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

Q: if beavis and butthead had a favorite movie , from dusk till dawn would probably be it . scripted by quentin tarantino and directed by robert rodriguez ( desperado ) , the movie panders to the very worst in sex and violence -- and is incredibly fun to watch .
it starts off as a pulp fiction - type crime story , with criminal brothers george clooney and tarantino robbing a convenience store .
because this is a tarantino movie , however , it 's not just a case of pull the gun and take the loot , it 's a case of a hole being shot through someone 's hand , a man on fire jumping out behind the counter and the entire store blowing up as they drive away .
the opening scene sets the tone for the rest of the movie -- everything overdone and nothing as it seems .
clooney and tarantino bring a hostage to the motel and then hijack an rv with a family in it .
harvey keitel plays the backslidden ex - preacher and juliette lewis his daughter , whom registered sex - pervert tarantino eyes endlessly .
you know you 're mentally unbalanced when you find lewis the least bit attractive , although she 's not nearly as obnoxious as usual in from dusk till dawn .
the first half of the movie has the criminals and hostages trying to get to and through the mexico border , clooney 's strategy involving hiding in the rv shower while lewis is on the toilet .
it does its trick ; the border guard takes one look at lewis relieving herself and immediately goes blind , never noticing clooney or tarantino .
once they get to mexico , it 's time to wait at the rendezvous point ,
a topless bar called titty twister where we 're once again reminded tarantino wrote the movie as he drinks champagne off the foot of a stripper .
finally , after about ten minutes of intercut boob shots and clooney forcing keitel and lewis to drink with him , the stripper turns into a vampire .
soon half the people in the bar are vampires and the other half fall or fight back .
that 's right
, we 've come all this way to see a vampire movie .
but like everything else , tarantino takes this age - old genre and twists it to his own ends to produce over - the - top entertainment .
so we get holy water condom balloons , heads rolling , quadruple impalement on an overturned table and keitel getting bitten by a vampire and announcing he only has a few minutes left before he becomes " a lap dog of satan .
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the from dusk till dawn dialogue is 100 % tarantino , hovering between absurd and disgusting ( as when they 're entering the nightclub and cheech marin announces the main attractions of the titty twister ) , but always entertaining , and is a huge reason the movie is so much fun to watch instead of being one more second - rate gorefest .
clooney , keitel and especially tarantino are so over - the - top with their delivery that the dialogue is that much more hilarious , ensuring not one second of from dusk till dawn is taken the least bit seriously .
stuff like this would be terrible in any other movie , but tarantino and rodriguez know exactly what to do to entertain people , even if there 's absolutely no message or meaning to from dusk till dawn .
pulp fiction had the vulgarity and violence for a reason , but this movie just throws it out for cheap entertainment .
from dusk till dawn is n't the classic of modern cinema that pf is , but is does prove you can do a good job making a really bad movie .

A: P
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Q: the spy game is up .
you can thank charlie 's angels -- the movie -- for that .
when did banality and pandering become okay ?
just steal from hong kong , the matrix , and a kitschy tv show from the mid-1970s and that 's a movie ?
charlie 's angels is one of the worst examples of action film homogeneity and shameless duplicity in any film i 've seen in ages .
charlie 's angels is dumb .
just plain dumb .
as we all know , three of the hottest females on the planet -- drew barrymore , cameron diaz , and lucy liu -- are three super - agents working for the mysterious millionaire named charlie .
they all drive fast cars , look oh - so - fabulous even in the morning , and do n't seem to get a scratch even when fighting armed men , having buildings explode ten feet in front of them , or flying through the air in matrix slow - motion . and while the entourage spends 90 minutes romping around in cleavage - busting wetsuits , cleavage - busting waitress uniforms , and cleavage - busting wet t - shirts , they scarcely succeed in resembling so much as a group of annoying , drunk sorority girls , the kind who hit on everybody at a party .
the actual plot revolves around the ridiculous story of a millionaire computer engineer -- the great sam rockwell -- who gets kidnapped by a mysterious rival computer company .
of course , the rival wants control of his new personal identification system , which involves such latter - day buzzwords as gps , cellular tracking , and even mainframe .
the amazing crispin glover lends his acting chops as a crazed henchmen involved in all the nasty things that happen to the angels -- like battling each of them in many round - robin matrix rip - off ( again ) fight sequences and harboring a strange attraction to sliced - off locks of the angels ' hair .
the coup de grace is bill murray as bosley , serving as charlie 's manservant , or , more to the point , the angels ' pimp .
