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In this task, you must classify if a given review is positive/negative, indicating your answer as P or N.
question:
adam sandler turns up the charm in his latest romantic comedy , the wedding singer .
unfortunately , that also has the effect of softening his edge .
he 's nowhere near his peak of happy gilmore , not that it was much of one .
he 's certainly not helped here by a rather frail plot .
the year is 1985 , letting the whole film obsess with 80s nostalgia .
adam sandler is nice guy robbie , the titular wedding singer , who entertains at the local reception hall by belting out his interpretations of classic 80s hits .
robbie 's life is thrown into turmoil when his fiancee , linda ( angela featherstone ) , leaves him at the altar .
however , things are looking up when he meets julia ( drew barrymore ) , a waitress at the hall .
she 's the perfect woman , but for one small flaw : she 's engaged to be married to a slick junk bond king , glenn ( matthew glave ) .
so , most of the film deals with the slow realization by robbie that he and julia are in love , and his attempts to stop the wedding .
as far as plots go , it 's a pretty thin and tired one . to fill the gaps , the wedding singer delivers heaping spoonfuls of 1980s nostalgia .
from boy george to michael jackson , from miami vice to dallas , from the first cds to the last rubik 's cubes , this film revels in all the minutiae .
and then there 's the music .
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learning a lesson from the successful soundtracks to grosse pointe blank , and romy and michele 's high school reunion , this film packs more 80s songs in the film than the running time will allow .
as a result , most songs get maybe a lyric or a half , but you can almost see the bright gleam in the record executives ' eyes : the wedding singer vols .
2 , 3 , and 4 !
while the nonstop 80s riffs get incredibly tiring , at least they distract you from the plot .
at least last year 's my best friend 's wedding stirred up the standard " keep your true love from marrying someone else " plot by making the rival a nice person .
here , glenn is such a lowly rat of a man that you never see what julia saw in him .
barrymore , on the other hand , is simply charming as julia . which leaves us with adam sandler .
he 's at his best in the film when his nice guy persona fades a little ( such as when he has a breakdown on stage during a wedding reception ) .
when he 's in full nice - guy mode , he 's more pathetic than endearing .
the film boasts several cameos ( most notably by steve buscemi and jon lovitz ) .
but none of them work well at all .
buscemi 's role as a drunken best man simply fails to be humorous .
lovitz , on the other hand , as a rival wedding singer , makes you long for his good old days on saturday night live , where he was actually funny .
the only cameo which has some appeal is a guest appearance by a classic 80s rocker during the film 's finale ( surprisingly , one of the only plot - related scenes which actually works . )
adam sandler still has some work to do before he can become a dependable leading man .
while he attempts to change his image in the wedding singer , the end result is no net gain .
answer:
N


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i wish more films would take on issues of faith and morality in the modern world .
and i wish that film - makers would use commandments as a blueprint on how _ not _ to do it .
writer / director daniel taplitz has created a bizarre conglomeration of satire and soul - searching in this tale of seth warner ( aidan quinn ) , a man of faith who runs into a streak of bad luck which usually inspires country - western lyrics : his pregnant wife drowns , his home is destroyed by a tornado , he loses his job and his dog is crippled by a bolt of lightning .
convinced that god has broken his half of the covenant , seth decides to break his , and sets out to turn every " thou shalt not " of the ten commandments into a " thou shalt " ( and vice versa ) .
his wife 's sister rachel ( " friends " ' courteney cox ) wants to help seth ; rachel 's selfish husband harry ( anthony lapaglia ) , who tends to break a few commandments of his own , thinks seth is a lunatic .
thus begins a film which picks the wrong tone for every occasion .
taplitz is n't interested in treating seth 's tragedies as genuinely tragic , making it impossible to sympathize with him .
composer joseph vitarelli provides a score full of whimsical woodwinds , turning seth 's sacrilegious mission into an amusing lark ; quinn 's performance as seth is all wild - eyed fervor without any genuine pain .
the actual breaking of the commandments is almost treated as an afterthought , with one through five dispatched in a five - minute montage .
the result is a character whose actions feel less like the authentic responses of an anguished man than the machinations of a high - concept movie plot .
it 's not even entirely clear that commandments is about seth .
corporate attorney rachel is given a case which is supposed to soften a hard heart we see no indication she has , while harry gets his comeuppance as part of seth 's " false witness .
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only courteney cox strikes a note of reality in a solid performance ; she is sane center around which too equally troubled men revolve .
even she ca n't force taplitz to decide whose story this is , or what we should have learned about dealing with the struggles in our lives and our relationship with the infinite .
by the time seth makes a singularly biblical reappearance late in the film , it has become clear that taplitz is aiming for a fantastical fable which makes no connection with real human experience .
commandments is a bad comedy which could have been a decent drama if daniel taplitz had had the guts to take faith -- and the loss thereof -- at all seriously .
answer:
N


