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In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
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i 've never written a review for a movie i have n't watched all the way through , but i had to make an exception with powder .
i was about forty - five minutes into this one at a friend 's house when he and his brother got into a huge shouting match that would have ended in violence
had we not left the house .
so i never got to finish the movie
and i 'm sure as hell not going to pay three more bucks to watch half of a bad movie .
but i can at least get a partial review out of it , because i saw enough to know this one was n't worth finishing in the first place .
the movie centers around a freaky teenager who 's spent his entire life living in the cellar of his grandparents ' house .
when grandpa dies ( taking his department store down with him ) , social worker mary steenburgen has to take powder ( first and middle names ?
gold bond ) to a state home , where we find out he 's a different from the other kids .
actually , we find out he 's different when we first see him , because he 's the most pale individual we 've ever seen and moreover he has no body hair whatsoever .
when powder is born in the opening minutes of the movie , the father takes one look at him and says " he 's not my son . " obviously .
all i want to know is where the pillsbury dough boy was nine months ago .
so the white - faced freak leaves his neverland ranch for the state home and faces the ridicule of other kids .
that is , until they try to haze him during his first cafeteria lunch by making him " wear " his spoon ( " you can either wear it on your nose or up your ass .
" decisions , decisions . . . )
and he uses telepathic powers to draw all the silverware in the room into a giant pile in the middle of the table .
so if his father is the pillsbury dough boy , his mother must be sissy spacek 's carrie character .
and you have to factor in two more things from the subsequent scenes , as we find out powder
has some sort of
super - intelligence ( " your i .
q .
test went straight off the chart ! " ) and attracts electrical power .
this first shows up as powder visits the world of high school ( if he 's such a genius already , why would he need a high school education ? ) and sits through a demonstration in jeff goldblum 's science class .
goldblum plugs in a " jacob 's ladder " device that shows current running up two wires and immediately the current flows across the room and into powder 's chest .
but goldblum just stands there for about thirty seconds watching , instead of just unplugging the damn thing .
i guess he was too busy contemplating why he was appearing in his third bad movie in a row
( following hideaway and nine months ) .
that 's about all i saw before the big fight began and , let me tell you , that was twice as interesting as the movie itself .
but like i said , i saw enough to know this would be one of those terrible melodramas about the isolation of people who have superior abilities and how hard it is for those people to assimilate themselves into mainstream civilization .
none of these movies ever handle the subject properly , instead introducing the feeble beauty and the beast copout of having a beautiful woman fall in love with the guy 's personality , overlooking his personal appearance .
i already had the female character picked out ( the girl who was sitting next to him in the back of the room during the electrocution scene ) , but i guess i 'll never know for sure what happened .
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N


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i had been expecting more of this movie than the less than thrilling twister .
twister was good but had no real plot and no one to simpithize with .
but twister had amazing effects
and i was hoping so would volcano volcano starts with tommy lee jones at emo .
he worrys about a small earthquake enough to leave his daughter at home with a baby sitter .
there is one small quake
then another quake .
then a geologist points out to tommy that its takes a geologic event to heat millions of gallons of water in 12 hours .
a few hours later large amount of ash start to fall .
then . . . . it starts .
the volcanic eruption . . . .
i liked this movie . . .
but it was not as great as i hoped .
i was still good none the less .
it had excellent special effects .
the best view .
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the helecopters flying over the streets of volcanos .
also . . . there were interesting side stories that made the plot more interesting .
so . . .
it was good ! !
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P


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when a someone journeys to the theater to see a comedy , he always risks having to sit through inanity such as what we recently saw in films like edtv and office space .
it really is too bad that comedies are so hit-
and - miss , because when a moviegoer goes in a theater expecting to be amused , it really is a shame when the alleged comedy fails to deliver .
but weep not , dear readers , because the latest comedy out of the hollywood movie mill is nothing less than a sure bet .
austin powers :
the spy who shagged me is one of the funniest things
i 've had the pleasure to see in a long time ; a completely looney , delightful parody of the often pretentious james bond flicks .
if all comedies ( or even half ; or - - what am i saying ?
-- even a fifth of them ) could be this consistently hysterical
, i would take up residence at my local multiplex .
even more to this movie 's credit is the fact that it is a sequel to the 1997 sleeper / cult hit austin powers :
international man of mystery .
the original came out of nowhere ; it was a low - budget , eccentric movie that many expected to flop like a leslie nielsen parody .
all of a sudden it was being quoted by teenagers all over america .
ironically , powers ' " yeeeeah baby , yeah !
" has almost become an icon of the late 90s .
thus another installment was inevitable , but it 's also undoubtedly welcome .
the spy who shagged me is one of the most unrestrained , over- the - top comedies i have ever seen in my entire life .
it brings back most of the characters from its predecessor ( even if only briefly ) and adds new ones .
austin powers ( mike myers ) , a swinging hipster from the 60s transported into the 90s has to go back to his own time to get back his mojo
( oh , you 'll figure it out ) , which dr .
evil
( meyers again ) has stolen .
he enlists the help of a gorgeous secret agent felicity shagwell ( now that his prior sidekick vanessa has been properly disposed of in a hilarious opening sequence ) , played without much distinguishable gusto by heather graham and together they go back to the 60s to defeat dr .
evil yet again .
surprisingly , the real star is dr .
evil rather than austin .
he gets most of the screen time because he was so popular in the first movie .
perhaps this is true because he is portrayed and written so affectionately .
instead of being the scheming , villainous mad scientist we might expect from a character like this he is a bumbling , often sweet mad scientist wannabe .
the spy who shagged me has much of the same stuff we saw in the original , but that 's okay by me because the original left us wanting more .
by the time that one was over we have n't had
nearly our share of shag jokes , crude puns and powers ' antics and this sequel satisfies our appetites .
even by its conclusions , i 'm still not sure i 've had my fill of bits like
" do you smoke after sex ? "
" i do n't know , baby , i never looked .
"
this may seem awfully immature of me , but understand that the austin powers series , unlike most of the crap hollywood feeds us these days , is genuinely funny .
i do n't know if i 've ever laughed harder at any movie than i did during the jerry springer send up or the indubitably hilarious " just the two of us " rendition by dr .
evil and his new miniature clone named " mini - me " .
i do n't have any pretensions that this is particularly smart social satire or anything of the sort .
indeed there is little beyond the joy a viewer feels when he sees something that is able to entertain him as much as this movie did .
but as far as i 'm concerned , that is enough . ?
1999 eugene novikov & # 137 ;
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P