the rest of the movie comprises a revenge arc , enough costume changes to fill three productions of les miserables , carbon - copy fight sequences
that would lend credible evidence to a jackie chan and the wachowski brothers lawsuit for intellectual property theft , and the strange transformation of sam rockwell into mickey rourke 's long - lost brother .
charlie 's angels starts off with a bang and ends up being a soggy burrito left out overnight
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nothing is difficult , plausible , or believable in any of the angels ' actions .
it feels like the matrix , mission : impossible 2 , and cleopatra jones and the casino of gold all rolled into one .
diaz is a knucklehead .
barrymore is the " dangerous one , " mean and tough and about as believable as katie holmes in the role .
liu is just . . .
lucy liu , looking good in a skin - tight black leather suit .
the list of movies from which charlie 's angels is directly lifted is equally astonishing .
the writers apparently ran the copier all night stealing scenes from armageddon , lethal weapon ii , all of jackie chan 's movies , the great escape , saturday night fever , revenge of the nerds , payback , darkman , dr .
no , the matrix ( as mentioned ) , and even tv 's friends .
it 's a shame , too , because one of the many screenwriters , john august , was at the helm of last year 's favorite , go .
then again , what can you expect from a director known solely as " mcg .
" there is no camp value in the film , no interesting main characters , no invigorating action scenes , no reason at all to waste your time
except to ogle the hot chicks and enjoy the performances of a few supporting players .
note to hollywood :
next time , let 's leave the tv shows on the tv .

A: N
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Q: when i initially set out to review this film , my tag line was going to be " you too can believe whales can fly " .
then it was going to be
" you too can believe pastel triangles can fly " .
then , it was going to be
" you too can believe wood sprites can fly " .
finally , i just gave up trying to come up with a tag line and decided to say .
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there 's a lot of flying going on in this film !
as our first host steve martin tells us ,
the original concept behind fantasia was to bring it out every year with some old segments retained and some new segments added in .
well apparently that plan fell by the wayside for a while , because approximately sixty years have passed since the original classic was released .
part of this might have something to do with the cold reception the film got when it was first released in 1940 ( grossing somewhere close to $ 110 , 000 in its original month of release ) .
subsequent re - releases of the film have elevated the popularity of the film to the classic status it has finally achieved ( and rightfully deserved ) .
to celebrate the release of an updated version of fantasia , disney and imax teamed up to present the animated film in a fashion no one had seen before : six stories high .
in an exclusive four month engagement ( from january 1st to april 30th , 2000 ) , fantasia 2000 can be seen at many imax theaters across the us .
after the engagement is over , the film will be shown at regular theaters .
is the format effective for the film ?
with a few exceptions , yes .
the first segment we are presented with is set to beethoven 's fifth symphony .
it 's hard to describe exactly what this segment is about , but
it involves a bunch of brightly colored butterfly looking triangles flitting about happily .
everything seems to be going great for these little things until the ground erupts with swarms of evil , black bat - like triangles that attack and engulf their lighter counterparts .
eventually , shafts of light from above help drive away the evil bat - like things and peace returns to the butterfly things .
though this segment is n't very story driven , some of the images are very visually strong , especially the scene in which the dark cloud of bat things ( who are all outlined in blood red colors ) begin to overtake the skies .
the next segment is set to ottorino respighi 's " the pines of rome " .
in this segment , some humpback whales swim happily through the ocean and eventually emerge from the water and fly around the massive icebergs that pepper the oceanscape .
a whale calf gets into a scuffle with some nearby birds during the flight and ends up getting trapped in a giant iceberg he smashes into while trying to avoid the birds attack .
he is finally saved ( by another liberating shaft of light ) and he and his brethren take to the skies and fly into the upper atmosphere where they frolic in the " oceans " of clouds .
again , visuals are the key with this segment , especially where the whales are involved .
reportedly the whales , as viewed on an imax screen in certain sequences , are shown as actual size .
the cgi whales look incredibly life - like , except for some googly cartoon eyes drawn onto the images .
one especially striking image involves the giant shadow of one of the whales being cast through the wall of an iceberg as the whale calf tries to find a way out to its parent . absolutely beautiful stuff .
the third segment ( and the least of the eight segments ) is set to george gershwin 's " rhapsody in blue " .
this segment is designed as a tribute to acclaimed caricaturist al hirschfeld , and intertwines four different stories about sad souls living in depression era new york .
