TASK DEFINITION: In this task, you are given product reviews about dvds. The goal is to classify the review as "POS" if the overall sentiment of the review is positive(the reviewer is satisfied) or as "NEG" if the overall sentiment of the review is negative(the reviewer is not satisfied).
PROBLEM: Francis Ford Coppala's first musical . Coppala was right out of college when he was asked to do "Finian's Rainbow". It had been a big hit on Broadway in the 40's but predated the civil rights movement.  Coppala had the task of updating it for 1968.    Fred Astaire is 69 in the title role and this was his last role dancing and singing. This was the first times since the beginning of Astaire's career that he didn't have control over the direction of his musical numbers. Coppala was an inexperienced director and fired Hermes Pan, Fred's chorographer. He admits that it was his fault that  Fred's big number in the film didn't come out the way should.    Petula Clark is wonderful as Astaire's daughter. Tommy Steele who was also in "The Happiest Millionare" and "Half a Sixpence" plays a part typical of his personality.   There is very little chemistry between Petula Clark and her love interest, Dan Franck.  PLOT:  Finian(Astaire) is an Irishman that steals a pot of gold from Og (Tommy Steele). He heads toRainbow Valley, which is right next to Fort Knox, Kentucky, where he thinks burying the gold will multiply his riches.  He meets some people, Woody and Silent Sue, and gives them money to save their land from the bigot senator (Keenan Wynn).  In return he wants part of their land to secretly bury the gold.  Og follows Finian to get his gold back. He is turning into a mortal because he has lost his pot of gold.  Meanwhile, Finian's daughter(Petula Clark) is falling in love with a local, Woody (Dan Franck).    Nicely restored with great special features. Includes a commentary with Coopala that actually has a mini documentry before it.  Featurette is the world premere with interviews with the stars

SOLUTION: POS

PROBLEM: Formulaic Saturday Morning Fare . If you're looking for something groundbreaking like B:TAS or "The New Batman Adventures," you'll have to look elsewhere. "The Batman" is nothing new. In fact, it's the kind of Saturday morning show you might have seen in the late-80's. This re-imagining abandons many if not all of the conventions that made the other animated shows great. No longer are the villains multi-layered and complex; rather they are the standard cardboard cutouts that exist solely for the purpose of fighting the hero. Further, Batman mythos mainstay James Gordon is abandoned in favor of two "hipper" more "kid-friendly" replacements that serve the same function. On the plus side, the animation is good; but it is still not enough to make up for the series' shortcomings. I understand the second season was better, but if so, they must have made some major changes. All in all, a disappointment.

SOLUTION: NEG

PROBLEM: "No-laughs-for-us C.H.O." . I'm a Cho fan, and consider "I'm the One that I Want" to be just about the best stand-up act ever made... If you like Cho, you definitely HAVE to see that one, her first release. This second one is quite possibly the WORST stand-up act ever made. The lady definitely goes to extremes.    Where to begin? The lighting is poor, she looks like she's had a few too many, her jokes are stale reruns, and she's just plain off. I don't know what happened here, but she obviously does not understand the concept of Quality Control.    I made a special trip to Atlanta to see this one, being a big fan, and this is one of the ticket purchases that finally made me resolve NEVER AGAIN to buy movie tickets and just wait until things come out on DVD and I can rent them cheaply. Because, most movies are crap!    Two stars instead of one because of probably misguided and irrelevant residual gratitude left over from her first stand-up DVD

SOLUTION:
NEG