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renown surrealist director , the 77-year - old frenchman alain resnais ( hiroshima , mon amour / last year at marienbad / m ? lo ) , has created a lighthearted musical played as an homage to britisher dennis potter and his pennies from heaven ( 1978 tv serial , 1981 movie ) and the singing detective ( 1986 ) .
the film follows potter 's gimmicky style of having the characters jump into lip - synched old or contemporary french pop songs to express their private thoughts .
he also follows the kind of sweet and colorful musicals his fellow countryman jacques demy loved to direct , such as " the umbrellas of cherbourg " and " the young girls of rochefort .
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the tale has resnais 's unique touches as a director to go along with his homage .
it is a satire about class differences and falling in love with the wrong person , and that there is a song in everyone 's heart for every occasion .
what hinders this production is that the stars are not portraying particularly engaging characters , the songs are not memorable and stand little chance of being recognized by an american audience ( the exceptions might be the edith piaf and maurice chevalier numbers ) , and the farce seems more banal than daring .
yet it is not without its striking moments and charms , such as when jane birkin does a cameo and sings one of her own songs .
also , the glossy amberlike photography added a very french romantic feeling to the story , while the mood of paris as being a place for love to flourish above all else , which has always been embellished in movie lore , comes through with flying colors .
it also does a good job of showing you the way paris is in the 1990s and in the way ordinary people exist there .
it tells the romantic story of six parisians who become intertwined with each other in their ordinary lives as they search for happiness .
they are
the attractive sisters odile ( sabine az ?
ma )
and camille ( agnes jaoui ) , with the older businesswoman odile married and decidedly set on a bourgeois life of material comforts .
she is married to the glum and laconic claude ( pierre arditi ) .
she once went out with a businessman , nicolas ( jean - pierre bacri ) , who left her 8-years ago and now shows up in paris and asks her help to find someone to rent a flat for his family .
simon ( andre dussolier ) works as a real - estate salesman and is trying to find nicolas a flat , in his spare time he writes radio plays .
simon 's boss is the much younger , unscrupulous and arrogant marc duveyrier ( lambert wilson ) , who inherited the firm from his father and is the real - estate agent selling a more luxurious and larger flat with a better view to odile , but fails to tell her that a building project is going up soon that will block her view .
screenwriters and actors jean - pierre bacri and agnes jaoui wrote themselves the best parts .
jaoui 's camille is a university scholar finishing up a ph .
d . in history , using for her thesis the study of ' the yeomen in the year 1000 at lake paladru . '
she works as a tour guide in the meantime and suffers from panic attacks , even though she appears to have outwardly perfect self - control .
on her tours for the last four years has been the much older simon , pretending to be doing research for his plays but really attracted to her , but not having the nerve to tell her this .
to his dismay , he finds out she is dating his mean - spirited but handsome boss , whom she meets when looking at her sister 's new place and seeing him crying but not realizing that it was from a cold , not because he 's so sensitive .
bacri as the classy nicolas , turns out to be now working as a chauffeur .
he is a hypochondriac with a history of depression who visits many doctors , until he finds one who tells him there is nothing wrong with him .
odile still pines for him , but he 's married , telling her he expects his wife to arrive shortly .
love is ' the same old song ' that makes the world go ' round , even when all the characters are liars and not exactly open to what their true motives are .
everything comes together in a bourgeois housewarming party for odile 's place , as the characters reveal their true feelings and all their deceptions and neurotic impulses are either uncovered or about to be .
there 's not a lot of bite to this satirical musical , but resnais has never made a bad film and is one of the best current french directors , if not the best .
this film is not one his great ones , but it still has enough pep in its light touches to be interesting .
it not only has an odd way for the characters to break into song
but -- some males even sing in a female voice while some females sing in a male voice .
it is also interesting in the way it examines its characters ' behavior as being similar in business as in love .
answer:

P