there 's a construction worker who dreams of being a jazz drummer , an out - of - work sad sack
that dreams of having a job ,
a young girl that dreams of spending time with her parents instead of being hustled off by a schoolmarm , and a nebbish who dreams of being free from his overbearing wife .
i wo n't go into how everything works out , but in fine disney tradition there is a happy ending .
unfortunately , the story drags quite a bit and the seems out of place within the hyper reality of the rest of the segments .
segment four is set to dmitri shostakovich 's " piano concerto no . 2
" and is an animated version of hans christian andersen 's " the steadfast tin soldier " .
a one legged toy tin soldier falls in love with a wind - up clock ballerina ( whom he assumes is also one legged because he ca n't see her other leg extended out behind her ) , much to the dismay of an evil jack - in - the - box jester .
the jester knocks the soldier out of a window and continues pursuing the ballerina .
little does the jester know , the soldier has been deposited in the sewer and has journeyed through the pipelines only to be swallowed by a fish that has been captured and sold to the owner of the set of tin soldiers that the one legged one comes from .
the soldier eventually saves the day and gets the girl .
although the ending has been altered from the andersen story , " the steadfast tin soldier " is decently told with in the framework of a seven minute short .
some children may find the jester to be a little frightening , but otherwise the segment is well made .
segment five is the funniest of the bunch .
set to camille saint - saens " the carnival of the animals " , this segment features a flamingo torturing his fellow flamingos with a yo - yo while they are trying to perform a choreographed dance number . while it is the shortest clip of the group and a throwback to the alligators and hippos dancing in the first fantasia
, it is still well accomplished and a welcome bit of comedy .
segment six is the only segment to be repeated from the original 1940 fantasia , and it 's the one that people remember most , " the sorcerer 's apprentice " .
the story is the most recognizable , so the draw here is seeing it on the enormous imax screen in remastered stereo .
unfortunately , the segment was n't made to be presented on large format film ( considering it was shot full frame ) and exhibits large amounts of grain .
there were at least two occasions where images were very hard to make out due to the excessive grain .
similar problems crop up on modern day releases when projected on screens too large for the image to be shown accurately
( but no one seems to notice for some strange reason ) , an anomaly common to many 18-plus screen theaters .
segment seven is set to sir edward elgar 's " pomp and circumstance march no .
1 "
and is the only other fantasia segment to feature a stock disney character .
donald duck " stars " as an assistant to noah , whose task is loading all of the animals onto the ark .
during the loading , donald and his wife lose sight of each other and both believe that the other one did n't make it on the boat .
they are constantly missing each other due to comic misadventures mainly involving donald being crushed by animals in various manners .
despite the slapstick style of comedy in this piece , it displays more emotion in its final scene than many of the tear - jerkers foisted on audiences these days .
powerful stuff .
segment eight brings a whole new meaning to the clich ?
" saving the best for last " .
set to igor stravinsky 's " the firebird " , an elk awakens a forest sprite that proceeds to change the wintery landscape into a beautiful springtime landscape .
trees bloom and flowers blossom and everything seems to be going well until the sprite becomes inquisitive about a large mountain housing a strange formation .
when the sprite examines the formation , it awakens and becomes the titular firebird .
in a stunning spectacle , the firebird rears back and unleashes and fire storm that destroys everything in its path , including everything that the sprite has worked to create .
some amazing animation is present here , and well worth the ten dollars a ticket alone
( although brush strokes are evident in one scene due to the enlargement of the film ) .
the host segments are largely ( no pun intended ) throwaways , although steve martin 's clip is pretty funny . be sure to stay through the credits for a little more humor from martin .
penn and teller are usually funny , but here their gags seem routine and therefore uninteresting .
the best segment comes from , of all people , bette midler , who gets to tell us about some of the abandoned segments that never made it off of the drawing board .
pieces like flight of the bumblebee , a take on the four horsemen set to wagner 's " ride of the valkyries " , and a strange segment prepared in the ' 40s by salvador dali that never was shown are all previewed here and teased that they may appear in future installments .
for fans of visual stimulation or classical music , fantasia 2000 is a perfect way to spend the afternoon .
the film is also decent family entertainment and contains little to no objectionable material .
as i mentioned earlier in the review , if ten dollars seems like too much for you to spend on this film , fear not because after its run in imax theaters it is going to be brought out in regular theaters .
i must stress that the best way to see this film is on an imax screen though .
then you too can believe that whales / triangle things / sprites can fly .
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A:
P
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