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

[EX Q]: you know the plot : a dimwit with a shady past is seduced into committing a crime only to be double - crossed by a fatal femme .
in " palmetto , " the dimwit is harry barber ( woody harrelson ) , a reporter who 's just been released from prison ( he was framed by the gangsters and corrupt officials he was investigating ) .
enter la femme : rhea malroux ( elisabeth shue ) , the sexy young wife of the richest man in palmetto , florida ( rolf hoppe ) .
she and her stepdaughter odette ( chlo ? sevigny ) have a plot to extort 500k from the old man : harry will " kidnap " odette .
after groping both women , harry agrees .
as everyone except harry can see , he 's being set up as a fall guy .
sure enough , before long , harry has a dead body in his trunk and the cops on his tail .
his brother - in - law ( tom wright ) , an assistant da , has hired harry to be the press liaison for the case , so harry gets a front row seat for his own manhunt ( and we get to watch him sweat - literally ) .
there are several plot twists , of course - a couple of them even took me by surprise .
apparently every woman in palmetto is a raving horndog , and they 're on harry like he 's the only bone in the kennel .
shue vamps so broadly that i expected tex avery 's wolf to show up .
her incredible performance in " leaving las vegas " seems to have been a fluke .
here , she could easily be mistaken for melanie griffith .
shue 's character is supposed to be a savvy schemer
but she comes off as a brainless bimbo
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in addition to shue and sevigny , the kennel includes gina gershon ( who filled the dimwit - with - a - shady - past role in " bound " ) as harry 's girlfriend nina ; when harry gets out of jail , she licks his face ( now there 's a horndog ) .
the parts are so overplayed that with a little push " palmetto " could have been an over - the - top parody of film noir
a la " romeo is bleeding .
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as it is , it 's best watched at 2 am on showtime ( the love scenes seem to have been written for one of that channel 's soft porn programs anyway ) .
" palmetto " has a well - known director , volker schl ?
ndorff , who 's best known for his adaptations of major literary works , especially " the tin drum .
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i suppose he must have been drawn to this plot - by - numbers script by the same admiration for classic film noir that led scorsese to remake " cape fear .
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schl ?
ndorff tries hard - he makes an interesting motif out of the ubiquitous palmetto bugs - but
nothing can freshen up this stale script .
[EX A]: N

[EX Q]: synopsis : rumored to be about a true person , the story of mulan has circulated in oral tradition for over a thousand years , and has inspired operas , literature , and even coinage .
( since 1984 , china has been issuing annual gold and silver coin sets commemorating famous historical figures ; the 1992 set includes mulan . ) in the ballad of mulan ( written in the 5th or 6th century ) , an imperial edict by the khan ( emperor ) orders men from each family to be drafted into the army to defend china .
a girl 's parents hear sighing , and think that their daughter mulan ( the name means magnolia ) is dreaming of boys , but actually she 's dreading what horrors might befall her old infirm father if he were to be drafted off to battle .
mulan bravely runs away , masquerading as a boy , to serve in the army instead of her father .
ten thousand miles and twelve years of brutal war later , the army finally returns in triumph .
the emperor wants to reward mulan 's valor with a prestigious position in government , but she declines , accepts a horse , and returns home quietly to don her true clothes .
mulan 's old army buddies visit and get the shock of their lives when they find out that mulan is actually a woman .
the disney animated feature mulan is similar to the ballad story , only it adds a modern character for comic relief : mushu the dragon ( eddie murphy ) .
in disney 's mulan , when a fierce army of invading huns threatens to overrun peaceful china the emperor orders one man from each family to be conscripted into the army .
old mr .
fa ( soon - tek
oh ) is handicapped and has no son ; he has only his spirited young daughter mulan ( ming - na wen ) .
fearing for her father 's life , the courageous mulan secretly cuts her hair , disguises herself as a man , and sneaks off to serve in the army in her father 's stead .
meanwhile mushu , the disgraced and demoted guardian dragon of the fa family , has been reduced to the size of a squirrel and the status of incense burner .
( his only duty is to ring a gong . )
mushu hits upon a plan to redeem himself and regain his guardian status by helping the disguised mulan to become a macho male warrior hero .
with the help of mushu , a horse , and a lucky cricket , can army recruit mulan save china and bring honor to the fa family ?
opinion :
east meets west .
i know a chef in santa fe that does this sort of magic ; he combines asian culinary influences from the west coast with latin american from down south and european from the atlantic to concoct new creations that hit just the right combination of flavors .
from their state of the art animation studio in orlando , disney is hoping to work the same kind of east / west magic with mulan .
i mean , what would you say if i told you that a new movie featured tang dynasty art , with donny osmond singing , ming - na wen acting , and eddie murphy playing a chinese dragon that makes pop references to batman and the reverend jessie jackson ?
yet this is the case in the disney 's re - interpretation of the familiar chinese classic .
the end result is spectacular ; mulan is one of disney 's best movies ever .
personally , i 'm also glad to see the detestable american stereotype of the weak - willed subservient asian woman take a beating : mulan is portrayed as a normal , if spirited , compassionate gal capable of taking the initiative .
mulan is more than just eastern graphics and faces combined with westernized pop and disney .
kids of any age will like the family themes , and will understand the good guys versus bad guys thing .
and adolescent and preteen girls can appreciate the romance factor , while the boys admire the battles .
and adults can admire those male / female nuances as well as the interplay between traditional notions of family , honor , and duty with industrial age notions of romantic love , gumption , and questioning .
but even the tiniest details reveal quality .
the movie 's art supervisors spent three weeks in china researching the right look : negative spaces , positive detail , period clothing , and graphic designs typical of the time and place .
computers were used for crowd scenes of up to 30 , 000 people , and a special program called ' attila ' was used for a spectacular sequence involving 2000 attacking huns on horseback . and singers osmond and salonga are at the top of their game .
balance is crucial .
a movie about a chuckling lone dragon played by eddie murphy might not be disney 's cup of tea , but if you use the character as a comic sidekick to balance a determined and spirited heroine , then , pow ! the dream team .
by the same token , a tale about a girl in the army might be a sober exercise in filial piety by itself , but toss the dragon in there
and you 've got enough wahoo individualism for a light hearted disney romp .
it 's rare that a movie can seamlessly combine elements from both east and west , old and young , male and female into a cohesive and entertaining whole , but mulan hits the universal bullseye
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it 's movie for any age , creed , gender , or color .
[EX A]: P

