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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:
the word to describe sharon stone is " wonder " .
not that she _ is _ a wonder , but rather that
i wonder how she can be so inconsistent .
she has a dynamic screen presence in " basic instinct " , turns in a surprisingly fine acting job in " casino " , but possesses neither of those here .
stone teams up with private school headmaster 's wife isabelle adjani to kill adjani 's thoroughly unlikable husband ( chazz palminteri ) .
in a comedy of errors and unexpected twists
straight out of hitchcock ( as in ` homage to ' [ read " steal from " ] ) , it turns out that someone saw them or he 's not dead or maybe . . .
kathy bates turns in a credible , if unspectacular , performance as an investigative police detective .
her character is a bit dull but realistic , although her actions at the end are puzzling .
adjani is more than satisfactory as the timid beaten spouse driven to desperation .
it 's stone that is a disappointment among the actors .
how can she be the epitome of a femme fatale in previous films and come off as a blank in this one ?
costumed in skin - tight clothes and looking down her nose at everyone , she is someone you would want to avoid because she is boring , not enticingly dangerous .
even the threat ( or promise ? ) of a lesbian relationship between the conspirators is only half played out .
on the positive side , there are enough unexpected plot developments to keep your interest alive .
that is if you can put up with stone 's cardboard cut - out character and scenes directly lifted from hitch 's movies .
answer:
N


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when i first heard that disney 's next animated feature was going to be tarzan , i was almost horrified .
i was worried that disney was going to make another hercules ( sorry , jerk - ules ) .
that effort was too overloaded with comedy ( and the hero was too boastful and pompous to be considered a sympathetic hero ) , and , after viewing it to this day , i find it a disgrace for disney animation .
when i saw the trailers , i was thinking " hmm . . .
this is n't bad at all .
this just might have potential .
"
when i bought the soundtrack , i was really quite surprised at how different it sounded from most disney features .
i have never really heard of phil collins , nor have i heard of mark mancina , so i was wondering , how would these two make this disney flick spin ?
i was pleasantly surprised : the music is top - notch .
phil collins ' songs are terrific , percussion - heavy pieces of work that seem to break the formula for typical disney songs .
the score from mark mancina was also neat
; it reminded me a bit of the lion king , but it was more original .
so , the soundtrack was n't bad at all , considering it was by two people i am not familiar with .
this film could be good . . .
but will it be ?
when i finally went to see it ( on opening day , as i tend to do with most disney animated features ) , my question was answered , in a complete turnabout of expectations for me : disney 's tarzan is surprisingly decent .
the story starts out with tarzan 's parents surviving a shipwreck and finding a home on an island where apes live in peace .
however , one day , a vicious leopard , sabor , attacks and kills tarzan 's parents , leaving him ( at this time , a baby ) alone - until kala of the apes rescues him .
kala wants to raise the child as her own ( she lost hers previously to sabor ) , but her mate , kerchak is not too sure .
"
it 's not our kind , " he says .
he agrees , though , to let her take care of little tarzan , but " that does n't make him my son .
" tarzan grows up , vowing to be " the best ape ever " , but no matter how hard he tries or what he does ( at the guidance of his hilarious ape friend , terk ) , he just ca n't convince kerchak that he is one of the apes , even when he defeats sabor in a battle .
one day , a new animal shows up : humans .
this is where jane comes into the picture .
she is on an expedition with her father ( professor porter ) , and a despicable hunter ( clayton ) searching for gorillas .
tarzan rescues her when she is chased by baboons , and soon they get to know each other .
even though tarzan falls in love with jane , this causes things to go wrong .
clayton tricks tarzan into taking him , jane , and porter to see the apes , who are convinced that he has betrayed them .
worse , clayton has plotted to send the gorillas to london for money .
will tarzan find out which family he belongs to and save the apes ?
i 'm not gon na tell you , sorry .
you 're gon na have to see for yourself .
and see it you should ; the animation is , as always ,
top notch , particularly when tarzan goes soaring through the trees
( read that , skateboarding ) .
