the way he delivered his lines kept me laughing throughout the time that he was on the screen .
patrick renna , who played gugino 's little brother , was a little annoying , but no where as near as macaulay culkin , and for only part of the time , so i can forgive him .
tiffani - amber thiessen ( a killer among friends , " saved by the bell " ) does a reasonably good job for the time that she is on screen .
she shows that she may have a potential in movies if she can get out of the corny young adults programming on television .
she was n't given overly much to do in the film , but what she had ,
she does a good job with .
P

one never quite knows what one is going to get with a mamet film .
his american buffalo is a set - bound piece that has very little plot .
sometimes he will tell a story that really moves .
heist is mamet
doing his most entertaining work .
unlike his the spanish prisoner , there are no lapses in credibility .
heist is probably the best mamet thriller since house of games .
it is the kind of plot with which you are never sure who will double - cross whom , and frequently it is mamet double - crossing the viewer .
watching the film 's team getting around security the viewer is frequently asking himself either " what the heck are they doing ?
"
or " why did n't anybody think of that before ? " appropriately enough heist opens with a very clever jewelry store job .
it is so clever that one wonders if mamet really thinks up all these ideas himself or if he has help from professional magician and con expert ricky jay , now a regular actor in mamet films .
this is a robbery that works like a well - oiled machine .
there is just one problem and it is enough to get joe moore ( played by gene hackman ) filmed on a security camera .
now joe has to get out of the business .
it was coming time anyway .
joe 's team including bobby blane ( delroy lindo ) , fran moor ( rebecca pidgeon ) , and pinky pincus ( ricky jay ) is going to split up and go separate ways .
but crime boss bergman ( danny devito ) is pulling the strings
and he says that joe and his people have to manage one more robbery .
and he has to take along a young kid , the short- fused jimmy silk ( sam rockwell ) .
immediately it is obvious that there is more going on than meets the eye .
much of what distinguishes heist is mamet 's dialog .
remarkably it serves a double purpose .
the robbery team sounds at once very professional and at the same time it has mamet 's special feel for dialog
.
hackman has lines like " everybody needs money .
that 's why they call it money .
"
mamet 's timing is perfect in the direction but terrible in the production .
the plot is coincidentally a lot like the plot of the recent the score , which is , in fact , a very similar story .
both are good films , perhaps for some of the same reasons .
but at least on a high level they are much the same story .
the other problem with the timing of heist is that it involves airport security and clever ways to get around them .
i saw the film at the toronto international film festival on september 12 , 2001 .
that made the subject matter just a little too timely .
my understanding is that the release will be delayed .
my biggest problem with the film is that rebecca pidgeon 's acting at times seems very poor .
it is some kind of mamet trademark i do not understand to have women talk without inflection , as if they are just reading the words for the first time .
it is an irritation and distracts us from what is
otherwise a very good thriller .
it is one i rate an 8 on the 0 to 10 scale and a high +2 on the -4 to +4 scale .
P

because the press screening of " planet of the apes " was one day past last issue 's deadline , i was afforded the opportunity to see the film a second time , listen to audience reactions and read a heap of reviews before writing this piece .
the chief complaints of those who disliked the futuristic adventure appear to be that the movie focused on visuals instead of substance , that the story was thin , that mark wahlberg 's character was colorless and that the surprise ending sucked .
to those people i would like to say ?
what the hell did you expect ?
this is a tim burton movie , boys and girls .
tim burton movies have great art direction and thin , clunky stories .
for the blissfully nasty , disjointed and underrated " mars attacks !
"
( jonathan rosenbaum of the chicago reader and i were two of the only critics in america to praise the movie ) burton reportedly tossed vintage " mars attacks !
" trading cards onto the floor and based his story on the ones that landed face up .
burton 's re - imagining of the 1968 story of an astronaut that lands on a planet where apes rule men looks great .
the apes , courtesy of make - up magician rick baker , are dazzling and ape city is a wonder to behold .
like astronaut leo davidson ( wahlberg ) , the film hits the ground running , whisking viewers through a head - spinning series of solid one - liners and engaging vignettes and establishing a sense of thrust that carries us through the more traditional fight scenes that come later .
as for wahlberg , consider what burton does with his character .
from his start as a filmmaker , burton has shown his fascination with colorful misfits ( pee - wee herman , the joker , ed wood , the ack - acking martians , etc . ) and lack of interest in standard issue heroes .
so leo davidson spends most of the movie getting the living shit kicked out of him before the biggest guilt trip in history is dropped on his shoulders .
as for lack of color , remember , leo only launches into space to get his monkey back .
he does n't want to lead humanity and he is n't looking for romance from a pretty , but dull human ( estella warren ) or a dynamic ape ( helena bonham carter , terrific
as an equal - rights activist ) .
as a man who just wants out , wahlberg is focused , subtle and sly .
the surprise ending provides the requisite shock ( and some more dandy visuals , particularly of the approaching authority figures ) , but admittedly is n't nearly as satisfying as the one in the original .
for the original ending to work , we only had to make one simple connection , for this one , we have to write a whole new screenplay .
the 1968 " apes " boasted a handful of great scenes , cool looking monkeys , a deliciously hammy performance by charlton heston ( who appears uncredited here as an aged chimp on his deathbed , re - delivering a classic line ) and a killer ending .
but viewers had to suffer through numerous dull stretches punctuated by social and political messages delivered with the grace of a wrecking ball .
the 2001 " planet of the apes " offers a different set of great scenes , much cooler looking monkeys , fine acting from wahlberg , bonham carter , paul giamatti and tim roth , and a not so good ending .
it also gives us another chance to experience the skewed vision of tim burton and that 's nothing to complain about .

P