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

Q: a number of critics have decided that it 's open season on freddie prize jr . , slamming the young actor as an utterly talentless pretty boy on career cruise control in sound - alike , disposable teen fluff like " head over heels , " " boys and girls , " " down to you " and " she 's all that . " while the prinze oeuvre is hard to defend , his talent is not .
i first saw him in the independent dark comedy " the house of yes , " where he gave a subtle , impressive performance as the younger brother in one of america 's freakiest families .
prinze has the acting chops ; he just needs to take a few supporting roles in some grown - up movies to show the non - believers that he has what it takes .
" summer catch " certainly wo n't help his case .
inoffensive , but utterly generic ,
the baseball - related romantic comedy does little more than kill time .
the story deals with the love affair between tenley ( jessica biel ) , a wealthy cape cod girl and ryan ( prinze ) , a local boy from a working class family who dreams of becoming a big - time baseball star .
ryan 's preoccupation with his new honey - bunny drives her elitist father ( bruce davison ) crazy and endangers his position as pitcher with a cape cod summer league team .
it 's a wonder the kid has any time to pitch , as his time is occupied with making out with tenley , fighting with her dad ,
bonding with his own dad ( fred ward , who deserves better than this ) , fighting with his brother ( jason gedrick ) and carousing at a neighborhood bar with his teammates .
the filmmakers desperately want to make a quirky , character - heavy baseball movie like " bull durham , " but have n't got a clue how to get there . and
so they glide from one clich ?
to the next for 108 minutes .
the only bit of originality comes from marc blucas in a minor role as a center - fielder from texas .
in an early barroom scene , blucas , best known as demon - fighting riley finn from " buffy the vampire slayer , " hears a young woman compliment a guy on his ass , then turns to teammate matthew lillard and states , " he does have a nice ass .
a bubble butt .
"
when lillard gives him an " are you insane ?
" look , blucas calmly says , " it 's nothing sexual , " then goes on to evaluate the hind - ends of some other players , including lillard 's .
speaking of asses , prinze does not bare his in the movie .
the actor has a no nudity clause in his contract , so two stunt - butts were employed for a couple of semi - nude shots .
blucas , whose character secretly dates a large woman throughout the story , gets another unique moment late in the film .
sick of hearing teammates make " fat chick " jokes
, he climbs on top of a table and loudly declares his love of amply - sized ladies .
while his speech still ends up objectifying women , it remains a nice change of pace in a numbingly ordinary movie .
trivial tidbit : " summer catch " marks a scooby doo summit .
marc blucas appears in " jay and silent bob strike back " as fred from the scooby doo gang , while freddie prinze jr .
plays the same character in the upcoming big budget film version of the old cartoon .

A: N
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Q: how many of us would become strippers ?
for those of us who would n't , is it a moral reason , or purely a lack of confidence ?
that 's probably not a fair question , and for a lot of us ,
it could very well be for neither of those reasons .
as you watch the full monty , however , you may begin asking yourself these kinds of questions .
would you be willing to grin and bare it to bring in some much needed dough ?
in case you have n't guessed , the full monty is about stripping , but striptease it ai n't .
it 's actually quite a charming comedy that uses its ideas with a great deal of tact and sophistication .
it is the story of six out - of - work , out - of - shape blue collar brits whose recent job losses have left the boys penniless , but not without need .
what to do ?
it hits our main character gaz ( robert carlyle ) as he notices the large crowds of women who pour into a local male strip club on a regular basis .
it seems that simple : take it off and bring in the cash .
eventually , gaz is able to convince his friends to join him in starting their own exotic dance routine despite their initial reluctance .
these include the overweight , confidence - lacking dave ( mark addy ) , the uptight , overly - officious gerald ( tom wilkinson ) , the once suicidal lomper ( steve huison ) , and two additional fellows who gain their place among the group by audition : horse ( paul barber ) , an older gentlemen chock full of graceless energy , and guy ( hugo speer ) , a young well - endowed looker who compares himself to cary grant .
when the sextet is complete , we 're given a hefty dose of physical comedy .
we watch the bumbling middle - aged men choreograph pseudo - sexy dance numbers , all the while proving why none of them were strippers in the first place .
as if there anti - appeal was n't enough , they decide to boost interest in the group by promising " the full monty " on opening night , which for us americans , means baring it all .
..
and i mean
* all
* .
the movie actually ends on opening night ; a hilarious applause worthy ending
i might add .
it 's sure to leave nothing short of a big smile on your face as you leave the theater .
with the subject matter , you might not expect the fully monty to be such a feel - good , almost inspiring film , but it surprisingly turns out that way .
the amount of light , touching drama also comes as a nice surprise , never feeling off - balance from the otherwise highly upbeat moments of the film .
there 's a lot more to this movie than you might think in other words , and
the ensemble cast could n't be better .
each character is completely individual , interesting , funny , and most importantly , real .
the full monty is never offensive , a very impressive attribute since its subject matter alone could 've easily fallen prey to tastelessness .
it 's one of those movies that is best described as a solid piece of entertainment , perfect for a great night on the town , or as a saturday night movie rental .
either way you see it
, it should n't let you down in the slightest .
and , pun heavily intended , when it 's all said and done
, you 'll be smiling from cheek to cheek .