the deep canvas computer generated effect adds an authentic feeling to the jungle which tarzan lives in .
in fact , it seems similar to the computer imagery / cel animation combination in rival disney animted films , such as fox 's anastasia and dreamworks ' prince of egypt .
could it be that disney was actually taking ideas from their rivals ?
the casting is fairly good .
tony goldwyn is emotionally believeable as tarzan ( and to my relief , the animators have succeeded in not making him another hercules .
nicely done ) , and glenn close is wonderful as kala ( she has a beautiful singing voice , too , by the way ) .
lance henrikson as kerchak somewhat reminds me of robby benson 's beast voice , which makes him all the more ferocious and gripping .
minnie driver had me a little worried at first as the voice of jane .
i thought she had the most annoying voice in the whole film ( when i first saw the trailers ) , but when i saw the film , i did n't have a problem with her .
i take back my insult on driver .
it 's nice to hear nigel hawthorne do another voice for a disney animated feature
( he was fflewdurr flamm in disney 's most underrated classic , the black cauldron ) ; he is funny and delightful as professor porter .
on the villiany side of the voices , brian blessed ( the guy who did boss nass in star wars : episode i - the phantom menace ) brings a pompous , and later on vicious , voice to the sinister clayton .
he might not be the strongest character in the film
( he 's just a plain bad guy , nothing else ) , but blessed 's vocal work contributes greatly .
but if there is any voice that i think steals the whole show , it should be rosie o'donnell , who is hilariously funny as terk .
she also has a fiesty attitude
( " i 'm gon na kill ya !
"
she says , more than once ) .
i almost sung along with her during one of the film 's best moments , where the apes make a mess of the human 's camp , via song , er , scatting " shoo - be - doo , da - be - dah " .
i can see why she wanted to have a rock song for the film
, she 's a good singer .
not that she was the only funny character in the film , though .
wayne knight ( who played stan in space jam ) gives a whimsically funny style to tantor , an elephant who is especially worried about stepping into " un - sanitary " water .
( thankfully , there is no real sound of flatuence -
that would have killed the picture ) .
the songs , as i said before , are decent , mostly sung by collins .
this sets a new standard for disney animated films because for the first time , the characters do not sing .
i tolerate musical numbers from characters a lot more than some other guys would , but i found this to be a nice change of pace .
the story does have elements of comedy in it , but they also load it with strong dramatic touches , which makes this film far better than the unbelieveably uninspired hercules .
if there is anything disappointing about tarzan , it might be the omission of the ' n sync version of " trashing the camp " from the film .
i heard it on the soundtrack , and wondered where it was going to be .
i was upset that it was n't , because i had thought of taking a few friends of mine who like ' n sync to see tarzan .
oh , well . . .
overall , i was enthralled with tarzan .
i would n't hold it high the way i do with mulan or the hunchback of notre dame ( my all - time favorite disney classics ) , but this film deserves a high place among disney 's greatest achievements .
i give a nod to disney for following up their spectacular
*
*
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* * masterpiece , mulan , with this great animated adaption of egar rice burrough 's tarzan .
answer:
P


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this is the worst movie i 've seen since the " so bad
i walked out on it "
" jingle all the way " .
it is crap on toast made of crap baked in a an oven fueled by crap .
it is crap through and through .
nothing works in this film , as to be expected from joel schumacher , who has made only one watchable film in his entire career ( that being " cousins " ) .
here 's a man who admits he 's a medicore director , a rather charmingly self - effacing statement .
but truth be told ,
he is much worse than mediocre .
not all scorn should be heaped on schumacher though -- akiva goldsman should not be allowed to write ever again .
there is no plot anywhere , and the " dialogue " is unrelentingly shallow , preposterous , and boring .
they set up mr . freeze as a tragic figure trying to cure his cryogenically frozen wife , then completely sabotage his character by giving him the lamest one - liners .
it turns him into a stock maniacal villain who thoroughly enjoys his villainy instead of a brooding scientist who has spent much of his life to bringing his wife from the brink of death .
