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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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vegas vacation is the fourth film starring chevy chase and beverly d'angelo as the heads of the hapless griswold family .
as with the other three films , their two children , rusty and audrey , are played by a revolving series of actors .
this time ethan embry and marisol nichols fill the roles .
also back , is cousin eddie ( randy quaid ) , the slob relative who seems to bring problems wherever he goes .
in vegas vacation clark griswold ( chase ) decides to take the family on vacation to las vegas so that he and wife ellen ( d'angelo ) can renew their wedding vows .
it is at this point when comedy is supposed to ensue .
apparently the filmmakers thought that putting the griswolds into las vegas would be so funny on its own that they would n't bother to write any jokes into the script .
at least that 's the way it looks when watching this turkey .
about half way through vegas vacation i began to have serious doubts as to whether there would actually be a single laugh in the entire film , since there had been none up to that point .
by the end of the movie i had actually snickered a couple of times , and i had smiled at a couple of gags .
i might add that none of the funny ( and i use the term loosely ) moments came as a result of anything chase , d'angelo or quaid were involved in .
they might as well have stayed home for as much as they contributed to this film .
the two best things in this movie were ethan embry and marisol nichols as the griswold kids , who manage to have a couple of their own adventures .
rusty becomes a vegas high roller , providing most of the film 's best moments .
every time chase and quaid were involved in a gag , it just made it more and more apparent that they should have stopped this series after the third film .
which brings me to the best moment of the film .
the griswolds are driving down the highway and holiday road ( the theme from the original vacation ) begins to play .
christie brinkley and her red ferrari ( also from the first movie ) drive by .
it was a cute moment , but all it really did was remind me just how funny the first film had been , and just how far that this series has fallen . too bad .
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N


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one of the funniest carry on movies and the third with a medical setting .
the main story is about dr .
james nookey ( jim dale ) who is disliked by his superiors , frederick carver , head of the hospital ( kenneth williams ) , and dr .
ernest stoppidge ( charles hawtrey ) who seems to dislike everyone .
they attempt to cause him as much trouble in the hospital as possible and all the blame is laid on nookey .
carver learns of a possible job opportunity from wealthy ellen moore ( joan sims ) on a distant tropical island and gets nookey trannsferred there .
when nookey arrives at this island , he meets gladstone screwer ( sid james ) who has lived on the island just about all his life .
screwer is in possession of a wonderful slimming drug made from natural ingredients .
dr .
nookey returns with the drug to england and sets up a new slimming business with ellen moore 's financial backing .
however , nookey and moore face opposition from screwer who goes to england to cash in on the drug , and carver and stoppidge who want to know the ingredients to create a rival drug .
the performances are all very commendable .
sid james has a slightly ambiguous character to play this time and he excels in his role .
kenneth williams , as usual , plays the unpopular and cunning head of the hospital .
joan sims is entertaining as the wealthy benefactor and jim dale should really head the cast with his excellent portrayal of bumbling nookey .
charles hawtrey plays an ' out - of - character ' role as dr .
stoppidge , the nasty and evil practitioner who wants to knock nookey off his perch .
some critics have said that this combination of hawtrey and stoppidge does not work well , but i think that it at least gives hawtrey a new part to play instead of the usual dimwit characters .
as a matter of fact , hawtrey is suitably cunning in the part .
other regulars in the movie include hattie jacques as the matron yet again ( but this part is probably her most boring ' matron ' ) and barbara windsor as nookey 's love interest and unofficial ' women 's lib ' campaigner , goldie locks .
both jacques and windsor play their parts well
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patsy rowlands appears briefly as miss fosdick , and there are very small cameos from wilfrid brambell ( from ' steptoe and son ' fame ) and peter butterworth .
the jokes are mostly very funny , the story is quite appealing , and the regulars seem interested in what they 're doing .
although it is another medical carry on movie and some of the jokes are borrowed from previous movies , it still comes out on top
( it is the best medical carry on ) because of the above factors .
a must - see carry on movie .
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P


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' contact ' shows why jodie foster is one of our best actresses .
see contact with your family .
it is a movie for all ages .
--a review by stuart cracraft contact starring : jodie foster , matthew mcconaughey , john hurt director : robert zemeckis star after a predictable mit phillip morrison powers - of-10 zoom - out start ( which can be surprising to those not familiar with prof .
morrison 's work ) , contact picks up steam , gradually , building , by - the - end , an irresistable juggernaut and a very good movie that does not as is so often the case fall out - of - balance in terms of too much pandering to the technological " geek " side .
by the end , the audience is left with what good science fiction is supposed to do : evoke a sense of wonder about the universe and evoke questions in your mind about what 's out there .
this movie does not let technology overshadow characterization and in this sense it is unusual amongst high - tech movies .
however , except for jodie foster ( elie arroway ) and john hurt ( s .
r .
hadden ) , who are both actors of exceptional caliber , the supporting cast are not especially impressive .
hurt certainly has had better roles ( stephen ward in scandal ) .
this one , as the multi - billionare hadden , does not do his acting skills justice .
this is clearly a foster movie by one of the great hollywood lights of our generation .
foster 's radiance has never been more strong
than in the scene where she finally meets the vegans on their terms .
early scenes take a long , long time to build up to this .
the movie 's pacing is very good and subtle .
the panoramas of the radio dishes at arecibo and ceti in new mexico and puerto rico are beautiful .
the politics of foster 's character attempting to obtain funding for research at these places are trite and predictable however .
one of the most entertaining , but very short scenes , is when foster is confronted by rob lowe , during a cabinet - level presidential meeting to discuss the alien invitation .
there were real sparks in this scene between foster and lowe
and it would behoove them to consider other vehicles in which this dynamism could be explored .
it is the only scene in the movie in which there were tremendous dynamics between two characters .
everything else was very one - sided ( e . g . foster ) .
lowe can stand up to foster and it showed in that scene at the cabinet table .
the core scene of the movie is set on a surrealistic beach on a far - away world in the starsystem of vega .
it feels a lot like science fiction writer john varley 's scenes in his book steel beach , where the female protagonists encounters an immensely superior intelligence , in one case a computer manufactured by mankind itself , and in foster 's case , an illusion drawn from her memory .
in another sense , this immensely moving scene evokes gene roddenberry 's star trek pilot the cage ,
later the menagerie , when jeffrey hunter and susan oliver have their memories manipulated to create new worlds in which they live and encounter aliens .
the concept is not new , by any sense , in the world of science fiction .
but the beach scene , which is the centerpiece of the film , as is the whole film , is driven by foster .
freed from her needs to direct by director zemecki , foster is able to let it all hang out in the characterization and the lead she provides to her supporting cast
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as the movie gains speed , foster 's acting intensifies and the audience really does experience it with her .
it is certainly oscar - caliber acting , unquestionably .
the supporting cast does well and zemeckis throws in some humor with some president clinton cameos , cleverly manipulated , george stephanopolus - style , to seem very forrest gump .
in fact , zemeckis et .
al . got in trouble for the usage of some of the footage seen in the movie , vis a vis clinton .
but the audience i attended this movie with
just had some good chuckles at clinton 's walk - ons .
the much - discussed tension between science and religion in this movie is not particularly insightful to those who have already gone through this course though it is helpful to those in the audience who have not .
also , the near - final scene , in a senate judiciary hearing room is disappointing .
contact is a fitting memorial to the memory of carl sagan , science popularizer , and sometime pedantic gadfly of the halls of academe .
perhaps now , sagan can be said to be with his dragons of eden .
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P