A: P
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Q: seen february 15 , 1998 on home video ( borrowed from chris wessell ) .
when it comes to modern gangster movies , it 's really difficult to describe and review them without making comparisons to other films of the genre and/or just using the word " routine .
"
i 've always subscribed to the philosophy that any idea ( no matter how many times it 's been used before ) can provide for a good story and " donnie brasco " clinches this idea .
it 's not unlike most of the great films of the genre , yet it never apes another 's style as it has a good layer of authenticity , even if its core is a tad stale .
the film starts off in typical fashion by defining its atmosphere of new york city in the late 1970s and the mobsters who inhibit it .
we meet lefty ( pacino ) , an aging wiseguy who can still walk the walk and talk the talk .
he and his associates go through the generic motions you expect to see in crime films like this .
somehow he comes across donnie brasco ( depp ) , a younger guy with a lot of spunk who is n't afraid of lefty and his rep , and even manages to befriend him after lefty was ready to kill him .
it 's clear donnie is new to the life and lefty
recognizes this immediately , telling him all the tricks of the trade .
i have never seen this technique of actually revealing the mafioso idiosyncrasies done before and for this the film deserves credit .
however , we soon realize donnie is actually joe pistone , an fbi agent working undercover - a character who symbolizes the viewer as he will soon be purged into the lifestyle and treated as a newcomer .
the first act works as a guided to ot of rhetoric about wiseguy honor , a brief history of the mob , definitions of their slang , and where their money comes from and who it goes to .
the screenplay is rather sketchy on the details surrounding these elements , however ,
the fact they are mentioned at all is quite original .
most gangster movies seem to be made with the notion the viewer already knows how the mob works ( probably from watching other gangster movies ) , and although this attitude comes across , the film tries to fill in all the holes where and when it can and the effort is appreciable .
thankfully the film does n't become too caught up in the tedious details of organized crime , and instead opts for character development .
much of the story is told simply through the interaction between lefty and donnie .
pacino is outstanding here as the pathetic hood who speaks of his job in the same manner any blue collar worker would .
he 's old and exhausted but seems to enjoy what he does , just as anyone loyal to the same employer for over 30 years
might be .
we learn of his accomplishments , which are quite impressive within their context , and when he complains about not being made top boss , it 's easy to sympathize with him .
newell constantly plays up this aspect , making it a major theme which works well in the long run
.
as donnie is constantly impressing and even one - upping lefty , it 's hard to tell which emotion is more powerful : the fact donnie is getting closer to nailing the mob ; or the fact lefty has once again been over shadowed .
most of the film tells the story of donnie 's life in mafia , which creates for many sub - plots and individual conflicts , but does n't always seem to come together as a whole .
the storytelling is genuinely interesting throughout , even when the motions the characters go through seem familiar .
the resonance to donnie 's actual assignment varies , he often reports back to the feds with detail of his progress , but it does n't always seem to have much meaning .
back home , his wife maggie ( heche ) is ready to divorce him because he 's never a and the family is suffering .
since this is based on a true story i would n't doubt this would happen , although the way it is handled often borders on the melodramatic .
my only major complaint is the film seems to have no final act , or at least any real sense of closure .
a climax of sorts does occur , but there 's little feeling of a payoff .
we get a happy ending , which is good , but perhaps a sad ending would have been more powerful .
aside from a few minor , general flaws , " donnie brasco " manages to be a solid piece of storytelling and character development .
it may be routine , but it 's good , and that 's respectful .

A:
P
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