but that 's par for course --
nothing in this film makes any sense , including half of arnold schwarzenegger 's lines .
as mr .
freeze ,
arnold is given way too much dialogue to spit out at once .
this is the same problem he had in " jingle all the way " , and it seems that his austrian accent is getting thicker and more unintelligible as the days pass .
personally , i think that he has more pull with the directors and does n't retake scenes to make him understandable .
compare his dialogue in the terminator series to the load of nonsense that streams forth in " batman & robin " .
apparently , james cameron knows how to get a competent performance out of arnold .
uma thurman is not as bad , but nothing resembling good either .
her poison ivy vamps around terribly , chewing up scenery left and right .
and her pamela isley scenes are marred by sub - snl standard " acting " , as if she 's reading off cue cards and is about to laugh at any given moment .
given the " script "
, it 's a wonder it did n't happen more frequently .
there is no redeeming feature in this film -- not george clooney as batman , chris o'donnell as robin , nor alicia silverstone as batgirl .
michael gough is eerily sickly looking as alfred , as if the conceit of his illness was prompted by his cadaverous appearance .
in fact , there was something unsettling about his appearance , which seems to have been accomplished without any make - up tricks , looking as if it were scenes from a documentary about a dying man .
unfortunately , every scene about alfred 's sickness is bungled with such incompetence that there is absolutely no emotional resonance -- they just go through the motions , losing whatever impact the scenes were supposed to impart .
the movie is rife with poorly choreographed fights scenes that never give any sense of a big battle --
you know there 's a bunch of people , but instead of a melee , schumacher decided to focus on a foot or a fist .
there 's never a moment of awe , wonder , or mayhem .
the only interesting part of the battles scenes are the freezing effects , which are impressive ( and probably expensive ) .
even then , the fights are so full of camp and stupidity that they become unwatchable .
the hockey team from hell ?
not even the tv series got that stupid ( at least not on the grand scale of stupidity that " batman & robin " showcases ) .
frustrating too are the various supporting characters that walk on and off with nothing to say or do .
blink , and you 'll miss elle macpherson as julie madison , vivica fox as a
" why is she even in the film " vamp in freeze 's lair ( with all of two lines ) , and pat hingle
as the most ineffectual commissioner gordan the batman series ever had .
and in what almost seems like an effort to save on costs , vendela kirsebom has no lines as mrs .
fries -- she is n't even filmed well enough to look good ( trust me , she 's quite attractive outside of this dreck ) .
and as if the film were n't bad enough to limp along with bad direction , bad dialogue , bad performances , and bad fight scenes , there are inconsistencies and illogic galore .
i know it 's nit - picky to ask where the hundreds of feet of cable are stored in the batarangs
, why the character 's arms are n't ripped out of their sockets when they accomplish a one - armed batarang save after falling hundreds of feet ( while holding on to another person no less ) , or where the moisture comes from when freeze 's weapon creates tons if ice .
that 's all traditional comic book stuff .
but why does batman spring a trap for freeze at a public charity event that endanger the lives of hundreds of by - standers ?
why is there a big switch clearly marked , " heat " in mr .
freeze 's lair ?
why do countless bumbling police officers even try to take on mr . freeze hand to hand ?
why does alfred encourage silverstone to become batgirl and even go so far as to have a suit made for her ?
why do batman & robin take 10 minutes to bicker before leaving the batcave in response to an emergency ?
and since it established early on that ivy is using pheromones , why do n't they wear masks to filter it out ?
i could go on and on .
" batman & robin " is a braindead , pointless , garish , loud film that should still reign as the " worst film of the year
" by the time 1998 rolls along .
note to warner bros .
-- if you 're going to make another batman film , please replace schumacher with nearly anyone . because it could actually get worse than this .
what schumacher does not understand is that " comic book " does n't automatically equal unbearable idiocy .
the true equation seems to be schumacher + batman = unbearable idiocy .
answer:

N