[EX Q]: " the blair witch project " was perhaps one of a kind , a unique film that played completely on its own merit , managing to scare even the most experienced horror fans out of their senses .
its success made a sequel inevitable , but this is not the sequel , i suspect , anyone much wanted .
after the release of " the blair witch project " , tourists have practically invaded the small town of burkettsville , in order to get a glimpse of the blair witch .
locals have turned this mass hysteria into a great business opportunity , selling twig - sculptures , stones and dirt like those in the movie , and the exasperated local sheriff patrols the woods with a bullhorn , shouting , " get out of these woods and go home !
there is no goddamned blair witch ! " .
jeff ( ) is one of those people , who has used the sudden popularity of the small town to his advantage .
after he got released from the mental institution , he created a mobile business that attracts thousands of customers through the internet .
as the movie starts he is leading one of these groups into the woods , on the " blair witch hunt " .
among the five strangers is stephen and his girlfriend , the pregnant tristen , who are writing a book on the hysteria caused by the film called " the blair witch : history or hysteria ? " , and kim , who dresses in black and has some psychic powers .
the last member of the crew is erica , a young beautiful witch - wannabe , who constantly quotes from the wiccan lore , saying " the first rule of wicca is , do no harm , because whatever you do will come back to you threefold .
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this strange group plunges into the woods , where they begin to argue about their different approaches to the experience .
on the very first night that they decide to spend under the stars amidst the ruins of parr 's abandoned house , strange things start happening .
when they wake up their equipment is gone and only the tapes remain .
after a while they discover strange markings on their bodies .
they are somehow lost in time , as it loops uncontrollably back and forth .
they are all haunted by hallucinations and horrible nightmares and soon they can not see the difference between dreams and reality .
the only thing that they are sure of is that they have brought something or someone with them from the woods . .
documentary director joe berlinger ( " paradice lost " )
helms " blair witch 2 " , leaving the creators of the first film ( dan myrick and ed sanches ) in the background .
the opening scenes -- the documentary showing the townspeople affected by the first film-- is a more promising approach , because instead of trying to cover similar ground , it goes outside the first film and makes its own stand .
but soon the movie gets confused and sidetracked by its own story , that is never resolved and ends with a very anticlimaxic epilogue .
in a way , this is a typical hollywood sequel .
more money has been spent and more people have worked on a project that was doomed to fail .
the horror and suspense of the original simply could not be repeated .
of course in these situations , quantity is more important than quality and profit is more important than the artistical values .
from its opening scenes when the camera gracefully panes over the bloody - red forest , with carter burwell 's ( " being john malkovich " and " fargo " )
musical score in the background , you realize that with the exception of its title , this film has absolutely nothing to do with " the blair witch project " .
" blair witch . .
" was filmed by handheld videocameras and nfeatured acting that was mostly based on improvisation .
in the sequel the technical aspect of the film is close to perfection , creating a completely different atmosphere .
with its graceful cinematography , production design and flashy editing , the film has a very polished look , which is impossible to associate with the first installment .
and though berlinger directs his film with an energy and pace that makes the adrenaline rush through the body a couple of times , he has obviously misunderstood the nature of his predecessor .
the key is simplicity .
" blair witch project " had a story which was incredibly simple .
that allowed the audience to fill the gaps with our own imagination .
the film was practically an empty screen , on which we projected our most frightening nightmares .
the effect was incredibly powerful , lasting and entir e everyone , but in a different way .
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book of shadows " feels incredibly controlled and restrict .
here , very little is left to our imagination and the story is so complex and " clever " that the screenwriters are the first to get lost in it .
there is is no book of shadows and no conclusion that we can be satisfied with .
this is simply a less artistic film that does n't have the talent and originality of its predecessor .
it resorts to fancy cinematography and special effects to create the right effect and does n't always succeed .
but most importantly : it stands on its own ground and has almost no connection with the first movie , which does n't allow it to destroy the original .
in the end , i ca n't call it a bad effort .
it 's less artistic , not so scary and less original , but
certainly not bad .
it 's simply different .
in fact , if you have n't seen " the blair witch project " , you might like this film for what it is -- a cross between " the blair witch project " and the " scream " -films .
the only element that remains constant and similar between the two films is the solid acting ( jeffrey donovan and tristine skyler should be mentioned ) and incredible sense of surrealism .
but it 's a common knowledge and experience that , with a few exceptions , every movie sequel is worse than the original and some are even not worth making .
to me the story of " the blair witch project " seemed completed , but there are obviously no limits to commercial success that " the book of shadows " is certainly assured .
and it 's already time to look forward to " blair witch 3 " .
[EX A]:
P